Overcoming Suffering🔗

Different types of sufferings and emotions can be linked to major diseases that people suffer with. For example, if you are suffering with diabetes, it means you are suffering with the desires and thoughts that are not going to bring fulfillment to you.

Fear is responsible for blood pressure issues. Constant fear increases your blood pressure. I have seen that even in my system, whenever the body falls into the sixth level of samadhi, the body's innate survival system will increase the blood pressure. I have seen that it sometimes goes up to 150, and in three seconds, when the samadhi level drops from the sixth level to the fifth level, it will go back to normal.

• If your survival instinct is constantly challenged, your blood pressure will go up.

• If you are constantly suffering with desires that make you tired, your blood sugar level increases.

All disease and depression is just a weak nervous system. You imagine and create suffering. After imagining and creating it, you say, ‘It will anyway happen one day, so let me suffer now itself!’

Unfortunately, a small signal of joy or pain is enough to imbalance you. Just like a proper diet is compulsory, yoga which makes the nervous system capable of handling high frequency of pain or pleasure should be made compulsory. Work on developing a strong nervous system which can handle the signals of suffering and joy.

Please understand this subtle truth: if a child sleeps near the father or mother, the nervous system becomes very strong, because whatever signal goes through your nervous system in the dream will not jolt your system if you are hugging your father or mother during sleep. Then the dream signals cannot to shake your nervous system.

See, in your life, you will have something called 'resemblance visualization'.

Please understand the word I am coining. 'Resemblance visualization' means that when I utter the word 'peace' you will immediately remember some place or situation where you had really peace in your life. When I utter the word 'violence', you will remember some place or some incident in which you have experienced violence in your life. Resemblance visualization is actually a separate philosophy.

There are some visualizations - 'Yasya smarana maatrena janma samsaara bandhanaat vimuchyate.' - just by their remembrance, you are liberated! For example, if you just remember a lamp in a windless place, your mind settles down automatically. This is that type of visualization. I can give you a specific example. We have a lamp in the Banyan tree inside the cave. It is a windless spot and completely protected. How stable that lamp is! Meditate on that.

Whenever I utter the word 'Guru Bhakti', my resemblance visualization is always of Arunagiri Yogishwara's samadhi in Arunachaleswara temple. This is the spot that will come to my memory. Whenever I utter the word 'peace', my resemblance visualization is always of walking on the banks of Ganga, outside Sri Ramakrishna's temple in Belur Mutt. Outside the temple, on the banks of Ganga, I used to walk in the evenings. Those are the most peaceful moments I Mahadeva’s consciousness, Sadashiva’s consciousness. So when you imbibe the same resemblance visualizations, your consciousness also raises to the level of Sadashiva, Mahadeva.

Resemblance visualizations are realizations. When you align yourself to the resemblance visualizations, you realize.

One of the reasons why humans are suffering is because of not having integrity. I can say that the straight solution for all the problems is to just integrate you. Integrate all your energies in one direction. Feel every soul, every being, as your very center.

Understand this one idea; it is a very powerful idea. All our problems are just because we go on trying to insist, we go on trying to emphasize that your being is separate from somebody else’s being, and the suffering caused to that being will not touch you. You think you are separate, and what exists outside your skin is separate.

One of the worst things with this attitude is, in the beginning you start separating what is outside your skin and inside your skin, but that attitude of separating does not stop there. It just gets inside your system slowly.

Then even inside you, you start separating your intellect and your emotions. You separate your emotions and your being. You separate your being and your Consciousness. You go on separating, separating, separating, dividing, dividing, dividing. The more you divide, the more you become weak and the more problems and the more enemies you need to

Your perception of life has 4 components – the way you perceive yourself, the way you perceive the world (cosmos), the way you perceive human society, and the way you perceive God.

You carry an understanding about each of these – you have an understanding about yourself, an understanding about the world and an understanding about God.

But sometimes, your understanding (or your expectation) and your actual experience don’t match each other! The discrepancy between your understanding and your actual experience is what I call suffering.

