Chapter 1: Heal The Universe🔗

Question:

1. In one of your research reports, I read that high blood pressure can become normal, and low blood pressure can also become normal through the same technique of Nithya Spiritual Healing. How is that possible?

That is a very nice question.

Medically, the medicine given for high blood pressure and low blood pressure are two different medicines.

Here, we are giving healing as medicine for both. If you see superficially, the healer does the same thing of placing his or her hands on the person receiving the healing. How does it heal two totally different problems? It seems difficult to understand. A person thinking and analyzing with the mind cannot logically understand.

Healing and meditation work at a level beyond the mind.

Nithya Spiritual Healing is healing through cosmic energy. This is different from energy as we knows in various forms such as electric energy. Cosmic energy is intelligence. Electric energy does not have its own intelligence. If you fix a bulb in a socket, the current will flow and the bulb will glow. If you put your hand in the electric socket, in the same way the current will flow, but it will give you an electric shock! Although energy is often compared to an electric current, this healing energy is not balancing so amazingly with billions of galaxies, stars, planets, black holes, comets and so many other heavenly bodies. If you look at it, there seems to be a beautiful order even though no obvious system is monitoring the motion of the galaxies!

There are so many theories on how the universe is balancing and how the body is working. To explain it simply, the five elements are continuously balancing, whether inside the body or outside in the universe.

If there is a fire and we pour water on it, immediately the fire subsides. That is the nature of the relation between fire and water. When fire and water come together, the heat of the fire is reduced by the coolness of the water.

In the same manner as a fire outside is put down by water, so also there is a fire inside our body. You may have heard of the digestive fire (jataraagni) inside our body. Similarly, there are other different types of fires or 'fevers' that happen in the body.

Sixty four different types of fevers exist in our body.

In our body, a kind of fever exists continuously. In our vedic scriptures, our rishis (sages) classify sixty four fevers.

For example, your anger is a fever. When you get angry, if you are sensitive, you can feel a burning sensation in the eye. When you feel sexual arousal, the whole body feels the heat.

When you go through an emotion, without your knowledge, the temperature of the body increases or decreases. Please understand: the heat getting reduced is also fever.

Let us explain this fever in medical terms. Take fear, for example. Fear is an emotion which is triggered by the mind in the form

If the emotional fever comes once in a while to save us from danger, it is ok. But when it happens continuously, like the fear of a student with the teacher or anger of the employee with the boss, the hormones are released again and again and the body gets too much heat. Every cell burns with that emotion.

In the outside world, when there is a fire, you put water and it cools down. In the body, the water element is blood. The blood travels and supplies the hormones. Also, it cleans the area and reduces the temperature of the area.

The continuous 'fear strokes' and emotional upsets and anger result in the need for increased blood supply.

For a normal person the heart beats at the average rate of 72 times per minute. But to manage a stressful situation, the 72 heartbeats per minute can go up to 90 heartbeats per minute or beyond. To manage the different fevers, pumping 80 or 90 times per minute becomes a normal function for the heart, instead of the emergency function it was meant to be. So, the average heart rate goes up from 72 heartbeats per minute to 90 heartbeats per minute. That is why the blood pressure increases.

If you are a high blood pressure patient, to reduce blood pressure medically, you take a tablet. The same tablet if taken by a low blood pressure patient will lower the blood pressure further in him. For a low blood pressure patient the tablet needed is different

instructions. The mental setup is the root cause of the problem and the diseases and imbalances in our body-mind are just the manifestations of our habit of wrong thinking.

Enlightened masters can replace the corrupt software by positive software. The negative software can be neutralized.

Just by positive thinking we cannot become enlightened.

We have to transcend both the 'good' and the 'bad' thinking.

There is no difference between good and bad garbage. In the same way, if you look deeply you will see that there is nothing called 'positive thinking' and 'negative thinking'. It is all 'thinking'.

We have to cross thinking itself. The thoughts per second (TPS) expressing in our system have to reduce. When the TPS is reduced, the heart rate is reduced. When the heart rate is reduced, the blood flow reduces. When we provide a negative stimulus (one that reduces the heart rate), the heart rate reduces. This negative stimulus can also be provided by medication. This has no effect on the underlying cause of the 'fever', the mind. Reducing the thoughts per second (TPS) can only be achieved with meditation.

