April 21 2005

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Potentiality to Actuality || Part 1 || Spiritual Discourse || 22 April 2005

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(0:15)

I welcome you all. Beautiful subject: From Potentiality to Actuality From the time immemorial, whether spiritual mystics or modern day scientists, everybody is again and again saying man is not using the whole energy or his whole consciousness or his full being. Somewhere he is lacking whether it is physical field or in the mental field or in the being level, conscious level. We are not realizing, actualizing our potentiality. Mystics call it in the name of self realization, actualizing our whole potentiality. Modern day psychologists, they call self actualization. Whether it is self actualization or self realization means the same: realizing your potentiality, actualizing your potentiality. Whether it is your mind or the body or being, we are not expressing our being completely. First of all, we are not experiencing our being completely. Unless we experience, how can we express?

(02:08)

Let Me give you a simple diagram how our mind works, how we get the information, how we process it, why we are not realizing our potentiality, why we are not actualizing our potentiality, where we are missing, where we are lacking. Let Me just explain how we receive the information and process it and how we are doing it, how we are living just the minimal level and actually we can't even say we are living, we are just surviving. Surviving is different and living is different. What we are doing is only surviving. It is not living.

(03:01)

Let Me explain. You receive some information through eyes and then something like Chakshu… in Sanskrit, we call it Chakshu. Let Me explain in the English terms. Something like the DSP in the computer, the whole data is digitized. This area (Swamiji shows a area in the diagram) is called Chaksu. In our eye or ears, in every part of our sense, the chakshu, indriya… we call it indriya. It is available. You understand this much that any data which comes through the eye is processed and made as a digital file. Then that file moves into our memory.

(03:52)

In the memory, you start analyzing what is it. For example, you are seeing this scene now (Swamiji points at His form). You are seeing this scene through the eyes. It is digitized inside your eyes. Then the whole file goes to memory. In memory, your mind starts analyzing, who is this,who is standing. First you start analyzing this is not, this is not, this is not, in this style. First you start analyzing this is not an animal, this is not a plant, this is not a stone. This is not, this is not, this is not. Neti, neti, we call in Sanskrit. First the this is not analysis happens in memory. Then the whole file goes to mind, manas. There you start recognising this is it, this is it. You start understanding he is a human being, he is a teacher or he is conducting a class. This is it. The identification happens in the mind. Then the whole file takes a quantum leap. The whole file takes a quantum leap to your ego. Your ego starts analyzing what I have to do with him, what I am supposed to do with him.

(05:15)

All your past memory with some teachers or some persons who came to take classes, all your past memory comes up. If you had a good time, good memory with them, your ego says, let us sit and listen. If you have not had a good time, if you don't feel happy, if you have not felt happy with them, if you had not a good experience with them, your ego says, better let us move. This is not the place for me to sit. You decide. First the information comes, digitized, goes to memory and the this is not, this is not, that happens in memory. This is it, this is it, happens in the mind. Then the whole file takes a quantum leap. Here you start understanding, you start analyzing what is there for me with this situation. In this situation what I am supposed to do, that is done by ego. The decision comes back and again you act according to the decision.

(06:18)

Here few things we need to look. From eye to mind, whole thing happens in a conscious way, logical way, clear way, intelligent way but suddenly when the whole file takes the quantum leap, here you have some memories which are not logically related to this situation. See, just because you had some bad experience with some teacher, it is not that you are going to have the same and our mind is so reactive, our mind is so unconscious, if you have been hurt by somebody with white cloth, whenever you see somebody wearing a white cloth, the same memory will come up. Automatically you tend to move away from that situation, move away from that person. The memories which gave you pain, the memories which disturbed you, stress, all these things are stored here. Continuously again and again, you decide based on those memories, based on that reactive mind. We call it Samskaras in Sanskrit. In Sanskrit, we call it samskaras. The field of psychology, they call it engrams.

(07:36)

These prints, so illogical, irrational, your mind is continuously processing, taking decisions based on illogical, irrational data. Till from eye to mind, the whole thing is logic, conscious, intelligent but when the quantum leap happens, you suddenly decide for no reason and after that you repent, “Oh!, I shouldn't have done that. I think that is not part of me.” If you feel after doing something I shouldn't have done that or if you feel that, that is not like me, that is not part of me, that portion of life somehow I am not able to rationalize. If you have this type of feeling, be very clear, your unconscious is only in the instinct level. Your unconscious is only in the instinct level. One more thing, from here to here, all the data which you collect says smoking is injurious to health but suddenly when the file takes a quantum leap, you decide to smoke. You smoke, then you repent. After that, again you repent.

(08:58)

When a file takes this leap, this quantum leap into unconsciousness, first thing, we act in a instinct level. Next thing, an important thing, our potentiality is never realized. Our potentiality never becomes actuality. Why, you may ask why. Because the more the samskaras, the more the engrams, more process is needed to be done. The same file has to go through so many disturbances, so many impediments before you take the decision. The more you are filled with samskaras, the more you are filled with reactive mind, the more you are filled with unconscious mind, the less decisions you make. If one file comes to this spot before you take the decision, the file has to go through at least twenty tables. The more the table the file has to move, more the time it is going to take, more the time it is going to take. The more the table the file has to move, naturally the decision is going to be distorted.

(10:14)

You see, hands can be thousand but head has to be one, but here so many heads in one decision. Naturally it is going to be confusion. It is going to be disturbance and above all, much of your energy is wasted in a single decision. Almost your major part of energy is blocked in this area itself. It is like your hard disc is filled with high resolution photographs. When your hard disc is filled, you can't handle any other data. It is almost like your hard disc is filled with high resolution photographs, unconscious. Too much of past memory, too much of samskaras, too much of reactive mind. As long as this...

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Let Me give you one more equation. From the information which the processing time from eye to the mind which happens in a conscious level, I call it as TP - time taken for processing and this I call it as TQ, the quantum leap time, quantum leap time. See, as long as the TP is equal to the TQ, you are in intellectual level. When the TP is more and the TQ is less means.... TQ is less and TP is more, you are in instinct level, you are in instinct level. You are just slave of your reactive mind. You are just slave of your unconscious mind. When TQ is more than TP, you are in the level of intuition. Instinct, intellect, intuition. As long as this time is too small… actually when the tables are more, when the memories are more, you will be continuously restless. Immediately the file will come out with some confused decision. You don't take enough time, you don't take enough interest in anything. You will be just feeling like finishing it.

(13:17)

In one of the Eastern scriptures, it says there is a beautiful quotation. It says, don't expect the results. Do intensely your duty. Doesn't mean that you will not have your salary. You will have your salary. When you work continuously, you will not bother about the result. When you are continuously bothered about the result, you will not give enough time for TQ. You will be just hurrying, continuously passing judgements without giving enough time. When you continuously pass judgements without giving enough time for this TQ process, enough time for this process, naturally not only you are going to take wrong decisions, you will be just in the level of instinct, survival level.

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As on now, almost all our decisions are taken only in the survival level, instinct level. We don't even live logically. That is why, end of the day, everyday we repent, “What am I doing? Something I did, something it happened. And I think I am not part of this. I think I am in wrong place.” And after sometime you start repenting, you start feeling, “I think that part of me is not logically matching me.” In twenty hours, you are in one way. Suddenly for two hours, you are in a different mood. If you have the swing of moods or dilemmas, be very clear, you are just in the instinct level. You decide, we do things just in the level of instinct level means we are just surviving, we are just surviving.

(15:02)

Let Me give you a small story. After the second world war, in a tribal village in Germany, they abandoned a small open aircraft. These army people, you know, they don't take everything back. They just abandoned a small open aircraft and these tribal villagers, they have not seen even the tractor. They don't know anything about the aircraft. They thought it must be a bullock cart. So they put big bullock in front of it and started using it as a bullock cart. After few months, one young boy came to that village and he said, “No, no, no. This must be tractor.” Because he has seen tractor, he started telling this must be a tractor and he started driving it. After few months, one retired pilot came to that place and he said, “This is neither bullock cart nor tractor, it is a aircraft.” He started showing them how to use it.

(16:02)

Same way, we don't realize our potentiality. We don't actualize our potentiality. As long as we are in instinct level, we are using our system only as a bullock cart. The person who has reached TP equal to TQ means the whole thing has become conscious process. He has no vertical line. All he has got is only horizontal line means the person who is not repenting for any of his decision. If you don't repent for any of your decision in the end of the day, you are in the level of intellect. You are in the level of intellect. You are using your system as a tractor and if you feel continuously rejuvenated, happy about your decisions, if you are excited to live, you are in the level of intuition, means not only you don't have unconscious, you start growing in this line. You have super conscious.

