Food, Love, Energy - Three Kinds Of Bondage🔗

Whenever you create anything, you carry the product you create in your heart. In the Vedic tradition, we call it as hridgarbha, ‘carrying it in your heart and delivering it’. It is delivery by creativity! Whenever you deliver something by creating and carrying it in the heart, you will have extreme fulfillment in the heart.

Even giving birth to kids! For what do you give birth? It is because of the extreme fulfillment that they give, to your life. But giving birth to a movie or a painting or work of art is deeper fulfillment than having children. So, please listen! Giving birth to a movie is a spiritual practice. If it is done with awareness in an unclutched way, acting can become a process for enlightenment.

In Vedic tradition, we believe that all of us are actors. People get attached to the role they are playing, that is why they are suffering. If you are acting in an unclutched way, you will realize that life itself is nothing but acting. Acting can become a process for awareness.

Be aware of what you are carrying; by the time you deliver it from your heart, you will have tremendous fulfillment. I tell you, anything you give birth to from your heart, directly leads to spiritual enlightenment. Vedic tradition believes that life itself is acting. Done with awareness, acting can make you realize that you are beyond body and mind - the pure consciousness.

All ‘THE nirahara samyama’ participants, be very clear. Bring intensity to your integrity, authenticity and enriching. Let that become your bio-memory. Only then will your need for external support disappear. Your need for food, love and energy from outside - all three are bondage.

That is why at one level, the Master leads you to his formless form, where the energy is experienced from the very source. Your own atman is experienced as cosmos. Right now, don’t bother about spiritual bondage; that can be freed at the last. First break these two bondages, the need for food and the need for love. Bring integrity and authenticity into your thinking. Your bio-memory will stop asking for external sources.

You may wonder how integrity can help in nirahara samyama. I tell you, when you bring integrity into your thinking, you will realize that the constant feeling of tiredness and constant low energy is what makes you eat. The idea of negative energy is nothing but a negative weed. You have to take it out with integrity. Hunger is a negative weed. Human beings can live without hunger. Sorry if I hurt your logic, but what I am saying is true!

When you constantly think with integrity, all the air which you take inside is converted to energy - prana. I tell you, If all the air which goes in becomes energy by your bio-memory and your muscle memory, you don't need anything from outside. Your breathing will be very deep. You will have such a strong experience of fulfillment. The only thing that you need to do with this nirahara samyama is, somehow break the obstructions that the mind brings.

Listen! The mind will not directly bring an obstacle directly - like, I am hungry. It will bring up some other obstruction. But you know, you somehow need to catch it. Inauthenticity is like the demon Ravana.

Ravana did not come as himself to kidnap Sita. He came disguised as a sage, as a rishi. So your inauthenticity always comes up in some other way, as some other cognition.

When you start practicing integrity, you will weed out even hunger. Hunger and sleep are nothing but lack of integrity with your soul, with your consciousness. When you are with integrity with your consciousness, hunger and sleep will both suddenly disappear! Your sleep will be just be samadhi. Even if you have a little hunger, it is just to run the body. Maybe once in a week you will eat, to maintain the body. I tell you from my own experience.

No animal has breakfast, lunch and dinner! Do you know any animal which has breakfast, lunch and dinner? They go hunting once in a week. Even if they do hunt, they leave it once they are done, they don't dump it inside. And not a single animal dies of obesity, even elephants! So bring integrity to your hunger.

Bring integrity to all the beliefs you carry about you. Bring integrity to all your habits, eating, drinking, talking. Infuse integrity in every activity. Bring integrity into how you feel about you. If you achieve something that you think is big, your mind will immediately say, 'I am now eligible for a nice rest, a nice treat and nice food!' Bring integrity to you. You are worthy of nice things, always! You don't need to achieve something to have nice things. Have the best things of the world as your lifestyle. Listen. Resting out of tiredness is NOT the best thing for you to have. Resting out of completion is the best thing for you to have.

Question: 'Swamiji, what do you mean by integrity to hunger? How do you bring integrity to hunger?'

Swamiji: Whenever you are hungry, whenever your

body asks for food, ask your body, 'What do you mean by hunger? What do you mean by bringing the thought that I am tired and I need food?' Just look in and see, is it real, or is it just lack of integrity? Maybe you are constantly uttering negative commitments constantly to yourself. Just because you uttered the words that you are hungry yesterday, you may also be doing the same thing today! Try to weed out and watch it for a few days. You will see that your hunger and you food intake drop drastically!

