What Is Your Response To Life?🔗

Sunday, 3rd February, 2013

I welcome you all with my love and respects.

Completion is the basis for all the four tattvas. It is continuous tireless completion, which creates the basis for the higher level practices. Now, the real life starts!

Please understand, when you try to find the root thought pattern of suffering, you have to go back to the earliest memory, of age three, two or one – the earliest memory. But the completion will not happen if you just work on that one incident; you need to complete all the impacts of that root thought pattern, every incident.

Please understand, when you find the root thought pattern of suffering, you have to go back to the earliest memory of childhood. Then you rewind, step by step by step, incident by incident, until today. A continuous tireless completion process creates the basis for higher level practices.

Please listen, only when you are complete, extraordinary powers will express in you, like those that Mahanarayana Upanishad describes: 'shreeshcha pushtishcha keertimchaanrnyataam brahmanyam bahuputrataam!

When all these three are available at your disposal - all the creative knowledge available in the universe, all the natural resources available in the universe, and all the extraordinary powers available in the universe - when all three of them are at your disposal, only then you experience the truth. 'brahmanyam bahuputrataam', I am the favorite inheritor of the cosmos! I am very clear. I can authentically say with integrity, that all these three are at my disposal. Please be very clear, it is completion which forms the basis for me to share and transmit the experience of 'I am the favorite inheritor of the cosmos' to you. So go on completing - complete, complete, complete.

I have a question here: 'Swamiji, how do we know that we are complete?' You will know when you are complete! If you have a doubt, you are not complete. Go on completing with every single pattern, with every single person. If you are not able to reach out to that person, catch the mirror. Do svapoornatva, sit with yourself. Go on and on and on, pattern by pattern, layer by layer. Take it out, take it out, take it out!

So, all the 'brahmanyam bahuputrataam'' program participants please listen, this is a very important instruction for you. Completion has to be done, through the prarabdha. When you find the root thought pattern of suffering, work does not end there. That is where work starts. Work starts there! The completion has to be done throughout. You have two months – sixty full days. Take the commitment that for at least five hours a day, you are going to spend with the mirror doing svapoornatva.

Then I can say that you will be ready for the next level. For at least five hours, you are going to sit with mirror. Because, for many people, you will not be able to find them in your life, to go back and do completion with them!

Please listen, the beauty of your consciousness is that it has an innate intelligence to unclutch from anything, by its very quality. That is why time heals suffering, whatever may be the suffering. See, time has the quality of unclutching you constantly. Vivekananda very beautifully says, ‘Do not worry at all. Even if you don’t renounce, maya will make you renounce.’ When the time flows over you, it naturally makes you renounce!

In Buddhism they call it ‘kshanikavada’. It means that if you just keep a cloth in an air-tight container, nothing touches it, it does not move, it is there in the air-tight container for ten years; after ten years if you just take the cloth out; it’ll be piece-piece! It would have disintegrated, decomposed and lost its original state. What is the reason for this? Because no weather is allowed to work on it, there is no wear and tear, nothing. But even then, it will lose its original state. Because, ‘time’ is a solid mass! Please understand, time is solid, it works on every object. By nature, time works on your mind and continues to heal you, unclutch you. You just need to remember time’s ability to clean your inner mirror. How many of you are cognizing what I am

saying? Catching it?

Listen. Time is literally a wiper for your inner mirror. The inner mirror that you carry, even if it gets dusted by incompletion, the dust settles which because of your incompletion - time acts as a mirror to wipe it. The flow of time wipes the dusts and the mirror is again shinning.

Hatred towards memorizing or by-hearting starts when you stop believing that the mind is a natural cleanser. In the young age, you did not have the intelligence, you do not remember that there is something called time which is a natural cleanser. It cleanses you naturally. It helps you to reflect on things naturally. Naturally, time cleanses you. That is why we say in a colloquial sense, ‘Time heals everything’. Time does not heal, time cleanses! Because of that cleaning, you feel that it is healed. But actually, it is not healed, it is just cleaned, pushing it aside, moving it aside.

