Four Truths Of Life🔗

Wed, 27 February 2013

I am going to define the four tattvas – integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching yourself and others. Today, I am going to redefine these four, for all of you to imbibe them clearly.

Integrity is fulfilling the word and thought you give to yourself and to others, and experiencing a state of completion – poornatva – with yourself, and with Life.

Listen, the word that you give you and others is the bone structure of your life. That is the bone structure of your life! If you continuously break the bones of your life, how will your life be? Full of pain, distorted, 'vakra', perverted. The word you give yourselfrself is the bone structure of your inner personality, the word you give to others is the inner structure of your success in life. If you are constantly breaking your bones, then life will be painful, a suffering and a torture!

Life is based on the word you give yourself and others. How many of you cognize what I am saying? It is based on the words that everything starts. So, the word you give yourself and to others is your life. It is literally your LIFE!

You have to fulfill the word you give yourself and others as your very life. If you are really sure that you can’t do it, then you should at least do the bone transplantation, but not fracture the bone. Do bone transplantation. It means you should complete the word by declaring that you will not be able to fulfill that word. Finally, complete it.

For example, you have given a word that you will give a million dollars to somebody. It is your life! You have to fulfill that word now. But if you are very sure that you will not be able to fulfill that word, at least complete with them saying, ‘I will not be able to fulfill it. I am taking my word back. Please look for some other source.’ Even this is a completion.

But the second choice should be used like a bone surgery. Will you do bone surgery to yourself every day? No! You will rarely do bone surgery. It cannot be done every day. In the same way, you cannot just complete by taking back your word every day. While giving the word itself, you should be aware enough that you are going to fulfill it. Only rarely is surgery allowed. But there should be nothing incomplete without fulfilling or completing it. Experience a state of poornatva, completion with you and with life.

How many of you do more completion and less fulfilling? Raise your hand. Giving a word and then taking it back; completing it, instead of fulfilling it. Raise your hands. You are all living in unconsciousness. You are living in utter unconsciousness! You give your word, but you are not aware of what you are doing.

Integrity is you fulfilling the word and thought you give to yourself and to others and experiencing a state of poornatva, completion with yourself and life.

If you give a word, be very clear that your life has already started building. You have started building your life. You have to fulfill it. It is your LIFE! Dropping the word and completing is like pulling down the structure and rebuilding it. How many times do you pull down the structure and rebuild?

If you build a hundred buildings, maybe one will be pulled down and rebuilt. But what do you do in your life? If you give hundred words, ninety-nine are pulled down and rebuilt. What does it mean? You still have no respect for life. You are not aware of what you are doing. You need to become sincere. You need to have the courage of authenticity before you give a word. You should ensure that your authenticity is kept alive. I tell you, authenticity is death for your boredom, and excitement for your life. Because authenticity kills the old way of living, it is a death for you and it is an intense excitement to live.

Applying the sacred ash on your forehead means that you declare and commit, ‘All my decisions will be based just on this one truth of authenticity, because nothing else (other than authenticity)

should interfere in my decision-making. Everything else is only ash. It will only become ash. So, all these things, which will become ash, should not be a part of my strategy planning! My strategy for life, my strategy for success, everything should only be from authenticity.'

I have a question from a participant, ‘Sometimes, we commit to something when we are in the mood, and in some days we don’t feel that we need to fulfill it. Should we do it, just because we gave the word, without the spirit behind the words? Can we drop that commitment in this case?’

No! If you have given a word, it just has to be lived. Just has to be lived. Word is LIFE! Brahma created the world out of the word. The integrity of Vishnu is the lotus from whose navel creation - Brahma happens; and the tongue of Brahma is the word ‘veda’, out of which the world happens. Understand, integrity should be the root foundation from which the lotus of the word blooms. Out of that word, creation happens. Creation happens out of the word from integrity. When a person with integrity says, ‘Let there be a huge organization here,’ it happens just like that!

Understand, when your words are rooted in integrity, the word is Brahma. If it is rooted in Vishnu – integrity – it just becomes reality. Integrity is capable of maintaining creation. Vishnu maintains creation. Creation is possible only when you are established in the state of integrity and utter your words. When you utter your words from the space of integrity, creation is possible, creation happens!

If you have committed, it has to be your life. It IS your life! Life is built on commitments. If you do not have respect for your commitments, your commitments also will not have respect for you. Listen! If you are integrated to your commitment, your commitment can make it into a reality. Even in your day-to-day life, if you are integrated to your integrity, your integrity will be integrated to you.

Integrated to integrity, authentic to authenticity, responsible to responsibility and enriching to enrichment - only this will solve the fear of fears, the worry of worrying and the desire to have desires. If you just have the problem of fear, authenticity is enough to solve it. But if you have fear of fears, then only authenticity to authenticity can solve it. When your problem is layered, the solution also has to be layered!

When you are integrated to integrity, integrity will be integrated to you. Be in integrity with integrity! Be integrated to integrity, authentic to authenticity, responsible to responsibility and enriching to enrichment!

The words you give yourself and others form the bone structure of your life. If you give conflicting, contradictory words, the bone structure of your life will be a circle put on a square and rectangle - all crooked perversions! So, if you start building your life on that, how will it be? Crooked, perverted, incomplete, and useless!

You build a two hundred story building, forget to put steps and realize it only later on! You neither put the steps nor put a lift. And you come and tell me, 'Swamiji,

I built a two-hundred story building, the tallest building on the planet earth!' I ask, 'How can we go up?' You reply, 'We have to use a helicopter Swamiji.' I say, 'Ok, at least with a helicopter you will go to the top floor. Then, how you will go to the other floors from that floor?' You reply, 'I forgot about this Swamiji. We have to also go to the other floors. I'll pull it down and build it again!'