(17:05)

If this vertical line is straightened, you are in the level of intellect. If it starts going up, you are in the level of intuition. All we need to do is create the gap in this layer. As on now, you have too many tables means too many persons processing one file, too much of engrams, too much of reactive mind, too many memories about the past, about yourself, about the whole life, too many judgements. Actually two things: One is collecting all the arguments and passing the judgment. Another one is having your judgment ready, just collecting arguments to support that judgment. Most of the time we are ready with our judgment. We just collect our arguments to support our judgment. When we are in that level, we are just instinct level, surviving, that's all.

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Person who is in the Instinct level will continuously feel tired. Even if he works for two-three hours, he will be tired. You can see in your life. You don't have to do anything. Just sit in your chair, get stressed out for half an hour, you will have a shoulder pain. You don't have to do anything, just get stressed out. You don't even have to pick your pen. You will have shoulder pain because we are living in a instinct level. When you come up to the intellect level means less number of tables here, less tables, less reactive mind, not too much of disturbing memories, not too much of suppressions, then your whole unconscious becomes conscious, you are in intellect level. How to find out whether we are in intellect level or not? End of the day, you will not feel tired. You will be just relaxed. You will be there as you are. If you are in the intuition level, not only you will not feel tired, you will feel rejuvenated.

(19:27)

There is a beautiful aphorism in Ayurveda. They say how can you be tired when you are old? The more you grow, more you should become rejuvenated because now you know the art of living with the body. When you are younger, when you are young, you don't know the art of living with the body. The more you grow, now you know the art of living with your body. So by now, you must be more rejuvenated, more alive, more fresh and more excited. If you are tired by growing old, if you are feeling dull, if you are feeling depressed, something is wrong in your whole system. What you say looks very logical. See, the more you do some job, the more you will be efficient in the job. You will be able to do the same job without much effort. That is supposed to be the logic. Same way, if you are able to live with this body and if you have been trained to live in this body, after few years, you should not feel tired. You should feel more rejuvenated. You are supposed to feel more excited, energetic.

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Name Of The Convention: Inspirational Talks Session on: Master and the Zen Stick Part 1 Date: 21 April, 2005 Venue: Columbus, Ohio, USA

In this video, Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism HDH #Nithyananda Paramashivam uncovers some truths on the depth of our relationships, and the ways in which we can deepen them with those around us. His Divine Holiness goes on to describe the various levels of connection we can also reach with the divine, and shares some anecdotes and teachings on the importance of understanding how to live to our full potential.

Transcript:

(0:15)

Organizer: On behalf of Nithyananda Foundation I welcome you all to tonight's discourse. The topic of the discourse is- Master, the Zen stick. In this discourse, the Master Paramahamsa Sri Nityananda will speak about who is a master, what are the different multitudes in which the master works, the relationship of a master with the seekers, with the disciples. Swamiji, as we call Him always comes up with very interesting titles when he gives discourses on. However there is only one message. The message is to live our potential- Be Blissful. With this, I will hand it over to Swamiji. This is going to be a very enlightening speech, lecture and it is going to be amusing too.

(01:57)

Swamiji: Brahmānanandam parama sukhadam kevalam jnānamurtim Dvandvāteetam gaganasadruśam tatvamasyādi lakśyam Ekam nityam vimalamachalam sarvadheesākśibhutam Bhāvāteetam triguna rahitam sadgurum tam namāmi

I welcome you all with My love and respects.

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Master, the Zen stick Let Me first explain what I mean by the word Zen stick. Zen stick is the stick used by the zen masters to awaken the disciples. It is used with lot of love and care, used only towards the disciples who are very close and intimate, not on anybody and everybody. If it is on anybody and everybody, it is just Danda. When it is used only towards the close disciples, it is Yoga Danda. The zen stick is Yoga Danda, a stick used towards the close disciples to awaken them and I tell you one important thing. The greatest relationship not only in this world, in any possible world or I can say in all the worlds, the whole universe the greatest relationship is the master-disciple relationship.

(04:24)

Somehow in the modern day, man is missing the beauty of that relationship. Of course, now all the relationships are replaced…. and practically now we don't know what is relationship. The relationship of husband and wife is now replaced. Now no more wife is a wife, just a girlfriend. You can stay as long as you want. When you want, you can leave. Wife is just a girlfriend. Husband is just boyfriend. In Vedic system, the very idea divorce is not existing. We don't have a Sanskrit word for divorce. In Sanskrit, there is no equivalent word for divorce is available. According to Vedic system, no divorce is possible. Even the idea doesn't exist. Now in the modern day, the more man is becoming modern, the relationships are becoming shallow. Because of the idea of this divorce, wife is no more a wife, just a girlfriend. As long as you get along, stay together. When you are not able to, say bye. The husband is no more an husband, he is a boyfriend. The relationships have become very shallow.

(06:08)

Boyfriend or girlfriend is okay, good but it is not deep. The things which can happen only in the deeper levels can never happen. It is just physical. When the relationships become shallow, you live, touch only the physical layers of the other beings, not more than that. If you go back to Indian villages and just thirty-forty years ago, even your own fathers or grandfathers, if you go to their villages, you can listen the stories, the husband and wife both of them died in the same day. You can hear this type of stories. At least one couple in every village you can hear. If you go back to your village and trace, at least you can hear one story. The elderly grandfather he died morning and evening wife also died. See the depth of relationship. The other one feels, “The life is empty. What am I going to do? Enough!” Of course, I am not saying all of you should die when your husband dies. I am not saying all of you should die when your wife dies. No, but I am saying, see the depth of relationship which existed.

(07:42)

In the Saptapadi, in Vedic system, at the time of marriage they take a beautiful oath or vow, commitment to each other. The husband says, “I will be there for you till I die.” And the wife says, “I will be there for you till I die.” There is one more beautiful vow they are blessed, the husband is blessed, let you become eleventh child of your wife. The wife is blessed, let you become the eleventh.... let you become a mother of your wife in the eleventh year. The wife is supposed to become mother. The husband is supposed to become a child and really when a deep relationship happens, when the souls are touched, the relationship enters into a different level. It gets matured and sees the ultimate.

(08:57)

A mother reaches the…a woman reaches the ultimate expression when she becomes a mother. She experiences the fulfillment. She experiences fulfillment when she becomes a mother. Till she reaches the maturity of the mother, she is missing something. Only when she becomes mother in a maturity level, not simply in the physical level, in maturity level, she reaches the fulfillment. Man reaches his fulfillment when he again becomes a child. When he becomes just a simple innocent being, he achieves the fulfillment. That is why, you can see all women enlightened masters, they will be expressing their motherhood and the all enlightened masters, all men, enlightened masters they will be expressing the innocence. They will be radiating the innocence. Even the title for man when a man becomes enlightened, he is called Paramahamsa. Paramahamsa means a man who has again become a child, who has entered into the space of innocence.

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When woman becomes enlightened, she is addressed as a ‘Ma’ means who has become mother, Janani of the whole world, universe. The ultimate flowering happens only when you are deeply committed to the other person. Only in the depth, you can flower. The real experience or the real sharing happens. You should understand this word, ‘sharing.’ Actually when you relate deeply, you don't just give, you just share. Giving means again you are in high pedestal and you say you are taking. The word giving has got a line of ego in it means you are in high pedestal. The person who is receiving is in the lower level. You are just giving but when a relationship happens, you neither give nor take, just you share. It is so much, it is just overflowing. You share. You open and you share. You create so much of space for yourself and for the other person. You just share your space.

(11:48)

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Name Of The Convention: Inspirational Talks Session on: Master and the Zen Stick Part 2 Date: 21 April, 2005 Venue: Columbus, Ohio, USA

In this video, Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism HDH #Nithyananda Paramashivam uncovers some truths on the depth of our relationships, and the ways in which we can deepen them with those around us. His Divine Holiness goes on to describe the various levels of connection we can also reach with the divine, and shares some anecdotes and teachings on the importance of understanding how to live to our full potential.

Transcript:

(0:18)

In Bhagavata, they mention five beautiful relationships. The relationship of mother and the child. They say Bhakti Bhavanas. You can relate through all these five ways with the Master or the God, Guru or the God. You can relate with them through these five ways. One is like a mother and the child. The next is lord and servant. The mother and the child is like a Yashoda, how Yashoda related with Krishna. And lord and the servant, how Hanuman related with the Rama. And God as the mother, how Sri Ramakrishna related with Mother Kali and friend Sakha Bhava, Sakhya Bhava. In Sanskrit, they call it Sakha Bhava. As a friend, how Arjuna related with Krishna and the ultimate in the end, Madhura Bhava, looking at the lord or the master as a beloved, the bhava which is experienced by Radha towards the Krishna. These are the five relationships and they say in the end, the master-disciple relationship is much more deeper than all these five, all these five put together. Not only deeper than all these five, deeper than all these five put together. Only a person who is blessed to have a master and who is blessed to have a deep trust on master.