When in your life for the first time, did you have the fear that time may not clean your inner space naturally? That you may not have the quality of reflecting, as an innate intelligence? Maybe when you started memorizing your tables! 2 x 2 is 4, 2 x 3 is 6, 2 x 4 is 8! When you started memorizing the tables, your teacher would have pressurized you - ‘You have an exam tomorrow!’ And until today, you would be sitting with that foolish cricket, or Facebook! You don’t know how time passes on Facebook! I can tell you, for kids it is an extraordinary addiction!

Listen. Maybe when you started by-hearting, memorizing, and you had the pressure of the exam, or your parents feeding negative ideas, ‘You won’t make it’, ‘You can’t do it”. That is the time you start forgetting that your innate intelligence can by-heart, memorize, restore and reclaim any information that comes in front of your inner space.

Listen! I am making a long statement. Listen! Your inner space has an innate intelligence to hold, store, capture, reclaim and restore any information presented in front of you. Clear? When you can capture all your sufferings and keep them until the age of fifty and relive the same thing, why can't you capture the school syllabus? No! You capture so vividly - who has beaten you, who has scolded you!

How many of you vividly remember some of these incidents from your young age? Raise your hand. When you can cognize this information, why are you not able to cognize the syllabus? I can cognize this so clearly. But of course, fortunately in my case, I can also cognize the syllabus!

Please listen, you are able to cognize these kind of spicy, chilly incidents, but not the other information you studied as syllabus or as part of your curriculum or education; that you are not able to remember or recollect. Why? Then look in, there is somewhere a hatred for restoring that information, for storing, reclaiming and restoring!

Please listen! I am using the word 'restoring'. You may ask for the difference between storing and restoring. Many of the things that you studied in the school - you store it, reclaim it for the examination, pen it down, but never restore it. And you dump it, 'The examination is over. O god, I should not remember this anymore!’ I know people even go wash their head and take a head bath. After the examination, you go and take a head bath! ‘Let it all go away!’. That is where the pattern starts in your system, that storing information, reclaiming it and restoring it is difficult.

In Vedic tradition, the education always happened through shravana, listening. In Sanskrit we have a very beautiful word - ‘eka-sandha-grahi’. There is eka-sandha-grahi, dvi-sandha-grahi, tri-sandha-grahi and buddhu. eka-sandha-grahi means listening once and repeating it. dvi-sandha-grahi means listening twice and repeating it. tri-sandha-grahi means listening thrice and repeating it. And you are not allowed to listen for a fourth time! If you are not able to repeat after three times as a tri-sandha-grahi, you are called buddhu (fool) and you will not be allowed to sit when a master takes the sessions. You will be given a prayaschitta, a technique to restore your integrity. You have to go and sit with the river, and listen to the sound of the river. You have to sit with a bamboo grove and listen to the sound of the bamboo. You have to sit with a breeze and listen to the sound of the breeze. The training for listening - shravana, is given to you.

How many of you feel that you were able to reclaim for your examination, but you did not restore it? Raise your hand! This is because you have been given a wrong idea, that your mind only has a certain amount of capacity, like Gmail, email and all your mail memory storage! What - some gigabyte, megabyte? How much does Gmail give, 25 gigabytes? But you need to know that your brain is not hardware, where the gigabyte memory is restricted to the size and shape available; it is software for the cosmic memory! Listen, your brain is not hardware, restricting at a certain gigabyte megabyte memory level. It is a high speed connection with access to the whole cosmic memory. This shift has to happen!

