April 02 2004

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Path to Enlightenment (Brazil) || Part 1 || Initiation into Powerful Cognitions || 02 Apr 2004

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Name of Convention: Initiation into Powerful Cognitions Title: Path to Enlightenment (Brazil) Part 1 Date: 02 April 2004 Venue: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In this video Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism HDH #Nithyananda Paramashivam explains about his journey to enlightenment and what enlightenment is all about.

The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism Jagatguru Mahasannidhanam His Divine Holiness Nithyananda Paramashivam (HDH) is the reviver of #KAILASA - the ancient enlightened civilization and the great cosmic borderless Hindu nation. Revered as the incarnation of Paramashiva - the primordial Hindu Divinity, HDH has a following of 2 billion Hindus worldwide with de facto spiritual embassies in over 150 countries. He has worked untiringly for over 26 years for the revival of Kailasa, for global peace and to give super conscious breakthrough to humanity. He has survived the worst persecution of multiple assassination attempts on person and on character by anti-Hindu elements. He is collecting, organising, preserving, time capsuling, decoding, spreading and reviving 20 Million source books of Hinduism and the 64 sacred arts & sciences like Ayurveda, music, dance, sculpting, astrology, vastu and much more. Close to 20,000 hours of HDH’s timeless talks have been recorded.

Transcript:

(Each sentence Swamiji speaks is translated into Portuguese language by a translator)

(0:27)

From the time the human beings are born in the planet earth, the search for the Eternal Bliss, search for the permanent bliss started. Two groups started searching that bliss in two ways. One is the group who are logical, intellectual. They started searching from the world. This group started searching from the outer world. They created science and the outer comforts. The other group started searching from inside. They are called Rishis. They started searching from the spiritual world. They created meditation, the base for the all philosophies. I will try to present a simple form of the philosophy of the rishis in few words to you.

(02:23)

According to rishis, we are Eternal Consciousness. We are already in the bliss. Only thing, we have to recognise it and understand. Small example, near the harbor you can see a pear where they stop the boats. In the pears, there will be big wall separating a small portion of the ocean from the real ocean. This ocean is also real ocean. It is not separate from the ocean. But for a long time you don't go to the real ocean. You stay only in this small portion. So, you forget you are connected to the real ocean. Whether you believe or not, whether you accept or not, you are connected to the God, Divine. Even when you swim against the water current, you are inside the water. Even when you dig the earth, you are on the earth. So even if you are against god, against divine, you are in divine, you are in god. So once you understand you are in divine, you are god, your whole life is transformed. This is the ultimate goal. This is the ultimate state in which you are supposed to be established.

(04:53)

For this, rishis are giving three steps. One is Shravana, right listening. Second is Manana, allowing those concepts to work on you, allowing those concepts to meditate or to do the alchemy process on you, allowing those ideas to do their alchemy on you- manana. Last is Nididhyasana, expressing the joy, eternal truth in your life. So listening and meditating and expressing- these are the three steps to the eternal bliss, Nithya ananda. The right listening awakens your intelligence and right meditation, right contemplation automatically makes you understand the truth. When you express the truths in your life, when you start living the joyful ecstatic, blissful life, automatically your life is transformed. You feel totally fulfilled. Unless you feel the inner fulfillment, life is not worth living. So life means nothing but searching for the fulfillment. These are the few concepts I wanted to present in front of you. Now I will respond to your questions. I relate to you more by question-answer than by discourse. A participant asks a question in Portuguese language.

(08:17)

Physically I had no guru. I had the darshan of Ramana Maharshi, Ramakrishna and Mahavatara Babaji. These three only inspired and these three only guided Me into the spiritual life. I had no physical master. There were few people who inspired Me in the spiritual life. In my pictorial biography their photographs are there. At the age of five, I had the fortunate.... I had the fortune to be associated with a yogi. Their photographs are there in My biography book. You can see them and this yogi used to meditate a lot and the yogi had many special spiritual powers. He initiated Me into the spiritual life first. And then one of the disciple of Ramana Maharshi, Annamalai Swamigal, he gave Me the meditation technique to practice.

(10:13)

At the age of ten, when I went to listen to him along with my family, he was telling, “We are beyond body, we are beyond suffering, we are beyond miseries.” So when I heard that we are beyond sufferings we don't have… we don't get the pain, we are beyond miseries, I wanted to test. I went to the house and cut my thigh by knife to see whether I have pain or not. But I had the pain and they took Me to the doctor. Again I went to that Swami back. That Swami told, “Do this meditation. Then you will understand what I said.” He taught Me a small meditation to search from where thoughts are rising. I was too small boy. So I was not able to practice regularly but whenever I find time I used to practice.

(11:55)

After two years when I was twelve, first time I had the experience that I am something beyond body. One day I was sitting under that Arunachala Hill, my native place, Tiruvannamalai. In the evening, suddenly when I was meditating, I felt some door has opened near this area, near my heart. I started seeing all the side, all the 360 degree at single moment My eyes closed. It is like a… you are in front and the side wall and the back side glasses and the side, this photo, everything was seeing in a moment without turning My eyes or without turning My head. So for a moment even My eyes closed, I saw the whole, this side 360 degree and this side 360 degree and I felt that everything is Me. More than one and half hours I was in that same experience. So after that one and half hours I felt that I have been possessed by some energy. I was feeling ecstatic and joyful and I was little afraid also. I do not know what is happening to Me.

(14:20)

I ran to one spiritual person to ask what is happening to Me. That person told Me, “You are not possessed by any energy, You are in divine experience.” So to search what it is, how so much of joy is coming from inside, I started traveling towards the Himalayas. I was too small boy. So I was not able to learn the language of North India. So I came back. So I studied a bit and then when I was little grown up, I ran away once for all to the Himalayas to search for enlightened master who will guide Me to have that bliss, that joy again. That joy which I experienced was continuously pulling Me. So when I was staying in the Himalayas, I had the darshan of Mahavatar Babaji. And after few days, I had a deep experience that the body is died and My being is something separate.

(16:26)

So after that experience, again I came down to central India and continued My tapas in Omkareshwar where Shankaracharya became enlightened. So when I was continuing my tapasya there, 2000 January 1st maybe midnight, in the night, I had the deepest experience of the spirituality. Suddenly I felt that My mind is disappearing into the bliss and joy. For nine months, I was in that same ecstasy and joy. I did not move anywhere. I stayed in one place. After that, slowly I came down to south. I had the vision to go to Bangalore and Bangalore somebody will donate a land with big banyan tree. Start your Ashram there. Dakshinamurthy, Shiva guided Me and in turn, Shiva went to that person's dream also and told him, “Donate your land to the Swamiji.” And that person was searching Me and he came. He has never even seen Me. He came and offered the land. Then we had made a Dakshinamurthy temple under the banyan tree and started the Ashram. So this is the way Ashram is started. Now we have 200 centres around the world to spread the meditation and bliss.

(19:12)

In Oklahoma, a group of scientists, they came to ask about this enlightenment and bliss. When I said the mind can be switched off by the meditation, the mind can totally be silented by meditation, they are not ready to believe. They challenged, “Can we test Your neurological system?” I told them, “I am ready.” Then they did three pet scan and two EEG scan on My neurological system. They are stunned with the results which they discovered. The first thing they discovered, totally the neurological system related to thinking and hearing, visualization, everything was shut off. Only the portion of Intelligence, the portion of the third eye, frontal lobe, Ajna, was six times more than active than normal man.

(21:07)