March 26 2012

Title:

Life and Career Are Not Seperate

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On this day’s Presidential Address-Nithyananda Satsang, the Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam discussed the importance of responsibility. SPH shared that without taking responsibility for our lives we cannot build anything firm or lasting. Our work and our personal lives should be equally founded on the ethics of responsibility. When we are fully responsible, our lives unfold into a continuous tapestry of satisfaction: and when we ooze satisfaction we inspire and raise the spirits of everyone around us.

That day’s Presidential Address-Nithyananda Satsang was conducted by the Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism Bhagavan Nithyananda Paramashivam on 26 March 2012, in Adi Kailasa, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

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26th March 2012, In today's morning satsang, Paramahamsa Nithyananda (Swamiji) discusses the importance of responsibility. Without taking responsibility for our lives we cannot build anything firm or lasting. Our work and our personal lives should be equally founded on the ethic of responsibility. When we are fully responsible, our lives unfold into a continuous tapestry of satisfaction: and when we ooze satisfaction we inspire and raise the spirits of everyone around us.

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(4:23)

Let Me read the question. ’”Beloved Swamiji, I have a question regarding the ‘corporate world’. How can we embed spiritual and social goals into an organization’s innovation agenda and processes? How can an organization encourage social responsibility and social entrepreneurship?

(4:47)

First, Rafik, You need to understand, life is not capitalistic. Life is neither Capitalistic nor Communist or Socialist. Please understand, Capitalism teaches the ownership - who owns is a big guy. Communism teaches - whether you work or not, everything belongs to you. Communism is the way of ‘Tamas’; means, inertia, inertness. Why should you have? Whether I work or not, let me also have. Let us equalize. Then what is really life, what life believes in? Does it believe in capitalism or communism? No. Understand, the major components of your life like disease, death, contentment, life satisfaction. Just like job satisfaction, something called ‘life satisfaction’. I wanted to tell you, important component of life is ‘life satisfaction’ which is neither capitalist nor communist.

(6:04)

Life is...principles of life is neither Capitalistic nor Communistic. Capitalism says, ‘Man who has is a big guy.’ Communism says everybody is equal. The principles of life says, ‘Man who takes the responsibility has the right to enjoy. That’s all. Not man who owns has the right to enjoy. Not the man who can grab has the right to enjoy. No. Man who takes the responsibility has the right to live. Understand. All your questions related to money, all the parts of your life impacted by money; those problems, attend with the principles of your country’s ‘ism’ - Capitalism or Communism. If you are in China and you have a problem about money, you have to find solution through Communism. If you are in India, you have a problem about money, you need to find a solution through Capitalism, the principles of Capitalism.

(7:32)

But, if you have a problems related to life, health, life satisfaction, happenings of life, whether it’s a birth, death, mental health; as I said, the life satisfaction, fulfillment in the life, there are so many things related to life, those life's principles; if you have a problem related to life’s principles, find solution with this truth - “Man who takes the responsibility, has a right to enjoy”. This is the principle of life. If you have questions about disease, desires, karma, questions related to life, why somebody has so much of mental peace; some other people don’t have it, why some people have so much of life satisfaction, some people don’t have it.

(8:52)

Do you know the most important recent survey happened? World’s happiest country is India based on the survey by UNESCO. They have done a very beautiful survey. Taking specimens from all backgrounds; giving them a long questionnaire. Finally, end of the survey, they say, ‘World’s most happiest country', means more number of people report life satisfaction. For all these questions, questions related to life, life satisfaction, the principle of life need to be understood.

(9:51)

One more thing, I wanted to remind. If you want to infuse the life principles into your corporate place, in your workplace; Understand few things. First thing you need to know. Capitalism degenerates into narrow self interest without a strong ethical foundation. With Capitalism you do not have a strong ethical foundation. In all your thinking process and evolution infuse responsibility. Let every person who is part of your organization, be told about his responsibility. Spend at least one hour on making everybody understand their responsibility. Please understand, never think if you take away one hour, then the productivity is lost. No.

(11:11)

I am taking every day five hours from all My ashramites, whoever is part of My Sangha. Whether you are a volunteer or a Ashramite or a Rishi or a Sannyasi, every morning I am there with them. Morning five to ten, at least two hours I am personally involved; where their physical, mental, spiritual identities are enriched. The physical identity is body. Mental identity is your thoughts whether depressed or excited. The spiritual identity is your consciousness. Every morning, I make sure that they spend five hours enriching all the three.

