ENRICH WITH ENLIGHTENMENT🔗

Today is the tenth anniversary of our spiritual mission. It is said that the tenth year gives rebirth to the sangha, the spiritual community. I think that in this tenth year of our spiritual mission, we are really reborn!

Today’s message, as you all know, is going to be the message for the whole year. I know all of you are waiting for the mahavakya, the core message for this year! This year’s mahavakya, the core message with which we will all work, is ‘Enriching with Enlightenment’.

Enriching with enlightenment has many layers of meaning. Enriching yourself with enlightenment, enriching others with enlightenment and enriching the whole world with enlightenment. Go on, enrich everybody with enlightenment. Enrich yourself continuously with enlightenment!

Bring integrity into the words which you utter to others and to yourself. Bring authenticity in the way you hold yourself for yourself, and the way you hold yourself for others to experience you. Bring responsibility in your inner space for every happening, for everything. Go on enriching others, go on enriching everyone.

Drop the past records. The past track never gives you the confidence, the possibility. Unless you see the possibility, life does not flow in you! Excitement does not happen in you. If you are seeing the past records, there will be a deep sorrow. The past records always bring deep sorrow, because by nature, past records are death. Possibility, by nature, is Life! Forget about the past records. Look at the possibility. Whoever is interested in life should look at the possibilities, not the past record. The past record is neither as bad as you remember, nor worthy of remembrance, of being remembered.

Understand, it is neither as bad as you remember, nor is it worthy of being remembered. The past records never let you remember or believe the possibility. Possibility is life. Life is possibility, not past record.

When you plan for the unimaginable, when your nervous system is loaded with things that you are not able to even comprehend, the excitement that oozes in your nervous system is bliss! Understand, bliss does not come to lazy bums! Bliss does not happen to people caught in the past records. Past record is death, possibility is life.

O my devotees, disciples and humanity! I give the clarion call this day - look only at the possibility, not at the past records! As I said, it is neither as bad as you remember, nor worthy of being remembered. Possibility is life. In every zone, when you look at the possibility, life happens to you. Bring tremendous integrity in every word you utter. Bring authenticity in the way you hold yourself for yourself and for others.

Please understand, these four words are the keys to enrich with enlightenment. First word – Integrity; second word– Authenticity; third word – Responsibility; fourth word – Enriching.

Let me first define integrity. Integrity is you fulfilling the words and thoughts you give to yourself and to others, and experiencing a state of completion with yourself and with life.

Integrity means honoring the words you utter to others and to yourself. Stand by your word. When your life stands by the words you utter, the words you utter become reality. It is a method for ultimately achieving vak-siddhi, making whatever you utter as reality.

Understand, when you have integrity, if you give a word, you will give your life to fulfill it! When you make that decision, the cosmos fulfills any word you give. The cosmos comes to your rescue. Understand, when you have integrity, if you give a word and you are ready to give your life to fulfill it, the cosmos comes to fulfill your word. This happens due to the integrity in the words you give to others and the words you give to yourself.

The next is authenticity. Authenticity is you being established in the peak of your capability, and responding to life from who you perceive yourself to be for yourself, who you project yourself to be for others, and what others expect you to be for them.

Bring authenticity in the way you hold yourself for yourself, the way you hold yourself for others, and the way you hold yourself for others to perceive you. Enrich yourself with authenticity.

Keeping Mahakala as witness, with integrity and authenticity I declare: I happened, created and am running this sangha with integrity and authenticity. There are some things which you don't understand about me. I am very clear. I declare this with the integrity and authenticity with which I and the sangha are functioning.

Every devotee, every disciple, every satsangi, every samaji, every sannyasi should bring every human being into integrity and authenticity, in their life, in their words, in everything. Wash your whole life with integrity and authenticity. Do an acid wash with integrity and authenticity.

The third word is responsibility. Responsibility is living and responding to life from the truth, that you are the source of and therefore responsible for, all happenings in and around you.

Responsibility means feeling responsible for everything that is happening! Understand, whenever I feel responsible for everything that is happening, all the problems get dissolved. They just disappear. Every time a problem is brought to me, when I take the responsibility, I feel empowered.

‘I am responsible for everything happening in and around me.’ It is a very powerful strategy for victory and success. This is the strategy.

Responsibility empowers you, however complicated the enemy may be. All of you know the story of Hiranyakashipu, the demon who was defeated by his own child Prahalada? This guy asks Lord Brahma for a boon, that he should not be killed, either by man or by an animal, either indoors or outdoors. What a complicated boon! But Lord Vishnu took the responsibility in the form of Lord Narasimha, and won the game!

