The Answer To The Great ‘Why’
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Friday, 10th May, 2013
I welcome you all with my love and respects.
Today’s subject for Nithya satsang is the answer for the great ‘Why’! This big why? Why? Why?! This is the first stone you face in life. You can take this stone as an obstruction and never move beyond it. Or you can use this stone as a stepping stone and start going up. Or you can use this stone even to take off !
This great ‘WHY?! Please understand, whatever is said and done, human-beings can move only with the ability to handle the great ‘why’ If you are not able to answer this great ‘WHY?’, if you are not able to convince yourself for this ‘why’ you will continuously suffer lack of inspiration, energy, laziness, boredom.
I tell you, the worst things that can happen to a human-being is laziness attack or boredom attack. People talk about panic attack. No! I tell you, boredom attack and laziness attack is more costly than panic attack.
Panic attack happens to you if you have too many answers for ‘WHY’. Boredom attack happens to you if you don’t have an answer for ‘WHY’. Laziness attack happens to you if you don’t even want to know the answer for ‘WHY’!
The great ‘why’ which created philosophies, gave birth to principles, gave birth even to Gods, Goddesses, gave birth to religions, gave birth to spiritual groups, cults, sects, cultures. Today, we will indulge on this great ‘why?’ I have news. You can take it as good news or a bad news. For this great ‘why’ you have to discover an answer. It can be good news if you are interested in finding the answer. It can be bad news if you think, ‘Oh, I have to find out! Nobody else will give me the answer!’
I tell you, with integrity and authenticity I tell you, please do not accept anybody’s answer for the ‘why’. If you accept my answer for ‘why’, you will be living for my answer. At the most, my answer should be an inspiration for you to find out the answer for ‘why’ This ‘why’ created religions, made many people reach their peak and killed many people brutally in religious terrorism.
It is the reason for the whole, from religious terrorism to spiritual enlightenment. See, one end of the spectrum is religious terrorism, and on the other end of the spectrum is spiritual enlightenment. And for both, this “WHY?” is the reason. If you don’t find the answer for ‘why’ and eat somebody else’s answer, you can even be made as a religious terrorist! If you find your own answer for the ‘why’ you will become spiritually enlightened!
This great ‘why’, was yesterday’s discussion with me and my top organizers of Dhyanapeetam. I was having a discussion. All of them asked, ‘Swamiji, we need to answer this one question, ‘Why?’ So, I contemplated, contemplated, contemplated on it. I told them straightaway, 'Now I don't have answer. I will get back to you.'
Thanks to the disciples who give me the space to say, 'I don't know'. Of course, I have started contemplating and meditating on it. I can see, the answer is evolving.
They were asking me, 'Why these four tattvas? Why meditation? Why kriya? Why all this?' We go on teaching people 'how' - how to live the four tattvas; how to do the kriya. But we have yet to answer this great question of 'why'. If you say do the kriyas for health reason, Why health? Why not die with disease? Why health?' No, the wealth! 'Why wealth?' No, relationship! 'Why relationship?' This 'why' has to be answered!
Some of the ashramites were trying to give pseudo answers. I said, 'No! Let us be very clear. I am very clear I don't know the answer. I will get back.'
I literally sat on it! One great thing with my mind or no-mind is that for any problem, until it blossoms into a solution, it sits on it! It will not get diverted by anything. Nothing can divert it, including sleep.
Listen! If you can't be diverted from a problem until you find a solution, you are called a Genius! I am defining Genius!
Boredom hap-
pens if you don't
have answer for
'WHY'. Laziness
happens if you
don't even want to
know the answer
for 'WHY'.
Just few days ago, some of the mathematics professors have proved the theories and theorems of the great mathematician, Ramanujam. They proved the solutions which he found hundred years ago, now! And he is still a mystery! He is still a mystery! In maths, he has gone into the zone of bhava samadhi! Understand! Let me explain bhava samadhi.
See now, any product that the ‘Apple’ company launches, people buy. If they produce TV, they will buy. If they produce music player, they will buy. Anything Apple produces or launches, people buy. Why? Because, the idea of ‘Apple’ is already bought. The principle is already bought. So now, anything they launch simply gets sold! People buy anything launched by them, because the concept is already bought. Now, Apple can make any product and sell it, and people will buy it! They have reached a level that people will buy.
Please understand, I am giving you one of the important business secrets, which I don’t follow but I want to tell you. Once I convince you with certain spiritual principles and you buy into it, I can blabber anything after that, you don’t care! Of course, I am going to maintain my integrity and authenticity and I am not going to blabber anything.
