YOUR WORD CAN CHANGE THE WORLD!🔗

I welcome you all with my love and respects. I welcome all the devotees, disciples, samajis, satsangis sitting with us around the world.

Today, I will expand on the subject, ‘The space we carry inside, and how it directly affects the reality we and the people around us perceive.’

In Sanskrit we have two beautiful words, ‘drishti-shrishti’ and ‘shrishti- drishti’ - ‘seeing what exists’ and ‘creating what you want to see’. Please understand, the subject I am talking about is a very subtle, very important truth. I need your complete listening. I want you to be complete.

Understand, the space we carry inside directly affects the reality which we and the people around us experience.

Internalize these two words, because I am going to use these two words, again and again: drishti-shrishti and shrishti-drishti. drishti means seeing. shrishti means creation. Shrishti-drishti means that you believe what is seen by you. You see what IS. drishti-shrishti means that you create the reality you want!

Sometimes you believe what IS. The creation IS and you are seeing it; which most of us cognize most of the time. Most of us always feel, ‘It is there. I am seeing. So I am caught! I don’t know what to do!’ Feeling powerless! You put all the blame on what IS. ‘It is there! What can I do?’

Please understand, when you cognize, ‘It is there! I am seeing!,’ you already lost the game! You are fighting a losing battle! It is like you trying to conquer your wife through argument! No! It can never happen! It can never happen. You may be a great lawyer. I have seen great lawyers. You can be a great lawyer in the court, convincing any judge with any argument, but you can’t win the argument at home!

The moment you cognize that what ‘IS’ is perceived by you, the possibility for transformation is closed. The possibility for enlightenment is closed. But the good news is, it is not true!

Please understand, the moment you cognize that what ‘IS’ is seen by you, the bad news is that the possibility for enlightenment is closed, the possibility for transformation is closed. The good news is, it is not true! You are not seeing what IS. You are only seeing what you want. It is always drishti-shrishti. You create what you want. You don't see what IS. You create what you want.

But, it so unfortunate, human beings are in such an unfortunate space, they very strongly believe that only what 'IS' is perceived by them. Especially when you cross 35-40 years, when the possibility for new ways of thinking becomes difficult and you have already built your personality with the old way of thinking, you now start feeling that if you change those basic truths, you have to change your whole existence! You have to change your whole life, which is too much!

Please understand: all your sufferings and ignorance is because of the decisions you made due to some other vested interests. Why don't you want the transformation? Because transformation now literally means that the earth on which you are standing for the last 40-50 years is going to shake!

One of the biggest delusions we create around us is that we are a success. We cannot bear the truth that we are not a success. We have to constantly reaffirm to ourselves that we are a success, and so we go on planning, looking, altering and continuously convincing ourselves to believe that the ideas with which we built our life were right. 'See, my colleagues don't have all this;. I have all this. So I am successful.' One corner of your mind laughs at you, but the other corner says 'No, no, no, I am a success!' You don't know which side to support.

You finally land up in utter confusion, thinking, 'Which part should I support? One part of me claims and consoles me that I am a success. The other part condemns me as a failure. Which part should I support?' If you are in utter confusion, be very clear, the seeking has started in you! If you have not yet faced the confusion, the possibility for transformation has not yet opened.

Utter confusion is the first thing any person has to face in his life for enlightenment: 'Am I a successful being or am I a failure?' As long as you are convinced that you see what exists, you will not have this confusion. And also, you don't want to enter into the confusion! You do not want to rock the boat. 'No, it is all going well! Why create problems unnecessarily?' You don't want to come to terms with reality. You do not want to take any argument rising in you to the logical conclusion!

How many of you postpone taking any logical arguments in you to their logical conclusion? Whenever an arguments arises, you postpone it, you push it aside. You don't want to take it to a logical conclusion. You suppress it. You push it under the carpet. How many of you do this in your life? It is life! Look in. Anything you push under the carpet without taking it to a logical conclusion becomes a mechanism which restrains your possibility.

Please understand, the pattern of not reaching the logical conclusion is what I call 'life imprisonment'! It is life imprisonment! Constantly pushing things under the carpet, under the carpet, under the carpet! You don't understand, a big volcano is now there under your carpet! You are sitting on a volcano! How will you be able to rest? How will you be in restful awareness? That is why you are not able to sit with you. I have seen! I have seen people who are not able to sit with themselves.

See, when I started this sannyas sampradaya (monastic tradition), with a large number of youngsters getting trained and initiated into sannyas, the first and biggest problem I had to face was to teach human beings to sit with themselves. Meditation is secondary. I used to wonder – why, what happened? Have we lost trust on the sannyas tradition? Have we concluded that sannyas is not required for enlightenment or for the spiritual tradition? Have we distanced ourselves from the sannyas tradition?