(14:14)

The corporate company will think, ‘Oh God, morning is the time to work and this Swami is keeping them sitting idly till ten o’clock. It is not a right corporate decision. No. I tell you, every morning you are reminded about your life and responsibility; and I also wanted to tell you one thing. If you can wake up every morning, 5 o'clock and go to Akhada, all the engrams which makes you irresponsible in your life will be killed. Because, every demon who is sitting inside you, will be alive, up by 5 o'clock, before you.

(14:55)

When you want to get up, they will be fighting you. "Why should I get up? What am I going to do? No no no, Swamiji said. No I don't like him. No no no no, your health. Even if I die early, what is there? No no no no no, your spiritual growth. Who cares for enlightenment?" See, all the demons, who is sitting with you, you have to fight; only then you can get out of your bed! You don't know, just around your bed, some 25 fellows are standing with a sword! One fellow says, "Eh! What is there? Are you a slave or what? Every day you have to get up, and go there; and that same yoga teacher will be standing." A second sword comes, "Eh! One day if I miss, what is there? After all today...why? My next bed guy, see, this fellow doesn't attend, four times a week. I only miss, only once a week." That is a second sword.

(16:11)

So many demons are standing around you! I tell you, all these demons are only the patterns, which never lets you take responsibility in your life. You will see, the same demon only, will come with a different sword. When you are in the workplace, "Eh! why are you working like a slave? If you don't do this, what is there? After all, your next chair person don't do. It's okay. Anyhow, Swamiji will not come here and supervise. Even if he comes, we know how to manage him." You can always escape. Find out some reasons which he cannot verify. I tell you, exactly the patterns, which makes you never take the responsibility of life and life's principles. They will be awake, alive, between 4:30 to 6. Just like your whole day's mood is controlled by time-see, you can see very clearly-morning 9 o'clock, if you are habituated to go to office, you will be agitated. For all you guys now, even if one or two days are...two days...there is no Satsang for morning 7 o'clock, you will feel sleepy, because every day the hab...

(17:35)

Anyhow, morning if you break the Tamas, you will break many of the patterns, which does not let you take the responsibility of life. I really tell you, very sincerely I recommend this to all corporate companies. Morning when you gather for your work, whether it is 7 o'clock or 8 o'clock or 9 o'clock. Some companies gather 8 o'clock, some gather 9 o'clock, some even 10 o'clock; whatever time, first one hour, spend making everybody responsible, for what they are. Not just, the work they are supposed to do that day. No! Make themself fit with their clear understanding about, what they want from society and what society wants from them, their requirements from society, society's requirements from them. Means, everybodys living in a society; in your society-your family, your boss, your subordinates-what they all need from you and what you need from them. Understand, you are there, only because you need something from them. You are always there, in any situation only when you need something from them. Not otherwise. When you need something from them, be responsible to offer what they need from you.

(19:13)

Constantly, I am taking the responsibility of the well-being of every Ashramite. Constantly, I am thinking, working, building their bodies, even if they don't want. Understand, let every individual, feel the responsibility. Let every individual look into the responsibility. (Advertisement)

(26:01)

Corporate organizations will be successful, only when every individual understand the princ...understands the principles of life, not otherwise. You might have trained him, spending lakhs and lakhs of rupees, thousands and thousands of dollars; but suddenly he's depressed...what can you do? All your investments on him is waste! So when you train people to do certain work, train them also, first to live, to be alive.

(26:48)

I can give this two-as a technique to all corporate companies. Make sure, everybody who is part of your organization, wakes up-morning, 5 o'clock. Because, at that time, they will have to kill so many demons. They will have to break so many patterns, which will be a powerful training for them, to break patterns in their day...everyday life. When you learn the method to break patterns - the moment you wake up, early morning - your knife of destroying the patterns-your consciousness-will be sharp and alive whole day. You will go on be cutting patterns. This is one.

(27:44)

Next, one hour, when you gather for work, one hour, they have to understand life principles; why they are here, the way they are here, what the society around them expects from them, what they expect from the society around them. Then you will understand, everything is a business, pure give and take. When you understand, everything is a business and pure give and take, you will be cleaned from many of the pseudo sentiments.

