March 10 2007

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To live life in totality, the power of discrimination will do. To handle inner world or outer world issues, the power of discrimination is the doctrine of the intelligent one. Paramahamsa Nithyananda while delivering pearls from the Jain sutras, instills into one the power of discrimination to handle practical life in the modern day world. He brings to life the sacred knowledge imparted through these ancient works and delivers it in his own peerless style.

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[00:26]

I welcome you all with My love and respects. Today's subject is: ‘Power of Discrimination’. Yesterday it was ‘Power of Wisdom’. Today power of discrimination. Viveka. First I will read the sutras then we will enter into the subject.

[01:18]

Sutra

[02:53]

It is a long, beautiful Sutra. I'll read the whole translation, then enter into those ideas those truths. A sage should go beyond five senses of touch, smell, sight, taste and hearing. Understand, he's not saying you should control it or suppress it. No. You are expected only to go beyond. In all the worlds including the celestial regions the attachment to the sense pleasures is the root cause of physical as well as mental suffering. A seeker who goes beyond these five senses goes beyond mental as well as physical sufferings. A person who follows such a strict brahmacharya goes beyond mental and physical sufferings. All beings including the Devas, Gandharvas, Rakshasa, Danav, Yaksha salute such a being. Such brahmacharya is eternal and ultimate and never ending. By this several have become Siddhas in the past, or becoming Siddhas now and continue to become Siddhas in the future. Beautiful.

[04:30]

These great truths should not be analyzed intellectually before you start practicing. That's the main thing. If you analyze these words intellectually before starting the practice you will think what is going on? What Mahaveer is telling? He's telling us to become Swamis. He's telling us to give up the life and you will naturally give up Mahaveera, not life. Understand only when you try to put these few words in practice you will realize he's not telling you to give up life. He's telling you to give up the negativities or blockages which you carry in the life. Here he says go beyond five senses. He's not telling suppress your five senses. No.

[05:31]

Other day we were having conversation, somebody asked Me, “Swamiji don’t you, you don't feel you are body?” I said, “Who said I don't feel I am body? I feel I am body also.” There is a big difference. Saying that ‘I am not body I am not mind’. People who try to say that ‘I am not body I am not mind’ no. Be very clear you can constantly repeat and try to believe but you'll never have that as experience.

There's a funny story. There was a great Guru called Paramartha Guru and he had four foolish disciples. This guy and his disciples there are such a lot of funny stories about them in South India. In South India he's very popular. Of course he's a imaginary figure but very popular. All of them went to a devotee’s house for a feast, Bandara. The feast during, during the feast when the people serve them, these guys are supposed to chant some mantras. So one guy started chanting Brahma satyam jagath mithya. Means the, ‘Only the Brahman is reality, world is Maya’. The next guy said, ‘Deham Naham’, I am not the body. And he's sitting in front of food and saying ‘I am not the body’. The other guy said, ‘I am beyond taste.’ Then when they started telling all these Sanskrit slokas, the person who was serving, the owner of the house, he stopped serving. He said that one is telling ‘Whole world is a Maya, then why he needs food? The other one is telling ‘I am not the body’ then why he needs food?’ So he stopped serving. In the end the Guru was sitting, he understood. Arrey now these fellows have completely disturbed the whole feast by their chanting. He added one "kha-or porey". ‘After eating all these things will become true, not till we eat.’ 😀 Brahma satyam jagat mithya, when? After eating. 😀 And ‘I am not the body and I am not the mind’ when? After eating. ‘I am not the senses I am only Atman. Shivoham Shivoham.’ Everything when? After eating. Not before that.

[08:30]

See people who try to constantly remember ‘I am not the body I am not the mind’, please understand, they are trying to imitate the experience of the Master. They themselves never had experience. One big danger - trying to imitate the expressions of an enlightened being will not lead to enlightenment. There are few things which will lead to enlightenment - those things are called sadhanas, techniques. There are few things which will not lead to Enlightenment. You see, for example, imitating the Master’s blissful mood, constantly trying to be in that same mood, will lead you to enlightenment. Those things are called sadhnas. But trying to live like him, many time there are dangers that you will fall into a different space. Because there are so many things which you can't even imagine about imitating.

[09:39]

People come and ask Me, Vivekananda smoked, why not me? I tell them, ‘Do everything whatever Vivekananda did, you do all those things, then you also do smoking. These guys don't want all the things which Vivekananda did. They want to pick up. They want to pick up. That's a big difficulty.

But with Mahaveer you don't even have that difficulty. You can never imitate Mahaveer. His body language is so pure you can never imitate. If you imitate, you have to be in that space; otherwise impossible. That's what. Mahaveer is a master who has not given any loopholes. No loophole. Foolproof Guru, foolproof Master. You can imitate any body language, anything of Mahaveera, you will only grow. There is no such thing that you will come down or you will fall down.

[10:47]

Saying or thinking constantly ‘I am not the body’ is not the right technique or right method. Actually when you have experience, you will go beyond body. You will not have idea ‘I am not the body’. What life and intensity and energy you feel inside your body, inside your skin…. See now all of you feel life, that you are living inside your skin. The same thing you will feel with the whole, with the whole Cosmos, with the whole existence. That is what I call ‘going beyond the body, going beyond the senses’.

Understand this simple one or two techniques that may give you the real liberation, freedom from the known. Whatever you know or whatever you think as boundaries for your senses is the only difficulty. That's the real problem. The ideas which you are already carrying about your, what you can and what you can't is the main problem. As on now, you have a program ‘If I do all these things by then my senses should become tired or should have excitement.’ You have a program. ‘If I eat all these things I will feel excited in my senses’ or ‘If I do all these things I will become tired.’ These boundaries which you are carrying for yourself is the most dangerous thing. You do not allow the natural thing to happen through you. You do not allow the automatic updating system.

[12:54]

See, your senses are so powerful it can update itself if you allow its intelligence to express itself. Patanjali says beautifully, ‘With more and more experience your senses are supposed to become more and more sharp… sharper and stronger.’ But as age grows you only become more and more weak and dull why? Because you hypnotize yourself. See, the more you enjoy you always think that… not only you think, you expect that your senses will become dull. You are hypnotized, you are taught again and again ‘there is every possibility your senses will become more and more dull. The more you use them, more they will become dull.’ One important thing you don't understand, very important truth, living inside the senses even when they are not directly used for enjoyment is the main reason for dulling the senses. Understand, it's a very important secret. You may even think this is a important secret. Living inside your senses even while they are not being used for pleasure or joy is the main reason why you make your senses dull and dead.

[14:47]

Let Me give you the example then you'll be able to relate with the idea of what I qm saying. Having unnecessary anger, unnecessary lust, unnecessary taste which is not directly useful to your life. For example, your anger towards Saddam Hussein is not going to do anything. Can you do anything? No. But when you see some news, people who are not directly related to your life or the incident in which you don't have a direct contribution, direct part you cherish, you enjoy. You enjoy, for example, if you belong to a particular religion, some other religious leader is assassinated, you just cherish that information. You enjoy it. You want to listen that once more. Many time, if you are conditioned for some religion or society or country, the opposite, the enemy if he's killed, directly you are not contributing to it and you can't contribute, directly you have no relationship, just cherishing, just enjoying.

Same way lust, lust you will understand very clearly. Enjoying the fantasies with persons who can never, you can never connect with them in physical level, in personal level and you cannot even, you can't even imagine about seeing them, but enjoying those fantasies. The fantasies which are not directly related to your life, which are not going to enrich your life, which are not going to add anything to your life - this is what I call living inside the senses even while you are not deriving directly pleasure from it.

[16:56]

Understand, it is a very important thing, how we waste our life, how we waste our energy. Living inside the senses while you are really deriving excitement or pleasure, you do not lose energy because your senses are created to sense or to experience. Whenever you are seeing something which gives you pleasure, means, when your eyes, it is not even eyes which is seeing, through eyes you are seeing. The chakshu, that is what we call. Chakshu is the energy which sees through eyes. Whenever the chakshu comes in contact with a beautiful scene and derives pleasure in this two point, it does not make your senses dull. But your eyes are closed, you are not directly seeing those scenes, but those scenes are going inside your eyes - means those fantasies, the fantasy about that place is there in front of your eyes.

[18:16]

For example, whenever you see a beach, or a hill or a snow mountain in TV, you always have a fantasy that you should be there, you should see those scenes and enjoy. But the big difficulty is when you go there you don't have the joy. Actually when you go there, when you are on the spot, you are only thinking when to get out of that place and what to do next. The real reason is, why you want to go there. Deep down every person has got a thirst, just to disappear somewhere, where you will not be recognized, where you don't have to hold your identity to protect you, where you don't need your identity for survival. So whenever you see a distance place, where you are clear that nobody knows you, you always want to go there. But after going there you try to establish this same old nonsensical identity to everybody. Whoever is staying there, you will tell, ‘Aiy do you know who am I? Do you know who am I? Do you know who am I?’ In two days the whole world knows and again you want to escape from that place, because now again you have to keep your identity to protect you.