When I started studying the situation, I realized that we have forgotten to learn and teach the basic ability to sit with ourselves. Unfortunately, we forgot to teach human beings to come to terms with reality. Why does the mainstream society not feel the need of the sannyas tradition? Because we have not learnt to sit with ourselves! We use religion only to the extent of makeup. Makeup is not surgery. Religion is just for a little help and a little peace and fulfilling a few desires! NO. Religion has to start from the space of restful awareness – conflict-resolution, and the ability to take our logical thinking to the logical conclusion.

We have to start with restful awareness. We have to start with carrying the right space. We have to start taking our logical questions to their logical conclusions. This should become the mainstream Hinduism. See, all religions will have both components: the knowledge component or enlightenment science, and the prayer component for consolation. You don't have a job? Pray to God and you will have a job. You don't have health? Pray to God and he will give you health. That is one component. And cognitive shift, spiritual knowledge, enlightenment science - that is the other component.

All I am trying to tell you is that I am not here to judge that one is lower and the other is higher. No! I am not saying that. If you can't pray to God, where else will you go? You have to pray to Him only. But the teaching of religion has to start with the science of restful awareness, by helping human beings create the right space inside. The concept of prayer should come next. First, human beings should be taught to create the right space inside. Mainstream Hinduism should start with the teaching of creating a right space.

Please understand, the space you create inside is so powerful, it can straightaway affect the way you experience life, and others around you experience life. Let me define the term 'space'! How you feel things are going to be – that is what I call the 'space you create inside'. If you are very clear that your space is already in a low energy, and you have thoughts like 'Anyhow, whatever I do is not going to work out, it is not going to be successful!,' then you have already dictated it! You have already given the plan to the Cosmos - 'I want my life to be like this only, as a big failure. Please make it happen for me!' So Cosmos will stitch it and give it to you.

The space you carry inside is not the effect of the happenings of your life, it is the command you are giving to the Cosmos. You may put the blame somewhere else. You may say, ‘No, no, no! I am in a low mood because of the continuous failures that have happened in my life. If you were in my shoes, you would understand why I am like this!’

You may give many reasons for the space you are in, but you need to understand the seriousness of the space you are in. Please understand, your space is the order you give to the Cosmos to prepare your future! Listen! Just like how you place an order in a restaurants after looking at the menu card, the inner space you carry is also an order you give to the Cosmos, ‘I want this, this, this in my life!’

Whatever you carry in your inner space is a possibility. If you are carrying sadness, you are ordering the Cosmos to bring greater sadness into your life. If you are carrying joy, you are waiting for more joy to come in your life. If you are carrying fulfillment in you, if you are carrying completion in you, you are ordering the Cosmos to bring bigger completions in your life. If you are carrying an inability, ‘Yes, I have the wrong inner space. I am depressed, but I don’t know how to change it,’ that is one more inner space; it means you are ordering the Cosmos to give you more powerlessness.

You are a human being! You can’t afford to say, ‘Yes, I have a problem, but I don’t know how to transform!’ No! You have to transform. You can’t afford to say, ‘Yes, yes, I am hungry, but I don’t know how to get food!’ Then you have to die! That is the only solution. You can’t afford to give up on you! You can’t afford to be powerless. You have to stand up. You have to find the method. You have to transform. That is the only way life is possible!

Please listen! The space you carry has to be changed. The good news about your inner space is that you can change it at this moment if you wish, because this space is not gross, it is subtle. Gross things take time to clean. Subtle things can be cleaned immediately. Please understand, if the earth is dirty, if the ground is dirty, it takes time to clean. But if the air is polluted, you can clean it easily just with a spray. Subtle things are easier to clean.

Your inner space is such a subtle thing, one right declaration is enough; you are free! One completion is enough, you are free! You are out of that low mood you were carrying! You are out of that wrong inner space you were carrying! You are out of that deep negative cognition you were carrying!

Just one thought of fear can make you unsettled. Just one thought of lust can make you excited. Just one thought of your enemy can aggravate anger in you. So, just one thought of completion can purify your inner space! If just one thought of lust can excite you, if just one thought of fear can agitate you, if just one thought of your enemy can bring anger in you, then just one thought of completion is enough to transform your space.