Just try this one technique, bring integrity to your eating, to your hunger. Every time you feel like eating, the first thing you will feel is that you are tired or hungry. But it may be actually be because of the visuals of food, smell of food, taste of food or remembrance of food. Listen. When I say bring integrity, I mean, let not hunger be a negative pattern in you. Remove, remove and remove this continuously. Then suddenly, you will see that the pattern-based hunger will disappear. Real hunger will come, which will be once in a week. I lived that life and that is why I am telling you!

When your saliva, visualization, smell, all of them come to the peak with awareness, amrita - nectar, happens in your system. That takes care of your hunger and everything. Unfortunately, when you eat, the saliva, visualization - everything comes together, but not awareness! If you eat once a week, all of them will come together to the peak, with awareness. If you are continuously eating, all the five senses will come together, but not awareness. That is why the nectar is not happening. If it comes together with awareness, nectar happens to you, amrita happens to you, and you feel so fulfilled.

Bring integrity to your hunger. Even for people who are not doing nirahara samyama or THE samyama or any samyama, just bring integrity to your hunger. Just bring integrity, whenever you are tired, whenever you are sleepy. You will just see that your chronic fatigue disappears, and your quality of sleep changes.

Lack of integrity with your sleep is dreams. If you are in integrity with your sleep, there is no dream. You will have deep sleep and you will come of it like a flower. Your ability to rest is disturbed, because your eyes are loaded with heavy lights, and visualizations are forcibly sent into your inner space. The more the lights, the more the visualization, the more the visualization, the more you are tired, and eventually the quality of your sleep gets disturbed. I never ever feel that I need sleep! I lived life with just with inner light, not outer light. I always wanted our campus to be without artificial lights, with just the traditional torches, traditional lanterns. We will have it that way.

Question: - 'Is it possible to rest in samadhi without being enlightened?'

Listen! Enlightenment comes to you after you achieve all these things. Resting in samadhi does not need to be the pre-requisite. Start resting in samadhi today itself - the way you live, the way you radiate.

Any tiredness, hunger, low energy or powerlessness is lack of integrity. If you feel tired and hungry

and then eat, it is an action out of incompletion. Even if you are not practicing nirahara, bring integrity to your hunger; it will reduce drastically. You will feel high energy. If you don't bring integrity to your thinking, to your mental patterns, niraahara will not be successful.

Even during pooja, all five senses does not come to their peak. pooja is a different process. But during eating, all five senses come to their peak. I tell you, bring integrity to your thinking again and again and again. Weed out all the powerless experiences, weak feeling experiences. Whenever you feel tired or weak, weed them out.

How many of you struggle with this pattern of tiredness and laziness, raise your hand? It is just lack of integrity. Be integrated to your soul. The soul can never have tiredness, consciousness can never have tiredness. That is the truth. Don't think, after enlightenment I will not have tiredness; now I have body, so I will have tiredness. What is this? Negative weed. Whether you realize or not, you are soul and consciousness.

There is no practice period. There is no training period. Just start living! From today, say I am

Shrotriya, brahmanishta, satchidananda pranava swaroopa!

I tell you, best way to practice integrity is by taking up more and more responsibilities. Best thing to do is taking up ten responsibilities and maintain the integrity with time. Go on taking up more responsibility. The best thing I took up is giving kaavi (initiation into monkhood) to so many people. Now, I am responsible for all of them.

Constantly take up responsibilities that expose your lack of integrity to you. you Only when you form a team and take it up as a project, will your inauthenticity be exposed to your inauthenticities. Cognize the lack of integrity and your selfishness.

In each center I can see, only when you take up a project, only when you work together, your lack of integrity will be exposed to you; your inauthenticity, your laziness, your tiredness, all your negative patterns will be exposed to you. sangha becomes dhamma. When you take it up in your heart, you will imbibe these four tattvas intensely.

Question: ‘If we are in integrity with the body, then will hunger also not come once in a while?’

If you reach that level of integrity, it is authentic. When you reach the peak of authenticity, then hunger also will not come. With integrity, the flesh component is still there. Only when you cross authenticity, the flesh component is not there. Only with authenticity do you start stretching. That is the power of authenticity!

I tell you, all your responsibility is not a hill sitting in front of you. It is just an air balloon in front of you! Anything you feel, like, ‘my responsibility is too much, my lack of integrity is too much,’ is nothing but a huge air balloon. It just looks like a hill. You just need a little bit of authenticity to pull it, or a small needle called initiation to poke it!

Listen! When you fall into the water, whether it is a bathtub, a swimming pool or an ocean, all three will look the same. When the water crosses your chest level, all three will feel the same. When the water level goes above the chest level, whether it is the bathtub or the swimming pool or even the ocean, you will feel that all three as same!