(02:13)

You see, having a master is very easy. Because in the market so many are available and even if you don't want, you will have….you will have to have because so many are available, what will you do? When you again and again see McDonald's Tower you feel like eating. You are tempted. So when you again and again see so many masters, naturally you will feel tempted to be connected to some master, to go and see some master. Having a master is very easy. I always tell, in those days it is a sellers market. Now it is buyers market. Now it has become buyers market. Having a master is very easy to claim, to brag, “You see, I am the disciple of that master. I go and listen to him. I go and attend him.” Very easy but really opening your being is the great thing. That is the real thing. I tell you, to whom you are opening, it is not important, if you are opening that is enough, you are enlightened.

(03:18)

People come and ask Me, “Swamiji, there are so many gurus. We are confused. What to do? Whom should we follow?” I tell them, “Don't bother whom you are following. Follow someone deeply. That's enough. Intensely relate with someone whom you feel very attached. Anybody, whomsoever he maybe. If you are feeling attached, whom your heart feels attached, just intensely go with him, intensely go with him, open to him intensely, that's enough. Even if he is not enlightened, you will become enlightened.” I tell you, even if he is not enlightened, you will become enlightened.

(04:00)

There is a beautiful story by Ramakrishna. One Bhagawat pandit means a preacher, not enlightened person but a preacher. He stays in the one bank of Jamuna and he used to do Pooja everyday for Krishna. One milkmaid used to take milk for him everyday. One day, there was a flood in the Jamuna river. So she was not able to go. She was not able to reach him on time. She went little late. This guy started shouting, “What is happening? Why didn't you bring in time? I have to do Pooja in time.” Doing Pooja is different. He has to eat. Anyhow, she said, “Oh! There was a flood. I can't cross the Jamuna. What to do. That is the reason. I have to wait for boatman. That is the reason I am late.” He said, “What? People are crossing the ocean of Samsara with Krishna's name. Can't you cross just this Jamuna with Krishna's name?” She just took it very seriously. She said, “Oh! Is it so? Alright, tomorrow onwards I will come in time. Please forgive me, master.”

(05:23)

Next day she was on time. Everyday she started coming in time. This guy asked, “How? How are you able to manage? How are you coming in time?” She said in a very innocent way, “What? You only taught me. You told me I can take Krishna's name and cross the river. That's what I am doing.” He asked, “How? How are you doing?” She said, “I take Krishna's name and just walk on the river and come this side. That's all.” This guy said, “How can it be? It can never be. Tell me the truth.” She says, “Come, I will show you.”

(06:04)

She took him and she just started taking the Krishna's name, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, started walking on the river. This guy thought, “When my disciple can do, why not me? When my disciple can do, why not me?” He just went near the river, started chanting Krishna, Krishna and lifting the cloth. And he started chanting Krishna, Krishna but lifting the cloth and he is afraid the cloth may become wet. Naturally he fell in the river and went away with the river. You see, he may not be enlightened. He has not realized the power of that mantra but she realized because she opened. So don't bother to whom you are opening. You can open to anybody. The very opening will liberate you. The very trust will liberate you. The very depth of the relationship will make you enlightened but the difficulty is in the modern day, man has lost even idea. He doesn't have even an idea about how to relate with others.

(07:20)

All your relationships are pseudo, so-so. You play a very safe game. You are afraid. If you put your hands, you may not be able to take it back. We don't let go. We don't allow ourself in any relationship and I tell you one thing, because you don't relate intensely, you will not be able to let go the relationships also. When you don't live intensely, you can't leave it. The person who lives intensely will be ready to leave also. It is a paradox. Living and leaving, both are one and the same. If you can live, you will be able to leave. If you can't live, you will never be able to leave. You will be a slave forever. Whether living or leaving, it is a capacity. It is a ability which comes to you when you start living intensely.

(08:23)

All your relationship is very pseudo, superficial. We never believe the other person is honest because we are not honest. We never believe the other person is honest because we are not honest. In any relationship, not only the husband and wife or the servant and the boss or the friends, in no relationship we believe, we trust the other person is honest because we are not honest. We don't even know the meaning of the word relationship. All we know is a business, bargain. If you are giving this much attention, I will give you that much attention. If you are coming this much, I will come this much. It is almost like a fighting or begging. Either fighting or begging. Either fighting or begging. We don't know anything called relationship because we don't know even the ordinary relationship. We don't understand the depth of the relationship between master and disciple.

(09:47)

And I always tell people, these so-called disciples are the real problem creators. These so-called disciples are the real problem creators. They neither understand what Master says nor relate with Him. Neither understand nor relate. They understand their own things and they are also in trouble, they try to put Master also in trouble. Of course, the Masters never get into trouble, that is different. Masters are just enlightened beings. They never get into the trouble but usually when you don't understand the Master, you hurt yourself.

(10:32)

There is a beautiful story how we try to use Master just as a support. You see, we never go to the Master for solution. We always go to him only for support. Beautiful story in the life of Shankara. Shankara is traveling from village to village. In India, there is something called Parivrajaka Yatra means traveling from place to place. Anybody who is supposed to become a teacher or Acharya, in India he has to travel from village to village because he should know the current affairs. He should know the society. He should know the lifestyle, straightaway living with them. You can't sit in a palace and preach. No. Preachers are not allowed to stay away from the people. They have to directly relate with them. That is why, all the preachers take the vow of poverty and begging.

(11:51)

In India, the preachers can't become a preacher unless they live with the common mass, they live with the society, living with them, staying with them, eating their food. Unless you travel length and breadth of India, unless you do the Parivrajaka yatra, you can't become a teacher. You can't know about the society by reading books. You can't learn about what people want by sitting in a palace. No. You have to travel all over the world, all over the country. Only then you can become a preacher or a teacher.

(12:38)

So Shankara is supposed to become a preacher. So he is traveling. He is doing his Parivrajaka Yatra with his few disciples or followers. Suddenly he felt thirsty and he didn't have anything to drink. Nearby he saw a village arrack shop, village liquor shop and he went inside, asked them to give something. Naturally what else they can give? They had only liquor and they offered. He simply started drinking. He drank and till he felt contented, he drank, he finished. After that, he said, “Let us go.” The disciples were shocked. What is this? But one side they felt happy. “Oh! When Master drinks, why not us?” All these guys also started drinking, finished. Shankara started walking steadily but these guys started dancing this way and that way. Anyhow they managed to follow Shankara.

(13:50)

After few days, they were traveling in some other area. Again Shankar felt thirsty. There was no shop. There was nobody but there was only one shop, a smith shop, the person is melting the hot iron and molding images and furnitures. It is a smith shop, iron smith. He just walked into that smith shop, asked that guy who is working, “Do you have anything to drink?” He said, “No, we don't have anything.” But he saw that hot iron, the melted iron, the liquid form. He just put his hand and started drinking the hot iron. Just he started drinking that liquid iron. After drinking, he looked at the disciples and said, “Drink.” And you know what will be their reaction. These guys are ready to follow the Master when he drinks liquor but not hot iron. Never, never, never try to imitate the Master.

(15:10)

I have seen people spoiling their life by imitating and it is not even imitation, it is just trying to quote the Master to support your weaknesses. I have seen many people.

People come and ask Me, “Vivekananda used to smoke. Vivekananda used to drink. Why not we smoke? Why should we not smoke?”

I tell them, “Vivekananda started smoking after becoming enlightened. You also become enlightened. Then smoke.”

People just quote….that’s what they say that devil quotes the Bible. Devil quotes the Bible. Devil also can quote Bible and prove what he says is right. Actually when you pick up only the sentences which you want, you can always prove what you say is right. I have seen many people quoting the master and justifying what they are doing.

(16:13)

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Name Of The Convention: Inspirational Talks Session on: Master and the Zen Stick Part 3 Date: 21 April, 2005 Venue: Columbus, Ohio, USA

In this video, Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism HDH #Nithyananda Paramashivam uncovers some truths on the depth of our relationships, and the ways in which we can deepen them with those around us. His Divine Holiness goes on to describe the various levels of connection we can also reach with the divine, and shares some anecdotes and teachings on the importance of understanding how to live to our full potential.

Transcript:

(0:16)

All our relationship is very shallow. Even with master it is very shallow. We go to the extreme, we go to the extent only as much as we can accept. As long as he is not touching our ego, whatever he says is truth for us. We accept. We shake our head, “Oh! It is great. He is a great person, he is a great Swami, he is a great Mahatma, he is a great saint,” and what not! We have all the great words. The moment the person touches our ego, the moment you are not given the front row. The front row is the big idea. The front row has the VIP seat. Immediately we say, “Oh! I think his teachings are not for me.” That is the first word. Then next, “I think what he is saying is not going to work for others also.” Then we have our own words.