Crooked buildings are created by the wrong skeleton structures. Crooked lives, useless lives are created by the wrong thought patterns. Lack of integrity creates crooked thought patterns. Crooked thought patterns create a crooked lifestyle.

Take the words you utter in your inner space very seriously, very sincerely. The most powerful being in your life is telling you, 'tathaasthu! tathaasthu!' to whatever words you utter. Who is that being? YOU! He is sitting inside you as the antaryaami and saying 'tathaasthu! tathaasthu! tathaasthu!' to whatever you utter. He goes on saying 'tathaasthu! tathaasthu!'

If you utter the words, ‘I am the most healthiest person, I am going to live until swamiji lives in the body,’ the inner most being says, ‘tathaasthu!tathaasthu!’ If you think, ‘I am sick, I have back pain. I cannot do this, I cannot do that. I am sick and broke and I am really having tiredness; I really can’t do the work. And if I can do the work, they will exploit me. I am not going to be alright, I am not going to be healthy!’ Then, your being inside says, ‘tathaasthu!,tathaasthu!’

yogasya pradhamam dwaaram vangnirodhaha || ‘The first step towards yoga is reduction in the words you create!’

Why will the words you create be reduced when you step into yoga?

Because you bring integrity and awareness into your system! Now you become responsible for the words you utter to you and to others. What will happen? Naturally, reduction in words will happen.

yogasya prathamam dvaaram vaang-nirodhaha || The first step in yoga is reduction in words inside and outside of you.

When you bring integrity, the words inside and outside you automatically drop, drastically. When you bring authenticity, the words will increase, and your capacity to fulfill it will also increase.

Listen! We will enter into authenticity. Let me define authenticity. Authenticity is you being established in the peak of your energy, responding to life from who you believe yourself to be for yourself, who you project yourself to be for others, and what others perceive you to be for them.

More than the word ‘perceive’, I’ll change it into what others want you to be for them, what others expect you to be for them. Understand? I am redefining authenticity

Authenticity is you being established in the peak of your energy, the peak of your capability, and responding to life from who you perceive yourself to be for you and who you project yourself to be for others, and what

others expect you to be for them.

This is a very, very, very important quality for life to happen to you. The first thing you need to do is tune what you perceive as you, and what you project as you to others. Tune that. Do not reduce what you project to others. Increase what you perceive yourself to be for you. Let the benchmark be what you project and not what you perceive, because what you perceive is always lower than what you project. Compare both. Whatever is the best among both, take that. If there are some best qualities in what you perceive as you, then raise what you project to that. If there is something great in what you project, raise your perception to that. Got it? How many of you cognize this?

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

Responsibility is living and responding to life from the understanding that you are the source of and, therefore, you are responsible for all the happenings in and around you. I'll alter one word. Instead of understanding, I will say, 'Truth'.

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

Responsibility is the fruit. Enriching is sowing the seed for the fruit to happen. Integrity is the root, authenticity is the tree, responsibility is the fruit, enriching is sharing the fruit, to have more fruits. Integrity is the root, authenticity is the tree, responsibility is the fruit, enriching is sharing the fruit to create more fruits. Every person who eats the fruit is responsible for sowing the seed for more fruits to happen.

If you are rich, be the ground on which the seed can be sown. If not, at least pour water for the seed to become a tree. If not, at least be a gardener to weed out the unnecessary things for the seed to become fruit again. Either you offer your time or talent or treasure. If you have eaten the fruit, it is your responsibility to make the seed again into a fruit. After eating the fruit, be responsible to sow the seed and make sure the seed again brings more fruits for more people to enjoy.

Start! Don't wait for the structure to evolve. Structure evolves when spontaneity forms. Spontaneity is the stone out of which the structure can be carved. Spontaneity is the base material that should become the stone. Then on that, the structure can be carved. But unfortunately we always wait for the structure to be carved first. How can the statue be carved without a stone? Spontaneity is the exciting hard work.

Listen! Spontaneity is the exciting hard work. Structure is the chiseled smart work. All great things start with exciting hard work and then comes the smart work. Chiseled smart work always comes later than exciting hard work. Listen! Create exciting hard work, and then the structure for

chiseled smart work will happen. Chiseled smart work never happens without exciting hard work. Listen. This is what we need. Learn to do exciting hard work.

All sangha starts with excited hard work, not with chiseled smart work. What we need immediately is excited hard work established on the four tattvas. Excited hard work is the Guruvak for the whole sangha. Excited hard work!

People are the greatest asset to planet Earth! If the right education, inspiration and life are given, people are assets. Every individual brought to planet earth is wealth. It is a wrong attitude and understanding when we feel that people are a load on planet earth. Your hatred towards economically well-off people does not mean you love economically weak people. That is why, Communism was never a success. Socialism is never going to be successful. When you don’t understand the value of people, you take them for granted.

When you do not know how to stand in the street and answer the questions of people, you will not answer the questions when you receive them on phone calls either. Only when you attend to people on the streets and answer their questions, help them with their concerns, you even learn to relate to people as human beings. Only if you learn to attend to the problems of the poor and rich, the concerns of the sick and healthy, concerns of the young and old, you learn to relate with people!

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

Responsibility means cognizing that YOU are the source for everything happening in and around you, and taking responsibility for it. Only in the space of responsibility does life flower in you! Only when you take responsibility with responsibility does life start happening in you!