(28:32)

Many workers feel they are sacrificing for the company. Many companies feel they are sacrificing for workers. All these pseudo sacrifice sentiments will disappear. Many parents feel they are sacrificing for their children and children feel, "You don't need to sacrifice for me, I am only sacrificing for you."-this forced sacrifice. Sometimes I see parents say, "Oh I sacrificed my whole life for you. Don't become a Sanyasi, be here". Children say, "No no no, I don't...we don't want your sacrifice, we are becoming Sadhus, you please keep your sacrifice". "No, you have to be here as I want and then I'll sacrifice as I want!" All these pseudo sacrifice will disappear, whether it is the company or the society. When you understand what you need to give and what you expect, lot of our concepts of pseudo sacrifice disappears. And not only that, you see, when your concepts of pseudo sacrifice disappears, they don't just go alone, they take away many of your weak sentiments.

(29:49)

Vivekananda says, "Weak sentiments are death!" They take away many of your weak sentiments. You get cleaned by the weak sentiments. A man, whose life is not built on weak principles, will always be successful. See, it's like a, you try to build your building's foundation, on weak sand, building won't stand. But if you make a strong foundation and build, building will stand. Same way, the principles of your life should not carry weak sentiments, sentiments which does not stand, more than one function, ceremony or celebration or ritual. No, sometime I see, there are many of these kind of a weak sentiments, becomes part of your life's principles. Look at your own life. Know, some of the ideas, ventures, relationships, you are jumping into are not going to be long lasting, are not going to be leading you to the stable life...life satisfaction. Knowing it, you say, "It's okay. Now let me somehow push this. That's all". After that? "Eh. We'll face it". (Advertisement)

(34:37)

Doing things, which are not for long term, doing things which are not, for the principles of life. I tell you, you cannot have separate principles for your life, and separate principles for a corporate company-your workplace. No. Your workplace is a major part of your life. You need a integrated principle. Only way to have an integrated principle is, every morning when you gather for work, at-least spend one hour understanding responsibility. If you are a devotee and running a corporate company, I tell you, this one hour will not reduce your productivity. Every day morning, sit and you yourself head that meeting, discuss, discuss, discuss. Let every staff, worker, imbibe this principle in their life-principle of responsibility. Only after I started My morning Satsang, even a Sangha started evolving around Me. Till then, there was no Sangha. It was like, group of people sitting here for various reasons. Only now, everybody's motive is aligned, to one truth. This alignment, when it happens between two persons, it is not one plus one, two. No. It is one plus one, eleven. Understand. When a understanding happens between one plus one, it is two; when alignment happens between one plus one, it is eleven. When at-onement happens between one plus one, it is explosion. It's atomic explosion. Understanding, alignment, at-onement. When consciously melting disciple meets with a consciously awakened being, it is explosion. That is what has happened, between Ramakrishna and Vivekananda. When they both met, the explosion happened-this Ramakrishna Movement. I am waiting for my Vivekanandas. Of course, I know, for sure, each one of you guys will become Vivekanandas.

(37:55)

Few people, understanding is happening, very few alignment is happening. See, if you, if the understanding has happened, you have become plus of My organization, If alignment is happening, you have become, plus plus means, into, squares of My organization. If at-onement is happening, you become squares and cubic...cubes of very Me, not just My organization, Sangha. Honesty and Authenticity needed. Just honesty may be, will make you, to the level of understanding. But only when the Authenticity starts happening, alignment; from alignment then happens at-onement. For each corporate company, the alignment into the life's principles is a basic need; whether...where neither Capitalism nor Communism works.

(39:13)

If you want to live healthily, take responsibility of your body. If you want to live happily, take responsibility of your mind. If you want to explore into the zones of consciousness, take responsibility of your spiritual entity. If you want wealth, take the responsibility of spending your time in that direction. Take the responsibility. Chisel your whole life, with a hammer called responsibility, with a tool called responsibility.

(39:52)

Title

Life and career are not separate - Part 1

Transcript:

(1:05)

Let Me read the question. ”Beloved Swamiji, I have a question regarding the ‘corporate world’. How can we embed spiritual and social goals into an organization’s innovation agenda and processes? How can an organization encourage social responsibility and social entrepreneurship?