STORY OF PRAHALADA Prahalada, the child-hero, excels as the example for the tattva of integrity. In spite of being born to the arrogant demon-king Hiranyakashipu, Prahalada remained a great devotee of the god Vishnu.

In order to maintain his power, Hiranyakashipu did some penance and obtained a boon from Bramha, which would prevent him from being destroyed by any being living in this planet earth. With this power, he started behaving arrogantly and kept harming the people who were earnest in connecting to the higher truths.

Hiranyakashipu was angered by Prahalada’s devotion to Vishnu, as he felt that no one other than himself should be worshipped by his subjects. One day, when Prahalada was praying to Vishnu, Hiranyakashipu demanded, ‘You say your Vishnu is everywhere? Come on, show me your Vishnu now! Where is he? Is he in these pillars?’ And Hiranyakashipu pointed to the pillars in the hall. ‘Yes, he is in this pillar’, said Prahalada simply, pointing to one of the pillars in front of him. ‘Then let me find him!’ roared Hiranyakashipu, and hit the pillar forcefully with his mace. To the utter amazement of everyone, Vishnu emerged from the pillar in the form of a ferocious lion-man (Narasimha). It was not a living being from planet earth! Narasimha destroyed Hiranyakashipu and blessed Prahalada with enlightenment.

Understand, in this story, when Hiranyakashipu was pointing towards the pillars, Vishnu was resting in Vaikunta. But the moment Prahalada's hand started moving, Vishnu started running towards earth. His consort Lakshmi asked, 'What happened, what happened?' 'My devotee is moving his finger; wherever he indicates, I have to enter into that pillar!' said Vishnu.

The integrity and authenticity of Prahalada was such that wherever the hand of the innocent child stops, Narasimha has to appear in that pillar. And the small kid is looking at which pillar is nice and choosing!

When you have the integrity and authenticity of Prahalada, Narasimha lands for you; he appears wherever you ask, even in stone. When you don't have authenticity and integrity, even if God comes, you will throw stones on him! With integrity and authenticity, you stone Him unto eternity. Without integrity and authenticity, you stone him unto death. Stoning Him to death and stoning Him to eternity! I am coining a new word - stoning to eternity. It means carving his deity out of stone!

When you have integrity and authenticity, even a stone becomes God; God appears even from stone for you.

When you have the integrity and authenticity of Prahalada, when you have integrity and authenticity, when you give your life to fulfill your words, cosmos intervenes and fulfills your words.

Ten years before, on this very land, by the grace of Mahakala, I made this very sankalpa, and I make this very sankalpa again: I will be available here continuously to the whole humanity, enriching with enlightenment.

Responsibility empowers you. I tell you, an important secret to be responsible again and again without becoming powerless: never give up on people. I never give up on people. Even when they give up on me, I don't give up on them. I continue to work on them. Understand; take this as an important key. Don't give up on people. This is the maths of life.

The number of people you have given up on is the minus sign in your life. The number of people you still don't give up on is the plus sign in your life. Make the calculation; make the balance-sheet of your life. This will prove if your life is in profit or loss. This will prove whether you are running in success or failure. Whether you are running in failure or success is not decided by the incident; it is decided by your spirit.

I tell you, nothing has been lost if you have not lost your inspiration. I was talking to some of my ashramites. One ashramite was asking me, 'Swamiji, I think we lost so many valuable years in the religious attack which happened on us.' I told him, 'No. Nothing, nothing has been lost as long as you don't lose your inspiration. Nothing is lost. What are a few years? Time is eternity. I am going to be available here continuously with the body, and even after leaving the body. This is our life!'

If the inspiration is not lost, nothing is lost. If the inspiration is lost, everything is lost. Understand, by the divine grace of Maha Kalabhairava, Mahadeva, we have not lost inspiration. So nothing, nothing, is lost. Inspiration is life. Don't give up on people. This is the first step to feel responsibility. Be empowered and responsible.

The fourth spiritual truth is enriching. Let me define Enriching. Enriching is you taking responsibility with integrity and authenticity that you are committed to continuously enriching, which is expanding yourself and Life in and around you.

Life happens to you, outside you. Please understand, life happens to you with others. When there are students, you are a teacher. When there are kids, you are a mother. When there are brothers, you are a brother. When there is a father, you are a son. When there is an employee, you are a boss. When there is a boss, you are an employee. Life happens to you with others, with people who are outside you. Enrich them. Only by enriching them does your life gets enriched. Don't be selfish. Your life does not happen just inside you.