Because the impulse is reduced, the stimulus does not go to the body. The effect is that the increased heart rate drops from 90 beats per minute to the normal rate of 72 beats per minute. Because the stimulus itself is stopped, the root cause of the problem is eliminated.

Similarly, for a person with low blood pressure, the heart rate increases gradually from 60 beats per minute to the normal rate of 72 beats per minute.

In the five koshas, depression is in the outermost layer, the annamaya kosha or physical layer. Meditation works from the innermost layer, the anandamaya kosha or bliss layer.

Depression is not a psychological problem. It is not a mental problem, it is a physical problem.

When the mind works too actively, the body is not able to handle it and depression is the result of that overload on the body.

Physiologically, the depression comes from the depression chemicals released inside your system. When you feel depressed, if you take a little coffee, you come out of the depression because the caffeine in the coffee stimulates you. Similarly, when you smoke, the nicotine stimulates you. The chemicals released by coffee or tobacco in your body counter the effect of the depression chemicals in your body and that is why you get a 'high'.

However, this kind of chemical support to get out of depression is like using acid to clean a car! To clean a car, we cannot use acid as we would use to clean a sink. In the case of our body-mind, to come out of depression we try similar techniques like taking intoxicants or stimulants that are self-damaging.

The depression you feel is a physical phenomenon resulting from the chemicals released in your body. That is why a good aroma can get you out of depression, because it will release the opposite chemicals that will counter the depression chemicals.

With meditation, there is a higher intelligence working on the body, beyond the mind that is creating the problem.

Meditation releases the bliss chemicals that are not only an antidote for depression but which by their very nature take you beyond both the feelings of depression and 'the high'.

Meditation not only supports the system with positive energy; it supports with intelligent consciousness.

The replacement is total. It is like replacing poison with nectar. The negative energy is replaced with consciousness. Healing replaces the negative energy with consciousness. Just like when a light brought into a room makes the darkness disappear; in the same way, when you bring meditation into your life, stress and depression are removed as side effects of the process.

When energy passes through and overflows from the healer, the recipient receives it. Stress is removed since the intelligent energy floods the body-mind. The healer also benefits from this extra energy and any stress in the healer's system is removed.

The energy restores the intelligence to the body, consciousness to the mind and rich vibrancy to life.

Because it is restoring what you already have within you at your core, but have forgotten, it just brings you back in touch with your true nature of bliss which can never be lost. That is why healing and meditation result in permanent effects.

It rejuvenates the whole being and wherever there is imbalance, by its very intelligence, the imbalance is corrected and disease does not exist anymore. The person is transformed by the healing energy and experiences health, energy and enthusiasm.

Good health is not just an absence of disease, it is a positive well-being-ness. We are not just humans who are meant to fall sick and get cured. We are an abode of bliss. We were created to feel this bliss continuously inside us and to float with blissful lightness at the Being level. This is what is called arogya or good health.

We are ever ready to spend our time, money and energy curing ourselves of some ailment or discomfort. Or we believe that such problems are an unavoidable part of living. We have become so caught up in the cycle of disease and cure that we see disease as an inevitable disaster that has a cure in the outer world. We do not know the root cause of all disease and imbalance.

Actually, every ailment or disease has got its root in the mind. For example, continuous worrying leads to stomach ulcers. Every emotion of ours causes a disturbance in the energy level in us, in our system, which in turn manifests itself at the physical level as disease.

LEVELS

There are so many levels of healing. Healing does not mean healing only our physical illness or healing our pain. Healing means experiencing a feeling of well-being. If we can say a few courteous words to others which makes them feel comfortable and joyful, even that has a healing effect.

An experiment was conducted in The Ohio University in the 1970s to study heart disease. Rabbits were fed a high cholesterol diet to create blockage of their arteries. All the rabbit groups showed consistent results except one; strangely this group showed 60 percent fewer symptoms than the rest of the rabbit groups.

