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Don't let your mind cheat you

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Friday, 15th March, 2013

Today, I will expand on the initiation into the four tattvas and Kundalini awakening.

Living these four principles awakens your Kundalini, and allows the extraordinary possibilities to happen in your inner being. When you lose interest in life, when you again and again hit the conflicts that you are not able to solve, or you again and again forget the solutions you find and get tangled into the same problem - if you are in this space, please listen. You are moving towards death! Life has lost its interest in you! You have lost interest in Life!

You are not able to find solutions for some of your internal conflicts, or you are again and again getting stuck with the same problem, or forgetting the solution even after you find it. You find the solution, and in two days, you again forget the solution, and you are caught in the same problem. If your life is rolling like this, be very clear, you are disconnected from life. You need to do something immediately!

These four principles are like the river Ganga in the desert of conflicts! If your mind has become a desert of conflicts, bring in the Ganga of these four principles – integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching. Listen! The success of these four principles depends on your living them again and again and again.

medallion illustration

There is no such
thing as 'past'
existing for you.
It is the deci-
sion you make
at this moment,
that decides your
perception of
the whole past!

For example, suppose you have lived twelve years of married life, with lots of arguments, fights, ups, downs, everything. Then one day, when you are in a low mood, or when the fight is at its peak, you decide to break the relationship. At that time, your mind will show as if the whole twelve years was nothing but fight and exploitation! But if you decide not to break, and you somehow heal the relationship and continue to live, your mind will say that the whole twelve years was a smooth marriage, or at least, you were living together with stability.

So, please listen, the decision you make at this moment decides your perception of the whole past. How many of you cognize what I am saying? So there is no such thing as ‘past’ existing for you. Your mind shows something different every moment, so the past you see every moment is a different past.

I have seen this - sometimes, people who have lived in the ashram for years suddenly decide to leave the ashram for some personal reason. But when they leave, they strongly believe that all the years they lived in the ashram were a struggle! But if they decide to cross that low mood and stay back, within the next few days or even the next few hours, they feel, 'What a blessing to live in the ashram! If I had decided to leave, it would have been such a big miss, a big curse! What a blessing to see an incarnation every morning! I should not have gone into that low mood. I will not even think any more about leaving!'

But in one week, you are back again, saying, 'No, no, no! I think I have to leave! He may be an incarnation or avatar, but he will not be able to help me with the problem in which I am stuck. His level is different. I can't go to his level!' Then, the mind will again show as if the whole time you lived in the ashram was a struggle! But somehow you don't get a ticket or a taxi, and you don't leave. The next day, again your mind will start, 'Wherever I go, this mind is going to be there. If I am here, at least some of the words he utters will enter into my inner space, and I may have the space of peace and restful awareness.' So you convince yourself!

Every person who is in a relationship or marriage can understand whatever I am saying now! It is very unfortunate, but your mind shows your whole past in the same color, based on your present mood and space. If you are in the dark inner space, your mind paints the whole past as dark and shows it to you. If you are in the bright inner space, your mind shows your whole past as a bright possibility. Only when you break this pattern, you start human life! It is so unfortunate that human beings do not understand the truth that when your mind is in a dark space, it shows as if your whole past is dark, and when your mind is in a light space, it shows as if your whole past is enlightened!

Listen: When I decided to become enlightened and became enlightened, I saw that my whole past was enlightened. There was not a single moment, including the moment of my birth, when I was unaware of me! I was aware of my whole life, from the birthing process to this moment! I also want you to understand, before I decided to become enlightened and became enlightened at the age of twelve, I did not have the clarity that I am enlightened from birth.

Please understand, I need to confess this to you! You need to know this! Only then will you understand the insider's secret of enlightenment. Before twelve, I was not thinking that I am born enlightened. I was not having the feeling that I was aware of my birthing process. From birth, I was continuously aware about whatever is happening. But only after I became enlightened at the age of twelve, my inner space was showing the whole past as conscious, alive and enlightened.