When I was young, I used to wonder why Swami Vivekananda gave this ideal for his sangha

(spiritual community): 'atmano mokshaartham jagat hitaaya cha - for one's one enlightenment, and the well-being of the world.' This is the ideal he gave for his sangha, the sangha he created for enlightenment and for the good of the world. I was wondering why he gave such an idea, 'for the well-being of the world'. When I became mature enough to understand Vivekananda, I realized that life happens to you outside yourself, with others.

If you are just sitting inside the dark forest and you don't see any human being, not even an animal, then atma mokshartha is enough. Working on yourself and your enlightenment is enough; enriching yourself with enlightenment is enough. Even when you are imagining others, you are interacting with others. If you don't even remember others, enriching yourself with enlightenment is enough. But that is not the way life is happening with you.

Let us see experientially, how life happens to you. We have to start from where we are standing, the experience of life happening to you through others. Your employees decide whether you are a good boss or not; your children decide whether you are good father or not; your father decides whether you are a good son or not; your brothers decide whether you are good sibling or not; your teacher decides whether you are a good student or not; your student decides whether you are good teacher or not; your patient decides whether you are good doctor or not and your doctor decides whether you are good patient or not! Life is happening to you from outside, from others.

Unless you enrich others with enlightenment, your life is not going to be completely enriched with enlightenment. Decide to enrich your boss with enlightenment; you will have completion in your relationship with your boss. You will be a complete employee. Decide to enrich your employees with enlightenment; you will be an enlightened CEO. You will be a complete boss. Fulfill in that dimension. Decide to enrich your spouse with enlightenment.

Now you need to remember, don't give up on people. I tell you, your spouse can never be worse than the people who I am facing! But I never give up on people.

If you have to learn just one thing from me, learn this one thing. I never give up on people. I don't stop training. When they are in training, I have the passion that they have to transform NOW. And I have the patience to wait even for years, with the same passion, if they have not transformed. The burning passion of the sun, and the cooling patience of the moon!

Just now, there was an incident that happened. The brahmachari who was responsible for the garlands, made a small mistake in arranging them. When I asked him about it, my words were so passionate; he has to transform now! But do you know, I am asking him the same questions with the same passion for the last ten years! And he has still not transformed. I still have the same passion to ask him the same question for ten years, for the same mistake!

I don't give up on people. Don't give up on people.

People are life. People around you are life happening to you. If you give up on them, you are giving up on life. Whenever you give up on people, you commit partial suicide. Giving up on people is partial suicide!

Not giving up on people is the victory of war. Victory in war, victory in life, is not decided by one incident. It is decided by the ability to not give up on people. There are people who have happened in your life in the form of family members, team members, customers, clients, suppliers; in different ways. When people happen in your life, don't give up on them, enrich them with enlightenment, with integrity and authenticity.

Whenever you don't give up on people, when you decide not to give up on people, you are empowered. You are empowered! When I train one of my disciples or question him about a mistake he made, I trust that he will transform by the next time. But I don't expect that he will transform by the next time. Understand, I trust that he will transform by the next time, but I don't expect that he should be transformed by the next time. If he fulfills my trust, he blesses me! Don't give up on people. That is life! That is life!

Life is happening to you through others, through people. When you give up on people, you give up on life, which is suicide.

The brahmachari who messed up the flower garlands this morning, he has been with me for ten years! Based on my past record of him, I didn't think, 'Oh, for ten years he has not transformed; is he going to transform now?' Then I would give up on him! But if I say, 'Alright, you don't do this work, I will find somebody else,' again I give up on him. No. Neither keeping quiet, nor discarding, is what is called 'not giving up on people'!

The damaru (drum) of Shiva is the symbol of not giving up on people. The fire is integrity and authenticity, the trishul (trident) is enriching. Don't give up on people. We have not lost anything because we have not lost our inspiration. Listening, listening, listening, listening and not giving up on people!

People ask me sometimes, "You say that the damaru is not giving up on people, fire is integrity and authenticity and the trishul is power. Then, what does Shiva have to show responsibility?