It was discovered that the student who was in charge of feeding this group of rabbits was in the habit of fondling and petting them. He used to hold each rabbit lovingly for a few minutes each day before feeding them. It was amazing that this alone seemed to enable the animals to overcome the natural results of a toxic diet.

When experiments were repeated with one group treated neutrally and the other group lovingly, the same results were reproduced.

We underestimate the power of our thoughts and emotions. They have a very deep impact on our mind and body.

The first thing that man asks for is always physical and mental health. With any religion or master, the first utility or gain that man looks for is 'good health'. Only when given this guarantee does he look further into fulfilling his deeper longings. Only then does he move on towards meditation, enlightenment, etc.

From time immemorial, all religions and all masters have demonstrated healing powers.

Let us see the healing system created by the great master Patanjali.

Figure 3: Seven chakras & their location in the body

These seven energy centers are the masters of our physical, mental, emotional, psychological, intellectual and being level activities and manage all of the activities arising from these areas within us.

The metaphysical locations of the chakras can be roughly associated with seven major glands in our physical bodies. Chakras are the energy centers which make the corresponding physical glands work.

PHOTOGRAPHY

We may wonder: what proof is there that chakras do exist? The concept of energy centers within the human system may have been dismissed even a few decades ago for the simple reason that there was no tangible proof of its existence. In recent times, Kirlian photography and other techniques have demonstrated that there are energy fields surrounding us.

This new kind of photography called Kirlian photography was made popular in Russia. With X-rays we can find out about bone fracture or tuberculosis. So also with Kirlian photography, we can see the energy field around a person. The beauty is that the energy field will show the signs of impending physical changes much before these changes are reflected in the physical body.

With Kirlian photography, we can photograph the aura body of every single individual. 'Aura' means the subtle light, which is continuously emitted by one's body. By photographing that light, Kirlian photographers are able to diagnose any disease, which is going to occur in a person. They say that upto six months prior to the disease actually manifesting itself physically, they are able to diagnose it through the science of Kirlian photography.

Ill health can be prevented even before a person has any idea that he is about to fall sick. Through Kirlian photography, a person can observe energy imbalances and determine what aspect of the body-mind will be adversely affected.

It is only when our chakras are blocked that disease sets in. When our body and mind are at ease with each other, we always feel easiness, the easeness in us. When our body and mind are not at ease with each other, we feel the dis-easeness, the disease.

Most of the diseases are psychosomatic. They originate from the mind and are then expressed in the body. The root is the mind, not the body.

Actually the mind and body are two aspects of the same phenomenon; mind and body are not two different things. That is why the body is a psychosomatic phenomenon.

Mind is the subtlest part of the body, and the body is the grossest part of the mind.

Both the body and mind affect each other. They function on parallel tracks. When we suppress something in the mind, the body will begin a suppressing path. If the mind releases everything the body also releases everything.

The Brihadaranya Upanishad states, 'As our thoughts are, so is our will; as our will is, so is our action; as our action is, so is our destiny.'

Cosmic energy is linked to individual energy through the chakras. The separation we experience is only our illusion. Just like the water in a harbor is connected to the water of the ocean, so too the energy we have flowing through us is connected to the inexhaustible reservoir of cosmic energy. It

Suppose you go to a restaurant and are tempted by the smell of French fries being made, you resist the temptation and are angry with yourself for craving for junk food. If you look deeply though, you will see that the temptation is not from your sense of taste but from your mind. You may have seen advertisements everywhere and they would have made an impact on your mind without even your knowledge and awareness. Somehow or the other you have the idea that eating French fries will make you happy and you will enjoy it.

Sometime in the past you may have eaten French fries driven by this craving from the unconscious mind. But you might have eaten them feeling guilty for eating junk food. Or your mind was distracted with other thoughts as you ate. So your desire was not ‘fulfilled’ even though your stomach was filled. It is likely that you never ate even one serving of French fries with full awareness and intensity; so the craving for them was never fully satisfied. Now that unfulfilled desire from the mind rises again when you smell the French fries.

You see, it is the mind that is involved in this whole game, not the body.