For example, you may be carrying a certain understanding about God, but you may have some experiences in your life which shake your understanding.

Authenticity is the catalyst or agent for this alchemy to happen. When you add authenticity, the alchemy of discrepancy-free experience will happen. Whatever discrepancy is there, just add authenticity to it.

If you authentically have the idea that there is no God, you are liberated. But if it is not authentic, even if you have the idea God exists, you are bound. Be very clear, it is sincerity that makes liberation possible. That is the catalyst-agent for the alchemy of non-suffering to happen. The right word is catalyst-agent'. Authenticity is the catalyst agent for the alchemy of liberation to happen.

Flood authenticity into all these understandings, into all these relationships.

Your understanding about the world, God, yourself and society is like liquid, like water. If you add the catalyst-agent of authenticity, then the alchemy happens. Something happens that makes the water get solidified. It becomes like strong ice on which you can walk. It becomes a bridge. That bridge between you and society is never happen to it.

In the same way, own your mind; it is yours. Design it so that never any suffering can touch you; never any suffering can happen to you. Just carry this understanding always – ‘It is my mind! Come on! Now I am designing it so that nobody can give me any suffering, no suffering can touch me!’

Take ownership for your mind. See that every thought that you give life to brings only joy to you, bring only bliss to you, never any suffering, never any disturbance. Mend it and weave it as you want, train it as you want and tame it as you want. The mind which is based on knowledge is a Vedic mind. The mind that does not bring suffering to you is a Vedic mind.

In the same way, own your living. Carry this understanding, ‘It is my life! Come on, let me own it! Let me enjoy it! I will make money only the way I enjoy it. I will have only the pleasures that I enjoy. I will choose my way of life. I will be conscious in every step, and see that I achieve what I want!’

Infuse awareness into every action: walking, talking, sitting, moving and breathing. Infuse awareness into everything. Slow down in every action. Let it be more with awareness. Infusing awareness is what I call meditative living or Zen living.

It is time you take ownership, ‘Let me create it afresh, as I want! Maybe in the past I failed, but now it is time, let me weave it as I want, let me design it as I want!’

Own your body, own your mind, own your living and own your lifestyle. That is what I call yogic body, Vedic mind and Zen living.

How to live on the planet earth without suffering that is the biggest problem.

Recently, a devotee came and told me, 'Swamiji I feel that my husband, my family, my brother, sister, everybody around me are conspiring against me and working against me'.

I could not understand. I thought, 'Oh God, what a sickness this person is carrying'. Of course, she is helpless. It is not that she created it. She is helpless. She is caught in it. That is the gift or punishment given by society to her.

The great saint Vivekananda said once to his spiritual guru Sri Ramakrishna 'Whenever I fall asleep, I feel a ball of light happening in front of me and exploding into my inner space, I just fall into that and fall asleep,'

Vivekananda used to think that all kids slept like this! He never thought that he was in some way special because of that experience. Ramakrishna was so happy and he said, 'You don't know how special you are. Only normal human beings, only people who can compare you with normal human beings, can understand how special you are. '

I wanted to share an important thing with you. Just as Vivekananda always felt that whenever he falls asleep, he falls into that consciousness, that light, when I was younger, I used to feel a very strong, deep feeling inside of me. I had an experience from a young age, an unbroken thought trend. It was an experience, a thought current, not even a thought trend: that the whole world is celebrating my presence. The whole world is supporting my existence. The whole world is supporting and fulfilling whatever I took birth for. This one feeling, this one

Let me define tyaaga. Not converting the shocks received by you from life into pain or anger or guilt or pain is tyaaga.

There are three levels of tyaaga.

Your Ananda Gandha chakra is the Sparsha Mani – whatever the suffering, the moment it touches, it turns into tremendous joy and peace. All the agony, darkness, negativity of the people around you, your family, your society and yourself - just inhale it. By the time you exhale it, it is already positive, completely transformed into pure gold. Just visualize this - you will have so much of positivity in life.