[19:47]

Understand, you want to go there, actually the main reason is - so that nobody will recognize you, you will be away from your identity. But after going there you try to establish your identity and create more suffering and try to escape from that place also. Anyhow, understand this one important truth: when actually the pleasure is happening through your senses, when actually you are deriving the pleasure through the senses… it’s is like an object and your energy and the sense… Sense means the eye or the nose or the tongue or ear or the touch. These are called senses. Your Consciousness when it touches all the five senses it takes different name. When it touches your eye it is called Chakshu. When it touches your ears it is called Grana. When it touches your tongue it is called Thok. It takes different name and the… there is an object. Actually when these three are meeting, pleasure happens in you. Exact moments in which the pleasure itself is happening, you....

[21:13]

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[00:10]

…Not become dull or tired, but when you try to fantasize and keep yourself in that same excitement, that is the moment your senses become dull. Understand this secret will help you how to go beyond the senses without missing the pleasures. Let Me be very honest. People come and tell Me, ‘In this young age you have become Swami.’ They feel very sympathetic, but I tell you honestly I feel sympathetic towards you. ‘Arrey, this guy is still suffering with the body, still caught in the world and do not know the intense pleasure or bliss which you achieve when you don't live inside the senses, when you don't receive the pleasure.’

Understand, in your case, you may receive the pleasure through the eyes few minutes per day. Few minutes in your day you may see some good scenes which you really enjoy, which you want to see again and again, but you spend whole day sitting inside your eyes. What I mean by the word sitting inside your eyes and spending whole day is - you can see, even while you are not enjoying the pleasure or beautiful things through your eyes, lot of things will be crossing inside your eyes. When your eyes are closed you can see constantly the scenes which you want to see or which you saw will be crossing unnecessarily. That is what tires your senses.

[02:07]

That is why, let Me give you one more important secret. This is also from Patanjali. Person who is filled with fantasy will not be able to enjoy the reality. Person who is constantly fantasizing, even about sex, will not be able to really enjoy the moment if it happens in physical level. When in physical reality when the other person is there he will not be able to enjoy. Same way, the person who is constantly fantasizing about food will only fill himself, he will never feel fulfilled. See filling yourself is totally different from feeling fulfilled. A person who feels fulfilled will never fill himself. Obesity means that person is not enjoying food. That is the truth. You always think obesity comes because you enjoy food too much. No. Obesity means you are not enjoying food. You are only filling yourself with too much of fantasies about food.

In this country, oh God, so much of advertisement for food. The food industry should be taken away from the private sector. No really. And it is the greatest conspiracy against the nation, against the health of the nation. I tell you, it’s a conspiracy. So much of advertisement for food. In India if you drive in highway, you can find out there is going to be a small village by seeing the temple tower. Here you can find out there is going to be a county by seeing the McDonald's Tower. So much of publicity for food. Constantly being reminded about food. God saved me, God! I was born and brought up in Indian villages.

[04:28]

And you should cook and eat, especially the seekers are requested by all the traditions including Mahaveer. They are requested to cook and eat. The monks in Jaina tradition or the Vedic tradition are not supposed to accept food specially cooked for them. They are supposed to cook and eat. The reason you know, you will feel little tired and eat only once or twice a day. And if it is readymade directly available hot hot and everywhere, you will think ‘why not one more’. And the size they serve, God! I can't imagine and they size, they tell this is a medium size. Understand you are not enjoying food, that is the truth.

[05:26]

See muscles are the place where you store the memory. Understand you can't think by forgetting your body. Try to imagine, try to visualize your body is burnt. You don't have a body and try to think. You'll not be able to think even one thought. To burn the samskaras, there is a beautiful technique in Jainism and Buddhism. Both religions uses the technique. Sitting and visualising as if your body is burnt. You don't have a body. You may think how that can remove the Samskaras or engrams? Because your muscles are the place where you store your memories, where you, from where you retrieve the memories.

Now understand these few things, then you will be able to correlate and see. You start storing many memories inside your senses even while you are not using them, while you are not deriving pleasure from them. For example, your memories about food even while you are not eating is getting stored inside your senses and when really food comes in front of you, you think you should finish at least this much, and try to grab, try to fill with the idea you will have more pleasure if you eat more.

[07:13]

Understand only while you are thinking you'll have more pleasure if you think more but not in living. In fantasies if you fantasize more time you will have that excitement, but in reality it is not true. It is not based on quantity, it is based on the quality. In fantasy it is based on quantity, in reality it is based on quality. In fantasy your pleasure about eating or sex or listening, you always think ‘Oh I receive pleasure by listening to one song 5 minutes, if I listen for three hours then I have 3 hours pleasure.’ No. Five minutes you are receiving pleasure because those five minutes you are intense. Try, try to do that same thing for three hours, what happens?

But in fantasy you always calculate based on your logic. In fantasy you are not in reality. You conveniently forget important data. You conveniently forget many important data for pleasure. In reality after your intensity is over, you will see that you are not experiencing pleasure anymore, but you do not want to say to yourself that you are not deriving pleasure, because you created too much of hope on that sense. So you are trying to force your sense, ‘No, no, no, no, you are going to have pleasure. Enjoy more. Don't leave. Don't stop. Maybe now you are not having tomorrow you'll have. Don't stop the routine.’ First thing, you create more fantasies.

[09:18]

I don't know whether I am exactly expressing or making you understand what I am saying, because it is such a subtle truth, such a important truth. And when you go deeper and deeper it is very difficult to reproduce the same understanding. And moreover there are some things which you can't talk openly also. When it comes to senses, talking too much openly becomes a taboo. If I give some sharp examples you will understand.

In fantasy whether it is seeing or touching or tasting gives so much of joy, the more time you spend in fantasy the more joy you feel, but in reality itself suddenly you feel you are done. You don't have any more the drive. Your system is tired. It wants to move away from the food or the sense pleasure or that object. Why? See the sense, eye or tongue or the touch that sense is there, the object is there, your power, the… your energy, consciousness is there. The object comes and touches the senses and connects with your sense of, the… connects with your consciousness. All three of them are there together as long as you feel excited or new about the object which you are enjoying. The moment you think, ‘Oh I know this object’, once it becomes known, your consciousness moves away to something else. Then even if the sense objects are touching your senses you don't derive pleasure.

[11:34]

I think now are you clear? Once your consciousness moves away, even your sense objects are touching your senses it is no more a pleasure. But now you feel empty because you expected too much from your sense subjects. You had too much of expectation from the sense objects. You were thinking they will give you totally different thing, they will show you a different world. You did not understand, you do not understand the limitations of senses and you think you will derive the pleasure eternally. No. But now you do not want to accept the reality ‘it is not going to be eternal’, because you believed it. You tell your senses ‘No, no, no try once more, try little more. Try little more, we will have it, we can have it.’ You force. The forcing happens because you have more memories about those sense objects or those pleasures than you can enjoy. You have more memories than your capacity. That is where the difficulty starts.

[13:05]

Actually, living the simple innocent life when your senses wants to enjoy, you come in contact with sense objects, and your senses are enjoying and the moment you feel that you know this joy and you relax, and the sense of objects also relax, is such a beautiful experience, such an innocent phenomena. It is so beautiful it will only enrich your senses. You will never feel tired but our lives are not so simple. Our lives are not so simple. We do not let go so easily, so freely, so joyfully. We catch, we hang on even after our senses are telling us ‘Enough, we are done, relax’. You say ‘No, who said? Once more. Let's have once more.’

Just trying to be more greedy because of too many memories recorded inside the senses. Here only we create problem and not only that, staying inside those senses when it is not necessary also. As on now, you are not really enjoying; there are some senses which you are not really enjoying, but it's not that you come away from them. You think, ‘Who knows? Any time, I may get some object. Why unnecessarily moving away from the sense and then again entering. Let us wait.’ You wait inside every sense. That is why you are not full in any sense because half of your energy is sitting with your eyes, half of your energy is sitting with your ears, half of your energy is sitting with the tongue, half of your attention is sitting with the touch then how do you think you will feel fulfilled with one sense. No.

[15:24]

So Mahaveer when he says here, go beyond five senses of touch, smell, sight, taste and hearing he is not telling you to kill the senses. He is telling you to live inside only when it is required. You may ask how to do that? How to do that? The best way is whatever you are enjoying, be intense so that your whole attention comes away from other senses.