Someone asked me, ‘Don’t we have to control the senses?’ It is our senses, not the body, that are responsible for our attachments and aversions. But we don’t know how to differentiate between the body and the senses. The only thing we know clearly is the gross body, so we start controlling it.

Gradually with a lot of practice, you can succeed in controlling your senses and suppressing them. You only become insensitive happy. He said, 'Swamiji, I realize now that I have been abusing my body all these days, by pushing smoke into my system!'

When we become conscious of what we are doing, many things drop by themselves. This is the only permanent solution.

Of course, it may take a few days to awaken the natural intelligence. The patience to wait till then is what is called tapasya, penance. It is important that in this period of tapasya, you don't give up and fall back on second-rate intelligence that you have picked up from the moral codes set up by society. Have trust in your body.

We always live in deep fear of our bodies. We feel as if we are sitting on a live volcano. The moment we sense a cold or fever coming up, the day we have the slightest headache, we reach out for a pill. It has become totally acceptable for us to swallow pills for any and all symptoms. Most of our common ailments can be easily handled with a little care. But we don't credit our body with the power to heal itself. When our body can digest food, pump blood, mend broken bones and perform a thousand other complicated tasks without our conscious help or assistance from outside, can't it take care of a fever or a headache?

Allow your body to function according to its own intelligence. You will see for yourself how much wisdom your body has. In order to experience this natural body intelligence we need to drop our doubt. We must have the courage to experiment and the trust to test this in our life. Then we will find there is tremendous body intelligence available to us and there is no need to control the body at all. medium, the cell moved away from it. But when both the nutrient and poison were placed next to it, the cell intelligence was confused and could not respond. This shows how we also get confused with 'self-contradictory' thoughts in our life.

For example, when you tell yourself, 'I want to quit smoking', you are giving equal power to the word 'smoking' and to your desired goal, 'quit'. Essentially, both the words 'quit' and 'smoking' are being entertained, which leads to a mutually canceling situation. That is why you are not able to get out of the problem.

ENERGY HEALING

Today, science also accepts that matter and energy are equivalent. Einstein's equation E=mc² shows the equivalence of matter and energy.

Thousands of years back, our Upanishads (Ancient texts from vedic tradition) declared this Truth. The first line of the first Upanishad, the Isavasya Upanishad says, 'Isa vasyam idam sarvam' - whatever exists is energy. There is no difference between matter and energy. Solid energy is matter; subtle matter is energy. Matter and energy are one and the same.

Whatever you label as matter is nothing but energy. Whatever you call energy is nothing but matter. Whatever exists is energy.

From this scientific and spiritual declaration we can now draw the conclusion that if matter can be given to somebody else, why can't energy be shared? If I can hand you a watch, why can't I give you energy also? All that is needed is knowing the proper technique or method of giving it. In meditation and spiritual practices. In such cases, someone who is a meditator can meditate and pass the energy to the energy centers of the person who is in disease. This is the essence of the science of energy healing.

Apart from the intellectual explanation of healing, we have thousands of records, medical data and substantiation along with research reports, including those done in our ashram to prove the science of Nithya Spiritual Healing. We have studied and proven how energy is given, how and where the energy works in the system and how it heals the disease.

Who can give energy? The man who has realized that he is energy, the one who has experienced himself as something beyond the body and mind, is the only one who is authorized or qualified to give energy. Naturally you start radiating and expressing the energy that has become your experience. When you experience that you are something beyond the body and mind, only then can you radiate that inexhaustible energy. Until then you cannot radiate energy.

Whether you understand or not, whether you experience or not, whether you believe it or not, you are energy. The person who realizes it is the one who is qualified to share his energy.

People ask me, 'Swamiji, do you chant any mantra when you heal? Please teach us, we will also do the same.'

I tell you, there is no other secret. I don't chant any mantra. When I touch, I just become the touch, that's all. My whole The man refused to believe that there was anything beautiful in his life. He said, 'No! I don't trust your words. First show me the moon, the stars; prove to me that they are beautiful and then I'll come out!'

The master replied, 'Just come out and you can see for yourself!'

