What Is Authenticity?🔗

Today is Avatar Day! As you all may be aware, I have completed thirty five years of existence! I begin the thirty sixth year. So nice to be here with you all! So beautiful, so many devotees have gathered around the world in your places, and so many devotees have gathered from around the world here in Tiruvannamalai. So this year begins with lot of good things!

I will share a few words on authenticity. I will continue on the subject of authenticity. I will just share a few words on authenticity, giving you the essence of authenticity

Authenticity means keeping the mamakara, ahankara and anyakara in tune.

œ mamakara is what you believe as you.

Understand, you are responsible even for anyakara! anyakara - what others believe as you, can even be independent of what you project as you. Even then, you are responsible for anyakara. You are authentic only when you feel responsible even for what others hold as you, which is independent of your outer projection or your inner image. You may feel, ‘How can I be responsible for how others perceive me?’ Only when you feel responsible, you will feel powerful and empowered. You will not feel powerless. Life cannot bring any surprises to you.

I will give an example. In my mamakara, I experience myself as pure emptiness, a pure space. But during the pada-pooja (offering of gratitude) everyday, when devotees chant the mantras, they invoke me as the representation of all the Gods and Goddesses - ‘Meenakshi- Sundareshwara svaroopaaya, Kaalabhairava-Mahakaali svaroopaaya, AdiGuru Arunagiri Yogishwara svaroopaaya,’ (the one, who is the embodiment of all the Gods and Goddesses)!

The reason I allow these mantras to be chanted is this - I can see that thousands of people, when they have the feeling connection with the Divine, flower and become enlightened. When those mantras are

chanted, the beautiful feeling connection that people experience helps them to achieve enlightenment.

Understand, in Vedic tradition, even God is a stepping stone for enlightenment. All the forms and names of the Gods, everything, is used for attaining enlightenment, for nirvikalpa samadhi. When the devotion, the feeling connection is awakened in you, you automatically go towards enlightenment.

In the same way, somebody with kutarka (wrong logic) may feel, 'How can this be? He is a fake!' Please understand, I take responsibility even for that kutarka and anyakara. That is the reason life does not bring any surprise to me. Nothing surprises me; the side effects of anyakara never surprise me.

Just a few days ago, I was sitting in front of the mirror, and seeing what I really experience as me. After a few seconds, neither was the body there, nor was the reflection there! So I experience me as pure emptiness, a pure space; that is my mamakara. I am using this word because there is no other word I can use; otherwise there is no mamakara for me. To transmit this pure emptiness to you, I allow you to use the words Arunagiri Yogishwara, Meenakshi, Bhairava, Mahakaali - all the words that which you feel connected to. That is my ahankara. Somebody may feel, 'Wow, he is an incarnation!' That is one anyakara. Somebody may say, 'He is a jeevan mukta!' That is one more anyakara. Somebody may say, 'He is a fake!' That is one more anyakara, that's all!

Shiva never feels surprised by the poison brought to him. Neelakanta is the proof that he takes the responsibility even for others' anyakara. Take responsibility in your life, even for others' anyakara; you will be the lord of your life - empowered, and life cannot bring any surprises to you. Then, when life cannot bring any surprises to you, it cannot bring suffering also to you!

When the churning of the milky ocean started, everyone was waiting only for the nectar. That is why, when the poison emerged, it was suffering for them. But Mahadeva was waiting for the poison also, that is why it could not bring suffering to him.

Let the world not create words in you. Let your words create the world around you! Take responsibility for your ahankara, mamakara and anyakara. Then no suffering can come to you. No one can bring suffering to you. You don't want to take responsibility, and that is why life brings surprises to you. Life brings surprise sufferings to you.

Take responsibility for all the three. When you take responsibility for all the three, you will feel empowered. You won't feel powerless. You won't feel that something unexpected is happening. Just let your inner space be completely integrated with the words you utter, with authenticity.

Understand, if you can't be made to believe that you are wrong, you are not wrong! Nobody can win over you. Only if you somehow give way, if you start believing that you are wrong, something can happen to you. Stand with the strength of integrity and authenticity. It is a spiritual strength. Spiritual strength alone is the solution for anything. Nothing else can be the solution; neither power nor money, neither society nor political strength. Spiritual strength alone can solve everything. Let us stand with our integrity, authenticity and responsibility.

I tell you, only when you take the responsibility for anyakara, you grow, you expand. But you say – ‘No, no! I am responsible for what I feel as me, and what I project as me. But how can I be responsible for what others believe as me?’ Subtly, knowingly or unknowingly, you co-operate for what others believe as you. In my case, I do it knowingly; in your case, you do it unknowingly, that’s all. But you are responsible for it! Understand, you can only solve the problems for which you feel responsible, nothing else. You can only complete the things for which you feel responsible. If you feel that you are not responsible, you will never look into it and complete it.

Today, my message to all of you is this: feel responsible and live with integrity with all the three – mamakara, ahankara and anyakara. Take responsibility even for anyakara, so that you can align it. You can complete it. You can fulfill it.

Let us conclude the morning satsang with the meditation process. Sit in ananda-gandha, be established in your inner space, either unclutched or doing ajapa-japa or with a deep feeling connection. Keep eternal bliss – ‘Nithyananda’ as your clearance in your ananda-gandha. Please close your eyes and just sit in your ananda-gandha. Namaha shivaya! (Blesses)

Take responsibility for your ahankara, mamakara and anyakara. Then no suffering can come to you. No one can bring suffering to you. You don’t want to take responsibility; that is why surprise adds suffering to you.

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, ‘Nithyananda’!

Go on stretching, stretching , stretching. Then people ask, ‘What will happen, Swamiji? Then you will become almost like a slave of other people!’ NO. You will be a slave only if you are forced. If you are a master, you will take on willingly!