May 29 2012

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Bhagavad Gita (Song of God) is a timeless treatise on the essence of living enlightenment. The Gita was imparted by the enlightened Hindu incarnation Sri Krishna to the warrior-prince Arjuna over 5000 years ago. Amazingly, the spiritual wisdom and life solutions offered in the Gita are so universal and current that it is even today used as a personal transformation guide. In this morning’s talk on Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 4 Verse 39, Paramahamsa Nithyananda (Swamiji) inspires us to invoke the power of shraddha in our spiritual practice. Shraddha is usually translated as “faith”. Paramahamsa extends this definition to embrace “courage”: the fortitude required to endure the pressures that push us into enlightenment. When we yearn for the enlightened state we feel a suffocation, a constraint that our present awareness is too small and too confined. With shraddha we can permit that suffocation to work on us, to burst us open like a seed sprouting into a tree. Paramahamsa gives us a technique to relieve the pressure: share our knowledge with others. This allows us to expand our boundary and release the sense of suffocation.

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COURAGEOUS TRUST CAN CONQUER ALL OBSTACLES

BHAGAVAD GITA CHAPTER 4, VERSE 39

Discourse Given By PARAMAHANSA NITHYANANDA

29th May, 2012

Swamiji : Today’s Satsang : In Bhagavad Gita, 4th chapter , Jnana Karma Sanyas Yoga, 39th verse

Shraddhaa-vaallabhate Jnaanam tatparaha samyatendriyaha I

Jnaanam labdhvaa param shaanthim achirenaadhi-gacchathi II

Translation : The person with the trust catches hold of consciousness. Beyond that he subdues the power of the senses. Having attained the state of consciousness very soon he acquires supreme auspiciousness.

A person with shraddhaa ! shraddhaa ! The very word is so beautiful and powerful ! Courageous trust is what I call shraddhaa ! Unless the seed has the courage to be pressured by the sand and break open, it can never become tree. Same way, unless your nerves, your cognizing system, the system in which, system through which you take cognizance of life in your system, means through which you perceive, unless that goes through the supreme spiritual yearning pressure, the suffocation due to the insufficient feeling of your capacity to perceive. Please understand, the only difference between you and me is that I can perceive little more, deep into time and space. You can comprehend using your mind may be little bit from the past and little bit in the present and little bit in the future and little bit happening around you. I can perceive little more in the past, little more in the present, little more in the future, little more in the outer and inner space, that’s it! So the yearning to perceive more, suffocation of lower level of perception is the basic requirement for Enlightenment. Unfortunately when that happens, you give different reasons for that suffocation and run away. Actually when somebody comes into the organization and I awaken their Kundalini, the suffocation of insufficient perception only is awakened in them. But unfortunately they feel I think this suffocation is because of the structuring (department), because people don’t care about me. They attribute to all outside and run away, escape. It is not because of any other person, it is because of your Kundalini awakening. When the Kundalini is awakened, the first thing will happen to you is you will feel the insufficient perception, the suffocation of insufficient perception. Shraddha is the strength to face the insufficient suffocation and break it, make it into a complete perception, your capability to perceive, your capability to expand.