Now if you are seeing, sitting and seeing me visualise for few minutes ‘I will not do anything except seeing’. Let your whole being become seeing. Let your whole energy be only in eyes. Visualise clearly you are nothing more than eyes, nothing but eyes, just eyes. Forget about all other parts. Visualise there is only two eyes on the sky and seeing Me. Seeing what is going on. Forget all other senses. Suddenly you will see this rose will look more deeper way, this green will look greener. You will see the things more intensely. You will see the things deeply. You may not need this focus lights. You need this focus lights because you have lost light in your eyes. Your seeing is corrupted. Your seeing is covered by a film of thinking. You have always a film in front of you which is called thinking. As long as you have a film, that thinking film in front of your eyes you'll never be able to see, you'll never be able to see the reality.

[17:28]

Anything, same way, sit in your chair and touch something for 5 minutes and visualise that you are alive only in that few inch space. Your whole body is dead and you don't have any other parts except that few inches, except that few square inch. Be alive only on that. Suddenly you will see your whole attention and energy is gathering towards one sense. This is what we call Pratyahara, means moving away from unnecessary senses. Understand, Pratyahara does not mean moving away from all senses. I am not even asking you to move away from all senses. If you move away from all senses you will fall into depression. No. Move away from unnecessary senses, the senses which are not directly useful, which are not directly useful in that moment.

This moment naturally you don't need few of your senses. For example taste, now you don't need the taste because you are sitting and seeing. You may need eyes and ears. Move yourself completely to that and relax from all other three smelling, touch and taste. Just move yourself away from all three and be only hearing and seeing. Suddenly you will see you become intense. The tiredness or feeling sleepy will disappear. You feel sleepy if you are distributed to all your senses. You do not have that intensity, that is why you feel tired, you feel sleepy and your thinking of something else and you are sitting here. Aaaaaan. Aaaaan. And you just [Swamiji enacts as though dozing off] If the next person pokes at you ‘I am listening, I am listening. You listen, why are you disturbing me? I am ok, you do…’. And even that you don't want to tell in full words because if you utter full words your sleep may get disturbed.😀 So you just [Swamiji enacts again as though dozing off] Listening in a deep meditative mode. 😀

[20:30]

Good listener is a person who is thinking of something else. 😀 That is the truth. I always tell people ‘Please do not meditate while you are listening’, because actually I know that they are not meditating. Sometimes it becomes too much to keep your eyes open. You just feel like ‘Why not have a small or just a few minutes’ and one more thing, me talking is like a lullaby. Sometime I give a break. See actually if I give a break they wake up. In India people who have got houses near the train, near the railway track, if the train does not cross and create sound they wake up from bed. Understand they are tuned. If the train does not come on time and if the sound is not created that noise is not created....

[21:39]

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[00:10]

… they wake up from sleep. Same way, if I stop talking they just get up, because talking feels more like a lullaby and you can just… If there are too many memories inside your eyes and if you are using your eyes even while you are not seeing, your eyes will become tired. You can understand this example, in the night, night you are not seeing anything worthy but you use your eyes and see the dreams. Understand this one example, you use your eyes and see the dreams. Memory is recorded inside your eyes, fantasies recorded inside your eyes, only they come as dreams and you are tired next day morning when you get up. If your dreams… if your sleep was filled with dreams you will be tired early morning. If you had a dreamless sleep you will feel so fresh, alive. All the memories which are stored in your muscles they fight with each other and come out illogically and gives you the experiences in turn, is what you call as dream. All the memories which you stored in your muscles comes out, fights with each other and gives you all illogical experiences. The unconnected, completely broken disturbed experiences; that is what you call as a dream next day morning. It will not be logical. You will be with your wife but you will be thinking that you are studying for your college examinations, completely illogical. No time, no space. They are completely disconnected and disturbed.

[02:33]

“Sage should go beyond five senses of touch, smell, sight, taste and hearing. In all the worlds including the celestial regions, the attachment to the sense pleasures is the root cause for physical as well as mental suffering.” Understand, he says even celestial regions. People are sometimes ready to renounce this world but not the heaven. People do tapas, control their senses so that they will achieve Heaven in the world… in the other world. What they are going to have in the heaven? Higher level of enjoyments. People don't drink here. If you ask why? ‘No, no, when we go there we will get somarasa.’ Who knows nowadays whether they serve there or not? Pease do not give up this senses for that pleasure. No. Then it is a bargain. It's a bargain. No. Give up out of understanding that's ok, but not for some other sense enjoyments.

[03:49]

“Person who follows such a strict brahmacharya goes beyond mental and physical sufferings. You expand. You go beyond mental and physical sufferings. All beings including Devas, Gandharvas, Rakshas, Danava, Yaksha salute such a being.” One more important thing, when we say all beings including Devas, Gandharvas, Rakshas, Danav, Yaksha salute such a being - not only the so called Devatas who are in the metaphysical plane, even your own energies salute, your own energies surrender itself to that being who has gone beyond the senses. When you see somebody who has really gone beyond the senses, without even your knowledge all your senses will just sit in front of him like a pet. They will just sit. You will feel completely relaxed, in tune, completely at ease.

[05:14]

“Such brahmacharya is eternal and ultimate and never ending. By this, several have become Siddhas in the past, are becoming Siddhas now and continue to become Siddhas in the future.” He says, this is the technique, the technique which he spoke now; means, going beyond the five senses - Not living inside your senses when you are not deriving enjoyment directly, not wasting your emotions like anger or lust when you are not really enjoying. Use your anger when it is directly needed for your business or your comforts or your luxury. Do not waste it by cherishing the violent informations like somebody is killed, somebody is murdered, somebody is kidnapped. See you affiliate yourself with some people, some religion, some nation and if the other enemies, the opposite party is suffering means you feel enjoyment. Usually you affiliate yourself, you have sympathy towards one party, one political party. Always both parties are going to go through ups and downs but whenever you see the opposite party is going through some ups and downs, some difficulties, you enjoy it. Yes, yes, let these fellows suffer. They need it. You suffer, you cherish, you enjoy your violence, anger for no reason. Directly you don't receive anything. You are not going to do anything. You have no role to play, but just cherishing.

[07:17]

Same way you are seeing so many things which creates fantasy in the TV or cinema, directly you are not even going to see that person but just enjoying. Enjoying the fantasy, wasting your lust, towards the objects which are not directly going to give you the pleasure, wasting your anger which are not directly going to add to your life. Use only the way in which your life is enriched. If emotions are used only to enrich your life you are living a beautiful life, but many time you are wasting your emotions in a way in which your life is not directly enriched. Vengeance, many time you can see, if you listen some opposite party is suffering you feel, you are, you feel a subtle joy. Yes, yes, those fellows, they need it, they need it. So do not waste your emotions. That is why Mahaveer says do not enjoy even mentally if your enemy is suffering. That is like wasting your emotions, wasting your emotions, wasting your energy. Tiring yourself unnecessarily, your mind, your stress, your tension everything is just because you live inside your senses even while you are not receiving pleasure or excitement directly from it. That is where the whole difficulty. A person who doesn't have memories in their… in his muscles, who is not living inside his senses when he is not receiving pleasure, his body will look so graceful. It won't be ugly. When it becomes so graceful you won't feel like covering it. That is why Mahaveer lives a naked life because he do not have memory. He do not have memory of any outer world. He do not have memory of any sense pleasures. No memory stored in his muscles. They are so beautiful, so natural, so natural, because he has nothing unnatural.

[10:13]

“Such brahmacharya is eternal, ultimate and never ending. By this several have become enlightened in the past, are becoming enlightened now and continue to become enlightened in the future.” He says this is the ultimate technique for all three generations past, present and future. So try to live inside your senses only really when you are driving pleasure and joy directly, otherwise do not live in it. …. Just after 5 minutes we will start the next session. You may, so you can have a small break, then we will enter into the next Sutra after few minutes.

[11:21]

Now we will start. Maybe I will answer these few questions then enter into the next Sutra, Moksha Marga Sutra. Next Sutra is a beautiful Sutra that is why I wanted to give a small break so that you don't sleep during that Sutra. It's Moksha Marga. If you are already in Moksha, how you will listen the Moksha Marga. I selected beautiful Sutras from Jain Sutras, Akaranga sutras and Mahaveer's words, Mahaveer Vani from all, collected some beautiful Sutras. So this Moksha Marga Sutra. Some of them are personal [referring to questions received] [Swamiji reads out the questions and gives answers]

[12:16]

Question: How to hold on to the Darshan feeling after going home and away from the enlightened master? Answer: This is nice question. Don't have the fear that it will go away. Don't be greedy that it should stay with you. If it stays let it stay, if it goes away let it go. Just be relaxed. Feel it’s like a breeze. Do not be greedy of breeze. If you are greedy of breeze you will create only ACs which is poor substitute for breeze. So, don't be greedy of that, you will see beyond your mind it starts staying with you. You can't do anything about holding on to it.