So when you decide to keep yourself in the higher space forever and have a conscious breakthrough, suddenly you see that your whole past was always in higher consciousness, or travelling towards higher consciousness.

Maya means 'that which is not there, but which appears to be there'. This is Maya. You need to know the basic secrets of the human mind. Many

emblem

When you decide
to keep yourself
in the higher space
forever, you will
see that your whole
past was always in
higher conscious-
ness, or travelling
towards higher
consciousness!

times, people decide to commit suicide only because, when they are in the lowest mood, suddenly their mind shows them as if their whole past was in the lowest mood. Same way, whenever you fail in integrity or authenticity and you are in a low mood, your mind will say that you never lived integrity and authenticity. It will show as if your whole life was inauthentic, irresponsible and lacking in integrity. But when you restore integrity through completion and you become authentic, suddenly your mind will show that your life was a long and sincere journey towards authenticity and responsibility. How many of you cognize what I am saying?

So listen. Do not be cheated by your mind. Do not be destabilized by your mind. Go on practicing integrity. Go on practicing authenticity. Go on practicing responsibility. Go on practicing enriching. I tell you

  • one dharma that even an enlightened being has to practice is these four principles. No exemptions! Even I continue to practice these four principles continuously. Because as long as these four are practiced and lived, life goes on expanding. Not just me - the cosmos itself still continues to practice this! The stability of the universe is nothing but the universe practicing integrity. The expansion of the universe is nothing but the universe practicing authenticity. Incarnations still landing on planet Earth to make all of you enlightened is nothing but the universe practicing responsibility. Even after so much torture and abuse by human beings, enlightened beings and incarnations are continuing to enrich planet earth; this is nothing but the cosmos deciding to do whatever it takes to enrich all of you.

The stability of the cosmos is the cosmos practicing integrity. The expansion of the cosmos is the cosmos practicing authenticity. Enlightened masters landing is the cosmos practicing responsibility. Enlightened masters continuing to teach you all, even after the torture and suffering you give them, is the cosmos practicing enriching. So even the cosmos continues to practice these four principles!

Constantly bring yourself back to authenticity and integrity. Decide again now, declare again now - you will not be tired, you will not be retired, you will not be lazy, you will not show any fatigue or laziness to execute these four tattvas. The ribs of your chest should be strengthened by the four tattvas. These four tattvas are the strength of life. Strength of life is these four tattvas: integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching. You don't need anything else.

If you start living these four tattvas authentically in your life, you don't even need to go to a guru, you don't even need to go to any god or incarnation or enlightened being. Start living these four principles, these four tattvas. They will all come towards you. God will come to you. Guru will come to you. I have seen, when some of my disciples live these four tattvas authentically, I myself feel so much love and grace in their space.

I tell you, all of you decide from today - without tiredness, without fatigue, without the mood of retirement, we will keep these tattvas flying high in our life. Let the flag of these tattvas fly high and be kept alive. Anything can be sacrificed, but not these four spiritual principles. Let these four principles

As long as these
four are practiced
and lived, life goes
on expanding.
The expansion of
the cosmos is the
cosmos practic-
ing authenticity!

fly high. Raise this flag in your house, in your workplace, wherever you can. Keep it flying high. Decide that you will keep yourself in the highest integrity, the highest level of authenticity, the highest level of responsibility, the highest level of enriching. Raise the flag of the four tattvas in your houses, shops, workplaces, and keep it flying high. Let the dharma dhvaja (flag of Dharma) fly high! Let life be lived only to keep the dharma dhvaja flying high.

Constantly bring integrity to your thinking, authenticity to your feeling, responsibility to your actions, enriching to your lifestyle! You will see, you will realize an extraordinary space in your life. When you start integrating your inner space, your whole inner space becomes positive

  • because you have to honor any negative commitment you give even by mistake! Why would you want to waste your energy in honoring the negative commitments you give to you, unless you are an utter fool? Fortunately, nobody is that much of a fool on planet Earth!

