Don’t Let Your Past Swallow Your Future!🔗

Wednesday, 10th April 2013

I will expand on the relationship between your past, present and future, and the reality of your life. I will expand on how it can be handled and altered with these four principles, these four tattvas of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching.

The whole spiritual life starts from listening. When you are completely drowned inside your past, when your past is sitting on you as a dead weight, you will never be able to listen. Only when you want to responsibly work on your future do you start listening. The dead past never lets you listen. The past by its very nature does not have life, and if you try to continuously indulge in the past, it also swallows the future!

Whether you like it or not, want it or not, by the very way in which you are hardwired, you will hold only yourself as responsible for your life. Listen! You will hold only yourself as responsible for your life. Nobody else can be responsible. Only you are responsible for your life!

When you iron out your inner space with integrity, the first thing that integrity will do to you is remove all the negative weeds that you constantly cherish, which are rooted in your past. Negativity needs the past evidence as support, to survive. Negativity cannot be based in the future.

Are you clear? How many of you cognize that negativity can be rooted only in the past? So when the weeding happens by integrity, you are free from the past. Listen! All your negative thinking, fears, everything is rooted in past! It is rooted in the past. If you look a little deep, you will understand that when you become aware of your thinking, when you become integrated with your thinking, your past no more has the power over your future or over your inner space.

For example, if you think that you will fail in your examination or in your business, then that negative thought can become strong only if your past experiences are constantly reminding you of this and supporting your cognition. Listen! Negativity cannot grow in your inner space, it cannot have power over your inner space, it cannot have strength on your inner space, if your past memories are not continuously supplied as evidence!

When you become integrated, the first thing you will understand is that your past failures are not failures. Your failures do not make YOU a failure! It is not the failure itself that is the problem, but the number of times you remember your failure that is the real problem. It is like this - you go on a vacation only for one or two days and come back. But the number of days you spend, to show those photographs to everyone and brood over them, the number of days you spend seeing those photographs and drooling over them, and the amount of importance you bring to those memories - this is what makes the vacation too big! I have even seen people drooling over their marriage albums! No, really!

Life is just moving. But your photographic memories and you holding on to those memories is where the problem starts! That is where the problem starts! Lack of integrity and brooding over your past are one and the same. The more your past occupies your inner space, the more you will not have integrity.

Negativity has its roots only in your past. If you don't remember your past again and again and again, the first thing that will happen to you is that you will be free from your past and integrated in your thinking. Your inner space will be available for your responsible future, or future responsibility. When you become authentic, you will forget that you even had a past. Listen! It is not just ordinary forgetting, it is forgetting because it is even wiped off from your inner space, because it is no more the past of your inner space!

Decide to be authentic from now. Constantly be authentic. You will see that so much, so much can be done to your inner space. It is your past memories and your past ideas about your failure that do not allow you to be authentic. I tell you,

sometimes even without failure, even your fears about failure make you a failure! Even without failure, your fear about failure makes you feel as a failure. This kind of fear-of-failure and the past is responsible for making you inauthentic.

Why do you become inauthentic? Because your past very powerfully tells you that you can't be a hero! Your past is the permanent comedian staying inside you, laughing at you and making you a comedian instead of a hero! You always want to be a hero, but end up being a comedian because of this. Even if you end up being a villain, it is okay. But do not end up being a comedian!

Many times, you end up being a comedian because your inner space constantly makes fun of you, quoting or misquoting you, saying, 'I know you, you are not going to be successful, why are you unnecessarily struggling?'

Your past stays inside you and makes you a comedian instead of a hero. Listen! It is your past failures constantly hanging on you that make you inauthentic. They do not let you take further steps. A man who is not tired of his own past is enlightened! The day you start living without your past making you tired, you are a jeevan mukta. If your past cannot make you inauthentic, you are a jeevan mukta!

I tell you, you are responsible for anything. If something is not happening outside, then the right knowledge and interest are not happening inside. 'sat' and 'chit' – sat is the knowledge, chit is the interest, ananda is the happening. If sat and chit happen in you, life will happen to you! If money is not happening around you, please be very clear that you either do not have knowledge or you do not have interest. One of these two will be missing. You may have interest, but you may not have knowledge. So, you are responsible for anything!