[13:22]

Question: How do you live a perfect life? Should you say stay in India or USA? Answer: Arrey perfect life has nothing to do with India or USA. 😀

[13:38]

Question: How to find the right Guru? Answer: First become a right disciple, simply right Guru will find you. You don't have to find the right Guru. See, just become a right disciple. Let your seeking be without hypocrisy. Let you be real seeker, you will see the right Guru finds you. I always tell people, if you are a seeker I will be running behind you. You don't have to run behind Me. I'll be calling you again and again and I'll be trying to spend time with you. If you are not seeker, even if you try you will never be able to get few minutes.

[14:20]

Question: Is life and world better today as compared to 2000 years back? Answer: Oh God! This all is Nostradamus work not My work. Predicting about the future and all those things. Enlightened people don't predict the future, they just change it. That's all. Predicting and all is useless job.

[14:58]

Question: If Muslims can marry four women why can't Hindus marry four women? Answer: I did not say you should not marry. Marry. Who wants? Who says no; but after that don't come to Me saying that I have this problem, I have that problem. You can marry four or any number of times that depends on the country in which you are staying. That’s all. Even in this country Muslims are allowed to marry four times? No Na? That's right. No. You can marry but you have to divorce and… that's good. This is the real truth. It should be the same law for all.

[15:56]

Question: How long does it take for self-realization? Is there a shortcut? Answer: I think all these questions are from same guy. I can see the handwriting. One side he wants to marry four wives. Other side he wants shortcut for self-realization. I think marrying four women is the shortcut for self-realization; because after that you can't be alive without self-realization. See self-realization becomes a survival need if you marry four women. Now self-realization is an option. You can have it or not. So you can run your life without enlightenment also, but if you marry four times and all it becomes a compulsory, survival need. So I think you have a answer and question within yourself. That's good.

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Question: And again the same guy. I think now I know there before I left the hall two guys are sitting here and writing. I think it's from you? No couples behind Ashok ji? Ahh? No. Anyhow. Ahh ? Participant: If this question is from me my wife will kill me. HDH: No no. it's not from you. I am very clear. It's not your handwriting. Ma, I am very clear it's not his question Ma. Question: If all marriages are unsuccessful should not weddings be made illegal around the world. Answer: This is another one problem. Law is not under My control na. And one more thing, there are so many things which is unsuccessful, you need to go through it to learn the lesson 😀

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Question: Human sufferings, war, sickness does it mean there is no god? God wants sufferings. Answer: No, you want suffering. God doesn't want. He never created war. He created only planet earth. You created boundaries. Understand He created only planet earth you created boundaries and He created enough, plenty. Mahaveer says in one of the, one Sutra beautifully, ‘everyone of you when you take birth you bring whatever you need with you’ means, God sends it. Food or anything you need is available on the planet Earth. If you overeat and finish them all quickly you die and leave the planet Earth. If you enjoy them slowly, slowly you live in the planet Earth till you finish the whole thing. So anyhow the basic truth is when you are here everything is here. But few guys when they try to take away yours then you go through suffering and… See we have everything to supply needs of the whole world but even we can't supply one person's greed. You can supply need of the whole world, whatever is needed, but you can't fulfill the greed of one man. Hmm.

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Question: How to make the young children spiritual? How to introduce spirituality? Answer: First you become spiritual honestly because young guys are not going to learn what you… from your verbal language. They will learn only from your body language. First you become spiritual honestly, simply they will learn. And if you are just telling them and you are not practicing, never think you can escape from them. They are very intelligent. If you think you can escape from them, only you are wasting your time.

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Question: When you say line in a sense only when you use it we have to use some sense at any time. We cannot stop using any sense anytime. When is the case when you use no sense at all? Answer: No you are. I am not asking you not to use any sense. Every time, at any given time you will be using some one sense. So use that intensely. That's all.

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Question: Do bigger bodies have more memories? Answer: There is a possibility. Maybe they are recorded with more gap. The smaller bodies intensely it is recorded. Too many layers. Now the DVDs are there, two-layered DVDs na, like that. 😀

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Question: If you choose your life before birth then why do some suffer and some are happy? Answer: Because you chose that. Many time you feel fulfilled with suffering also.

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[Swamiji reads out the questions received and answers them]

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Question: Hmmm. How did you come in contact with Mahaveer's teachings? Answer: I had the opportunity to study and I myself was inspired by a Jain Muni during My wandering. During My Parivrajaka yatra there was a Jain Muni in Madhya Pradesh. He was alone, wandering, living in the forest. Usually, Jain Munis live as a group. But I don’t know why he is living alone but I think he has decided to live alone. And I have really nice experiences being around him. So, I felt very inspired and started reading.

Question: Does enlightened being can be in non-enlightenment state and come back in enlightened state? Answer: No. This is not like your car, you can get in and get out. Once you are enlightened, you are enlightened. That's all. You can't get out of it.

My… Oh this is some personal question.

Question: How does one increase their chances of dropping their ego? Answer: Only meditation, nothing else. Meditation is the only possibility where the ego can be dropped. There is no other possibility.

All right. Now let us work on the Moksha Marga sutras. It is very powerful sutra.

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कहम चरे कहम चिटठे,कहमासे कहम सए, कहम भुजन्तो भासंतो, पाव कम्म न बंधई। जयंम चरे जयंम चिट्ठे, जयंम मासे जयंम सए। जयंम भुजन्तो भासंतो, पावं कम्म न बंधई। ……Sanskrit sutras…

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These beautiful words. See you can't edit a single word. He is just using like a shortened, only a person who knows the basic philosophy can connect all these things and see the real meaning.

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Sanskrit Sutra

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“How should a Seeker walk? How should a Seeker stand? How should a Seeker sit? How should a Seeker sleep? How should a Seeker eat? How should a Seeker talk for him to be not bound by sinful Karma?”

See this question not only in Jainism. In every religion this question is analyzed. What is the perfect way of sitting, eating, sleeping, walking, living. In Gita also Krishna is asked by Arjuna how a Jeevan Mukta walks, how he lives, how he talks and how he does things?

A Seeker, Mahaveera is answering, ‘A Seeker should walk with knowledge, stand with knowledge, sit with knowledge, sleep with knowledge, eat with knowledge, speak with knowledge. This way sinful Karma's cannot bind him.’

Understand, this Sutra is called Moksha Marga Sutra. For enlightenment, Moksha, Mahaveer is prescribing - let your whole life become Enlightenment, meditation. He is telling - walk with knowledge, stand with knowledge, sit with knowledge, sleep with knowledge, eat with knowledge, speak with knowledge. Do not forget even a single moment; constantly be in the knowledge. What is, what he means by the word knowledge? Self-healing thoughts. The thoughts which heals the inner conflicts and difficulties, thoughts which puts you at ease again and again is what is called knowledge.

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For example, if you are sitting depressed for no reason, as usual 😀 Bringing yourself back, bringing yourself back and putting yourself ease with yourself. See, constantly we carry a subtle kind of uneasiness. We carry a subtle kind of uneasiness. For example, if you are sitting in a car and the person who is driving is a rash driver you know. You know he's a rash driver and his history says at least few accidents in a year. Will you be able to sleep and especially you know that he sleeps on wheel and you are driving late night. And I will, I will never sit with one or two of My disciples who, I will tell them ‘No. I don't want to sit with you because as on now I want to do little mission work.’ You can't sleep. You can't relax. Even if you try to relax, any small break you will just get up. You will carry a kind of a unease feeling with you constantly.

Same way when you are living the life also you carry that uneasiness. Knowledge means healing yourself. Dropping that unease feeling. See, creating more and more self-healing thoughts Viveka. That's what here, the exact Sanskrit word is Viveka only. It is translated as the knowledge. Viveka is not even knowledge it is more like a discrimination. Maybe we can say discrimination and knowledge put together is called Viveka. The original word is Viveka only. I don't know why in English they have translated as knowledge; but that’s the nearest word you don't have any other word.

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Constantly having a Viveka and bringing yourself back to the higher level, intense energy, high enthusiasm. Creating a mind set up through which constantly you will be reminded that you are beyond this body and mind, reminded about the true state of your being. Seeker should walk with knowledge, stand with knowledge, sit with knowledge, eat with knowledge, speak with knowledge. He says everything should be done with discrimination, Viveka and knowledge. Constantly remembering you are beyond this body.

If you just pen down whatever is going on in your mind you will see 8 out of 10 thoughts are pulling you down, creating more and more difficulties. You have created a network. You don't feel relaxed unless you create enough suffering for you. You can't relax unless you become tired. You don't know how to relax with intense energy. So you create tiredness before you relax. You wait for tiredness so that you can relax. You do not want to relax with energy. You do not want to be at peace with Rajas. If you are peaceful with excitement it is called bliss. Rajas + Sattva is Ananda. Either you are restless or peaceful. Either you are with energy but if you are with energy you are not peaceful. If you are peaceful you are not with energy. You are always dull. If you add the energy and peace it is called Satva.