(1:28)

First, Rafik, You need to understand, life is not capitalistic. Life is neither capitalistic nor communist or socialist. Please understand, capitalism teaches the ownership - who owns is a big guy. Communism teaches - whether you work or not, everything belongs to you. Communism is the way of ‘tamas’; means, inertia, inertness. Why should you have? Whether I work or not, let me also have. Let us equalize. Then what is really life, what life believes in? Does it believe in capitalism or communism? No. Understand, the major components of your life like disease, death, contentment, life satisfaction. Just like job satisfaction, something called ‘life satisfaction’. I wanted to tell you, important component of life is ‘life satisfaction’ which is neither capitalist nor communist.

(2:42)

Life is...principles of life is neither capitalistic nor communistic. Capitalism says, ‘Man who has is a big guy.’ Communism says everybody is equal. The principles of life says, ‘Man who takes the responsibility has the right to enjoy. That’s all. Not man who owns has the right to enjoy. Not the man who can grab has the right to enjoy. No. Man who takes the responsibility has the right to live. Understand. All your questions related to money, all the parts of your life impacted by money, those problems, attend with the principles of your country’s ‘ism’ - capitalism or communism. If you are in China and you have a problem about money, you have to find solution through communism. If you are in India, you have a problem about money, you need to find a solution through capitalism, the principles of capitalism.

(4:10)

But, if you have a problems related to life, health, life satisfaction, happenings of life, whether it’s a birth, death, mental health; as I said, the life satisfaction, fulfillment in the life, there are so many things related to life, those lifes’ principles, if you have a problem related to life’s principles, find solution with this truth - “Man who takes the responsibility, has a right to enjoy”.

(4:55)

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(10:18)

Man who takes the responsibility has a right to enjoy. This is the principle of life. If you have questions about disease, desires, karma, questions related to life, why somebody has so much of mental peace; some other people don’t have it, why some people have so much of life satisfaction, some people don’t have it...

Do you know the most important recent survey happened? World’s happiest country is India based on survey by UNESCO. They have done a very beautiful survey. Taking specimens from all backgrounds; giving them a long questionnaire. Finally, end of the survey, they say, ‘World’s most happiest country.’ Means more number of people report life satisfaction. For all these questions, questions related to life, life satisfaction, the principle of life need to be understood.

(11:56)

One more thing, I wanted to remind. If you want to infuse the life principles into your corporate place, in your workplace; Understand few things. First thing you need to know. Capitalism degenerates into narrow self interest without a strong ethical foundation. In the capitalism you do not have a strong ethical foundation. So, rewrite, rethink. In all your thinking process and evolution infuse responsibility.

(12:47)

Let every person who is part of your organization, be told about his responsibility. Spend at least one hour on making everybody understand their responsibility. Please understand, never think if you take away one hour, then the productivity is lost; No. I am taking every day five hours from all my ashramites, whoever is part of My sangha. Whether you are a volunteer or a ashramite or a rishi or a sannyasi, every morning I am there with them. Morning five to ten, at least two hours I am personally involved; where their physical, mental, spiritual identities are enriched.

(13:49)

The physical identity is body. Mental identity is your thoughts whether depressed or excited. The spiritual identity is your consciousness. Every morning, I make sure that they spend five hours enriching all the three.

A corporate company will think, ‘Oh God, morning is the time to work and this Swami is keeping them sitting idly till ten o’clock. It is not a right corporate decision. No. I tell you, every morning you are reminded about your life and responsibility.

Let you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share and explode in Eternal Bliss Nithyananda.

(14:46)

Title

Life and career are not separate - Part 2

Transcript:

(1:05)

Swamiji: Let Me read the question, "Beloved Swamiji, I have a question regarding the corporate world: How can we embed spiritual and social goals into an organization's innovation agenda and processes? How can an organization encourage social responsibility and social entrepreneurship?"

(1:27)

Swamiji: Every morning, you are reminded about your life and responsibility. And I also wanted to tell you one thing. If you can wake up every morning, 5 o'clock and go to Akhada, all the engrams which makes you irresponsible in your life, will be killed. Because, every demon who is sitting inside you, will be alive, up by 5 o'clock, before you.

(1:53)

When you want to get up, they will be fighting you. "Why should I get up? What am I going to do? No no no, Swamiji said...No I don't like him...No no no no...your health...even if I die early, what is there? No, no, no, no, no...your spiritual growth...Who cares for enlightenment?" See, all the demons, who is sitting with you, you have to fight; only then you can get out of your bed! You don't know, just around your bed, some 25 fellows are standing with a sword! One fellow says, "Eh! What is there? Are you a slave or what? Every day you have to get up...and go there...and that same yoga teacher will be standing." A second sword comes, "Eh! One day if I miss, what is there? After all today...why?...my next bed guy...see, this fellow doesn't attend, four times a week...I only miss, only once a week." That is a second sword.

