LIFE IS FOR ENRICHING CONSCIOUSNESS🔗

FRIDAY, 01ST MARCH 2013

I welcome all of you with my love and blessings. Let us enter into today's satsang. I was expanding on the four tattvas of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching others. Today, I'll move to the tattva of enriching.

Enriching is you taking responsibility with integrity and authenticity, that you are continuously committed to enriching, which is expanding yourself and life, in and around you.

I am defining enriching - listen! 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. Listen! Enriching means constantly enriching you and others! Listen! Enriching is infusing all these three tattvas continuously in your life and others' lives.

Even in the vedas, the first three vedas are only the tattvas. The fourth veda is about making those three tattvas into life. It is the same way with these four tattvas also; the first three are the tattvas itself and the fourth one is about making the other three tattvas as life.

Listen! Not just listening, but real listening. Not just listening. I don't even want to use the words, 'just listen'. Not just hearing but listening!

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. You always ask, 'Why should we enrich others?' You conveniently forget that life happens to you with others. The ego forgets, the ahankara forgets, that all its joy comes only when it stretches itself to anyakara, not when it fights with ahankara.

The ahankara thinks that by fighting with ahankara it can extract joy. No! Only by stretching to others' anyakara can it experience joy. It is very unfortunate; the ahankara thinks that just by fighting with ahankara, it can experience fulfillment. I tell you, that is the way ahankara survives! In these three - mamakara, ahankara, anyakara, the leader, the gang-leader is ahankara. The other two fellows are both chota, small, frightened fellows. By the strength of the leader, these fellows also act like rowdies, but they themselves do not know anything. The ahankara is the most cunning strategy planner. Unfortunately, he is caught in the net that he himself created!

We very conveniently forget an important fact, and take life happening for us with others for granted. We think, 'My brother has to behave like a brother, father has to behave like a father, friend has to behave like a friend, son has to behave like a son, student has to behave like a student, teacher has to behave like a teacher,' without taking the responsibility that we ourselves should also fulfill our role!

Why should the teacher behave as a teacher, if the student is not taking the responsibility of enriching the teacher? Listen! When you don't enrich the teacher as a student, even what you receive from the teacher will not be useful for you! It will not be useful for you! Anything you receive without enriching, is stolen!

The Bhagavad Gita beautifully says – 'If you don't do yagna and give back to the divine energy, you are a thief!' Listen! Bhagavan Krishna does not mean upi just pouring some offerings into a fire; he also means doing the proper action. For example, if you are cutting a tree, you have to plant at least five trees. If you are taking water from the river, you should make sure that the recycled water is purified and added to the river. Constantly enriching the source and keeping it alive for the next generation is yagna. Do not touch anything which you can't replace, like sources which can be exhausted but not replenished. Do not use non-renewable energy sources. Use only renewable energy sources. That is part of enriching, yagna.

Bhagavad Gita is very clear. Krishna is very clear. Listen! If you are not enriching, but only taking and enjoying, you are a thief. Asteya (non-stealing), one of the important vows of sannyas, can be maintained only by enriching. Only when you continuously enrich others will non-stealing be maintained. Listen. Enriching is where life happens to you. I can say that enriching means infusing all the three tattvas into satyas.

I have a quotation here from Bhagavad Gita, third chapter, twelfth verse:

Translation: Satisfied with selfless service, the celestial beings certainly award you the desired necessities of life. He who enjoys things without offering them to the celestial beings is certainly a thief!

Listen! Life happens to us with others. I tell you, how many of you listen with integrity and authenticity? I ask all my sannyasis, ‘How many of you think that even if you are alone in the forest, you will be able to maintain the standard of your sannyas life without the help of other sannyasis or the sangha of sadhus?’ No! I tell you, try, try and try. I have seen hundreds of sadhus. As the spiritual head of the one of the oldest sannyas sampradaya

and member of the apex body of Hinduism, I tell you, for a common seeker, it is impossible!

I have seen these young seekers guided by the wrong idea that they can do it on their own. They go and sit in some hut, in some corner, forest or hill. They come down to the nearby village just for food. And in two years, they end up marrying some old widow! Arrey, when you don't see anybody, you will just fall for anybody you see! You will fall for anybody you see!

Whether it is sannyas or samsar, the joys of spirituality or the joys of the world, the joys of authenticity or the joys of inauthenticity, everything happens with company, with sangha! Understand, whether it is satsanga or dussanga, you need a sangha. Life happens to you in sangha. If life can happen to you without sangha, why will you be here? It cannot happen, it cannot. Being one of the spiritual heads of the naga-sampradaaya, I tell you, even to become a naga-sadhu, initially, until you are established, a sangha is required.