It is very unfortunate that you have been given the wrong cognizance that if you memorize this much of material, you will not be able to memorize more. The information is considered as a volume that makes memorizing seem difficult. It is not volume; your brain is not restricted by the volume of the information. You just need to raise the bandwidth of your internet connection. Clear? So you need to heal the wrong cognizance that you have been given. Find out - who first taught you, whether it was your school or a teacher or parents or uncle, who taught you that you will not be able to remember if the information volume increases? Somebody would have given this cognizance to you. Find that out. Who gave you that cognizance, that wrong cognizance? Heal that wrong cognizance. How many of you understand that you have been given this wrong cognizance? Clear? It is a wrong cognizance!

The ability to store, reclaim and restore is not dependant on the volume you handle. How many of you are mind-boggled by the amount of information I handle? Whether it is in my morning satsang or in my administration, you are mind-boggled by the amount of information I handle? With authenticity and integrity, keeping Kalabhairava as witness, I tell you. I don't have memory. I just have a high speed internet connection! I have a back office called hiranyagarbha, where the whole thing is stored. Where every possibility is stored,

and just necessary information is directly accessed and shared. If you have given even a small bit of information, like who spoke about me, where, to whom and how it travelled, after twenty years you can get that information very clearly from me, exactly when it is required. And the fellow who gave me the information would have forgotten it!

I am getting a note from my disciple, saying, 'It may also be that we don't like that subject and don't want to remember that information anymore. And also that it is not going to be useful in life anymore.'

Listen, even this question has the underlying current of 'volume'. There are millions of things which you don't need, but you keep it in your house. Am I right? When you can keep so many things which you know you are not going to use at all in your house, then why do you think that you cannot keep the information that you don't want, in your brain? I know my grandmother - even after a mixer was available in my house, she had kept some seven grinding stones in the house, in a line on the veranda. I used to ask, 'Why are you keeping this when we have a mixer?' She used to reply, 'In our house, there are so many girls. I have to give each one as dowry when they get married!'

How many of you have seen enough unnecessary things in your house? Why can't you also store information, even though it is not necessary? Is the doubt cleared?

When you don't practice aparigraha (austerity) with the solid objects, why do you practice aparigraha in ideas, concepts and memory? It is because you have been given a wrong cognizance - the volume concept of memory. Memory has no volume! You only need a high-speed internet connection, meaning the complete inner space. The inner space which is in total completion has access to any information in the cosmos!

The psychologist Jung says very clearly in his theories of psychoanalysis - when your inner space is in restful awareness, ninety eight percent of what happens around you is consciously cognized. If not, only two percent is consciously cognized. And he says that it is always either two percent, or ninety eight percent, there is no in-between! Unfortunately, he had not seen a single enlightened being. So he was not able to say that something called one-hundred percent exists!

It is so unfortunate - he came all the way to Chennai in India and from Chennai he started driving to Tiruvannamalai in a taxi, to have the darshan of the enlightened sage Ramana Maharshi. In those days, the taxi used to run on coal, where if it stops, the driver has to get down and rotate something and start the car.

When Jung started driving towards Tiruvannamalai, near Gingee his car stopped. I think it was in the 1940's. So the driver got down and tried to restart the car. Suddenly, Jung was hit by a panic attack. He started feeling, 'What if I go and see this master, and if some of my ideas and concepts are proved as wrong by him? I have to give up concepts on which I built my whole life! It is too much of vested interest. No!' He just put his hands on his head. The moment the vehicle started, he told the driver, 'Turn back, let us go back to Chennai.' He went back to Chennai and flew back to his country!

That one missed meeting is the biggest loss that happened to western psychology. If that one meeting had happened, western psychology would have been speaking about life - jiva, ishwara and jagat in a totally different language. The way the western psychology cognizes the world, god-consciousness and humanity would have been completely different. Unfortunately, maya (Goddess of illusion) took care that his taxi stopped, she managed. Because one meeting with Ramana Maharishi would have been enough!