(01:20)

As long as our ego is satisfied, things go well. That is what I tell many times, “Don't think I am a master, you are a follower. Many times you only behave as a master and I have to follow. I am a follower.” That is what actually happens. Ramana Maharshi says beautifully, “When people come, they are disciples. After sometime they become masters.” That is what actually happens. After sometime… and one more thing, the important thing, the masters are such innocent beings, they just bend as you want. They don't usually stand and they don't usually...... usually the masters, they are very…. what to say that…. they are more like a breeze. They are not like a Tornado, they are just like a breeze. They say, “Alright! If that is the case, do it as you want.”

(02:16)

Somebody goes to Ramana Maharshi and asks him, “Master, what should I do for enlightenment?”

Bhagawan says, “Do self enquiry. Enquire who are you.”

After a month he comes back, “It is too difficult, master. Can I do something else? Can I do meditation?”

Bhagwan says, “Alright, do. What can be done?”

After a month, again this guy comes back and says, “Can I do repetition of Mantra or Japa? Meditation is too difficult.”

Bhagawan says, “Alright.”

After a month, again this guy comes back, “Can I do just bhajan instead of Japa? Japa is too difficult.”

Again Bhagawan says, “Alright. What can be done?”

Again after a month, this guy comes back and says, “Can I do Pooja? I think that is the best thing for me.”

Again master says, “Alright.”

(03:25)

The masters allow you, give you so much of freedom because they trust you. Masters trust the disciple. That is the reason they give so much of freedom but the big difficulty is we can never believe that we are trustworthy. That is where the problem starts. We can never believe we are trustworthy because nobody has trusted us in our life. Either nobody trusted or we never trusted that somebody trusts us. Anybody if they show some sign that they are trusting us, we immediately calculate, “I think this guy must be having some other calculation, must be having some reason. Otherwise why should he trust me? Because I don't trust. Then naturally he will also be doing the same thing only. When I smile, I have my own calculation. For this benefit, I can open this much mouth. For this benefit, this is the area or this is the width. I know the calculation. When I do the calculation, naturally he will also be doing the same thing.”

(04:43)

When somebody smiles at you, you can't trust he is expressing his love. It is very difficult. It is very difficult and it is very difficult to trust that others can trust you. Even in ordinary relationship, we don't trust others can trust us. If at all somebody expresses their love really, you try to find some reason, “Maybe that guy is feeling lonely that he want to talk to me. That's why he rang up.” When they don't ring up, you say, “Oh! He is not taking care. He never gives time. He never gives attention.” If at all he rings up, you say, “Maybe he must be feeling lonely. He wants to talk to me. He wants to spend some time with me. He wants some company.” And if you are not able to find any reason, you just neglect, “Oh! Maybe by mistake something is happening.”

(05:45)

We never trust that we are trustworthy even in ordinary relationships and you play a very safe game. You stretch your hands only that much, that same distance at any moment you must be able to take it, you will be able to take away. You play a very safe game with any relationship. When you play a safe game, you are safe, secured but graveyard security. In graveyard, you are totally secured but you are not alive. When you play a safe game in your relationships, you experience the security and safety which you experience in the graveyards, the security or safety of dead. You see, in graveyard, there is no problem. You are totally secured, totally safe. No problem, nothing to lose. You are experiencing the same security, same safety when you play a safe game in the relationships. You don't open yourself totally even in the ordinary relationships. When you don't open yourself even in the ordinary relationships, how can you open yourself with the master?

(07:11)

Somebody goes to Ramanuja, a great enlightened master who happened in South India. Somebody goes to him and asks, “Master, please teach me how to have the devotion, how to have bhakti.” Ramanuja says, “Have you fallen in love with anybody? Have you experienced a real deep relationship?” This guy is shocked! “What? What are you teaching? I have come to learn bhakti. I am a pure brahmachari. How can you ask me that to go and fall in love with somebody or I have experienced love?”

(07:58)

Ramanuja just laughs and he says, “If you can't fall in love with somebody whom you are seeing everyday, people you are seeing everyday, with whom you are relating everyday, how can you fall in love with somebody whom you have never seen God? If you can't love your wife I tell you, really you can't love your God because everyday you are seeing that person. If you can't relate with that person, how can you relate with God whom you are not seeing? If you can't love your husband, if you can't love your kids, never think you can love God. All our devotion is a escapism and I tell you, all our so-called devotion is nothing but having pet animals. When you can't love your husband or wife, human beings, you start having pet animals to vent, to express your being, to open up. Same way, all our Pooja, all our Gods, all our Gurus are nothing but pet animals. Be very clear, don't keep Gods and Gurus as a pet animals. They are not supposed to be kept as a pet animals.

(09:10)

If you look into the psychology, if you look deeply into the whole system, really our God or our Guru or our meditation, everything is pets for us. As long as they obey what we say, we keep them. The moment we feel that they are not obeying us, they are not obedient to us, they are not practical for your day-to-day life, you say, “Enough! I think this master is not for me.” After that we say, “I think this master is not at all master.” After that we start judging. The masters again and again teach you don't judge but you start judging the masters. These are some of the wonderful dramas we do with the masters. The modern man can never understand or relate to the word master-disciple relationship and this is the relationship which is more stronger, which is more solid than all other possible relationships put together.

(10:31)

Ramakrishna says beautifully. He says, attachment towards the money, a miser... the miser's attachment towards the money and a chaste wife's attachment towards the husband and a friend’s attachment towards his close friend, all these three put together and something more is what he calls bhakti or the relationship between master and the disciple. Only then you are really connected. When you are really deeply connected, there can be no side effect, after effect except Bliss. Except Bliss nothing else can happen. There can never be suffering in the master-disciple relationship. If at all there is suffering, please be very clear, it has not happened. The relationship has not yet happened. If there is suffering, means the relationship has not yet happened. You are just playing in a superficial way or you are dating, dating with the master, that's all. You are not really relating with the master. You are just outing, nothing else. See, it is a very superficial. Dating is very superficial. Today you can go, tomorrow you can just say bye. No, but in the real relationship, it is a deep commitment. In the Saptapadi…. Saptapadi means the seven steps which they take at the time of marriage. That is a beautiful slokas. All of you should understand. Now-a-days usually we don't even know the meaning because only purohits get married. Those guys chant and put the mangalsutra, that’s all. You simply witness and pose for photograph and come back. We don't even know the meaning of those mantras. It is the wonderful mantras which says…actually the concept of marriage or relationship is very clearly explained in that mantra. When the other person is in depression, you are supposed to take care of him as a mother. When she is in depression or low mood, you are supposed to take care as a father, that's all. That's all is the whole relationship and very clearly it says, except the time other person needs your help, you will not bind or force, put any rules on the other person. Whenever he needs help, you will extend your being. When she needs help, you will open up yourself. Except at the time of need and the help, you will not put any rule, any bondage, any regulation on the other person. You will not suffocate the other person.

(13:48)

Of course, when a relationship becomes deeper and deeper, you relate with your full heart, with your whole being but you never suffocate. When the relationship is superficial, physical, you again and again possess that person and suffocate because you don't know anything except physical. Why do you think we need so much of time with the other person? Physically why do you want that person around you? Because you are again and again confirming that he is loving you or she is loving you. When you are not trusting that other person loves you, you wanted the confirmation from him by again and again asking him to be around you, physically asking him to be around you. The physical nearness is the confirmation which you are expecting from the other person as a proof that he loves you or she loves you.

(14:53)

When we don't trust, when our relationship is superficial, it is only physical. It is in a very superficial level, physical. When you go deeper and deeper, when you grow into the maturity, when you really start relating, that person may be in India, you may be in America or thousands of miles away but you will see you are totally connected to him. You are deeply connected to that person. You don't need even to talk to him. You don't even have to see him but you will have a deep satisfaction or the feeling connected. You will just feel he is there for you and she is there for you. You will feel totally connected. If you can feel really connected, even your husband and wife relationship can become path to enlightenment. Even that can transform you. That can become a real spiritual practice.

(16:02)

When we can't relate with the our own people, how do you think you will be able to relate with God? No, never. Only when a relationship becomes mature, only in the deeper level of relationship, the zen stick is used. Zen stick- it is a wonderful word, a very word brings Me so much of wonderful and beautiful memories. I am remembering so many wonderful stories. I feel like a… it is like a… so many stories are coming and fighting in My throat, “I wanted to come out first, I wanted to come out first.” I don't know which story will come out first. They are all fighting with each other, “I will go out first, I will go out first.” It is like a gift from the master for your deep trust and love towards him.