Even the people who want to commit suicide try to find the easiest, most painless method! There are enough websites on the internet that can give you suggestions and techniques for painless suicide. I was wondering, when somebody decides to die, why will they go to the internet and Google? Because you are not so utterly foolishly foolish! Even if you decide to die, you try to find the best method, without pain!

So, you are not so foolishly foolish as to honor your negative commitments. When you know you are not going to honor them, then naturally you know that you have to complete them. When you are constantly completing the negative commitments you give to yourself unconsciously, the next time you declare, 'I will be a winner!,' your mind, which is such a mischievous child, will suddenly shout, 'No, No! You are a loser!' It will shout from one corner and go and hide in the room and make faces at everybody from there. 'No, no! I already told you, you are a loser!' Now, your integrity is not going to work! So, once again, you have to sit and complete and drop.

In a village, there was an orthodox brahmin. He was too orthodox and too superstitious. Even if he sees somebody from the lower community, he will go and take a bath again in the river and come back! There was a mischievous kid from a lower community who would wait behind a tree. The moment that brahmin came out of the river after taking a bath, he would just jump in front of him and say, 'See, you have seen me! Now you have to take another bath!' The brahmin would go back to the river, and when he came back, the kid would again jump from behind the tree! If the brahmin tried to catch this boy, he would climb up the tree. The poor brahmin can't do anything!

In exactly the same way, your mind is also playing with you! How many of you have caught your mind playing like this when you were practicing integrity? So, the one and the only way is to catch the mind and tie it and put it in the river! Catch the mind and tie it and put it in the river! It means, this negative practice of teasing yourself is also one more negative commitment you have given to you. Whenever you try to practice positivity, you will make a negative statement also, because that is one more negative commitment you have given

circular emblem with deity illustration

Constantly bring
integrity to your
thinking, authen-
ticity to your
feeling, respon-
sibility to your
actions, enriching
to your lifestyle!
You will realize
an extraordinary
space in your life!

to you. How many of you cognize this? So decide, ‘I will drop that!’ Then that boy will disappear once and for all! You can take a bath, come out beautifully and go and do your pooja! Decide, again and again, you will live integrity!

When you practice integrity again and again, your mind will simply become one, integrated. Then authenticity, responsibility and enriching will become your lifestyle. There won’t be any inner struggle or internal conflict. When you have internal conflict, if one part of you is laughing at you, understand that there is incompletion. So, sit with you and complete whatever incompletions you remember at that moment.

When you complete again and again, without getting tired or bored, suddenly you will see that the lack of integrity does not even happen in you. You are just totally different! Your life is just totally different! Your life becomes something extraordinary! You will not even know where you were, to compare and see where you are now, and how much you are transformed! Integrity and authenticity have the ability to give the ultimate breakthrough to you. It can give you the ultimate breakthrough!

When you sincerely start practicing integrity, you will be in such a beautiful space of positivity. That itself will give you so much joy and courage to live with more and more integrity and the space of completion. When you live with authenticity, you will experience the space of possibility. Everything, everything, everything is possible! The space of possibility happens to you when you live authenticity.

Integrity brings the space of ultimate positivity. Authenticity brings the space of ultimate possibility. Responsibility brings the space of leadership, meaning that you will be the leader for everything that is happening in and around you. Enriching brings the space of enlightenment in you. The whole cosmos will simply be pouring its energy into you, through you, because you are sharing it with the whole cosmos!

The essence of today's satsang is this: tirelessly practice integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching, again and again and again!

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

Integrity brings the
space of positivity,
authenticity the
space of possibil-
ity, responsibility
the space of lead-
ership and enrich-
ing brings the
space of enlight-
enment in you!

Ganesha mandala illustration

Reality means projecting your life in the outer world as you want it in the inner world, and, because there is no discrepancy between the inner world and the outer world, experiencing the truth of non-duality.