Life happens to you with others. Whether it's basic food or the ultimate luxury, everything happens to you with others. If you don't enrich others, it is stealing and life does not happen to you. I tell you, decide to enrich everyone you see with these tattvas; in just a few months you will see that you are surrounded by gods and you are living in heaven. Go on enriching people with these tattvas.

Even if you are in the remote forest, only with the river Ganga and the hills, your life happens. Even if you are a naga-sadhu in the forest, life happens to you with Ganga and the hills, the rivers and forest. Listen! With whoever or whatever life happens to you, you start enriching it. You start protecting it. That is why Hindus are so, so devoted to Ganga, Yamuna and Himalayas, because life happens to them with that. That is why they are so sincere in keeping them alive and enriching them.

That is the way Shankara created ten sampraadayas of nagas - Giri, Puri, Teertha, Aranya, Indra, Saraswati. Enriching life is Life! What you enrich, enriches you. What you enrich, enriches you!

Listen! Enriching is the way in which you relate with the expressed component of God, the expressed part of God. Listen! Integrity and authenticity are

the ways in which you relate with the unexpressed, 'avyakta' part of God. Responsibility and enriching are the ways in which you relate with 'vyakta, the expressed part of God. Listen! Integrity and authenticity are the right ways to relate with the unexpressed part of God. Responsibility and enriching are the right ways to relate with the expressed part of God, the world. Enriching, enriching, enriching! If you do not enrich, you actively create a selfish pattern. Be very clear, either you give or you swindle. There is no middle. How many of you cognize this?

When you chant the swasti-mantra in the morning, it is a very powerful way of enriching the world, through our integrity and authenticity. You take the responsibility for those words, and for making the swasti- mantras into reality. Listen! When you chant those words in the morning with integrity and authenticity and bless the world, you are sending those vibrations to the world. When you take responsibility for the words you utter and start working, you enrich the world mystically and physically, metaphysically and physically.

Let us understand what is being chanted...

Go-braahmanebhyah shubhamastu nityam

You should take the responsibility of protecting the cows, and the people who practice these four tattvas.

Kaale varshatu parjanyaha prithivee sasyashaalinee

It means that we should make sure that the trees are not cut, and rain is showered properly, three times a month.

Raaja dharmapatihi prajaah sucharitaaha

It means that you should make sure that the king rules righteously. It is our responsibility now. We will all take the responsibility for the rulers to rule the world and all the countries righteously, by constantly educating them and teaching them in all possible ways. We are responsible!

Chanting is the first level of metaphysical support that we give to the world, enriching metaphysically. Start taking responsibility for it, so that we enrich physically also. So when you chant every day, remind yourself that now you have to make sure that the king rules righteously! Understand, guiding the rulers is our mission. The saint Jnanasambandar himself guided the Pandya king. So it is our right and it is our responsibility. It is our responsibility that enlightened beings and saints are protected. I think we will have to structure our whole sangha based on the swasti-mantra. That is our mission statement. Understand? The swasti-mantra we chant every day is our mission statement.

Go-braahmanebhyah shubhamastu nityam

We should plan that every ashram has a goshaala, that people take the responsibility of protecting cows, and that every state of India passes a law protecting cows (anti-cow-slaughter bill). We should constantly promote the truth of protecting

the cows all over the world. A brahmana is a person who practices these chaturvedas. Whoever practices the chaturvedas must be protected!

It is time we take the responsibility for enriching all the words we utter in the morning, through swasti-mantra. We are responsible for the king ruling, the rulers ruling the country righteously and citizens living the life righteously. We are responsible for everything. We are responsible! We'll take the responsibility by constantly teaching these four tattvas to everyone. Understand? Taking responsibility and enriching make life happen to you!

With integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching, I declare today - you all make me an incarnation. It is not just me, by myself. By myself, with my integrity and authenticity, I can only become an enlightened being. Only by taking responsibility and enriching all of you, do I become an incarnation. How many of you cognize this? So, I happen because of you! My integrity and authenticity only makes me an enlightened being. Only my commitment to taking responsibility and enriching all of you makes me an incarnation!

Listen. Go on, go on, go on enriching! Go on enriching with these tattvas. ‘En-reaching’ is enriching. Enriching is ‘en-reaching’!

Integrity is the root, authenticity is the tree, responsibility is the fruit and enriching is sharing the fruit, which creates more fruit.