A persons like Jung had done so much of research on the mind, he was naturally very sensitive. He would have been just floored by the presence of Ramana Maharshi, and western psychology would have been completely different. It is like the stories we have in Indian tradition

Jung's biography says, ‘He was in the south, within two hours’ distance.’ He could have reached Ramana Maharshi. He was in India for three months, but he avoided (meeting him). From Gingee to Tiruvannamalai, it is now only forty give minutes, but in those days, it took two hours. I am reading out from his biography. I have read some of the letters where he describes the incident - ‘My car stopped near Gingee, and I had a panic attack. And I felt, if some of my ideas with which I built my whole life and am teaching are disproved by Ramana Maharshi's presence, it is too much vested interest to alter for me and my followers!’ Because, he had at least ten thousand people following his theology and the theories he built. Psychology is nothing but another of religion, just like communism is another religion - worshipping no God!

The statement Jung made is basically factual, truthful and right. When you are not in conscious, restful awareness, you only cognize two percent of the information! Listen! When you are in restful awareness, you cognize ninety eight percent of the information! If not, only two percent.

Listen! You cognize information and the concept of storing in your system, based on the concept of volume, ‘If there is more volume, I am going to forget, or it is going to be a load.’ No! If it is volume-based, I should have lost my brain long ago! I should have become imbalanced. How many of you feel that I am storing at least ten times the information you store, in my brain? At least ten times! Then I should have lost my brain! So understand, it is not volume, it is not quantity, it is quality. Listen! Capturing, storing, reclaiming and restoring - this process does not operate on the tattva of quantity, it operates on the tattva of quality.

So the first thing you need to do is go back to the root pattern. Who gave you this wrong cognizance? How many of you already tracked who gave you this wrong cognizance? Great! If not, sit and contemplate, do manana. Catch who gave you this wrong cognizance, that this process happens based on volume, NO! There is no such thing like this

hundred unnecessary files out, and make space for two hundred new files. It is wrong cognizance! Any amount of files can be handled; you just need a powerful inner space of completion and restful awareness.

Understand, when somebody comes to meet me, I can literally repeat verbatim all the meetings that they had with me and whatever was shared. People who live around me can understand what I am saying. Verbatim I can repeat every piece of information. Many times, the words which they wanted to say, but did not say - this also gets recorded! That is a mystical power, forget about that. But this memory is not related to mysticism or mystical power. It is simple completing the inner space.

There is a question – ‘Is Swamiji agreeing with Jung’s theory that it is either two percent or ninety eight percent based on restful awareness, and nothing in between?’

YES! It is either two percent or ninety eight percent. There is nothing in between. That is the truth. That is the truth for all common men. Of course, when you become enlightened, you will have one-hundred percent. That is very rare, an exception. Other than the exceptions, as a rule, it is either two percent, or ninety eight percent, that’s all. There is no in-between!

Listen. Go back to the root thought pattern, when you have been given the wrong cognizance - that our memory functions based on volume. And complete with that person who gave you the wrong cognizance. If you are not able to reach out to the person, sit with the mirror and do the svapoornatva, and complete with the wrong cognizance!

Understand, you have to complete with each wrong cognizance that is responsible for limiting you and making you powerless. Limiting you and making you powerless! A strong, clear, right understanding about memory is a basic requirement for any successful leader. You becoming a leader by accident, by fluke, or by destroying others, is different. But if you really prove your capability and become a leader, you need this wide memory. A wide memory is a quality required for any successful leader.

So listen! Today, you will spend time in going back to the root pattern, of when you have been given that wrong cognizance, that memory works based on volume. Capturing, storing, reclaiming and restoring do not function on the basis of the volume of information; it is not limited Gmail storage. Your brain is not a storage space; it is an opening for connection. You need to just develop the bandwidth of your net connection.

You do not need to expand the storage space. If you think from the angle of expanding the storage space, what will you do? You will try to create more and more storage space by using some technique, which will only create stress in your brain. Unfortunately, you will remember all the unpleasant things of your life, and all those things will come and occupy the extra storage space that you create. You will remember what your wife said, what your husband said, what your mother-in-law said, what your father-in-law said - you will vividly remember all those fights; but you will not

remember your bank balance! No, really! How many of you cognize that you do not remember all the vital information - like your blood group, bank balance, some close people's cellphone number, or the emergency cellphone number, your passport number - you don't remember any of that. But you vividly remember all the fights that you had with your mother in law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law and all your in-laws? Raise your hand. Because, you think that memory is based on volume.