Somehow, we don't believe that last statement. 'No, everything else looks logical. I have experienced it. But the last statement - is it true?' Then we say,

'No, no, no! You are an enlightened being. Maybe it is possible for you; not for us.' See, whenever you feel you are cornered, you are forced to transform, you immediately push me aside. 'No, you are a great person! You are an enlightened being! You are an incarnation. It is possible for you; not for normal people like us.'

Sometimes people show devotion just to escape from my teaching! Please understand, if devotion is for the wrong reason, it cannot transform you. It has to be for the right reason. It has to be for the right reason. The first thing you need to know is that your inner space can be transformed. Inner space can be transformed!

I will guide you into a very simple process. Take a few moments and look in. See what kind of space you are in. Is it peaceful or sleepy or dull or agitated? What kind of a space are you in? Look in. Be sensitive. Be aware of that space for just two minutes. Close your eyes and try to be aware.

Take these few moments to bring your awareness to your inner space. Because, now I am experientially going to support you, help you, to transform your inner space.

Yes. Now please understand, can somebody else be responsible for what you feel about you? No! It is your boundary! Your inner space is your boundary. Nobody else can be responsible for it. It is only you who can be responsible for it. It is only you who can be responsible. Even if you say that somebody else is the reason, that person does not suffer. Who suffers? You! So when something is affecting you, whether you are the reason for it or not, you are only responsible for it, and for changing it if needed. It is not that the person who is the reason will always take the responsibility. Many times, when you are the reason for something, you don't take the responsibility. Now it is time; understand that whether you are the reason for it or not, you are responsible for whatever is inside your inner space.

Whether you are the reason or not, you are responsible. The moment you decide that you are responsible for the inner space you are carrying, you know that you have to change it. Your inner space is nothing but the words you repeat, again and again, within you. Am I right? Is there anything else? So, now decide consciously that you will repeat the right words within you. Consciously repeat the right words.

You will say, 'No, no, no! I tried this, but I failed!', How many times did you try? You must have repeated the negative words ten thousand times. So, try at least ten times now to repeat the right words. You may fail ten times. Nothing wrong! You fail because of the pattern built by you. Now try ten times. Bring awareness. Decide that you are responsible, and you have to change it, because it is affecting you. Your wrong inner space is directly affecting you. So, naturally, whether you are the reason or not, whether somebody else is the reason or not, you have to change it. You are responsible. It is you who is responsible. It is you who is the reason.

The inner space you carry has to be transformed, because you take decisions based on your inner space. Please understand, if you are in a peaceful, relaxed mood, even if there are big risks, dangers, difficulties, you will take the right decision with patience, and you will expand in your life. If you are in agitated mood, feeling suffocated, you won't take even small risks.

How many of you feel that just because of the wrong inner space, you missed your business deals, your expansion in life, your growth in life; you missed many possibilities in many dimensions? So, all of you know the importance of the right inner space.

Now I want you to understand, whether you believe it or not, whether you accept it or not, and no matter how many millions of reasons you give, there are some things which can't be changed. Whether you accept it or not, believe it or not, understand it or not, you are God! Your inner space is all-powerful! It carries the DNA of aham brahmasmi! Your inner space carries the DNA of aham brahmasmi.

How many ever arguments you may give, a country's constitution cannot be changed. In the same way, you may give a million reasons, many arguments, to prove that you are not God, and you are not divine, and you are not all-powerful. You think, 'I am not even able to get a cup of coffee when I want it. Then how can I be all-powerful? I don't even know what is happening in my spouse's mind. How can I be all-knowing?' You have very silly reasons to deny the possibility of your inner space. Please understand, you never tried to explore your inner space. How can you deny it before even trying?

Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi gives a very beautiful example: 'People go on saying that God is not there. He is just walking behind you!

You never look back even once! You never look in even once! You just go on denying His existence. You never tried to work on your inner space with authenticity and integrity even once!

Understand: if I am expressing the ashta maha siddhis, extraordinary yogic powers, it is not to show that I am extraordinary; it is just to show that it is possible for you! It is possible for you! Nothing more is required than carrying the space, with the understanding - ‘When Swamiji can do it, I can do it!’ That’s all!

To learn swimming, all you need is to see somebody swimming, and cognize, ‘When he can do it, I can do it!’ That’s all! Then you will simply know which leg to move first, which leg to move next; which hand to move first, which hand to move next. Even if you read encyclopedias on all types of swimming, you won’t be able to learn swimming! It is just a knack. It is just a knack.

Same way, the space of possibility is just a knack. You need to see somebody playing with it and doing it. And you need to know, ‘When he can, I can!’ When you see somebody swimming, the first step is to understand, ‘Wow! When he can, I can!’ That is the first step. Second step - ‘Let me jump and do what he is doing!’ But you will have all possible reasons not to jump! ‘No, no, no! What will happen if I drown?’