Love life - even if it rips you apart! Come on, who do you think is not ripped by life? When saints, prophets, begotten sons or even He himself comes down, he is ripped apart! The only difference is - they love life even when they are ripped apart. That is strength. Have the Ananda Gandha which is so strong that it takes away everybody’s agony the moment they come to your breathing space; which gives tremendous joy and bliss to the person. Only then you are liveable. You make house liveable, car liveable. But you don’t make yourself liveable. It is time we make our own selves liveable.

Suffering itself does not have any importance. It is the contemplation you are forced to do while suffering accelerates the process of renunciation. If you can do the contemplation and transformation without any external suffering it is called tapas. You do not need external suffering for the renunciation to happen in you. Just through the contemplation and transformation without suffering. Renunciation can be accelerated.

To understand what I mean by completion, you should first know what is incompletion.

Listen: Any action that is unfulfilled as per your imagination, either because of an outer hindrance or an inner hindrance, is incompletion!

If your expectations are not met by you or by others, they remain as an incompletion in you.

Incompletion is anything that leaves you with an experience of suffering, low energy, 'low' emotions, a feeling of unfulfilment.

As of now, your life is nothing but a journey from incompletion to incompletion, from suffering to suffering. Even the so-called positive happenings in your life are a result of incompletion. Your success, your relationships, your wealth - everything is triggered by a sense of incompletion.

Incompletion is the worst inauthenticity you can carry as a conscious being. Incompletion comes out of the assumption that something larger than you exists out there for you, which can complete you.

The idea that something outside you can complete you, can add to you, can fulfil you, immediately reduces you to the level of matter.

But you are not matter - you are Life! Only Life can infuse life into matter; matter cannot infuse life into Life!

Only you can infuse value into anything that is outside you; nothing that is outside you can infuse value into You.

Whether you realize it or not, you are complete unto yourself. Then why do you look to something external to complete you?

The only incompletion you are really carrying is not knowing that you are already complete! It is this one incompletion that expresses itself as your fear, your greed, your anger, your jealousy, your negative mental patterns, your depression – all your suffering.

I am not saying that success is wrong, wealth is wrong. But pursuing them out of a feeling of incompletion is wrong.

Incompletion is poison in your life. It is incompletion that drives you to take one birth after another. Any incomplete action is karma. It will pull you again and again to repeat that action till you achieve completion.

Understand, incompletion can never exist in the present moment, because Life happens in the present moment. At the moment of happening, there is no reference point to measure whether you are less or more successful, less or more wealthy, less or more happy. Against what can you measure all this in the present moment? All references and inferences can be made only from the past. That is why all your negativity is rooted in the past. Past, by its very nature, does not have life. But if you indulge continuously

in the past, it swallows the future also. All negativity is rooted in the past.

Authentically listen to the cries of your heart. Your heart is crying for your listening. Complete, complete, complete.

Now, try to identify the earliest memory that created this incomplete cognition in you, forming the root pattern of your suffering.

Go back to the first few situations in your life when you first experienced conflict. This situation would have happened typically between the third and fifth year of your life. Relive that situation.

If the tears come, let it come; if the anger comes, let it come.

Standing face to face with your past, the pain disappears, the anger disappears! When the anger disappears, it turns into love. Please understand, when the energy expresses as anger, if the anger is removed from the energy, it just completely turns into love, because the chili component of the energy is removed.

The completion will not happen if you just work on the root pattern alone: every incident which stems from the root pattern must also be completed. Please understand: you need to go back to the very earliest memory you have had in your childhood and complete this memory. And, then complete each and every pattern that you've had up until today. At the end of the session, you will feel the pain of many years fall away.

Continue this practice every night as long as you feel the need to do it. When it is no longer necessary for you, it will drop from you on its own.

Samskara Dahana Kriya is a powerful group process that is a combination of Swapoornatva Kriya, Poornatva Kriya and beyond.

This process is part of the Inner Awakening meditation retreat conducted personally by his Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda several times every year. Participants undergo this process in the intense presence and energy field of an Avatar, which by itself has the power to burn away the incompletions and karma carried forward from many lifetimes.