But the man refused. Before even coming out, he wanted proof. How can you see unless you come out?

After a minute, the master suddenly started shouting, 'Your hut is on fire! Your hut is on fire!' Immediately, the man came rushing out of the hut.

Then suddenly, seeing the moonlit night and starry sky, he became lost in the beauty. He totally forgot that his house was supposed to be on fire. He exclaimed, 'Oh, it is so beautiful! When you told me I didn't believe you; but now I understand.'

Then suddenly he remembered, 'You told me that my hut was on fire. You lied to me!'

'Yes', said the master, 'I had to tell that lie to bring you out of your hut!'

When I say people with open minds, most people, especially those who live only based on logic, get the wrong idea that I mean people who trust anything.

All our colleges and universities help us sharpen our logic. But they are not able to help develop one of the major dimensions of human beings, their emotions. They help us sharpen our intellectual and logical thinking, but they have not done anything to help us grow emotionally. Because we being, which is the reason that scientific advances have often been turned towards destructive uses.

Today we have atomic weapons on this planet earth which can burn the planet not once or twice, but seven hundred times over! All the countries have piled up atomic weapons that can burn planet earth seven hundred times. What is the reason? It is the right knowledge in the hands of the wrong persons. This is what happens when shakti (power) works without buddhi (intelligence). It is the surest way to destroy humanity.

Intellectual growth without emotional growth leads only to more and more danger. We all have worked towards intellectual growth, but have forgotten the emotional dimension.

Our rishis, our mystics, have worked on the development of the emotional dimension in humans. That is why every village in India has a big temple that is bigger than even the school or any other facility of the village. The temple is the primary thing for any village or settlement to be created. All other things are secondary. This is because our masters worked continuously to develop the emotional dimension of a human being. They knew that the development of emotions is the basic necessity for holistic growth and development. Once a man is developed in the emotional level, he will have everything; his life will be just heaven.

Some people ask me, ‘In India our ancestors wasted all our energy building temples. Every village has got so many big temples. What is the need for having such big temples? See the other countries; they have all built big universities and scientific research centers. They have all built beautiful to you to help you, but you must reach out your hand to grab mine. Open your heart and receive the healing energy of the Divine.

Absorb the energy and be healed by divine grace on every level!

In India you can see that every village will have small shrines. And most of the shrines are nothing but a small stone under a tree. Under the tree a small stone will be installed and turmeric and some ash and sandal paste will be applied - that will become God.

And you can see hundreds of people going to that stone and getting healed of their physical diseases, mental illnesses and coming out of their problems. Nothing but a simple stone under the tree, worshipped as God, heals the people. Nothing more is required.

So many people go to the river and pray to the river; they go to the sun and pray to the sun. They go to the temples and pray to the gods. There are a few places where they go to the trees and pray to the trees. Trees are worshipped as Gods. Praying to the trees, praying to the stones, praying to the rivers, people get healed. How is it possible? How can this happen? Moseley stated that the patients responded so positively because they believed they had been helped by surgery, which seemed to make a difference in their perception. "In my simple surgeon's explanation of this, the magnitude of the placebo effect is directly proportional to the patient's perceived intervention."

"The physician's belief in the treatment and the patient's faith in the physician exert a mutually reinforcing effect; the result is a powerful remedy that is almost guaranteed to produce an improvement and sometimes a cure."

We can see that it is not only or necessarily the medicine or intervention that heals a patient but the faith, the shraddha, that all involved have for it that brings about healing. It is what the patient believes that makes the difference. The very shraddha works miracles in human beings.

A nocebo is something that should be harmless but actually causes ill symptoms or side effects due to the suggestion or patient's belief that something is harmful.

"In one experiment, asthmatic patients breathed in a vapor that researchers told them was a chemical irritant or allergen. Nearly half of the patients experienced breathing problems, with a dozen developing full-blown attacks. They were "treated" with a substance they believed to be a bronchodilating medicine, and recovered immediately. In actuality, both the "irritant" and the "medicine" were a nebulized saltwater solution."