A story for you:

Once, an enlightened master and his disciple were traveling through a forest. After a long time, the master decided to rest under a tree, and the disciple went to fetch drinking water from a nearby river. Suddenly he fell into the river. He started screaming, 'Master, save me! Save me! Save me!' The master came and just stood on the bank. He said, 'You can save yourself.' The disciple was shocked. 'No, no! Teach me all your philosophy, all your Vedanta, at some other time! Please save me first!'

The master just said, 'Save yourself.'

The disciple started shouting, 'I have to be alive to practice all your Vedanta! Teach me all that when I am on the ground, not when I am in the water! I am drowning! I am drowning!'

The Master coolly repeated, 'Just save yourself!'

The disciple started wailing, 'Oh, save me! Save me! Save me!'

Then the Master roared, 'Fool! Just stand up and see!'

In that fear, the disciple did not know what he was doing. He just stood up - and saw that the water was only up to waist-level!

I tell you - all your problems are like this! It is just your decision to stand up in your inner space! But the fears you carry look so real that you say, 'No, I cannot stand up! I cannot stand up! I will do whatever else you say. I will worship you! But don't tell me to stand up!' But you have to do exactly what you don't want to do! You should be made to do that forcibly - because that is where your inauthenticity is!

What you resist will persist. You don't need to do anything else; only do whatever you are resisting. Please understand, only what you resist persists in your life! It is just a pattern! You need to look in; what is the pattern you resist strongly in your life? What do you think you CAN'T do, you CAN'T manage? If you look, that will be the exact thing which stops you, binds you and keeps you in life imprisonment!

I have seen this with one of my devotees who had stage-fear. He couldn't even stand on a raised platform! I started speaking to him about why he has this fear. Through root-pattern analysis, we discovered an incident that happened when he was very young, when he was just a two-year-old baby. One day, because he was throwing a tantrum, his mother put him on the dining table, threatening, 'Keep quiet and don't move, or you will fall down!' See, for a child, a dining table is too high! So from that moment, the fear of heights started in him. And he was still carrying it..!

If you just look inside, the reason for your powerless inner space will be some root thought-pattern. Break that! Reclaim your freedom! Declare your freedom! Raise your inner space to the peak of joy, fulfillment, excitement!

In the Upanishads, it is told that when the seeker Shvetaketu was initiated by his guru, his guru said to him only nine times, ‘Tat tvam asi! Tat tvam asi! Tat tvam asi!’ (You are That!) Shvetaketu became enlightened just by hearing those words! Then how come you don’t become enlightened even if you listen to ‘Tat tvam asi!’ nine thousand times? You have to be carrying the right inner space!

On a rock, a seed cannot sprout and become a tree. Only on the right, fertile ground, the seed can become a tree. Only in the right inner space, the teachings can become reality. The right inner space is one where all the root thought-patterns of suffering have been destroyed. When your inner space is fertile for experiencing the higher ideals and ideas, all the root thought-patterns are destroyed.

I tell you, start playing with your inner space, to gain courage, to gather courage. Start with the small things which impact your life every day. Decide to tell yourself, ‘With the inner space of completion, I am declaring, I am the space for my spouse listening to me!’ You will see, miracles will happen! He or she will simply listen to you! Tell yourself, ‘I am the space for my boss granting me a vacation!’ Go with that space and play. If you try ten times, at least eight times you will see miracles happening.

Actually, only when you play with that space and see miracles happening, you will understand the power of your inner space. Don’t think, ‘I will be a failure even if I go with this space!’ Then, naturally, you will be a failure. That is the miracle! See, if you go thinking, ‘I am going to be a failure even if I go with this space!’, then the space of failure is the space you are actually carrying! Because you go with the space of failure, you attract failure.

Understand, the inner space you carry is such a powerful space! It is hiranyagarbha, the space where the planets get created, where whole worlds happen! Your inner space is so powerful; worlds can be created or destroyed by your inner space. You may be individual, but your inner space is not individual; it is well-connected with the whole universe. So, anything you decide in your inner space becomes reality in the cosmos, reality in life, reality in Existence.

So the essence of today's satsang is this: have the right inner space to create your life. That will always lead to enlightenment, inspiration and success in every level of your life, in every sphere of your life, in every dimension of your life.

I bless you all to experience this great principle of right inner space, and change the world through your word. Your word can change the world! Experience this extraordinary power in your life.

Let you all radiate integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching with eternal bliss, Nithyananda! Thank you!