But tomorrow, if I suddenly decide, ‘Build the world’s tallest broomstick statue here, on stone. Let us all worship. it,’ you will see, I will have millions to worship that! And if I say, ‘Worship this, this is the symbol of cleaning your inner space. Each time you go around the statue, one pattern breaks.’ I can give meaning to it and people will worship it!
See, I have reached bhava samadhi in my field, and because of my words and initiation, even the broomstick will bring the effect on you. Because I have reached bhava samadhi in my field, so any bhava I create produces the result on the cosmic mind! Do all of you understand?
I gave an example of 'Apple' for a very common way of understanding a business example, so that you will immediately catch it. But don't compare the Apple example and the broomstick example! This is the next level.
My words become reality because I reached the bhava samadhi in that line. In the same way, in mathematics, Srinivasa Ramanujan had reached bhava samadhi through mathematics. He achieved bhava samadhi. So now, any theorems he created, anything he just scribbled or anything he wrote in his paper in some mood, it can be a theorem and it will be proved as right! It will be proved as right!
Any external
answer for 'why'
can only be an
inspiration for you
to find your own
answer for 'why'.
Please understand, I want you to understand a very important thing now. Any answer I give for 'why' can only be an inspiration for you to find your own answer for 'why'. If you just swallow my answer, you will never reach the space where I reached. You should find your own answer to achieve bhava samadhi. After that, you have to travel for nirvikalpa samadhi.
Please understand, people who go on proving that Srinivasan Ramanujan's mathematic theorems and theories are right - they will never achieve the space of Srinivasan himself! It can be an inspiration for them to work on mathematics. But finally, one day, they have to drop even Srinivasan Ramanujan! They have to travel with that inspiration. Only then will they experience the space from which Srinivasan Ramanujan was operating.
I am analyzing this great 'why' from all angles. I sat, sat, sat, sat, sat on it. Now I hatched it! When a hen sits on the egg, it hatches; the chicken comes out. When a Master sits on a question, he hatches it, and the solution comes out! Now, the solution is walking out!
To put it in plain words, the 'WHY?' can be answered in a very simple way - for manifesting your potentiality! For manifesting your possibility! This can be the simple, plain, straightforward answer for 'why' The question 'why?' can be answered in a simple way - for manifesting your potentiality, possibility and reality!
But now, this answer needs to be expanded and explained. But for this, you need to be physically and mentally matured. You need to be mentally matured!
Millions of people die without even reaching the mental maturity to ask 'why'. Billions die, after they reach the ability to ask 'why,' but they do not have the ability to receive the answer! If you are matured enough to ask the 'why' and able to receive the answer, I tell you, all sufferings in your life will be destroyed. Because basically you are a logical animal. If your logic is convinced, done! You are in enlightened space! When you have found your own answer for 'why,' you are a jeevan mukta!
If your mind is not even matured to ask 'why', your individual consciousness is not even awakened! So you are not even a 'being'! You are not even a 'being' worthy of being!
A person who is matured enough to ask 'why' but unable to grasp the answer, enters into the realm of human-beings. He can be considered as animal-human; little human, little animal.
A person who is able to ask 'why' and able to grasp the answer for that 'why', he becomes a human-being. He is free from suffering. He will be filled in joy forever!
The Being who is able to ask 'why', grasp the answer for the 'why', and discovers the answer for his own 'why' discovers and his own answer for his own 'WHY' is a jeevan mukta.
So, why this great 'why'? Until you understand 'why this great why,' it will be in your consciousness as 'Why this great why! Understand, until you are able to grasp 'why this great why', your inner space will continue to have this one question: 'Why this great why'. And 'Why this great why?' will not disappear until you find out 'why this great why'!
'Why this great why' is God's seed put inside you and sent, so that you won't rest until you become a tree!
Understand, each seed has an energy called 'veerya' that does not rest until it produces more seeds. Until then, it cannot rest. Even if you destroy the seed or eat the seed, that veerya goes into your body and does its job in some other way!
When you have
found your
own answer for
'why' you are a
Jeevan mukta!
Listen! Listen! Listen! In the same way, the question 'why' is the veerya which is in your DNA structure. You will not be able to rest until you realize the answer for this why? When you realize it, you will be an enlightened being! You will be an enlightened soul!
If you want to market a product, you need to make people understand why. If you want to make people meditate, you need to make them understand why. If you want people to do what you want, to join your company or work or to become a lawyer, doctor, engineer, politician, for anything, you need to make them understand why.
The great 'why' is the veerya of your very DNA. Just like the veerya cannot rest until it becomes more seeds, in the same way, the 'why' cannot rest in you until you become God, until you become more enlightened beings!