When you do not take the responsibility for the knowledge or the interest, however much you try or wait for it, it does not happen in your life! Unless the knowledge and interest happens in your life, nothing can become a reality in your life. Only when your inner space becomes responsible for the knowledge and the interest, you will see that anything becomes a reality in you! It becomes a reality in you!

Use this morning 'satsang' time for intense listening! The way I speak itself - I will give you enough time for intranalyzing also.

Sometimes, people ask me, 'Swamiji, why are you sometimes so forceful, powerful, loud and continuous, like a river in the forest, a wild river? And sometimes, you are slow and mild, with lots of gaps?' Listen! If the principle I am talking about needs intranalyzing, I give you time for intranalyzing, the space for intra-analyzing. If you just need to drink it, dive in it and disappear in it, I pour that on you like Ganga, like a wild forest river!

I am not tired of my own past. That is why I can repeat the same principles any number of times, without changing a word, without changing the tone, for any number of classes! When you are not

tired of your own past, you are a jeevan mukta.

Listen! If I am giving a gap and talking very slowly, it means that the principles I am talking about need intranalyzing. Intranalyzing is analyzing for the purpose of internalizing! Analyze this truth for the purpose of internalizing. You are listening to these truths and internalizing these truths. Try to apply these truths in you during the whole day, because your thinking needs to become new completely. The cognitive shift needs to happen in you.

The cognitive shift happening in you is the first step of transformation. Just like you need to maintain your body, you also need to maintain your cognition. Your cognition needs to be purified every day. Your cognition needs to be purified every day! Even if it is a gold vessel, it needs to be polished every day. Otherwise, it will lose its shine. Whether it is copper, silver or gold, it needs to be polished every day!

The essence of what I wanted to teach you today is this. Only if the load of your past is reduced on you, you can practice integrity and authenticity. Only if you practice integrity and authenticity, the load of the past will reduce in your thinking. It is like one depends on the other. So start practicing integrity and authenticity, and start reducing the load of your past, on your inner space. Do both simultaneously. One will help the other.

Internalize! Internalize! Internalize! Sometimes the statements I am making are loaded with layers of meaning. Only when you internalize them will you understand.

Only when the cognitive shift happens, life is experienced in you. Life starts in you and you become a being, a real being!

When you practice integrity, do not allow your past to come and interfere. When you practice authenticity, do not allow your past to come and pull you down. When you practice responsibility, do not allow your past to upset you. When you practice enriching, do not allow your past to distract you! Whether it is your lack of integrity, your inauthenticity, your irresponsibility or non-enrichment, the only enemy, the only reason is your past, waiting to argue, waiting to debunk anything that you newly propose, anything you want to newly achieve. Your past memory does not allow any new leaf to flower!

The past sits on you as dead weight! Understand, what I am talking is the most practical principle of life. Every moment, the load of your past does not allow you to progress. The load of your past is a huge chain tied to your leg with a big iron ball! How long can you drag and move? Even your breathing becomes shallow when you are drowned in the past. Your memory becomes dull when you are drowned in the past. Your awareness falls into the lowest frequency, when you are drowned in the past. Only when you become responsible for your future - listen, only when you become responsible for your future, your life starts! Only then does real integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching start happening!

You can see that any responsible space in society needs a high level of integrity. Any responsible place in society needs a high level of authenticity. That is why I tell you, the very world flows with these four principles of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching. That is why leaders and politicians are always questioned, even if they miss one word! A common man is not questioned if he talks one thing today and another thing tomorrow. A joker is never questioned if he talks one thing today and another thing tomorrow! But a hero will be questioned if he talks one thing today and another thing tomorrow. Because, a hero has to be with the highest integrity! A leader will be questioned if he does not continuously develop himself, his capabilities and his deliverables. If somebody starts his political career as an MLA, and continues to be an MLA for next fifty years, people will question him, 'Where is your authenticity?'

Continuously practice integrity and authenticity. Do not allow yourself to be brood over your past. You cannot do anything with your past! You are only capable of taking responsibility for your future!

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