[10:50]

Here Mahaveer asks you to create intense self-healing thoughts inside you, Viveka and knowledge. Knowledge means the awareness that you are unclutched. You are beyond body and mind. Whether you walk, stand or sit or sleep let you be aware you are not bound by your body and mind. Let you be reminded again and again ‘you are beyond body and mind’ And your fears does not come true. Just like your fantasies your fears are also not powerful. Understand, how you feel hopeless by trying to fulfill your fantasies and empty, same way your fears are also not powerful. Your fears are negative fantasies, that's all. Whether it is fear or fantasy you are trying to live with unreal things. So fear and fantasy both are not going to be reality. And God saves you by not fulfilling your fantasies. If he tries to fulfill all your fantasies you would have created a bigger hell for you. By now you would have created the worst hell.

“Having this knowledge, this Viveka, the one who sees himself in everybody, the one who sees everybody with equal vision, the one who has gone beyond his greed, the one who has pacified his senses escapes from sinful Karma.”

“First Jnana then compassion.”

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This is one more important thing, uniqueness of eastern religions: first enlightenment then service. People who want to do first service before enlightenment mess up the whole thing. They create more and more suffering so that they can continue to serve people. They want suffering, only then they can be serving others.

“All the seekers are waiting to attain this supreme state. An ignorant man can never understand what compassion is because he won’t know the difference between merit and sin. First Jnana, enlightenment, then compassion.” All seekers are waiting to attain this Supreme state.

“The one who sees himself in everybody, the one who sees everybody with equal vision, the one who has gone beyond his greed, the one who has pacified his senses, escapes from sinful Karma.”

Understand, you can see yourself in everybody only when you see you are beyond your body and mind. Only when you go little beyond your body and mind you will be able to see everybody in you, you in everybody.

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The essence of all these four Sutras is knowledge, self-remembrance, constantly reminding you about all these great spiritual truths. Whenever you walk, sit, see the best way to achieve this state what Mahaveer is describing, dedicate six months. I am not asking you to move away from your job. 6 months take a vow, whether you are driving or sitting or… maximum time in your life should be spent listening to these great teachings. Use audio CDs or some iPod or something, constantly from morning till night, whenever you can find time, even during work, the lectures or discourses can go on in the side. Flood your whole being with these truths. You will create a mental setup up which constantly reminds you about your true nature or your being. Constantly these words being put inside your being will transform your being. That is the only way to go beyond the ordinary things and achieve enlightenment and the true state of Viveka, knowledge, which Mahaveer is telling.

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See two thing, one constantly listening to these truths. Second, at least meditating once a day, doing some one technique, so that whatever you heard will be digested, will go into your system, will become part of your being. You will have energy to express them in your physical life. This is the essence of this whole Sutra. The Moksha Marga Sutra’s essence creating a mental set up through which constantly you are reminded about your true nature whether you are standing, sitting, sleeping, eating or speaking. How to do that? The best way is, take a vow ‘For the next six months I will spend my time maximum… no TV, no other entertainment except reading and spiritualizing my being.’ It should be like a transformation. ‘I will only read, listen, these great ideas’ and do not create a guilt that you are not able to practice the moment you start listening.

See the big difficulty, once you listen itself you create a guilt you are not able to practice. That guilt itself creates so much of difficulty in you, you stop listening also. Actually you stop listening also. Do not create a guilt that you are not able to listen, you are not able to practice. Just listen and you will see the words go into your being, they work on you and does miracles. And at least one meditation per day, at least once, so that whatever you heard, whatever you heard is digested into your system because these words of the Masters will clear all the conscious level problems. The meditation technique will clear all the unconscious level problems.

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Maybe today we will do one meditation technique. Today we will enter into one meditation which you can practice everyday. As I told you, just carry this two line: listening to these words again and again, meditating at least once. Today we will do an important and powerful meditation which I call Nithya Dhyan, very powerful meditation. All these days I was receiving so many letters, requests, even today there was a letter requesting to teach meditation, to have a meditation technique. We couldn't because in the evening there was no time. So maybe now we will do this meditation and then end the session with few words. After the meditation I will just give the gist of the whole thing in few words that can help you to carry the message and digest it.

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Let Me describe the technique. Five steps. First, first step: sitting in Vajrasana means sitting on your knees and having Chin Mudra. This is Chinmudra, in a relaxed way and deep chaotic breathing, as deeply as possible, intense breathing. As deeply inhale and exhale. This is the first step. Second step: sit in the same Vajrasana, same Chin mudra humming. Intense humming. Hmmmmmmn. Third step: put your awareness in every Chakra. You will be guided through the music and instruction. From Muladhara to all the Chakras. Fourth step: just relax. Do not encourage your thoughts. Do not fulfill them and do not suppress them. Don't create, maintain or destroy a thought. If it comes let it come, if it doesn't it's ok. Just be unclutched. This is the fourth state. Fifth state: relax and feel deeply connected to the existence in a prayerful mood. You can pray or connect yourself with any God or Guru; with whoever you feel connected you can connect with them, with that energy, with that God or with that Master.

Understand I will repeat once more. First step: sitting in Vajrasana and breathing. Inhaling and exhaling. Let your whole being become chaotic. Nothing else except breathing. This is the first step. Second step: humming. Let your whole being become humming. Nothing else. Third step: putting your awareness on every energy center, one-one minute. Fourth step: being unclutched, just unclutched. Fifth step: deeply feel connected to the existence, whatever God or Guru you feel connected, you can feel connected.

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After the meditation I will give the gist or the essence of this today's Sutras before ending the session. If you don't want to meditate or you don't have time, for any reason you think that you'll not be able to be here next 30 minutes because it is going to be 30 minutes, you can leave the hall. If you are interested and if you think you can have time you can spend next 30 minutes here. Please come down. If you feel that you can't sit on the ground, you can sit on the chair itself, no problem. It's a choice.

Please close your eyes and tie the ribbon. If you have kerchief or anything you can tie your eyes so that you will not feel tempted to look between the meditation. If you have heart problem or any health problem, you can do it very slowly and mildly. Do not do it wildly and chaotically.

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Aum Nithyanandam! Relax, you can open your eyes. Carry this silence with you, that is the essence of all spiritual teachings. So, maybe you can carry this one understanding, flood your whole being with this kind of enlightening words again and again and at least one meditation every day will transform your being and lead you to enlightenment.

We will see tomorrow the last session on Jaina Sutras. Let us expect some more things from Mahavira to bless us. Let you all achieve and radiate the eternal bliss, Nithyananda! Thank you!

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From the works of Living Enlightened master Paramahamsa Nithyananda. In this discourse Swamiji explains to us that transformation of the society can only happen with the transformation of the individual.

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Sadāshiva samārambhām Shankarāchārya madhyamām | asmat āchārya paryantām vande guru paramparām ||

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I welcome you all with My love and respects and the representatives who are sitting. Today’s subject is Vedic Renaissance. Vedic renaissance. First let us understand why Vedic renaissance should happen. Because this tradition, the Vedic tradition again and again reminds you to achieve something in the inner world. It’s like a constant reminder, constant inspiration to work on the inner world, to transform yourself, to experience the different space, different world. First time in the history of humanity, human-beings are enjoying such a luxurious, comfortable life. The outer world luxury and outer world comfort, we have reached peak; the medical care or the outer world comforts or the communication or luxury, you just can’t imagine what we have achieved. Same way, just like how we are in the peak of luxury and comforts, we are in the peak of suffering and misery in the inner world. Humanity has never suffered so much in the inner world, the spiritual poverty; we call that as a spiritual poverty. We are living in a world which is experiencing spiritual poverty. Only Vedic renaissance can fill the gap, can help the people to achieve peace and bliss. Only with the Vedic renaissance people will be able to experience even the comforts and luxuries we have created.

[03:40]

Understand. Through the outer world, through the outer science you may create a beautiful bed but only with the Vedic system you will have deep sleep. You may create all possible luxury… luxurious things, you may create all comforts, to experience peace, to experience life you need Vedic renaissance. Somebody need to remind you, somebody need to give you the experience that you are beyond this body, beyond this mind, you are beyond all the sufferings of the outer world. Your inner space is untouched by anything belongs to outer world. Only Vedic renaissance can do that. Experiencing the spiritual truth, experiencing the inner world, experiencing your own consciousness can happen when the Vedic renaissance happens inside you.