The placebo effect works because of the shraddha, the faith that the person has on a particular thing to produce a certain result. We may not realize that we have the faith. Consciously or unconsciously, we believe that the 'medicine' will work. We believe in the power of whatever we are doing or taking but we do not understand the science behind it.

The science behind shraddha is what forms the basis of Nithya Spiritual Healing. Nithya Spiritual Healing is a proven science of healing and the science of how it works is based on shraddha.

Shraddha is loosely translated as faith but actually it is not just faith. Shraddha is also not just sincerity. Shraddha is actually much higher than faith or sincerity.

To have shraddha means to have an understanding of the concept, experience full sincerity towards and belief in it, and express the courage to execute the understanding in one's life. It is not just 'very sincerely and blindly following'.

Shraddha is sincerity plus understanding and expressing that understanding with courage even before we fully experience the desired outcome in our lives.

Shraddha requires that we become integrated, with our intelligence, emotions and spirit aligned towards a particular ideal or belief.

I am going to give you a technique to develop deep and concentrated love.

It is not just a superficial technique. Let me tell you, people tell me that they love the whole world. Loving the world is easy but you cannot love your wife! Here I am trying to create a real concentrated love where you will be honest to your being.

Vivekananda calls his disciples as dheeraaha. Here I also address you as 'Courageous ones'. You may ask what courage is needed to take the Healers' Initiation.

Be very clear: To conquer others you don't need courage. A person who kills others does so because he is afraid he will be killed by them. So, before they kill him, he kills them.

What really needs courage is to kill your mind and your false ideas about yourself. In the Healers' Initiation, you are conquering yourself, your mind. That is why I am calling you all 'dheeras' - the courageous ones.

Let me tell you a true story about inner strength and courage:

In Tamil Nadu, there was a great saint called Dakshinamurthy Swamigal. He never wore clothes; he lived naked.

There was a king at that time, a popular local king by the name Bharani. Bharani means a person who has killed one thousand elephants. The tradition at that time was that if you kill a thousand elephants, the poets will sing the bharani in your praise and glory. The royal poet sang bharani for the king. As it happened, the poet Just then, something happened, and the king became so silent. Dakshinamurthy Swamigal closed his eyes and just indicated by a motion of his head, 'Sit'. Because the king sat, the whole army sat. They were just sitting for hours. Not even a single thought entered the king's mind. A whole day passed. One day, two days, three days passed. The king and his entourage continued to sit in silence – no food, no water, nothing.

Dakshinamurthy Swamigal opened his eyes on the third day and simply said, 'Now you can go.' Suddenly the king got a glimpse of consciousness and wondered what had happened to him. He himself didn't realize how the time had passed but he was in deep bliss and peace.

The king told the poet, 'It is not the bharani that you can sing for this great sage. Sing the bharani for him!' (song of glory when a person kills 10,000 elephants)

Killing 10,000 elephants is easy, but killing the mind is very difficult.

Here you are entering into your mind, so you are courageous. That is why I say, 'Dheeraaha, welcome!' See, after LBP Level 1

We are going to get married! Not just for one life, but for life after life. One thing you should understand that happens during the initiation is that the master takes up the responsibility that even if he leaves his body before the disciple's enlightenment, he will set him up with another master or continuously give him visions and guide the disciple to the Ultimate. It is a bandha. It is a commitment that you make with yourself, not to me. It is not just a life-long but a death-long commitment. It is a commitment between you and your Atman.

The first thing is that it is very important that you use this wonderful intelligence and energy that I am going to give you in a proper fashion. It is like giving a knife in the hands of a child. Of course, it will not harm anybody when used improperly in this case. The energy can never harm anybody because energy is intelligence. But when you don't use this wonderful intelligence in a proper and productive fashion, it is a disrespect to it.

Secondly, I want to adequately warn you about how to handle the tremendous respect that will come your way once you start spiritual healing for the public. Our healers are respected so much amongst the public. It is like children enjoying the father's wealth! The healers need to have the maturity to handle the respect that they get from people and from me.