(3:10)

So many demons are standing around you! I tell you, all these demons are only the patterns, which never lets you take responsibility in your life. You will see, the same demon only, will come with a different sword. When you are in the workplace, "Eh! why are you working like a slave? If you don't do this, what is there? After all, your next chairperson don't do."....which makes you never take the responsibility of life and life's principles. They will be awake, alive, between 4:30 to 6. Just like your whole day's mood is controlled by time-see, you can see very clearly-morning 9 o'clock, if you are habituated to go to office, you will be agitated. For all you guys now, even if one or two days are...two days...there is no satsang for morning 7 o'clock, you will feel sleepy. See it has become pattern now.

(4:13)

Anyhow, morning if you break the Tamas, you will break many of the patterns, which does not let you take the responsibility of life. I really tell you, very sincerely I recommend this to all corporate companies. Morning when you gather, for your work, whatever time...first one hour... spend...making everyone responsible, for what they are. Not just, the work they are supposed to do that day...No! Make themself fit with, their clear understanding about, what they want from society and what society wants from them...their requirements from society...society's requirement from them. Means, everybody is living in a society. In your society-your family, your boss, your subordinates-what they all need from you and what you need from them. Understand, you are there, only because, you need something from them. You are always there, in any situation, only when you need something from them. Not otherwise. When you need something from them, be responsible to offer what they need from you.

(5:42)

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(9:23)

Be responsible to offer what they need from you. Constantly, I am taking the responsibility of the well-being of every ashramite. Constantly, I am thinking...working...building their bodies... even if they don't want. Understand, let every individual feel the responsibility. Let every individual, look into the responsibility. Corporate organizations, will be successful, only when every individual understand the princ...understands the principles of life, not otherwise. You might have trained him, spending lakhs and lakhs of rupees, thousands and thousands of dollars; but suddenly he's depressed...what can you do? All your investments on him, is waste! So when you train people to do certain work, train them also...first...to live, to be alive.

(10:41)

I can give this two-as a technique to all corporate companies. Make sure, everybody who is part of your organization, wakes up-morning 5 o'clock. Because, at that time, they will have to kill so many demons. They will have to break so many patterns, which will be a powerful training for them to break patterns in their day...everyday life. When you learn the method to break patterns-the moment you wake up, early morning-your knife of destroying the patterns-your consciousness-will be sharp and alive the whole day. You will go on be cutting patterns. This is one.

(11:32)

Next. One hour..the...before you start your work, when you gather for work...one hour...they have to understand...life principles...why they are here...the way they are hear...what the society around them expects from them....what they expect from the society around them. Then you will understand, everything is a business, pure give and take. When you understand, everything is a business and pure give and take, you will be cleaned from many of the pseudo sentiments.

(12:24)

Many workers feel they are sacrificing for the company. Many companies feel they are sacrificing for workers. All these pseudo sacrifice sentiments will disappear. Many parents feel they are sacrificing for their children and children feel, "You don't need to sacrifice for me, I am only sacrificing for you." This forced sacrifice...sometimes I see parents say, "Oh I sacrificed my whole life for you. Don't become a Sanyasi, be here". Children say, "No no no, I don't...we don't want your sacrifice, we are becoming Sadhus, you please keep your sacrifice". "No, you have to be here as I want and then I'll sacrifice as I want!" All these pseudo sacrifice will disappear, whether it is the company or the society. When you understand what you need to give and what you expect, lot of our concepts of pseudo sacrifice disappears. And not only that...see, when your concepts of pseudo sacrifice disappears, they don't just go alone, they take away many of your weak sentiments.

(13:41)

Vivekananda says, "Weak sentiments are death!" You get cleaned...by the weak sentiments. A man, whose life is not built on weak principles, will always be successful. The principles of your life, should not carry weak sentiments-sentiments which does not stand, more than one function, ceremony or celebration or ritual. No, sometime I see, there are many of...these kind of a weak sentiments...becomes part of your life's principles. Look at your own life....

(14:32)

Let you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share and explode in Eternal Bliss. Nithyananda.

(14:46)

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