A new doctor in a mental hospital asks the senior doctor, 'How do you know when somebody is ready to leave and live their life normally? How do you know when to discharge them?' The senior doctor says, 'We give them a bathtub full of water, and a spoon, a mug and a bucket to empty it. Based on their choice, we will find out.' The new doctor says, 'So if somebody tries to empty the bathtub with the spoon, you will not send him home; if he tries with mug, you will keep him a few more days, and if he tries with the bucket, you will discharge him immediately. Right?' The senior doctor said, 'Well, a normal person will remove the water plug to empty the bathtub.'

When you compare with a mug or a teaspoon, a bucket looks like a very intelligent idea! When you compare, you will always be lost in comparison. But the real click happens when you come out of the comparison zone. Why do you feel that your inauthenticity or integrity is a huge hill? Because you are in a huge comparing zone. When you compare spoon, mug and bucket, the bucket feels like a good idea, the most intelligent idea. But it is not the most smart way of working! Smart work and hard work never go hand in hand. When you compare, bucket looks best, but the bestest solutions always come out of comparison zone.

If you think it is a huge hill - my lack of integrity, my inauthenticity, my responsibility - you are still in comparison zone, either with someone else, or with your own past. In your past you never broke your inauthenticity, that is why your inauthenticity is like a hill. Now you are trying to break. When you try to break, inauthenticity disappears on its own. So, best solution for your huge inauthenticity, huge lack of integrity, huge responsibility, comes with very simple thing like pulling the water plug! It comes out of the comparison zone.

For example, if you believe - from age three I built this inauthenticity, when will I be out of this inauthenticity? From age three to now - so many years! It is built over twenty-five years, it will take twenty-five years to come out! That is like using a mug to empty the bathtub! Instead, say, ‘No, I have the power of initiation! I will finish in one year.’ That is like using the bucket. Just removing the plug is ‘declaration’. Start living it! Start living it!

I tell you, only when you continuously take more and more responsibility, will you will be in communication about the tattvas. You will enrich each other, enlighten each other, you will be exposed to your inauthenticity, you will be exposed to your lack of integrity and you will be exposed to your incompletions. If you are sitting all by yourself, you will not even be exposed! You will be just sitting and worrying.

A very high standard of integrity and authenticity is required. You should not miss anywhere, especially when you have the power. When you have power and you have still not realized the ultimate purpose of your happening and integrated

all your powers with that one purpose, If you are playing with the powers, it can lead to inauthenticity and shrink your possibility!

For example, when you are doing the job of teaching, a high standard of integrity and authenticity is required. You can't even complete or do any prayaschitta if you have done some damage. Sometimes the damage will be irrevocable. When you take more and more responsibilities, you start expanding!

I tell you, whenever you open your hand to give, you receive even before you give. The words I am uttering are from authenticity and integrity. When you open your hand to receive, you lose even before you close your hand. When you open your hands to give, it is poured even before you start giving. When we started this sangha, I started giving without keeping a reserve. I opened my hands to give everything away. But before I started giving, it started pouring in. It started pouring, pouring and pouring. And I am continuously giving, giving and giving.

Just last night, my senior swami said that the amount of training we give to each brahmachari and brahmacharini is a million-dollar training. In any corporate company, if this amount of training has to be given to an individual, the company has to spend a million dollars! And he said, 'You are giving it away, and there is no guarantee they will be staying in the sangha.' I told him, 'This is the mission statement: I love people. People make me happy, not money. Money is just to train people. We need some infrastructure, that is why we need money.'

Enriching people is our sangha. I love people, not money. If I love money, if I start working for money, I can simply make a billion dollar company in a year! But I am not going to start a company and I am not interested in starting. I love people and people make me happy. So enriching people is our sangha. Enriching people is our sangha! All money is just to create the place where you can train people.

I tell you, people are the most important energy in our life! I don't want to say 'resource'. It is a dirty word. People are the most important energy in our life. Work with people. Have interest in people. The interest you have towards people is the interest you have towards life. The interest you have towards money is the interest you have towards your security, which is like a safe tomb!

Money is okay if you want it for immediate projects, to enrich people. Your involvement with people shows your involvement with life. Your involvement with money shows your involvement with inauthenticity. People are wealth, people are life, people are energy. Finally, people are God! Give everything to people. People bring everything you need. Whether it is basic things like food, or things like love, joy, laughter; people bring everything in your life.

If you are expecting that the right people should happen in your life, you are a load on them. If you are making the people right in your life, you are a boon for them. Don't make right people to happen in your life. Make whoever has happened in your life as right! Make every one right, by taking responsibility. Okay?