Sammskara Dahana Kriya is nothing but the process of burning all the old incompletions and strong pain patterns that have become too deep-rooted in your system, which you cannot complete in any other way like just creating the right visualization or creating the opposite engram, or even doing completion with yourself and others.

If you are too serious and sincere about spiritual practice, just do forty-eight days do Samskaara Dahana Kriya, every night just before going to sleep. You can even do it for a week, and give a few days' break, then again one week, again a few days' break, and so on. Initially, it may take two or three hours a day, but after some time, you need not practice for more than 21 minutes every day. Just

forty-eight days of Samskaara Dahana Kriya can resolve thousands and thousands of pain patterns in you.

Samskaara Dahana Kriya has four layers.

• Sitting and penning down all your pain patterns.

• Reliving them in your inner space.

• Re-living them using the mirror.

• Sitting with somebody and sharing, and listening when they are sharing, providing listening for them to complete.

Samskaara Dahana Kriya is a very comprehensive Completion processes. When you just sit and relive, sometime you miss some incidents, you miss the depth, you miss catching the exact pain pattern. But Samskaara Dahana Kriya is the most powerful process.

The first few days, when you sit and write, all the earliest pains, so much will come out. After three or four days, those pains will have no more power over you. Then whatever you remember, write only those things, whatever is still fresh, whatever is still hurting you; pen down only those things.

This unique powerful Completion process has four steps:

1. Start penning down your earliest memories of your life, all the pain patterns, all the pains you experienced in your life - physical pain, mental pain, emotional pain, psychological pain, all the pains, pen them down.

Start with the earliest painful memories of your life and recall all the unpleasant incidents of your life, and pen down. Once you pen down, relive in your inner-space, and then relive using the mirror, and then relive using the other persons' eyes by sharing. Same way, be a space of listening for the other person to complete. Every night, after the Completion, burn those papers.

Understand, Samskaara Dahana Kriya is the real way of spreading global peace, bringing peace to humanity. again, you start getting new loans and making new enemies, because you only changed your place, not yourself! You create another hell for yourself. It takes at least the next three to four years for you to build your hell again. Then again, if you know that there is a bigger city or some other country where you can have another life, you jump and go there. You keep expanding your space to stay out of suffering.

I tell you, when you really know that the world is too big and your space is limitless, you are out of suffering! The universe is too big, and you have too many options. Planet earth is a small village in the whole universe. So anything you give as a reason for your suffering is a small dust in the universe. Whatever you know as suffering, non-enlightenment, ignorance, not having health, and not having wealth, whatever you think as suffering, ultimately nothing is of any significance. The real universe is avyaktam achintyam – unmanifest and beyond whatever you can imagine. Realize this and do not grieve.

Finally, after settling in the USA with all the luxury and comforts and rich life, if you sometimes remember your life in your village back home, you will feel, 'Oh God! For what foolish reasons I was suffering! One day I just stole a bicycle from my neighbor, and that fellow beat me left and right, just for that useless thousand-rupee bicycle!' When you look back, you will feel that all the sufferings you went through were useless, reasonless and juiceless.

I felt exactly the same thing, when I settled back into my body after enlightenment, 'Oh God, what unnecessary sufferings I had!' Every day climbing the pillars, blowing the nose, doing this process, that process..!

Don't think that you need to get enlightened to understand this truth of non-suffering.

You just need simple common sense - which is the uncommon thing! That's all, nothing else, just simple common sense to identify yourself with the truth. However much you can understand, identify with it to that extent. Spontaneous completion happens when you have simple common sense.

The Upanishads declare: prajnaanam brahma, intelligence is God. I can declare: common sense is God! Simple common sense is God. I can tell you, simple common sense can alter even the way your body behaves. Whenever people come to me with deep depression, when I see their energy, I see that somehow common sense is missing.

Common sense is nothing but a simple readiness to change your decisions and your ideas. Come on, be pro-life, don't be stuck with strong useless laws which you have created for yourself! If somebody is not interested to be in your life, just give him or her a farewell. Over! And if something is not working out, just change your idea. Over. But when I say this to those people, they say 'Oh, how can it be possible?'