Vivekananda beautifully says, 'It is not a big job to get name and fame, but it is a big job digesting it!' You can do any nonsensical thing and get popular overnight! But to be able to digest the popularity is the tricky part. something else. With enlightenment, you will have the power along with maturity to handle the power. With something else, you are only in trouble. Remember: The path to darkness and the path to light are the same, only the directions are different!

There is a story told by Ramakrishna:

Through meditation, a sannyasi acquired the power to control the god of rain, Varuna and the god of wind, Vayu. Once a thunderstorm raged and many ships were caught in the perilous sea. By his powers, the sannyasi stopped the storm abruptly. Had the storm abated on its own, the ships would have slowly regained their stability. Since he abruptly stopped it, the ships overturned and the people on board died. He had the power, shakti, but not the wisdom, buddhi, about how best to use the powers. Because of this, he lost his powers and faced the punishment for the tragedy.

This is what happens when power comes without maturity. This kind of energy is what we call the unconscious energy. On the other hand, when you possess superconscious energy, you are also bestowed with the intelligence to use it. Unconscious energy comes without the user's manual of intelligence! responsible for running that magazine, isn't it? Should you not feel grateful to them? I have seen many people who worship the ones who introduced them to me!

Just like how people took up the responsibility of introducing you to me, you should take up the responsibility for this to reach more people. Normally we feel responsible for any good that happens in the world. For anything bad that happens, we feel someone else is responsible; and mostly that someone is God! The biggest garbage can in our lives is God! For anything bad that happens, we blame Him. Poor man - He can't even talk back!

Sometime back, there was tuberculosis all over Tamil Nadu. They found medicines and cured it. The officials responsible for eradicating it proudly claimed that they were the ones responsible for curing it. But did they take up the responsibility for the fact that it was allowed to spread all over the town? No! They were actually responsible for the spreading of tuberculosis also, is it not? They should have prevented it. Likewise in our lives, we claim responsibility for any good that happens but don't claim responsibility for anything bad that happens. We simply blame God for it. We take up responsibility with discrimination.

Only if we take up responsibility for everything that happens in our lives, we will start expanding.

When you start living with the attitude, 'I am responsible', your whole life will change. If you sit and analyze each and every incident in your life, you will see clearly that only you have been responsible for them. But we normally pass the buck and blame others for what has happened in our lives. Those who do not wish to progress at all in life may do this. Those who wish to blossom should feel responsible directly or indirectly for everything that happens around them.

Vivekananda beautifully says, 'Take as much responsibility on your shoulders. The more responsibility you take, the more you expand. Expansion is the only growth; else you will contract and die.' The more responsibility you take up, the more you grow. Only when you feel responsible for all that is happening around you, you become a leader. Till then you are not even a serviceman, you are a mere hooligan.

Most of us wait for the status to come in order to take up the responsibility. Be very clear, it doesn't work that way. Only if we take up responsibility, the status will come. Those who wait for the status will not take up responsibility even after they get it. They will simply find another reason or excuse, that's all.

Responsibility is a consciousness. Only those who feel responsibility as a consciousness can become spiritual healers.

HENCE ENERGY

One man asked me, 'How is it that so much energy flows from you?' When you feel compassion towards others' suffering, the whole thing takes the shape of responsibility and expresses itself as energy, that's all. For that matter when anyone takes up responsibility towards the suffering around him or her, they will immediately start radiating energy.

When you take up responsibility, a cognitive shift happens in you; your mental setup changes. You are currently living like a slave. You work eight hours in your office. The same eight hours, if you take up responsibility and work, things will become very easy for you.

Take, for example, a doctor who has private practice and a doctor who works for the government. The former will appear to be flowering and happy all the time with no grudge or grumble. But the latter will appear to be under some load all the time. This is because the former stands up with responsibility while the latter does not. If he too stands up with responsibility, the whole scene will change for him. Else, he will keep looking at his watch to see if it has struck 5pm for him to leave. For him, only the first of every month will be sweet since it would be payday! From the second to the thirty first, it will be sour. He sacrifices thirty days of his life for that one day of joy. A sense of personal responsibility can help turn around any situation and achieve great things.