(17:07)

These great masters, the zen masters, they used to have a stick and when a disciple needs to become aware of something, if he is not listening the teachings properly, he is sitting in the class or sleeping or he has not understood something properly, they take the stick and beat the disciple. They just throw the stick on the person. It is done with so much of love, with so much of care only to the persons who are very close to the master or towards whom really master feels concerned or he really feels caring. Only towards them the stick is used. You can't use the stick towards anybody and everybody. They will sue you, they will sue you and you see, understand one thing, using the words and scolding is different and physically using the stick is totally different. Physically a master has to use the stick means what intimacy will exist? What kind of relationship would have happened between the master and disciple? How beautiful it would have been? How I can say that, that must be the much deeper than beloved relationship, much deeper relationship than between beloveds…. Of course, it can never be explained intellectually. It can never be explained by words. Only when you melt down, only when you melt, you can even understand the words, you can even understand this experience.

(19:16)

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Name Of The Convention: Inspirational Talks Session on: Master and the Zen Stick Part 4 Date: 21 April, 2005 Venue: Columbus, Ohio, USA

In this video, Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism HDH #Nithyananda Paramashivam uncovers some truths on the depth of our relationships, and the ways in which we can deepen them with those around us. His Divine Holiness goes on to describe the various levels of connection we can also reach with the divine, and shares some anecdotes and teachings on the importance of understanding how to live to our full potential.

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(0:15)

Let Me narrate this incident. Ramakrishna was sitting on the bank of Ganga enjoying the evening breeze. Suddenly appeared one elderly monk, Sanyasi and he asked Ramakrishna, “You look like a great sadhaka or a spiritual person. Why don't you practice advaita? I will teach you advaita. I will teach you the Advaita philosophy and give you Sanyas.”

This monk is called Totapuri. Ramakrishna says, “Oh! I don't know whether I should learn or not. I will go and ask my mother and come back and tell you.” This sanyasi thought… This sanyasi thought that maybe the mother is living with him. He said, “Alright, go and ask him... ask her and come back. Go and ask your mother and come back and tell me.”

(01:25)

Ramakrishna ran into the Kali temple and after few minutes he comes back and he says, “I asked my mother. She told I should go and learn from you.”

This sanyasi was shocked! He asked, “Where your mother is staying? When did you go and take permission? I saw only you are entering into the temple. How did you take permission from your mother? She stays there or what?”

Ramakrishna says, “Yes, my mother stays there. The Kali is my mother. She is there. I went and took permission from her. She said that I can learn from you. I have come back.”

Totapuri was not able to understand. He says, “What nonsense you are talking?” Ramakrishna says, “No, she only told me. Come I will show you.”

(02:19)

Till the end, Totapuri was not able to understand because it is too much for him to understand that you can talk to a statue. Totapuri just smiled and thought, maybe it is a hallucination, maybe it is a hallucination. Ramakrishna is hallucinating and you don't know the power of this hallucination even if you think it is a hallucination. Let Me narrate one more incident the power of this hallucination if you think it is a hallucination.

Vivekananda asks him, “Master, have you seen God?”

Ramakrishna says, “Yes, I have seen. I have seen him more deeply, more clearly than I see you.”

(03:11)

One more incident. When Ramakrishna was doing Pooja, worship, regular worship of that Kali, some disciple brought the conch bangle. See, bangles made out of conch. They cut the conch in the cross way and they make bangles in Calcutta. In Bengal, they make bangles out of conch. A disciple brings four bangles to offer it to the mother Kali and actually if you see the statue of the mother Kali, one hand will be with the sword and another one hand will be with severed head, the head, another one hand will be Abhaya and Varada. In all the three hands, you can put the bangle directly. He put the bangle but in this one hand in which she is having that severed head and the cut head or the Rakshasa’s head, in that hand you can't insert that bangle because it is a stone statue. She is having a head.

(04:15)

Suddenly next day the devotee came and he saw that bangle is there in the hands of Kali. She is having the bangle. The devotee had the shock and he asked the Ramakrishna, “How did you put that bangle inside? Did you break it and paste it? Did you break the bangle and pasted it?”

He said, “No, how can I break Mother's bangle? It is made out of conch and you can't open it. You have to only insert it.”

In the left upper hand, he removed the sword and inserted the bangle. The right upper hand and the right hand directly you can insert the bangle. This hand, it is a statue, stone statue. It is having a big head. The head can't be removed. It is not removable. It is a permanent statue. It is a stone statue but suddenly he sees the bangle is there inside. Devotee had the shock. Devotee is asking, “How can this be? How did you put that bangle?”

Ramakrishna says, “Why? I just told the Mother to drop the head. She dropped the head. I inserted the bangle. Again I told her to hold the head and she started holding.”

(05:31)

Disciple had the shock, how can this happen and he went and tested whether he broke the statue. No, single stone. It is there but the bangle is there. If you have the chance to go to Calcutta, never miss. Go to the temple. Still the bangle is there. Still the conch bangle is there which is put by Ramakrishna. Still the bangle is there. You can never imagine that bangle can go in such a big statue and if you see the statue, only then you will understand. It can never be inserted. Simply he says, “I told the mother to drop the hand... drop the head. She dropped the head and opened the hand. I inserted the bangle. Again I gave the head and she started holding, that's all.”

(06:23)

See the power of trust and faith and I tell you, I am not telling the story. If at all you get a chance, go to the temple and see. Only when you see you can understand. Neither the statue is broken nor the bangle is broken and it is a conch bangle. You can never imagine the power of the devotion. When you have the deepest trust and the power, when you have the deepest devotion, even the statue becomes God, even the stone comes back to life. Even the stone comes to life. When the relationship or the trust doesn't happen, even if God comes down, you will ask for ID card, you will ask for ID card. When the trust happens, when the relationship happens, even the stone can become God and I tell you one thing, when really the relationship happens, the other person really looks like a God. He will look like a God and he will be God. It is not even looking like a God, he will be God.

(07:43)

Vivekananda gives a discourse in one place. When he speaks, he says, “Ramakrishna is God.” Somebody asks him, “How can you say he is a God? We can say he is an enlightened person, Guru. How can you say he is a God?” Vivekananda says, “He is much more than what you know as God. Whatever you know in the name of God, he is much more than that. Naturally we can't accept. It is very difficult and they start fighting how can he be God, how can… these… that. In this, Vivekananda starts asking, “What do you know by the word God?”

The disciple says, “Omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient.”

“What do you know by the word omniscient? What do you know by the word omnipresent?”

“Omnipresent, he is present everywhere.”

“What do you know by the word he is present everywhere means he is there inside this pillar?”

He says, “Yes, he is inside the pillar.”

“Then he is inside the pillar material or he is the pillar material?”

“No, he is inside the pillar material.”

“Then what about the pillar material? He is not the pillar material?”

When he started questioning, the guy who said omnipresent, he just started, “No, no, no, no, no. I don't understand. I know only few words.”

(09:16)

Then Vivekananda says, “You know only few words about God. Whatever you know about God is only idea. It is just few words. It is not God. Please be very clear, whatever you know about God is just idea of God. It is not God itself. Vivekananda says beautifully, he is.... Ramakrishna is something far more superior, higher than all your concept of God. Enlightened masters are something far more higher and superior than your idea of God. Vivekananda says, you only have idea. He has experience. That is what really... that is what really the difference. You have only word or idea. He has experience. When the real relationship happens, you really experience the master as a God, master as a God.

(10:29)

People come and ask Me, “Swamiji, are You God?”

I tell them, “That depends on you.”

They ask Me, “What is this? How can You say that?”

But true. When you really open up and fall in tune, whatever you know as God whatever you think God can do, everything will be happening in your life through My form. Everything. If you think that God will appear in you in front of you and answer your questions, you will see that I am appearing and answering. If you think that God will appear in your dreams and heal you, you will see that I will be appearing and healing. When you fall in tune and open up, whatever you think God will do to you, everything will be happening through Me to you. When you are closed, even if I am God, I can't help you.

(11:25)

Somebody goes to Buddha and asks, “Buddha, you know enlightenment is the highest thing. Why don’t you give it to everyone?”

Buddha says, “Please go round and take a survey how many wants.” Evening that guy comes back and says, “Nobody wants.”

Buddha says beautiful word. God gives you the freedom to be in bondage. Even enlightenment is not forced on you. It is given only when you ask for it. Even though it is the ultimate thing, great thing, it is never forced on you. If it is forced, again it becomes a bondage. God gives you the freedom to be in bondage. You have a full freedom to be in bondage. You have full freedom to be in bondage. So he never forces.

(12:20)

I tell you, when the real relationship happens, a simple Zen stick or a small stick is enough to make you enlightened and there are so many incidences, stories, master making disciples enlightened just with a small stick. Disciple is sitting, listening. Suddenly master takes a stick for no reason and kicks the disciple and he becomes enlightened. You will be shocked. And the story says… some stories in Zen Buddhism, it says the moment master picks up the stick, the disciple gets enlightened. Even the sight of the zen stick being lifted, disciple gets enlightened and master has to drop that stick.