The great 'why'! Contemplate! Contemplate! Do not try to avoid that 'WHY' inside you! If you avoid it, you will fall into depression! Sometime you suppress that 'why' and carry on with your life. At the age of sixty, you ask, 'Why did I become a doctor!'
One guy, great writer, came to me. I think he was sixty four at that time. He asked me, 'I don't know why I became a writer, author and speaker. Please guide me, Swami!' I said, 'Don't you know? You must have written so much! You have spoken so much! Have you never contemplated about it?' He said, 'No, by the time I started contemplating 'why' I became a writer and author; I had already become too popular. So, I continued with it!'
Many times, even before you find out why you are a doctor, you become too popular as a doctor! You continue with it! Fortunately, I found out why I became a swami even before I became too popular; so I had a choice to change; I had a choice for transformation.
If you go through the choice for transformation, the choice for change and then choose, you will be the most stable person. That is why nobody is able to move me out of my decision! Nobody, nothing - nothing and nobody can move me out of my decision, out of my choice.
Sometimes, some of my close disciples will tell, 'Nobody can change you, Swamiji! Nobody can do anything! You will only live your life! You will only live as you want! Other people have to adjust with you! Nobody can do anything!'
A man who grows
out of freedom
will be the most
stable person.
I have grown, out of my millions of choices. So I will be stable in my choice. A man who grows out of freedom will be the most stable person. Understand! People who grow out of bondage will be the most instable people.
Sometimes, my swamis and swaminis or brahmacharis, ask me, 'Why do some people run away Swamiji? They say they want freedom!' I tell them, 'No! He is grown up in bondage. He is suffering with the bondage pattern. That is why he is instable!'
Anybody who is instable is suffering with a bondage pattern. If you have grown out of freedom, you will be so stable in all your decision! One of my ex-brahmacharis ran away. I still remember him; because he was with me in the past life. He was a sadhu. And he came back again. Fool! He missed this time also! He missed the last time and that is why he has to come back!
See, there are two categories of people who came back to be around me.
- One - the people who missed me in the last birth. They were around me in the last birth, but they never became enlightened; they missed me. So, they have come back for completion and fulfillment; to achieve enlightenment.
- Second - there are some who were with me and became enlightened and completed, but came back just to be part of my sangha, to enjoy the leela, to play the leela, to see the leela with me.
When a magician comes to perform shows in a city, he brings his own people, because only with his own people can he do magic. Maybe once in a while he involves the audience, to prove his authenticity. But he does not perform all the tricks with the audience. Sometimes, he calls for a volunteer from the audience. 'Come, stand here!' Where he thoroughly knows that they cannot smell the intrinsic details of the game and the magic. Otherwise, the people who conduct the show are completely his own people.
Understand, it is the same here! There is only one difference. Magic is 'entertainment,' what I am doing here is 'enlightenment'! Magic is entertainment. What I am doing is enlightenment!
So, there are some who came down to play the game, to be an insider. Some others missed and came back. This guy is in that category, of those who missed and came back. I asked him, 'Why do you want to leave?' He said, 'I want to have freedom! Freedom! Freedom!' I saw that the poor fellow was dying with the same pattern for the last two-three janmas (births). Fool! He again got caught in the same pattern!
I tell you, if you are suffering with the root-patterns of bondage, you will be so instable! People who grew up with freedom will be most stable. I tell you, even when you marry - and when I say 'marry', I mean so many things and not just regular marriage.
Even the job you take up with a company is a marriage! With your lawyer, it is marriage! With your auditor, it is a marriage! These are all the different 'marriages' you go through in your life. You don't concentrate much on them and it later comes back to bite you. In every marriage, be conscious, be aware!
Choose a person who has grown out of a freedom pattern, not one who has grown out of a bondage pattern. A person who has grown out of a bondage pattern will always be instable. A person who has grown out of a freedom pattern will always be stable with his words and deeds. He will have extraordinary integrity and authenticity.
I have grown out of freedom; that is why there is stability! Grow out of freedom; you will have stability! You will have stability!
Anybody who is
instable is suffer-
ing with a bond-
age pattern.
Sometimes people ask me, ‘What is this Swamiji? You say that this person was with you in the past life. But if you see them, their whole life is such, there is no integrity, authenticity or responsibility! Their mind and their way of living is much worse than others!’
Understand, just because they were around me in the past, it does not mean that they have become siddha purushas, yogis or jnaanis. No! They missed me that time and they have came back again now. If they miss this time, they will come back again! Blessed are those who catch it the first time itself and achieve enlightenment!