I tell you, his very life is responsibility! By his very presence, he makes a statement on responsibility. He is the aadhara. He takes responsibility for Existence, for everything he has - holding the river Ganga to save the planet earth; drinking the poison to save the universe. Neelakantha is responsibility, Gangadhara is responsibility. Keeping the snakes with himself and getting people out problems - all this is responsibility. Everything of Shiva is responsibility. He does not give up even on bhootas, pretas and ganas who are not part of the society. Everything around him shows his responsibility!

Understand, all of you think for a moment with integrity and authenticity, how quickly you give up on people! If I would have given up on humanity that quickly, do you think you would have been here? When I came to this forest as a youth and

declared, 'I stand with integrity and authenticity to enrich the world with enlightenment,' even the few people who were standing around me, were smiling inside their heart - what does he mean! Some stood with devotion, some with a lot of fear, some with apprehension, some with a mocking smile, some thinking that I may be loosu, crazy! Only the few, trees, plants and nature stood with me, saying, 'Tathasthu', so be it! And we did it! We have done it. We are doing it. We will do it!

O humanity, listen! Don't give up on people. This is one tattva, one truth that again and again strengthens my shoulders. Don't give up on people. Go on enriching, enriching and enriching!

In the Inner-Awakening program, a person was asking me a question. She herself had experienced levitation and kundalini awakening. But she was not able to advise her daughter to attend the program, because her daughter did not believe in mysticism.

I said, 'What do you mean? Tell her that you are her mother, you are not mad to go through this experience! Tell me, are you authentic in your kundalini awakening? Do you really jump by kundalini awakening, or are you just jumping inauthentically?'

'No,' she said, 'I am authentic in everything that is happening.' I told her, 'Then go and show it to your daughter. Tell her that you are an authentic being, you are her mother who loves her with all the authenticity and you want her to test this.' Only then did she realize that this is right. I said, 'Don't give up on people based on the past record. Earlier she may not have listened to you, because you yourself may not have been integrated and authentic. Now, bring that integrity and authenticity. And don't give up on people.'

Enrich people, enrich people and enrich people. If you give up on people, you will give up on yourself. You will lose your confidence. You will give up on yourself! Don't give up on people. Don't give up on others. Not giving up on people is life! That is the mathematics of your life. The number of people you have given up on is your loss, and the number of people you have not given up on, is your gain. This is the profit and loss account statement of life. Find out which list you yourself are in! Find out whether you yourself are in the list of people you have given up on, or you still have not given up on you! Find that out - that is a very important thing.

Many times you give up on you. When you stop trying to wake up for yoga, you are giving up on you. When you stop practicing integrity and authenticity without compromise, you give up on you. When you start giving up on people, you give up on you. Find out whether you have given up or not. Don't give up on you. That is the first step you need to do today. Don't give up on you.

Decide! 'With integrity and authenticity, I decide that I will not give up on me. I will not give up on me, based on my past track record, my past records. I will work on the possibility.'

Not giving up on people, is not just about not giving up on your family! It includes people in your community, locality, society, state, country

and in your universe. Don’t give up on people. When you don’t give up on people, when you decide not to give up on people, you feel empowered in the shoulder. Your shoulders feel the strength. Whenever your shoulders feel tired, whenever you feel tired, remember - ‘I am not going to give up on people!’

I am a person who has no individual family. But thousands see me as their family member! Even on Facebook, I get so many family requests! I am literally living with a cosmic family. Rahu, Ketu, Shani, Shiva, Durga, Kali, Subramanya, Shukra, Guru, Chandra - these are my family members. I literally live with a cosmic family. I don’t give up on anybody, including Shani!

I am not going to give up on people. I wanted all of you to understand, never to give up on people. The important message on our tenth anniversary, on the completion of one decade, on the completion of ten years of Nithyananda sangha, is this: don’t give up on people. Don’t give up on people!

I tell my ashramites, ‘If you can’t teach a worker in your department on the science of living enlightenment, if you can’t teach him integrity and authenticity, whom are you going to teach? If he is alive, he can be enriched. Don’t give up.’

Carry this one message - Don’t give up on people. That is the message for this whole year. That is a practical instruction on how to enrich with enlightenment. Don’t give up on yourself and don’t give up on others. Don’t give up on people. Enrich with enlightenment.

Don’t give up on people. Enriching with enlightenment means, enriching yourself with these four great truths of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching. It means not giving up on people. It means enriching others with these four great truths of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching, by not giving up on them. Enrich them so that they also enrich others. Let the whole universe be enriched with enlightenment!

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’!

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Complete with all the incompletions. Completing with all incompletions is the basic step in life. Whatever hurt you are carrying, reach out to the other person and complete.