(13:17)

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Name Of The Convention: Inspirational Talks Session on: Master and the Zen Stick Part 5 Date: 21 April, 2005 Venue: Columbus, Ohio, USA

In this video, Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism HDH #Nithyananda Paramashivam uncovers some truths on the depth of our relationships, and the ways in which we can deepen them with those around us. His Divine Holiness goes on to describe the various levels of connection we can also reach with the divine, and shares some anecdotes and teachings on the importance of understanding how to live to our full potential.

Transcript:

(0:15)

If at all I have to describe that zen stick, I can use these few words: very deep, loving, caring operation. Zen stick is almost a knife handled by a doctor. When a doctor takes the knife, he is not going to kill, he is going to make you live. He is going to remove the tumor. He is going to help you to live. Same way, when a master takes a stick, he is not going to kill you or disturb you. He is going to make you more alive. He is going to really make you express your whole being. Now only thing, people ask Me, if the zen stick is so much important.... many times I have spoken about this zen stick. “If it is so important, Swamiji, why don't You carry a stick?” I tell them, “For a zen stick to be used, you need two person: master and the worthy disciple. Still I have not found. When I really find such a deep, intimate relationship or opening up, I don't even need a stick, My healing stick is enough. With that I can open up. The zen stick is the ultimate weapon. I can say, the last weapon which can be used on any being because after that you will become enlightened. No weapon can touch him.

(02:00)

Nainam chindanti shastrani Nainam dahati pavakah

Means no weapons can kill him, no fire can burn him, nothing can happen to him. It is like a… zen stick is the master key to open your being but it can be used only when the deep, loving, trusting relationship happens. You will be shocked, in zen monasteries, the disciple will be thrown from the third floor and the story says, when he falls, when a master does, it must be something good. With such a deep trust when he falls, he falls like a flower and becomes enlightened. And naturally we can't trust and we say, “Oh! These are all too risky, Swamiji. It's okay. We also trust You but too risky.” As long as somebody has got the idea, ‘too risky,’ never, never it happens and master also will never open these instructions.

(03:16)

Usually our mind always fights with the master. Swing of moods. All our swing, we attribute on master. If we are in high mood, he is a great master. If we are in a low mood, “No, no, no, I don't think. Let us see the negative sides also.” See, as long as you are in high mood, everything is okay. When your mood is low, “All this time we saw the positive mood. Let us see the negative moods also.” You start thinking negatively. We attribute all our mood, all our swing, all our moods on the master and we never realize he is just beyond, he is just beyond. It is like a.... there is a beautiful zen story.

(04:11)

Moon is reflected on a pond, small pond. All the fishes who were in the pond, they started enjoying. Some fishes have just started jumping, “Oh! The moon has come down. Let us play with it.” And some fishes who are against these fishes, they started telling, “Oh! Let us kill this moon. Let us destroy this moon. Let us remove this moon.” Actually the problem you know, when somebody with whom you are not comfortable, you are not happy, if that person is attached to some Guru, you are always against that Guru. I tell you... I tell you, the A and B, if they don't get along, if the B is attached to some Guru, A is against that Guru. If the A is attached to that Guru B is against that Guru. You play your same social game with Gurus also, with enlightened masters also.

(05:09)

Some fishes are enjoying and celebrating, “O! Moon has come down. Let us play with it. Let us enjoy.” The other fishes who are enemies of these fishes, they start telling, “Oh! Let us go and destroy this moon. This moon should not be allowed to come... be here. It is disturbing our sleep. The whole night these guys are jumping and dancing. Our sleep is getting disturbed.” But people don't understand both fishes cannot affect the moon. The moon can never be affected by both the fishes. What one thing some fishes just enjoy and celebrate. They live their life happily. The fighting fishes, they continue to destroy themselves and disturb themselves, that's all but no way master is affected. No way master is touched. It's wonderful story. Just these fishes enjoying in thinking that moon has come down and they attribute their moods on the moon, but moon has never come down. It is just a reflection.

(06:18)

Same way, people attribute their moods on the masters and they play but master is never touched. He is actually a possibility. He can be used as a stick. He can be used as a stick to get up and stand up, to walk, to realize our potentiality. Master is a promise. You see, always the seed is afraid to break and sprout but the tree says, “Unless you break and sprout, I can't happen.” The tree is waiting for the seed to break but the seed is saying, “No, no, no. First let you happen. Then I will break. How can I believe? How can I trust? If I break, I may just die. I may not become a tree.”

(07:11)

Master is a person who gives you the courage, “Don't worry, break. I was a seed. I opened. Now I am a tree. You can also become a tree. Open.” He is the assurance. He is the promise. He gives you the courage to open up, to stand up, to start your journey. He gives you the courage to make you realize you can also achieve, “I was a seed and now I am a tree just because I opened up. Open up. Don't worry.” He gives you the courage. Master is a assurance. He is a promise. He just again and again encourages you to stand up and open up, to express but we, not only we don't respect his words, slowly, slowly, we may start thinking, “He must be having some other plan. Why, otherwise why he is teaching all these to me? Otherwise why he is telling all these things to me?”

(08:25)

One born blind man was there in Himalayas. One day early morning, he started walking and suddenly he felt in front of him, something long like a stick: frozen snake. Snake was frozen in a… in that cold, in that snow and it is lying almost like dead, frozen snake. He felt that and he thought, “Oh! Good stick.” He started using it like a walking stick. From a distance, one enlightened master saw this whole scene.

He ran and said, “Hey, drop that stick. It is not a stick as you think. It is a snake. The moment sun comes, the snow will melt and it will come back to life and it will bite you. You will lose your life. Drop that snake.”

This guy said, “No, no, no. It is such a wonderful stick. Why are you asking me to drop?”

The master says, “Arey, don't you understand it is not a stick? It is a snake. Drop.”

Then this guy started blaming, “Oh! I think you don't have stick. So you are asking me to drop this. If I drop this, you can pick up. You can take this. That is the reason you are asking me to drop.” Master says, “No, I don't want. Drop.” Even then this guy is not ready to believe. He started beating the master with the same stick.

(09:53)

Same way, when a master says something, you calculate. You have your own calculation. That is where the whole thing, whole trouble starts. That is the reason it is very difficult to relate, to really experience the master. The zen masters, they say, actually to get enlightened you don't need more than a second. You don't need even a second because you are already enlightened! All you need is the courage to trust the master’s words, that's all. When you have the deep courage, feeling to trust that master's words, he just opens your being and says, Tatvam Asi, That are Thou. See, you are that. Experience it. Automatically you open up and experience that ultimate state, experience that ultimate experience.

(11:00)

There is a beautiful story in Upanishad. Long time a disciple is doing a service to master. Suddenly one day master calls him and says, “That are Thou, Tatvam Asi.” And disciple becomes enlightened. Suddenly he becomes enlightened and he asks the master, “Master, if enlightenment is so easy, why you delayed such a long time? You could have given me long before.” He says, “Yes, if you eat eight idlis, the eighth idli removes your hunger but you can't take the eighth idli first, in the first time. You have to go through. It takes little time. Only when the trust happens…see, to give enlightenment, it takes hardly a second but to receive enlightenment, you need a deep trust, you need a deep trust.”

(11:59)

The master says beautifully, “Only now you are ready to receive that word. If I have given this earlier also, you wouldn't have received it. Only then, only now the relationship has become mature. It is like you go and eat in the hotel restaurant eight roti and you say, ”I will pay only for the eighth roti because that only helped me to quench my hunger and that only has helped me.” You can't say. It has become eighth roti because you ate eight rotis. Otherwise it can't be called as a eighth. So because of all the seven, the eighth has helped you. Same way, to experience the ultimate, you need that relationship. When the relationship is there, one word is enough to give you that enlightenment. A simple stick can change your whole life when that relationship is there. If that is not there, not one stick, even if thousand sticks are there, it can't help. It can help. It can't do anything to your being.

(13:17)

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Name Of The Program: Inspirational Talks Session on: Master and the Zen Stick Part 6 Date: 21 April, 2005 Venue: Columbus, Ohio, USA

In this video, Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism HDH #Nithyananda Paramashivam uncovers some truths on the depth of our relationships, and the ways in which we can deepen them with those around us. His Divine Holiness goes on to describe the various levels of connection we can also reach with the divine, and shares some anecdotes and teachings on the importance of understanding how to live to our full potential.

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(0:17)

So let you have the deep, intimate, open relationship with the master. One more thing, when I say the word, ‘master,’ you don't even have to think that somebody with body. You can relate with the masters who don't have body, who have left their body or directly to the Existence, straightaway to the Existence to a tree, to the flower, to a rock, to a river, to a mountain, to the sky. You can relate with all these things. They are also masters. They are also masters.The whole Existence is a master. The life is again and again teaching you so many things through so many ways. Only we are such dumb fellows, we close our eyes or our ears and our mouth and our nose and we don't allow that intelligence to penetrate our being. Just open up to the master or the Existence and experience the ultimate bliss. I pray to that ultimate energy to help us all to open up and experience the ultimate bliss, the Eternal Bliss. Let you become be one with Eternal Bliss. Let you be Nityananda. Thank you

(01:57)

Question: If I bring stick, can You give me a crack?