I can also say that enriching is enjoying the fruit and sowing the seed for having more fruit. In enriching, you also enrich yourself. So enriching is enjoying the fruit and sowing the seed for more fruits to happen. Go on enriching. I tell you, extraordinary powers will support you.

Listen! When you start enriching, life happens. I tell you, even in profession, in business, everywhere, when you look beyond what you get, creativity happens in you! Listen! When Steve Jobs starts looking beyond money, he creates better and better products. When Bill Gates looks beyond the gates of bill, he creates better and better and better enriching products! Gates of bill will never make you do anything, either in the micro-level or the macro-level. I tell you, in every field, only when you look beyond what you get, great things are born. Great things are born!

All my sannyasis and ashramites, understand. If you are not able to do great things, be very clear, you have still not started looking beyond what you are going to get. Maybe what you want is just my attention, but even that is a salary. You are stuck. Only if you look beyond that and decide that you will enrich just because you want to enrich, great things will be born out of you.

Jnana-garbha (womb of wisdom) happens in the womb of one who is looking beyond the possible return. If the mother's womb is constantly thinking about what it will gain by giving birth to a son or a daughter, it will never conceive, produce and give birth. When the womb looks beyond what it is going to get, it gives birth. When your inner space looks beyond what is going to be returned to you or what you think as the benefit, great things are

contributed. Great creativity is achieved. Impossible becomes possible. Same way, when a master looks beyond what a disciple is going to contribute to him, He makes the disciple a master. When I look beyond what you are going to contribute back to me, I make you a master. Listen! In every field, when you look beyond the possible fruit of that field, great things are born!

Whatever you see as being useful in planet Earth, is from enriching consciousness. Listen! If Edison has invented the bulb, it is from enriching consciousness. If somebody else has developed it to the next level, that is from his enriching consciousness. It is never from the mind which thinks of a salary. And listen, the mind which thinks of returns is a worker, vaishya. From the consciousness of vaishya, nothing, nothing new or creative can come out. They only know how to make a number of moulds. They can make ten thousand bulbs, but they cannot do even a small change. Even the small change happens only from enriching consciousness. The same apple has fallen ten thousand times from ten thousand trees in front of ten thousand people. Why then did only Newton get the idea of the theory of gravity? When you are in enriching consciousness, even a small happening gives birth to creativity, and you enrich the world.

Of course, I also wanted all of you to know that the theory of gravity has not been uttered for the first time by Newton. It was uttered long before, and recorded in vedic tradition. It is recorded in modern history as defined by Newton, that’s all. I read somewhere that in modern history, three apples changed the world: the apple of Adam, the apple of Newton and the apple of Steve Jobs! Understand, one represents religion, another represents science and the third represents technological revolution.

You can create anything only when you see it and experience it from the state of enriching consciousness. You can create anything only when you see everything from an enriching consciousness state. Everything, everything, everything - from the seat you're sitting on, the laptop you are using, the energy beads you are wearing, the house you are living in, to the food you are eating, anything creative comes only of enriching consciousness. Only if there is a passage in the earth, the underground water can come out, the river Saraswati can come out. In the same way, only if there is an enriching consciousness in you, in your inner space, creativity can come out.

Being in the state of enriching means doing actions in the enriching state, without postponing! Enriching means doing it NOW, not postponing! So I tell you, today, list all the enriching thoughts that you are postponing without making them as actions, and start acting on them. Don't postpone even this act.

This morning, I was speaking to one of my ashramites who was having mood swings. I asked him, 'Do you want to leave?' He said he doesn't want to leave, but he cannot commit to that! He said, 'I am not going to commit now. I will become clear and then follow.' I told him that he will never become clear. Either you commit now or never, because whenever you utter a statement like that,

'When I become clear, I will declare,' then that 'will, will, will, will...' will be there to make you postpone that commitment. Do you think that you will be able to break that 'will'? The parasites of your inner consciousness are 'if', 'but', 'will' and 'may'! Understand?

I tell you guys, postponing means not living, not beginning life. It is literally death! Your body may be breathing, but don't think that you are alive. When I see a person, I can tell very clearly, how many years he has lived. All the moments you did not postpone, you were living. All the moments you were postponing, you were breathing, but you were not alive!

And the moments when you are breathing, but not alive, form the source for sickness. Disease grows in a space where you breathe but don't live. That is why I said, when you take responsibility, you destroy the roots where disease can grow. The best medicine for your heart to function forever, beautifully and smoothly, is enriching. Postponing means that you are not alive, postponing is death!