When you collectively stand up with responsibility, you become a solid force. Until then, you remain a burden for yourself and for others. We often think that we are after all in an ordinary post and when our higher authorities at work are not taking up responsibility, why should we take it up!

Let me tell you, in an office, when a sweeper does all his duties perfectly, he will inspire people. You see, the head of the organization has to be responsible anyways. No credit is given to him for that!

Vivekananda's motto for his mission was - atmano mokshartham jagat hitaya cha. He describes the goal of his mission as, 'For spiritual liberation as well as bringing good to humanity'. He implies that without taking up responsibility for the good of the world, you cannot talk of spiritual liberation.

We all think that once we die, God will send us a separate flight from Vaikuntha (heaven); Rambha and Menaka, the celestial beauties will be the airhostesses waiting at the door of the flight! Once we reach Vaikuntha, Paramahamsa Nithyananda will be there since we have attended the NSP, and he will give us a ticket and send us in! It is not so. If you live with a selfish motive, no flight will come!

There are a few already initiated healers here. Tell me, when your healing meditation helps a person heal, you feel responsible to have helped him, is it not? At least you feel that your Master has helped, isn't it? The feeling of 'my Master' is all right. It is not counted as ego. It will not disturb you because the moment you feel that he is 'your Master', He will take care of your ego. As Lord Krishna says, it is alright for the gopikas to say 'my Krishna'; it is not counted as ego.

Ok now, when you feel that 'your Master' has helped the person in the healing process, when the same person is suffering also, should you not feel that 'your Master' has not helped him? For you not to feel this, what should you do? Spread this message of spiritual healing, that's all. Let it reach as many people as possible.

Do you know the story of how Pandarinathar came to Pandaripur? Let me narrate: In the place called Pandaripur, there was a boy who did immense service to his parents and

I say that healers are my hands. When I say ‘I’, don’t think I am talking about this six-feet tall Nithyananda. I am talking about the prapancha shakti, the cosmos. When I say that the same energy that is flowing in me will flow through you, it is not an assurance, it is a promise!

IS BUT A DREAM

Being responsible is not becoming serious. Sincerity is different from seriousness. When you become serious, you are only feeding your ego. When you are sincere, you understand about life and do not attach undue importance to anything at the cost of something else. You are able to approach life with a youthful enthusiasm, spontaneity and innocence.

A child’s world is full of, ‘He took away my pencil!’ ‘He hit me!’… ‘She is not giving me my chocolate!’ We have lived this stage in our life and only then reached here. How does it feel when you think back about this? It appears comical now, doesn’t it? It appears to be madness! We feel how much we bothered at that age for these little things.

After this, let’s fast forward a bit, to when we were five or six years old. At this age we fight for, say, a geometry box. When we were a few years younger, we fought for a pencil and now we are fighting for the geometry box.

You grow up further. Now, if your best friend moves very closely with somebody else, then you can’t bear that! Now if we think back about this we only feel like laughing.

All of you here are adults. If I asked some of you elderly people about the problems of youth, about relationships perhaps, the problem will hardly appear of a serious nature to you. This is because you have passed that age.

Just like this, there is a state that is beyond all these states. It is the state of experiencing bliss. It is an experience that goes beyond all the states of life.

Take another example: Say tonight someone whom you loved passes away. Someone has murdered him. Even when you read this, how much grief and trouble you feel! He has passed away. Through the night you are crying. In the morning when your mother gives you a nudge and says, 'Wake up' and you wake up and realize, 'Oh! This is only a dream' how much peace is born within you! From this, we can understand a small technique for living life also - 'When the dream disappears, peace is born.'

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa says, 'This whole world is merely a dream.' How many people can accept this? You look at this world as reality because you have experienced it so.

We can accept things only when we experience them. The things that we have not experienced, we cannot accept. The only way to accept is to experience. The only solution is to go within you and experience that bliss.

In our youth, the problems of childhood appear comical. In our old age, the problems of youth appear comical. When we realize the Ultimate and look at the world from the Ananda Gandha (the point where the Formless merges into the form) experience, everything will appear to be playful. You can play the game of life beautifully, completely neck-deep in it, yet completely unaffected by it.