[05:09]

Understand. When I say Vedic renaissance, I am not telling you to go and change the whole world. No. Let the Vedic renaissance happen in you first. First we need to understand. First we need to internalize. First we need to transform our life. In Vedic tradition we don’t believe in conversion. We don’t believe in going around and preaching. We believe more in practicing. We believe more in creating a intense vibration or the spiritual space, spiritual intensity. Vivekananda beautifully says, a ordinary teacher who is going around and meeting thousands of people will not be able to create such an intense energy like a person who is sitting in a cave and just radiating his enlightenment. Understand. Vedic dharma is so courageous it discourages even preaching. It says let you achieve, let you radiate, simply everything else will happen.

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For the renaissance of the dharma, renaissance of the Vedic tradition first you need to do, let you become a seeker, let you understand what for you are living. You see, when I use the word seeker; let Me define the word properly. I mean, person who understands the outer world is not everything. Whoever has got the clarity the outer world is not everything, life is something more than the outer world, whoever has got that clarity, whoever feels that life is something more than the outer world, life is something more than what you experience through your eyes and ears, life is little more than what you experience through senses, whoever understands life is more than what you experience through your senses, you become seeker. You start seeking which is beyond this five senses. You start seeking the truth, you start seeking something which is beyond your senses. In Sanskrit we call that mumukshutva, means start seeking something which is beyond your senses.

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Shankara the great Master says, “Manushyatva, mumukshutva, mahapurusha sangama. Manushyatva - having human body; Mumukshutva - seeking towards the higher self; Mahapurusha sangama - the experience with the enlightened being, having the darshan or the touch of an enlightened being. All these three are very rare to achieve.” After achieving all these three, if somebody is not enlightened, he is called fool 😀 no other word; because you have everything and you did not use it, then no other word. Shankara says, “All these three things are greatest things which can happen to any human being.”

[09:27]

Seeking, first thing, you need to start seeking. Once in a while when you really feel the life is not under your control… Understand, in a civilized society, especially living in a city, you are given a wrong impression by your mind, your life is under your control. I always tell people, go and live in Himalayas for sometime. If you live in the Himalayas for sometime you will realize life is beyond your control. You will understand your life can’t be controlled just by your logic. It is beyond your control. You will be reminded your logic is not the master, your logic is not the master. But in these kind of societies, the cities, almost you are very clear about your routine. From morning till night you know how you will walk, in which car you will use, where you will reach, what you will do or what you will not do and how you will come back and what is your next routine. Even if there is a small accident you know there is life insurance. There is insurance. Practically, your ego gives an idea, your logic teaches you, your logic gives you the sort of a feeling your life is under your logic.

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Unconsciously you start believing your life is under your logic. That is why whenever some incident happens which is beyond your logic which is not under your control, you are totally shaken. You are completely shaken, you are not able to handle, you don’t know what to do. Either you fall in depression or you just suffer, suffer, suffer. You always expect, you always believe unconsciously that life is going to be only filled with the incidents which will be under your control where your logic is going to play everything, where your logic is going to be leader. Suddenly when the truth is told to you, of course life again and again reminds you the truth, your life is beyond your logic. Especially when some near or somebody in your family or friend circle dies or some accident, means losing job or something, suddenly you will see life is not under your control. Your logic is not the leader. Life is beyond your logic, life is beyond you, you start seeking. Then you start seeking. Few intelligent people start seeking the law of life. Understand. You know law of the outer world. Whoever wants to understand the law of the inner world, they call that as the dharma. Dharma is the word we use; law of the inner world, means the law of the cosmic energy. Whoever is trying to search, whoever is trying to seek, whoever is trying to understand the law of the inner world is called mumukshu. He is called seeker.

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First thing, you need to work, you need to start seeking towards the law of life, dharma. What is really dharma? What for the human birth is offered to me? What I am really supposed to achieve? These few questions are the basic need for Vedic renaissance in you. Understand. If Vedic renaissance happens in you all, that is more than enough. Don’t bother how to create Vedic renaissance in others. I always see people who are too busy in creating Vedic renaissance in others will never allow that to happen in themself because they are too busy looking at others, chiseling others, working on others. They forget that they need to work on themself. They forget they need to work on their own being. Many people come and ask Me, “Swamiji, how should I express my gratitude to You? I feel I received so much, how can I help”? I always tell people just meditate. That is the best thing you will do for Me. That is the greatest service you will do for Me. People ask Me, “No, no, no, should I do something for Your mission”? I tell them first work towards enlightenment, that is the best thing you will do for My mission.

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People who try just to work for mission without working towards enlightenment, they will be the biggest problem creators. They will create only politics. They will create only politics. You see people who are not working towards their own enlightenment, who are just working for the mission or the public, they create all politics. They create all difficulties. They create all problems. If you start doing service without having enough of inner maturity, you will only create more problem for people. You will create trouble so that you can start serving. I have seen people first who create trouble then start serving. See, unless you create trouble in the world how will you serve. You will be jobless. So, people who want to serve will create first problem. And in the sameway I have seen, these so-called teachers just because they should start teaching they will create a problem which does not exist, which does not exist. I have seen these so-called teachers who themself have not become enlightened, who start teaching. If a person is not enlightened and if he starts teaching he will create more problem to society than what they have already.

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See, an enlightened person will live in a totally different way. Your logic or your mind will never be able to put the.. put that person in a frame. You can’t put him in one frame. But with the teachers you can always expect how they will behave. How they will be and you can always expect, you can put them in one frame. So, it is easy for your mind to believe teachers. It is difficult to trust Masters because Master’s first work will be shaking you. I always tell people, if you feel that you are totally shaken, whatever you believe, whatever ideas you carry is shaken, be very clear that Master has started showering his compassion on you, his grace on you. Only when he showers his grace, only when he showers his compassion, your whole being will be shaken. Your whole being will be transformed.

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First thing you need to understand for Vedic renaissance is seeking. Let the seeking start happening inside you. The big problem with our mind, whenever you listen to these great words, for few days you will really cherish them. But again slowly your old inner chattering will come back. Slowly your old mental set up will come back. When your old mental setup comes back over, you are again running. The peer pressure or the society just makes you run, you are running towards the goal which is not going to give you fulfillment and which never makes you feel alive. I always tell people, ‘great difficulty in a rat race is, even if you win you are a rat.’ Even if you win you are just a rat. Run, run, run, run, run what for? You don’t even know. Many times people tell Me, “No, no, to take care of basic needs.” But once you know that you have enough of basic needs and all the things are taken care, after that do you think you will stop? Now you are habituated for running. See, by the time you achieve everything to relax and enjoy, now you are trained to worry, you are trained to run. If you stop running you feel lonely. You feel something is missing. You feel something is seriously absent in your being. You feel something more needs to be added. Something needs to be achieved. Seeking is the basic quality, first thing for Vedic renaissance.

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The next thing, very important truth, seeking which starts in you should not be just an emotion, should not be just a thought. It should be a deep understanding. Seeking plus understanding leads to transformation. Just seeking, see if you are just a seeker anybody can give you words. Anybody can sell words to you and it can be used for anything; you can be used. When the understanding is added to the seeking, you will see you are more balanced. When I say understanding, please understand this word ‘understanding’ very clearly, because this word is a important thing. Use only one scale to measure what you are taught is right or wrong. Whatever ideas you are taught by Masters or books, does it add more and more honesty in you, means truthfulness in you? Does it add more and more chit, consciousness in you? Does it make yourself more conscious and aware of all the inner happenings? Does it add more joy and bliss, ananda to you? Just use this one scale, sat, chit, ananda. Are you becoming more and more honest, Sat, truthful? Are you becoming more and more chit, aware, conscious? Are you becoming more and more ananda, blissful by these teachings or the Masters? This is what I call understanding.

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Please understand. Flood all the truth or message which you are receiving with this one idea. Are you becoming more and more intelligent, Truthful? Only an intelligent person will be truthful in his life. Are you becoming more and more aware, Chit? What is happening inside you? Are you becoming more and more blissful, Ananda? Understand. These three will always be together because the same energy, different names. Your being, the life which is inside your body if it expresses through your head, intellect, it is called intelligence, sat. If it expresses through your heart, it is called consciousness, awareness, Chit, compassion. If it just stays inside your being, it is called ananda, bliss. Same energy three different names. Just see whatever you are are learning, is it making all these three in your life. Then you are traveling in the right path. First seeking, then understanding. When the seeking and understanding is added, naturally you will start experiencing enlightenment. Do not think enlightenment is something which will happen in one moment. It will happen in one moment in the end for a …. in a different way. But as on now if you understand enlightenment as a gradual process, it will really help you. Enlightenment experience or the truth will be a sudden explosion, sudden experience. But as on now, if you understand that as a gradual process you will be encouraged to move towards it, to work towards it. If you think of only the sudden enlightenment, that one flash, every chance you will fall in depression.