I tell you, not taking responsibility even for the acts you committed is poverty. Taking responsibility only for the things that you are involved in is a middle-class mind, a mediocre mind. Taking responsibility for things even though you are not the reason for them is the consciousness of a leader. Whenever there is a problem, you are too busy justifying that you are not the reason for it. Listen, even if you justify to everyone around you that you are not the reason for it, the sufferings for that problem are not going to leave you until you take the responsibility for it!

As a child, if something has fallen from the table and broken, you try to justify to your parents, 'I did not do it. I did not do it. I did not do it.' Unfortunately, even after growing up, you are doing the same thing, 'I did not do it. I am not responsible. I am not responsible.' You don't understand that whether you are responsible or not, the pot is broken!

From tomorrow, you will not be able to drink tea from that cup or pot. You are affected. Take the responsibility, so that you will bring it back. You will buy one more or repair this. If you are too busy in crying, 'I did not do it. I did not do it,' are you going to think about repairing or buying one more? Are you going to sort this issue out?

I have a story for you.

In a village, there were two naughty brothers whom nobody is able to control. The whole village experiences their presence so heavily! All of them decide that they won't be able to handle the hell anymore. They go and complain to the parents. The parents go to the village pastor. The Pastor takes the responsibility and says, 'I will try. Don't worry.'

He calls the younger child and slowly starts talking to him.

'Do you know where is God?'

The child starts screaming and runs away as fast as he can to his elder brother. He says, 'Hey, we are both really in trouble!'

The elder one asks, 'Why?'

‘We used to steal money, toys and clothes from every house. Now, the whole village suspects that if anything or anybody is missing, we are responsible. Just now the Pastor is asking me, "Where is God?" Did you hide him anywhere without telling me?’

Listen, we are in the same space as both the children. First we are out to say, ‘I am not, I am not, I am not, I am not’. The space which first tries to disown is the space in which the spontaneous lying pattern is rooted. How many of you cognize what I am saying? Listen! You may not be the reason for something, but when it affects your life, you have to take responsibility for it.

Living in the same space without taking responsibility, even if it affects your life, just because you are not the reason, is equivalent to living in a pigpen. With authenticity and integrity, raise your hand, how many of you are living in a pigpen? True. Because you are not the reason for the stones lying there, because you are not reason for the beautiful garden not happening, you are not ready to take the responsibility of having a beautiful ambience. Taking responsibility for something even though you are not the reason for it is the consciousness of a leader.

I tell you, enriching makes you live these tattvas without forgetting. Enriching others makes you realize these satyas, without getting buried in unconsciousness. Go on, go on, go on enriching yourself and others. I tell you, only in the actions of enriching yourself and others, these tattvas become the life of you, and get life from you, and become satyas in you. Enriching others ensures that you are not drowning in an unconscious state. I tell you, if you are in the space of enriching yourself and others, you continuously perform miracles. When you don’t live these principles, the mind is occupied with suicidal tendencies, maybe slow suicidal tendencies, that’s all. Bring responsibility and enriching in your inner space and consciousness! Go on enriching others. Do not allow laziness to bury you before you are dead! Allow authenticity to grow on you even if you are buried.

If you are in the state of enriching others continuously, you will be able to create miracles! It is constantly bringing that state in you, that space in you, that strength in you – ‘Thanks to these four life-saving tattvas! I am enriched by it, and I am going to enrich it!’

I name all the ashram gates on the basis of these four tattvas. The East entrance will be called as ‘Integrity’ entrance; the south entrance will be called as ‘Authenticity’ entrance; the west entrance will be called as ‘Responsibility’ entrance; and the north entrance will be called as ‘Enriching’ entrance.

The ashram is an extension of the dharma that we are living, the Buddha who is the embodiment of it and the sangha which is radiating with it. These four tattvas are our dharma. Constantly bring the state of these four tattvas in you. Constantly bring these four tattvas in you, again and again.

All the ashram heads should now plan for having a goshaala for cows, not only in India, but all over the world. And you should make sure you are also contributing to the rulers ruling righteously, by

voicing right opinions and reminding them about the dharma. Enriching is such a favorite subject! I have gone on and on, I think for almost two hours! And I have still not yet completed. I will continue tomorrow also.

I bless you all, to achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share, explode and enrich with eternal bliss – ‘Nithyananda’! Thank you!

Others' expectation about us is not out of enmity; it is not forced, it is not a suffering or a torture! When you suppress your out expectations about you in your own body and are not ready to listen, it comes out in another body, as their anyakra for you. It is your own expectation giving you another more chance!