When I say common sense, understand what I mean. Simply be light, be free, be liquid to change. This is the way life is – that’s okay! Be simple! Be liquid. Just have simple common sense; you will just flow with life. You will understand, ‘Aah this is the way life is! What can be done?’ Let us be intelligent. Let us adapt. Let us live!’

But somehow people feel that this is a too big of an achievement. No! This is the first truth I want to tell you. The moment that you understand that common sense is God, you are beyond suffering.

I tell you, you don’t need to do anything else in your life. You don’t need yoga. You don’t need meditation. You don’t need pranayama (breathing techniques). You don’t need devotion. You don’t need anything. Just take this one vow. I will not suffer, that’s all. Do not allow any suffering in you, whether it is physical, mental, psychological, and/or emotional. Don’t allow any suffering.

Whenever a suffering is forced on you - for example, physical pain - look into it and don’t allow that idea of pain to settle in you. All your ambitions and actions, everything starts when you accept life is pain.

This is not the truth! You don’t need to do anything in your life if you want enlightenment or health or a billion dollars. All the auspicious things that you aspire for, and the auspicious things you think you need in your life, will be given to you.

I honestly tell you, the the day I decided that I would not

Understanding your original suffering can bring a tremendous relief to you from all the sufferings or your life – because you will come to know every single suffering you have is one and the same suffering, expressing in different ways. And it is NOT suffering as you understand it.

Listen: your very existence is suffering, because the cosmic existence is suffering and struggling to express its existence through your existence. It is like a child trying to come out of the mother’s womb. The enlightenment is trying to come out of you. Pain is reasonless all over your existence - just like a woman who is delivering a baby trying to diagnose her pain as a pain in the little finger, or a pain in the back, or a pain in the head, or a pain in the feet. Any reason she discovers for her pain, any diagnosis she makes for her pain, will be the wrong diagnosis and misleading.

In the same way, any reason you find for your anguish, for your suffering, will be misleading. Because, just like a baby trying to deliver itself, trying to come out of you, the cosmos is trying to deliver itself through you. Till you let that happen, you are going to carry that anguish. That suffering is going to be there.

The original suffering is what is described very beautifully in some of the Christian saints' life as the 'dark night of the soul'. As long as you are suffering with an engram-based problem, you cannot experience or catch the real problem. The first step is to find the right problem. Understanding the real problem is what is described in Christian theology as the dark night of the soul.

There are some people, if they are in depression I won't even care, because it is not a real problem. It is an engram-based problem. It is just a mental habit for them. If I give any attention to it, they will start building one more engram 'Oh if I suffer, Swamiji will give me more attention'. It will become one more engram. So I won't even bother. But there are some people, even if they have a small depression, I will directly attend to it, if the depression is due to a real So don't take the wrong cognizance of your suffering. Your family is not responsible for your suffering. Your friends are not responsible for your suffering. Your enemies are not responsible for your sufferings. Not even human society is responsible for your suffering. You are suffering because you are suffering, that's all. Your existence is suffering until enlightenment.

Listen: your very nature is sat-chit-ananda – existence-consciousness-bliss. Existence, consciousness and bliss never get separated. During the moments of your suffering, you do not exist. Your life is a blackout. That is the time of you go through the blackout.

Please understand if we write your exact biography, the book in which all your actions are recorded, there will be many blank pages. In many pages there will be nothing written. Those blank moments are the moments when you were grieving for something.

Your biography is getting constantly written. As you live, it goes on getting recorded. All the moments when you are joyful are entered into your biography. If you are suffering, please be very clear, there are more and more blank pages.

Bliss and joy adds vibrancy to your life. I tell you: not to suffer is the ultimate spiritual practice. You grow to the level where you don't care about enlightenment; it is just a side-effect, like the dust rising while you walk. How when you walk, dust gathers around your feet, the enlightenment will gather at your feet.

I tell you, the greatest way to have enlightenment is for it to be offered at your feet, not standing with a begging bowl for a long time, and finally it will be dropped in your bowl. No! If it is dropped