Even if they come back, they come back just to play, be part of the leela
- the show of the Master!
Be established in stability. Stability comes from patterns of freedom. Instability comes from bondage root-patterns.
Yesterday, I could see that this drama happens again and again. Every Inner Awakening program, this drama will happen on the first and second days. Nobody will dare to look into my eyes! The moment I look into your eyes, you think, ‘Don’t look at me! Don’t look at me!’ Because you know that when I am look, I will also see your inauthenticities. You are afraid of your inauthenticities! You are afraid of the wrong words you give it to you.
Here is a very powerful process for this.
1. First, you have to pen down all the dirty words that you give to you - all the inauthenticities you carry in your mamakara, in your inner image. When you are depressed, the words you give to you, are the inauthenticities of your inner image. You give what is not there, to you - ‘I am a failure’, ‘I am an idiot!’, ‘I am a fool!’, ‘I am a headache to others!' You give all these words to you, and you go on hiding it, not bothered about it!
2. Second, introduce yourself to all, as that - 'I am a failure, idiot talking to you!', 'I am a dirty, failure, fool interacting with you now!'
3. Then what will happen? You will understand your inauthenticities.
It will be too much, because it is going to hit at you. Why don't you bother, when you tell yourself these words? But when I ask you to tell others, you say 'No, no, no, no, no! How can I tell someone these words?' Then don't tell yourself also!
Whatever are the worst words that you use towards you, you have to tell those words to everyone and introduce yourself.
Come on! Why is there so much of inauthenticity? You constantly repeat these words to you, but you can't repeat these to others? If you cannot repeat this to others, why are you repeating it to you?
How many of you are getting it? (Some people raise their hands) The remaining people will get it when they do the process! Now, you will never ever build the wrong inner image for you again. Because you have to take the oath that whatever words you utter towards you from today, whoever comes in front of you at that moment, you will

Stability comes
from patterns
of freedom.
Instability comes
from bondage
root-patterns.
have to use only those words and introduce yourself to others!
So, you can't say, 'I am General Manager of this company, that group, that bank!' No! I can't say that 'I am a senior lawyer, I am a senior doctor, I am the most popular kidney specialist, chutney specialist', whatever!
No! You have to use the exact words that you use towards you! 'I am a dirty, failure, idiot talking to you! Come on! Please hand-shake with me!'
Your whole mamakara will be exposed! Your whole inner image will be exposed to you now! With this, I am getting the pus out of your system and showing it to you, 'See, you are living with this!!' Now, you will naturally know how to build the right inner image consciously. Consciously! Why are you afraid, when I look into your eyes? It is because I will expose your inner image to you! I will expose your inauthenticity to you! Your actual inner image, that which is hidden even from you - I will expose that to you! Listen!
Listen! Listen! The great 'why' can be answered; the great 'why' can be answered only if the listener is matured enough. Only based on the maturity of the listener can the 'why' be answered. The answer for the 'why' will change based on the listener.
If a three year old child asks 'How was I born? Why was I born,' what will you say? When I asked this question when I was three, my mother told me, 'A crow brought you and dropped you here'. But my grandmother told me , 'We bought you in exchange for the husk from the market'. And when I asked how much they paid, she said, 'Two baskets for you, three baskets for your older brother, as he was a little big, and your younger brother was given free!' That was the answer I was given by my grandmother . And she could also answer only that much, because I am mature enough to understand only that, at that time. So, the answer for the why can be given depending on the maturity of the listener.
So evolve! If the same question is asked by a fifteen year old, he can be made to understand and given a straight answer. Because he or she now knows what is happening in their own body, what is happening in their own mind. With that they can easily make out. They can understand the answer for why.
So, when it comes to answering others, the 'why' has to be answered based on the maturity of the person. When it comes to your own, you have to find your independent 'why' and your independent answer. Understand, even your why will grow when you grow. Your why will grow when you grow!
So the answer for the great 'why' is no answer. All my answers can be an inspiration for you to find out your own 'why' and your own answer; your own 'why' and your own answer.
I tell you all, if you contemplate on this great why, why, why, you will have higher and higher and

When I look into
your eyes, will
expose your inner
image to you.
higher answers. Finally, the answer you get will be the ultimate solution itself!
Let you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share, explode and enrich with eternal bliss, Nithyananda. Thank you!

Listen! Only by living intensely will the tattvas become satyas in you. Live the tattvas intensely and bring them into your life layer by layer. Your body and mind will listen to you. The world and the universe will listen to you. Humanity will listen to you. You will then be enriching the world and the world will be enriching you!