Memory does not function on the basis of volume; it functions on the basis of restful awareness, the quality of your inner space, the quality of your inner space! Listen! When you reach completion, your inner space cognizes everything! Everything means everything. Cognizing happens for whatever is happening around you. Cognizing happens with your innate completion. Completion is responsible for your cognition.

Yesterday there was a big discussion among our ashramites, on the commitments and completion session. Some of the biggest points were this: Why does a certain type of response and reaction happen to us? Who makes the decision? Why do we react in the way we react?

See, each person responds differently, each person reacts to things differently. For example, in some incident of your life, if you start feeling that you are dirty, and for various reasons, that stays in you and goes on reminding you, and a certain kind of a distance is developed with your body. A certain kind of an untouchable feeling is developed with your body.

Yesterday the main discussion in the ashramites' session was why we choose to respond or react in a certain way, in certain situations. What is the reason for our response? Please listen, this is the answer - casual curiosity, nothing else. Neither sanchita nor agamya or prarabdha. These three karmas are not the reason for behaving in a certain way. It is simple, casual curiosity. You would have seen your mother responding that way, you would have seen your father responding that way, you would have seen your friend responding that way, and with casual curiosity you collect that information. That’s all - you start responding in the same way! Unfortunately, once you show a certain response, you get affiliated with it, identify with it, and decide that this is the way you should respond. This is your individual identity. Later on, moving from one type of response to another needs completion.

How many of you cognize the casual curiosity as a tattva? Please raise your hands. Now, it is your responsibility to make this tattva into satya. Dig out; dig out all the situations where you started responding out of casual curiosity. Today, you will do this as homework.

I have a question from a disciple, ‘If it is casual curiosity, why does it make such a big impact on us?’ See, when you make the first decision, it does not make such a big impact on you! Even yesterday, the ashramite who was sharing the feeling of ‘being dirty’ that she carries, this decision did not make a huge impact on her, when she first made the decision to feel dirty. But after that, she gets affiliated to that way of responding. And after that, she continued with the same way of responding,

because of her affiliation to that way of responding. Because of the continuity, that first decision made a huge impact.

Understand, your decision to be a sannyasini made a big impact on you because you continue to be a sannyasini, . If you had run away after the third day in the ashram,, the decision of becoming a sannyasini would not have made a big impact on you. Continuity makes the impact of your first decision bigger. Clear?

Listen. Success writes the history. So it is the success and the continuous reactions you do, based on which you look back and cognize the impact of that casual curiosity. Got it? If the ashramite who was sharing yesterday has come out of that suffering, if she did not react in the same way of feeling dirty the second time, that would not have made a big impact on her, it would have died down as a casual curiosity, and she will not remember that now with so much of impact. The continuous support you give to the casual curious reaction makes that as agamya. agamya means intense casual curiosity. When you bring the word intense, the casual is taken away. Intense curiosity leads to casualty. Clear? When you are affiliated to that response as your own, there comes the possibility of the deeper impact and pattern.

So for today, dig out the root pattern where you have been taught that memory functions based on volume. Are you clear? Go back and dig out the root pattern when you have been made to cognize that capturing, storing, claiming and restoring information (memory), functions based on the concept of volume. Clear?

The second tattva is this - why do you respond to certain situations or have a certain cognizance. Find out the source of your casual curiosity. This is the second tattva. Finally, complete with both the tattvas. 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'!

Listen! Many times you would have heard people say, 'However much you listen, only when you practice will you achieve it'. But I say, 'However much you try to practice, only if you listen will you achieve it! Only when you listen does practicing start!'