When you have become integrated, but not yet become authentic, that is the zone where you will have powers. There is a possibility you can become inauthentic. Only when you take responsibility for the powers that came out of integrity, do you become authentic. Only when the danger of inauthenticity leaves you, are you safe. When you start enriching others with all the powers you have without allowing the inauthenticity of self-pride or self-importance, you cross the danger of inauthenticity. Until then, you still carry the danger of inauthenticity.

When you are incomplete, the job you do will also be incomplete. Listen. Go on infusing integrity into every emotion, feeling, thinking and experience you have in your life. Go on, go on and go on bringing integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching.

I tell you, any of our centers, temples or ashrams which take up the higher-level projects to grow spiritually and become successful. Whenever a center, temple, ashram or a group takes up big projects, they become so authentic, responsible and integrated and enriching; they become successful in all three, their personal life, professional life and sangha life. Go on infusing integrity into every emotion, feeling, thinking, experience you have in your life.

When you all gather as a sangha and do the sangha work, so much of energy happens in you, because others are happening in your life, and that energy will make you do the sangha work and your housework, both together. You will be successful in profession and in sangha, both together. When you know how to deliver, inspire and make others as part of you and become part of others; you are creating a success formula wherever you stand and breathe. Your family and your extended family, your job and your part-time job, you will be successful everywhere.

I tell you, whoever takes the lead role in the sangha, you will see that he will also be a leader in his life. When you sit together as a sangha, take up a common project to enrich yourself and others, how you behave to that project is exactly the way you behave with life, and that is the way life is going to behave with you. Whenever you are in upayanam and take up more and more responsibility, you are in a state of expansion. I am constantly expanding, because I take more and more responsibility.

If you want to be successful in your life or in your business or profession, or in your relationship, or in your spirituality, your fulfillment, gather as a sangha keeping these four tattvas as the center; take up some huge responsibilities, projects that expand you and enrich others. How you behave with the sangha is exactly the same way you behave with life and life behaves with you. Just listening to these four tattvas is not enough; start living them by taking up higher responsibilities. Only then you pull the tattvas into your life, and the tattvas pull you into their life. You are pulling the tattvas into your life and tattvas are pulling you into their life. That is the only way any growth is possible.

Inner Awakening is nothing more than a vacation for you, if you are not taking up any responsibility. Only when you take up any responsibility, will Inner Awakening be a real awakening for you. Otherwise it is a good vacation - not bad, but a

good vacation, spiritual vacation. Find out whether Inner Awakening was a spiritual vacation for you or a spiritual beginning for you. Is it a spiritual life or a spiritual vacation - find out what you got out of Inner Awakening.

Continuously express the four truths in your life; only then will you have the possibility of any kind of growth in your life. Only when you continuously express the four truths in your life, will you have the possibility of any kind of growth in your life. Take up the responsibility as a sangha. If you can inspire a volunteer team and make them deliver something, I tell you, I am a hundred percent sure you can inspire anybody and be successful in leading a team, whether in your company or in your home. Home is also nothing but a team. You need integrity, authenticity, responsibility. If you complete all these three Ts - integrity, authenticity and responsibility, then it becomes a team. You become team. In Tamil, ‘M’ is the completion of any statement. Team is completion of all these three Ts.

Whenever you use your energy for the expansion of others, only then will you yourself be able to walk on the path of expansion. Only then will your own energy will be accessible to you, you yourself get to access your energy. Only then will your energy is awakened. Only then is it possible that your energy is awakened!

Constantly give life to this four dharmas of AIRE! I tell you, dharmo rakshathi rakshitaha! When you protect dharma, it protects you. When you excite dharma, it excites you. When you enrich dharma, it enriches you. When you are integrated to it, it is integrated into you. When you are authentic with it, it is authentic with you. When you take responsibility for it, it takes responsibility for you. Only when you enrich it, will it enrich you. dharma means the natural law of the cosmos. It is an independent intelligence. Whenever you are integrated with it, it is integrated with you. Only then is it possible that your energy is awakened. Only then is your energy is awakened.

I bless you all to achieve success in the completion process. I bless you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share, explode and enrich with eternal bliss, 'Nithayananda'!

When you are in inauthenticity, you will be afraid to look into my eyes. Because I am looking at you with the ‘third-eye’! You are not ready to look at it; you are afraid. Your inauthenticity runs away from me. The state of fear can be born in you only when you are inauthentic. Only a man in authenticity, living authenticity, is a liberated one!