Swamiji: You don't have to bring a stick, you just bring your being. I don't even need a stick. Just bring your being, that's enough.

Question: Does the stick represent a road map for where the being should go?

Swamiji: The stick is nothing but a technique or a key masters use to put you into the enlightenment state.

(02:51)

Question: How do we find our Guru?

Swamiji: That's wonderful question. When you really meet your master beyond your intellect, you will just fall for him. I tell you, people ask Me, “Swamiji, should I take You as my Guru? Should I accept You as my Guru? I say, “No. If I am your Guru, this question itself will not rise. Simply you will feel for Me. You will feel it. The question will simply disappear and simply you will feel like relating.” I tell you, try to create maximum possible doubts because when you see the real master, he just take.... he works on you beyond your doubts. He penetrates your being beyond your doubts. He just shakes the base of the doubts. He shakes the base of all your doubts and when you really see the master, simply your whole being will be taken away by him. You will simply feel like going behind him. Even if I say, “Don't come,” tomorrow morning he will be there around Me. He will be just be there. Simply the whole being will be taken by him.

(04:12)

So you don't have to intellectually think much about it. Just wait as... Just wait till it happens. When it happens, you know that he is the person and by intellectually if you try, you will never be able to make a decision. Be very clear. You are already in the darkness. How can you find who is in the light? Person who is in the darkness, how can he find somebody is enlightened? Tell Me. Never. I have seen many people judging. Never, you can never judge. If he is… one thing, if you just… if your heart falls and if your heart feels so much attached, close in tune with somebody, even if that person is not enlightened, he is going to help you. Just follow him. If your heart is not falling in tune, if you are not able to feel, even if he is enlightened, don't bother. He is not going to help you. Through him you are not going to grow. So be very clear, just listen to your heart, that's all and your heart has got enough energy or the intelligence to guide you. Your heart has got enough of intelligence to guide you. It is far more higher, far more deeper intelligent than your head which goes on judging. Yes...

(05:41)

Question: What exactly is the physical state of an Enlightened Avatar?

Swamiji: In the exactly as you expect, it cannot be described like a…across the table but I can say few symptoms of enlightenment. The enlightenment itself as it is can't be explained or expressed but few byproduct or side effects, after effects which happens in you by enlightenment, I can tell that. You just feel totally connected to the Existence, straightaway you feel connected to the Existence. All the doubts and confusions vanish. The insecurity and separateness disappears and you feel homely with the whole Existence and above all, the inner chattering disappears and no daydream, no night dream. The very idea Jagrat, Swapna, Sushupti, all the three changes. Above all, Eternal Bliss- Nithyananda stays with you. These are the few side effects or the after effects of enlightenment. I don't have any more other words to describe and you feel totally connected to the Existence.

(07:21)

I always tell people, the whole universe wants you to achieve success in your life and is continuously backing you to achieve that success. It is supporting you. If you are able to experience this in your life, you are enlightened. As on now, we are continuously defend ourselves against the universe, against the Existence. When you become enlightened, you feel so directly connected, you realize the Whole wants you to achieve success and it is backing you, it is supporting you. You just relax and flow with the current.

(08:03)

Question: Why is there Existence and what is its purpose?

Swamiji: Next time when God calls for a conference, round table conference, I will ask him and come and tell you. I don't know. To tell you the honest answer, I don't know. One thing I can be... I can tell. The very question happens in a different level and the person who is supposed to answer is in a different level. It is like ant is asking elephant, “Why are you painted in a black color?” Will elephant answer? Elephant will not be able to hear that question. The logic does not exist in the existence of universe. The logic is a... logic is just a utility given to you by the society, not by Existence. Existence is beyond logic. Whatever answer I try to give you, it will be going above your head, it will be beyond your logic. You can't grasp it. You can't understand it. It is, that's all. ‘Tathada,’ means the Is ness which can neither be questioned nor understood by answers. So, ‘why’ can never be answered with logic, with intellect. I have no answer. Sorry to tell you, I don't know.

(09:27)

Question: If someone believed they were open with their master, but along the way felt like they started to doubt the master, what does this mean?

Swamiji: Means that he never opened. Even in the beginning, he never opened. When you really open, the doubt and the faith both disappears. Something different happens what I call trust. The doubt and the faith both disappears. Something else happens to you what I call trust. Trust is beyond the doubt and faith. As long as it is playing the game of doubt and faith, please be very clear, you have not opened. The real opening has never happened.

(10:23)

The love, you see, love you can feel whenever you see some good beings. I have seen many people loving Me. To love a master is very easy. You see, they are so beautiful beings. Such wonderful beings! I have seen people who are not My disciples but they always say, “Oh! He is very good being.” I don't know about this enlightenment, all those things. I don't agree with Him totally but I love Him. He is a very good being.” This is very easy. This is very easy and I tell you, anybody who is enlightened, simply you will feel a love for him because he is such a honest being, such a open being, such a graceful being, you have to love him. That is not opening up. When I say opening up, I mean something far more deeper than that. The love can be easily created. It can never be.... that cannot be a real master- disciple relationship.

(11:25)

Question: Ramana Maharshi said that one can reach the ‘universal state.’ Does this mean they also have a universal consciousness?

Swamiji: No, the universe or the universal consciousness is one and the same. When a person reaches that state, he is in that state. Yes, even the word one cannot be used because as long as there is two, only the word one can be used. Even the word one doesn't have a meaning. It is, that's all.

(12:05)

Question: Can we follow this path to enlightenment intellectually?

Swamiji: Yes, surely. Yes, actually you see, I tell you, the person who follows the path intellectually will never be cheated. Surely he will reach. At one time, see, that's what I am telling you now, na. Carry the doubt. It is the torch towards enlightenment. Carry the intellectual doubt and I tell you, you will never be able to fall. The moment you fall, you will be falling in the right place. When you fall... beyond your doubt when you fall, only energy can make you fall. You understand? So carry your doubt. Carry the path... travel in the path of intellect. Intellect also can lead you and I tell you, intellect can lead you to the right thing, to the end, till the end it can lead you. Intellect is possible. Through intellect it is possible. Actually when you travel through intellect, at some point, the intellect feels, “No, enough, I am not able to,” and just drops. When it drops, you will see that the Divine will be standing there to hold you and bless you. Then you feel the real emotion and I tell you, till you go to the extreme of doubt and intellect, you can never have love or devotion. Till you go to that extreme, whatever love or devotion you have is a mixture of doubt and faith. You have to go to that end extreme. When you really fall from that extreme, only then you fall to the deeper... to the depths of devotion. Yes…

(14:01)

Question: With the deterioration of cultural and ethical values how can we follow the path of righteousness?

Swamiji: One thing, if you feel that everybody is.... nobody is following this path, only then we should follow. We have to contribute something to the society. If you feel others are not following that moral values, ethical values, cultural values, it is our duty now to follow it and to practice it. Only then there is a critical need. If everybody is following, you can relax. Alright, everybody is following, I can relax, nothing wrong. I can take a small nap. Now nobody is following. It is a time you can't go for rest. We can't afford to rest. We have to be in full alertness, full awareness. Continue to follow. We have to follow because others are not following. We can't say how can we follow when others are not following? No. We have to follow because others are not following.

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Name Of The Convention: Inspirational Talks Session on: Master and the Zen Stick Part 7 Date: 21 April, 2005 Venue: Columbus, Ohio, USA

In this video, Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism HDH #Nithyananda Paramashivam uncovers some truths on the depth of our relationships, and the ways in which we can deepen them with those around us. His Divine Holiness goes on to describe the various levels of connection we can also reach with the divine, and shares some anecdotes and teachings on the importance of understanding how to live to our full potential.

Transcript:

(0:16)

Question. People who are following a spiritual path, where do they fail?

Swamiji: This is a wonderful question. The surrender is three level. Surrender is of three level. Surrender of intellect means trusting the master more than your intellect. Surrender of emotions, trusting the master more than your emotions. Surrender of senses, trusting the master more than your senses: three levels. When the relationship is totally matured, deeply matured, the third level starts happening. Usually people go till the end of surrendering intellect because the intellect gives you so much of torture and it gives you so much of trouble, so much of problems and doubt, mood swings and all these things, it is very easy to surrender. You just wanted to get rid. You see, you just wanted to get rid of that. It is very easy to surrender your wife because you just wanted to get rid of her. It is very easy to surrender the things which you don't want. You just... All you want to do is just you want to get rid of it and it is very easy to get rid of things which bites you, which is haunting you. You can just surrender it, “O master, please take it away.” You can just surrender it but when it comes to the deeper levels, trusting the master beyond your emotions, that is where half of the crowd fails. I can say eighty percent fails. The other twenty percent fails when you are supposed to trust the master beyond your senses.