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People ask Me, “Swamiji, I did two day meditation, I did not become enlightened.” God, I think he is waiting, when you will close your eyes so that he can appear in front of you. I think he has got much better job. With the sudden enlightenment idea, we always have a problem of you getting depressed. But with a gradual process, progress you will not feel depressed, you will be inspired to work more and more. Add this understanding - are you becoming more and more intelligent, more and more aware, more and more blissful? These three will not be separate, It will be all always together. If these two things happens in you, the vedic renaissance is happening on the planet earth. Understand when you change, whole world will change. When your attitude towards yourself changes, you will attract different kind of people around you.

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Always our people come and tell Me, “Swamiji, all my friends left me after I started meditating.” No, it's a big problem. Please understand. It is not that they left you, you left them. You don’t have anything common; you don’t have anything else to talk. I am successful in creating so many communities around the world. More than one thousand people are living inside our communities. People ask Me, “Swamiji, how so many communities are getting created”? I tell them, all you need to do is just create a real sincere seeking. Once you start really sincerely seeking you will see that you are attracted towards the spiritual community and you attract the spiritual community around you; automatically attract a spiritual community around you. I always tell people, ‘All I need to create a community is one sincere seeker, that’s all.’ Only one sincere seeker in one city is enough to create a beautiful spiritual community. Because his seeking is so intense, he will attract that kind of people around him.

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Understand when a seeker attracts the same kind of people around him it will be such a beautiful, peaceful arrangement, peaceful community. No legal structure is necessary, no rules is necessary, no regulations is necessary. The whole thing will be so beautiful, the whole thing will be so clear they will live in dharma, they will live in the natural law of life. Understand. The natural law is what we call dharma. When you all gather, you all just know, simply you all feel, I think he will do that, he will do this, I will do that. Each one will stand and take charge of something. I call this as a dharmic administration; administration through the dharma, administration through the natural law of life, administration through the truth. Understand, the ancient Vedic tradition, in the ancient Gurukulam system, there was no community based on birth. It was purely based on the activity. A person who doesn’t have anything else except his time, who shares his time - is called worker. A person who shares little products, he can create little products through his time. He creates some products, some jewelry or cloth, something, and sells, he shares the products, he is called vysya, seller, merchant, business community. A person who shares confidence on an ideology, who inspires people to stay together, who keeps the whole thing alive, who is father of the community, he is called kshatriya - the warrior community or the inspirers. Person who shares enlightenment, knowledge leads the whole group towards the higher truth. He is called brahmana, the saint. Understand. We did not create communities based on birth. The tradition created communities based on the activity. Person who shares his time is a worker, person who shares some products is vysya, person who shares courage and confidence is kshatriya, person who shares knowledge - enlightenment is brahmana.

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This is the way our tradition was created. This is the way the Vedic system was created. Understand the only way to bring the Vedic system back, to allow the renaissance to happen, to help the renaissance you need to understand the whole truth how the law of life works, Dharma - how the dharma happens. For example. in some field you will feel more confident, more courageous but may be due to your engraved memories or samskaras in some field, you will not feel confidence and courage. You will not feel courage or confidence. You will not feel that you will be able to face that situation. You can see, women who can face her husband will not be able to face just a small insect. A rat is enough to shake her or a small insect is enough to frighten her. Samskara, the engraved memory or even just a darkness is enough to completely make her shiver in the fear - just samskara. Even in your life, at sometime, in some situations you will express so much of courage and confidence but in some place you will not be able to stand.

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So the law of life is, wherever you feel confident, you share that. Understand one more thing, important thing; brahmana does not need to be a brahmana throughout his life, all 24 hours. No. A vysya need not be a vysya all 24 hours. No. A kshatriya need not be kshatriya all 24 hours. No. A worker need not be worker all 24 hours. It is like sometime you play the role of kshatriya, means giving confidence. Sometime you play the role of vysya - sharing products; sometime you play the role of sharing knowledge, enlightenment. So, it is just the job, it is just the thing which you do. In your life also if you understand this one truth - where you need to play the job of vysya, where you need to play the job of a kshatriya, where you need to be a worker, where you need to be a brahmana, your whole life will be beautiful. Big problem is you do not know how to remove your personality and go to the next personality; how to use personalities like a coat. You are caught in one personality. Using the wrong personality in the wrong place is what I call ego. Understand where you need to be very polite and humble, if you are arrogant, violent, it is egoistic. And where you need to be very arrogant, courageous, if you are polite and humble you are egoistic. Understand, always we think, ‘No, no, no, if I am humble how I can be egoistic?’ No. Ego standing topsy turvy is also ego, inferior ego.

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One small incident. Once a great… the incident happened in a great Master’s life, Ramana Maharshi. His disciple, one of his disciple translated one of his book into different language. In the translation, in the front side of the book his name is also published - Translated by: that person’s name. When that disciple saw that book, he went and told Bhagawan, “Bhagawan, they shouldn’t have put my name, I don’t feel like my name should be publicized. I am not that kind of a person.” He went and shouted at the administration, that disciple, “Why did you put my name.” And then came to Bagawan and said. Bhagawan said, “The ego which asked the name and ego which asked my name should not be put, both are one and the same.” If you ask, my name should be there and if you say my name should not be there, both are ego, relax. Bhagawan beautifully says, it is called inferior ego, the ego which is trying to show the humbleness. Understand with a superiority complex, with a violent aggressive ego at least society will teach you, you have ego. With a humble ego you will escape from society. That is more dangerous. That is more dangerous, very dangerous; it is called cunning ego. The ego which can nicely save itself.

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The real Vedic renaissance can happen if you understand where you need to be. A vysya, business man, the problem is with your family you do vysya job, business. In the business field where you are supposed to do business, there you will do charity or there you act like a worker. In the family you can’t carry the same personality of business. There you need to be more a kshatriya means sharing confidence. There your business will not work. Big problem is we lost the attitude or the idea of trusting others. Because we lost that idea, you can’t think in any other way except the way of business. I was surprised and shocked when I saw in this country people are having their own accounts without the knowledge of the husband or wife. Many families have got their own wealth means the husband will not know or the wife will not know. Means what? You have a clear business contract. Please understand, you may be living in one house, you are not living together. You may be living in one house but not living together. You do not know how to handle these four personalities - where to do the business and where to give confidence… You see, one more thing if you are not able to trust others, other person, be very clear same way you did not teach that person also to trust you.

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Never ever think only you are not trusting that person, and he or she is trusting you, no. If you are not trusting, the other person is also not trusting. If only when you feel insecured with the other person, you don’t trust. How you will feel insecured? Somewhere you have the data, information that he is not trusting you. So the trust happens if you behave like a kshatriya, means the father. If you take the whole responsibility on your shoulder the trust happens. See, seeking and understanding brings Vedic renaissance in you. Understanding the law of life, dharma, means the vysya, kshatriya, brahmana and worker. These four style, the community style, law of our dharma, the law of natural life, our dharma, will bring Vedic renaissance in your family. Step by step I am explaining how the Vedic renaissance can be brought first in your personality, then in your family, then in your community. First thing seeking and understanding to bring Vedic renaissance in you. Second thing understanding the natural law means the dharma, law of life, how our Masters created the communities based on the attitude and personality, based on the work which you are supposed to do. Understanding this will bring Vedic renaissance in your families.

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Understand, still in Indian villages hundreds of people live together as one family. Still I know the families in which more than one hundred people are members; one hundred people living under one roof. Still I know, I have seen more than one hundred people living under one roof, one kitchen. How this is possible? One single proper kshatriya is there, means the person who gives confidence. All you need to do is be a right kshatriya; give confidence wherever you need to. Do business outside the home, not inside. If you are doing business inside the home you are bringing wrong personality to the wrong place, means ego. A person who can’t say yes where he needs to say ‘yes’ is egoistic. Person who can’t say ‘no’, where he needs to say ‘no’ is egoistic. Ego does not mean only violent or aggressive. Even if you can’t say ‘no’, where you need to say no, be very clear you are egoistic. You are too much bothered about others opinion. That is the reason you have to say ‘yes’ even when you can’t say.. when you don’t want to say ‘yes’. You think, “No, no, no what they will think about me?” Ego, you want big ego satisfaction. If you understand how to play these different roles, where you need to be a worker, where you need to be a vysya, means the business man, where you need to be a kshatriya, giving confidence and where you need to be a brahmana, sharing knowledge.