(02:07)

That's a beautiful story. Arjuna and Krishna, both are traveling. Suddenly Krishna says, “Arey, Arjuna, look at there, white crows.”

Arjuna says, “Yes, yes, master, beautiful white crows.”

And again Krishna says, “Fool, don't you see, it is a black crow. It is not white.”

Arjuna says, “Yes, yes, master. It is black, not white.”

Krishna asks, “Fool, what happened to you? When I say white, you say white. When I say black, you say black. What is happening? Don't you have intelligence?”

Arjuna says, “Krishna, I don't know. When you said white, I really saw white. When you said black, I really saw black. I don't know what is happening to me but when you said white, I saw it as white.”

(03:02)

Means trusting the master beyond your senses, much more than your senses. This happens only when a deep, intimate relationship happens. See, trusting the master beyond your intellect is very easy. First thing, your intellect gives you such a lot of trouble, you wanted to get rid of it. Second thing, the master's intellect is naturally sharp. You can straight away see it. You can surrender but trusting beyond emotions, that is where eighty percent people are stuck and other few who cross that… very few cross this layer, second layer and they are stuck in the third layer. Only very few blessed people experience, trust the master beyond your senses. That is the time master says, ‘Tatvam Asi.’ Look, you are the God! As long as you believe your senses, you can think you are only a human being. Again and again you will be reminded, “How can I be God? I am just still with my senses. If I see the…. some sweets, I feel tempted to eat. If I see some music, I feel tempted to hear. I am tempted by my senses. I am just handled by my senses. How can I be God?”

(04:23)

Again and again, as long as you believe your senses, again and again you will be made to think you are a human being. You will never allowed to be…allowed to trust yourself. You can never feel that you are God. Only when you trust a master beyond your senses, he will make you understand you are God, not just your senses, you are beyond your senses. Trusting the master is not going to do something good to him, it is going to do good to you. I have seen many people coming and telling Me, “Swamiji, I believe You. You have to take care of me.” As if believing Me… by believing Me they are doing a great favor for Me. Fools! They don't understand, by believing Me, they are doing favor to themselves. Who asked them to believe? I have seen many people, very cunning, “I believe You, Swamiji, You have to do everything for me.” They talk as if they are doing a great favor to Me by believing Me. “I accepted You as a master, Swamiji. You have to heal me. You have to do this for me, you have to do that for me.” As if they are doing a big favor for Me by accepting Me as a master. I have only one more headache or one more trouble and it is a nice way. People don't understand when you fall, when you have the faith towards Me, when you start believing Me, you do favor to yourself, not to Me.

(06:00)

Question: If somebody believed the master beyond emotions and senses, does it mean that the person will not expect anything from the master?

Swamiji: He will not expect. As long as he is expecting, be very clear, he has not surrendered. He has not surrendered even in intellectual level. Even in the intellectual level, he will stop asking. As long as you are asking, be very clear, you have not even done intellectual level surrender. Even the first level surrender has not happened. We always believe master has got the Shakti to give what he wants but we never believe he has got the Buddhi also when to give. As long as… you see, we believe he has got Shakti but we don't believe he has got buddhi to give when he wants. We go on reminding or pestering. Why do you think, why do you think we again and again put application? We believe he has got Shakti but we don't believe he has got buddhi. “No, we know that You can give but only thing we don't know whether You have Buddhi to give, when to give or not. Please give now itself.” So be very clear, as long as you are asking, you have not even achieved the first level surrender.

(07:10)

Question: How does Maya affect this relationship?

Swamiji: See, Maya is just the way to blame somebody else, that's all. Whenever you do some mistake.... You see, whenever some mistake happens, always you blame the other person. If nobody is around, neither your wife nor your husband or your child, nobody is around you to blame, then you start blaming the God who is your dustbin. You can put everything on the… on the big dustbin. We always want somebody to be responsible for anything mistake. If something good happens, “I did it, I did it. Oh! You don't know? I made it. I made it happen and I did this, I did that.” Even if you get lottery, you think you are responsible for it. You say, “Oh! I went to that place. I paid $2 and purchased that lottery. I waited, waited. You don't know how anxious I was and after that I just saw the result. It came.” And you say as if you have done a big thing and you got that.

(08:14)

Even if lottery comes, you think you are responsible but with wrong things, even if you have done it directly, what you say? “Oh, this has happened and that has happened. Stone hit me.” Stone can never come and hit you. It is you went and hit the stone. See, even the expressions, stone hit me. It is you who go and do. Finally what you say? Stone hit me and anything happens which you don't like, you just put the blame on somebody. When you don't find anybody, you put the blame on God. When you feel, “Oh, I shouldn't put the blame on God. It is too much.” When you feel little guilty, then you create one more identity called Maya or Satan or Evil so that all that has can be…all the blames can be put on that Maya.

(09:10)

Please be very clear, neither Maya exists nor somewhere else God exists, God exists in you. It is you who is responsible for everything. As long as you postpone your responsibility, you can play this game, nice game. See, this Adam and Eve, they ate the fruit and they say Satan tempted them, Evil tempted them. Who came there to tempt them? There was nobody. Only these two guys were there and they say, Satan came and tempted them to eat that fruit of knowledge. Be very clear, nobody tempts you and in Hinduism also they have stories in Puranas. When Vishwamitra was meditating, suddenly Menaka and Rambha came and they danced in front of him and they tempted him and took him away from his Tapasya. They think as if somebody is sitting there and deputing, “Hey, Vishwamitra is meditating. Go there and disturb him.” Nobody is sitting there and alloting people, “Oh, in this area he is meditating. Go and disturb him. In this area he is meditating. Go and disturb him.” If that is the case, if the women are deputed and sent, everybody will start meditating, everybody will start meditating!

(10:28)

Nobody is sending any women. Nobody is on duty to go and tempt people. Nobody is sent. It is his own suppression. His own suppression has come up and he has fallen. He goes on blaming Indra sent somebody. Indra has sent somebody or Varuna has sent somebody. Rambha has been sent. Urvashi has been sent and Menaka has been sent. No! No Rambha, no Menaka, no Urvashi. Nobody is sent. It is we who are responsible. Simply we are responsible and we go on blaming Maya. Maya, Maya, Maya. Nothing. Understand this word, Sanskrit word Maya- Yama cha iti Maya means which is not there but which you think it is there is Maya. Yama cha iti Maya The very Sanskrit meaning of Maya is which is not there but which you think it is there is Maya. Nothing but your own unconscious. Please don't think something called Maya exists. Nothing, it is your own subconscious or unconscious which is creating all troubles. There is no Maya. There is nobody outside. Last question. We will end.

(11:55)

Question: With all the stresses of daily life, how can we remain in the present moment?

Swamiji: It is a nice question. Living in this stressful life, modern day life, how to be in the present moment? I tell you one thing, if somebody goes and asks, “Doctor, I have so many diseases. How can I take medicine?” You have to take medicine because you have so many diseases. You have to live in the present moment because you are in a stressful world, you are in a stressful world. That is the first thing. Next thing, much of your energy is spent in psychological worrying, not chronological planning. You should understand two words: chronological planning and psychological worrying. In our LBP program, we deal a separate session on this psychological worrying and chronological planning.

(13:05)

In our meditation program the Acharyas are conducting, a separate session is dedicated to this one subject. How…you see, chronological planning means planning for your day-to-day routine: fixing your deadline, what you are supposed to do in your project, what you are supposed to achieve, planning your day-to-day life. Psychological worrying means continuously bothering about it. Will I do it, will I not do it, what will happen to this, what will happen to that and finally you will end up in not doing. If you just do chronological planning, your whole energy will be used as a creativity. You will achieve ten times more than what you are achieving now. I am responsible when I say this word.

(13:47)

If you don't come and catch Me, I tell you, just live with chronological planning. You will make ten times more money than what you are making now. You can make ten times more because your whole energy will be used in a creativity. As on now, all you do in the name of planning is psychological worrying. Psychological worrying sucks away your energy. Chronological planning just infuses energy into you. You become more and more creative. You become enthusiastic, interest, excited about the life. So there is a big difference between chronological planning and psychological worrying. Try to catch someone Acharya and take LBP. That will give you more deeper insight how to establish our energy into chronological planning instead of psychological worrying.

(14:48)

So again let this Ultimate bless us all with Eternal Bliss. Let you be in, be one with Eternal Bliss. Let us experience Eternal Bliss- Nithyananda. Thank you

(15:06)