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When you are counseling somebody, when you are helping somebody who is in depression by counseling, you are doing the job of a brahmana. You are leading the person to more light, you are radiating knowledge. So, try to handle your different personalities. See, instead of counseling whenever you need to counsel, you start using your warrior personality. You start using your kshatriya mold when you need to use the brahmana mold. You start using your vysya mold when you need to use kshatriya mold. That is where the problem starts. That is why the joint family system, living as a community has disappeared. You can’t find depression in that communities because you have so many people to relate. If you have to talk to the same person from morning till evening, if you have to see the same person in the house naturally you will feel bored. You will feel how many days you can see the same person. And after one or two years, you know the answers he will give. For any problem you know exactly the word. If you tell this word, what word he will speak you know. So, you start thinking, why to tell this and get that, better I myself repeat that word also. You will feel bored. The boredom starts happening when you are relating with only one person.

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One more thing, when you have different choices, you can create groups, you will feel attracted towards somebody, you will feel attracted towards one group and you will have more freedom to interact. One more thing, when you interact with so many people your personality also becomes rich. You enrich yourself, you will learn many things and you have a freedom, you have little more space. If you are angry with somebody, two days you can stop talking to him, you can talk to somebody else. Now you have choice in joint family, in community system. Understand the greatness of the Vedic rishis who created this whole system, who created our Vedic way of living. You have choice. But now if you are angry towards your husband or wife, of course, you won’t talk to that person but you don't have anybody else to talk and you are sitting with your TV. How long you can sit with your TV? One more thing, when you talk to somebody else, and open yourself, either you will get some consolation or counseling. There is a possibility for healing exists. When you don’t have anybody else to open, naturally no possibility for healing. You go and give all your money to psychiatrist.

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No really. See, in India, these sadhus are respected, sadhus means sanyasis are respected. They are used like a psychiatrist. They do the job of psychiatrists - listening to you. First thing, they listen to you. Second thing either they console you, if you are right you are given consolation. If you are wrong, you are given counseling. Something is done, you have somebody to relate with. The possibility for healing exists. That is why in the joint families depression is less, suicide rate is less, and people live more happily. Again the one thing which is basically required for the joint family system - you should know where to play the mask of a worker, where to put on the mask of vysya, business man, where to put on the mask of a kshatriya, warrior, where to use the mask of brahmana. One more thing even a child can be a brahmana for you. Even he can teach many things when you are in depression. When you are in low mood he can teach you, he can give you courage, he can give you confidence, he can help you to stand. Helping others or helping each other to stand up again is what we call the grihastha dharma.

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See, Ramakrishna says beautifully, grihastha dharma is like a fighting from inside the fort. You can throw your arrows but you will not be disturbed. You are inside the fort. You are safe, but you can always fight with your enemy because you have a deep security. Grihastha dharma is like a fighting inside the fort. But sanyas dharma is directly facing the enemy face to face. You don’t have a protection. When you are in depression, low mood there is nobody who will lift you up. But in grihastha dharma, the possibility for healing, possibility for consolation is more. But the difficulty is now in the single family system, in the small family system, just the husband wife and the child living together, in this kind of a system, you are all practically swamis, because for you also there is nobody to lift you out. You may live a grihastha life. No, I can say you are much worse than swamis, because not only there is nobody to lift you up, there is somebody to always push you down. There is somebody always to push you down; big difficulty.

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If you understand how to play these different roles; you see understand, life itself is after all a psycho drama. No, the truth, simply psycho drama. If you understand you are playing this drama again and again and again you will realize just being a brahmana is not something great. Just being kshatriya is not something great. It is a one more role, that’s all. People who never played the role of brahmana only is so much greedy about that role. If you try to play for few days then you will understand that’s also one more work, that’s all. That’s also one more work. Nothing else. I always tell people. People ask Me, “Swamiji what is there for You, wherever You go people respect You, receive You. You just speak and come away. It’s not a big job.” I tell them, “Please come and sit in the throne for two days. Just sit here for two days and listen to all the worries and complaints people are giving.” If you can listen all the worries and complaints and everything people tell you and go back and sleep in a relaxed way you are enlightened. No, really. Just sit. You don’t have to… you don’t have to give them energy darshan, you don’t have to give them some support, you don’t have to give them consoling or counseling, nothing. You tell them, “No, I am in mouna (silence), you just tell I will listen.”

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Whenever I send these new brahmacharis for training I tell them, ‘brahmachari is in mouna, you just talk he will listen, that’s all.’ Because if he opens the mouth he will prove that he doesn’t know anything. 😀It is better let he will be in mouna. So that people will not understand, people will not think he doesn’t know anything. All you need to do is just sit and listen to people, try to go back and sleep, you won’t be able to. If you do the job of the brahmana you will understand this is also one job, that’s all. This is also one work, that’s all, nothing else. The whole life is just psycho drama. See because you are there I am here, nothing else. Because disciples are there, guru is there. Because somebody is a brahmana, somebody is a kshatriya. Because somebody is a kshatriya, somebody is a vysya, that’s all. See it is just a psycho drama, who chooses to play which role that’s all. It's purely your choice. If you are attracted too much towards one choice go and try to play that game. In one month everything will become alright. One person went to Arunachala, the place of Ramana Maharishi and he said, “Master, it is such a high energy place, so beautiful, so amazing. I know why you feel so blissful and peaceful here - because of this place.” Ramana Maharishi says, “Just stay here for one month everything will become alright.”

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See, I am not saying that Arunachala is not the energy center or a peaceful place but your mind will take it for granted. In one month your mind will say, ‘ah! I know all these things. I know these things.’ You will take people for granted, you will take place for granted, you will take things for granted. Understand. When you take things for granted naturally life will be boring, life will be boring. Whenever you are trying to be jealous or greedy of the other role, try to play that, you will understand whole thing is just psycho drama. Only if you live that life you will understand it has nothing. I am not joyful because I am playing the role of the guru. I am joyful because I understood all the roles are foolishness. No role is going to give joy. Joy is supposed to come from your own being, not from any role which you are playing. That is why I am joyful. I always tell people, whenever this, especially these swamis or the brahmacharis when they take training, they feel little jealous. We are also talking the same thing, Swamiji is also talking the same thing. But why so much of crowd is gathering for Swamiji? I tell them, sometime I tell them, ‘Hey today is My program, but I am not going, you go and conduct the program. Just few days I send them then they understand this is one more psycho drama that’s all. Nothing else, one more role being played.

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If you understand that, if you understand that all roles which you are playing is not equivalent to your Self you will know where to play which role, that’s all. You will not be caught too much with the vysya attitude or too much with the kshatriya attitude. Here in this country especially I saw all these people are caught too much, too much with one attitude. You hold on to some one attitude. You do not know how to live the life playfully, easily move from other attitudes. See, when you need to play the businessman role, play it. When you come out just play some other role. Moving from role to role, playing all the roles, a person who can play all the four roles and who is beyond; who has understood he is beyond all the four roles is called Paramahamsa. Paramahamsa is a person who can play all the four roles, who is not attached to one role, who is not attached to one attitude. All you need to do is understand the utility of these roles and futility of the roles. If you understand the utility of these four roles and futility of these four roles, you will live, you will bring…

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Understand if somebody believes God is in the form of Krishna from the young age, God will appear to him only in that form. If somebody believes that God is in the form of Buddha, God will give darshan to him only in that form. Understanding the uniqueness of samskaras, engrams and respecting all the engrams, all the unique engram structures will bring Vedic renaissance in the whole community. See, when you understand the uniqueness of every faith you will never try to convert. You will never try to convert, you will only help them to go beyond. See, helping a person to become enlightened is not conversion. Helping somebody for transformation is not conversion. Still now no Vedic tradition, whether it is Hinduism or Buddhism or Jainism or Sikhism, all of them do not have any ritual for conversion. No. We don’t have ritual for conversion because we don’t believe in conversion. All we believe - whatever you are living, live intensely, transform your life. Transform your life - that is the… helping somebody to transform is not conversion. It’s nothing to do with conversion. When you understand the uniqueness of every person’s faith, every person’s samskaras, engrams you will bring Vedic renaissance in the outer world.

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If you try to convert somebody by greed or fear, you are not respecting the uniqueness of his samskaras, engrams. You are not respecting that person. You are counting him only as a number. See, in the army, you are given only the number, one, two, three, four like that. When you do not respect that person's uniqueness, you count him only as a number. If you count him as a number, only then you try to convert. In the Vedic tradition we don’t believe in conversion because we respect every being’s unique samskaras, engrams, unique set up of engrams. First try to bring seeking and understanding inside you so that Vedic renaissance will happen in you. Try to understand futility and utility of these four roles: worker, vysya-businessman, kshatriya-warrior, brahmana-enlightened one. Understand the utility and futility of these four roles, you will bring Vedic renaissance in your family. Understand. This important truth of respecting every individual’s samskaras, every individual's engrams, you will bring Vedic renaissance in the whole world, in the whole community. So understand these few basic truths and bring Vedic renaissance in you, in your community and in the whole society. Let you all achieved and radiate the Eternal bliss, Nithyananda. Thank you.

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