Bhagavan is hitting again and again on this same point  last three verses. You can see clearly last three verses he goes on talking about ‘spontaneous readiness for intense action’. Still that word is there in my tongue like a hangover of the sweet ! See if you eat some sweet you really like, at least for next 10 minutes you will have the hangover in your tongue. That word is so beautiful - Spontaneous readiness for intense action. Still that word there is in my throat like a sweet ! Now Bhagavan uses beautiful words Shraddhaa-vaallabhate Jnaanam.  These three words are used in Vedanta again and again in many places. This three words are popular words, in Aatmabodha, in many of the Shankara literatures and the later Surshwarshwara’s Vartikas and Bodhendra Saraswati’s Teekas and many other post Shankara Vedantic literatures talk about this word Shraddhaa-vaallabhate Jnaanam. All you need is the courage to stand your own yearning, intense yearning. I tell you, seed has to feel the pressure, from outside the pressure of sand, from inside the pressure to become a tree. Only then it slowly opens up and becomes a tree. Same way, when somebody comes here to learn from me, to imbibe from me, the first thing I do I try to expand their perception, their capability to look into past, present, future, outer space and inner space. Please understand, if somebody is screaming at you, if you start immediately hating the person, your perception is too small in the outer space. But if you can wait and look into his pattern and the pattern from which he is shouting and respond only to the pattern  and wait for him to get out of that pattern you  have more perception, expanded perception in the outer space. Same way in your inner world, if you just go behind your instinct, again reduced perception, suffocating perception ! Instead you wait, watch how ball rolls inside your inner space, how you respond from your pattern, how you try to fulfill something which can never be fulfilled, how you try to run behind something which is never your Prarabdha, again and again and again ! Standing with the tremendous understanding ! I can give you one powerful technique, simple technique to reduce the suffocation and the pressure you feel. Go around and start teaching, connecting with people, then you will see you will neither loose your yearning, Shraddhaa, nor go back to grainary to get fried. See, if you are just constantly working on you , you feel too much of suffocation. If you move out of you, the working, you go back to the grainary where you will just get fried and you will never ever sprout again. Instead, you teaching, relating with people, connecting with others as a method, process, technique to ease the suffocation, to ease the suffering.

Shraddhaa-vaallabhate Jnaanam tatparaha samyatendriyaha I

Jnaanam labdhvaa param shaanthim achirenaadhi-gacchathi II

The person with the trust catches hold of the consciousness. Beyond that he subdues the power of the senses. Having attained the state of consciousness, very soon he acquires supreme auspiciousness. Enlightenment is literally an alchemy process. Sometime people think it is a option. I tell you, No ! It is compulsion ! Everybody who assumed the body, has to achieve Enlightenment ! It is not just destination It is Destiny. It is Destiny and Destination of every individual who assumed the body. Ramakrishna says very beautifully even if you are far away from Ganga, you want to drink only Ganga water and you are travelling towards it, even if you are not getting the Ganges water don’t drink drainage water ! Proceed, proceed, proceed, progress in the path of getting the Ganges water, even if you die in between, it is okay; you will take one more body and start from that place where you left but don’t drink drainage water, don’t compromise.

The Sacred secret in this verse is exactly that. Shraddhaa-vaallabhate Jnaanam. Do not feel comfortable in the warmth of the frying pan. Even if it is heavy pressure under the sand , be there, you will open up and become a Tree. Be there where the possibility for the higher opening is there. Don’t be in a place even if it is warm now, which will freeze all your possibility. Let me be rid of this now , don’t work with that idea.

Shraddhaa-vaallabhate Jnaanam. I give you this three words Shraddhaa-vaallabhateJnaanam, Also one of the important Quotations .Try to write these three words eleven times in your Book of Heart. Shraddhaa-vaallabhate Jnaanam, Shraddhaa-vaallabhate Jnaanam. And try to internalize this three word. Shraddhaa-vaallabhate Jnaanam. Now sit for few seconds and internalize this word Shraddhaa-vaallabhate Jnaanam . Close your eyes. Feel the Master’s presence and internalize this one word Shraddhaa-vaallabhate Jnaanam.

Spot Notes: Tuesday, 29 May 2012

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Today’s Satsang in Bhagavad Gita, 4th chapter, Jnaana Karma Sanyaasa Yoga, 39th verse –

“sraddhavan labhate jnanam tat-parah samyatendriyah | jnanam labdhva param santim acirenadhigacchati ||”

Translation – “The person with the trust catches hold of consciousness. Beyond that he subdues the power of the senses. Having attained the state of consciousness very soon he acquires supreme auspiciousness.”

A person with Shraddha. Shraddha - the very word is so beautiful and powerful. Courageous trust is what I call Shraddha. Unless the seed has the courage to be pressured by the sand and break open it can never become tree. Same way unless your nerves, your cognizing system the system through which you take cognizance of life you take cognizance in your system, means through which you perceive unless that goes through the supreme spiritual yearning pressure, the suffocation due to the insufficient feeling of your capacity to perceive. Please understand, the only difference between you and me is that I can perceive little more, deep into time and space. You can comprehend using your mind maybe little bit from the past, little bit in the present and little bit in the future and little bit happening around you. I can perceive little more in the past, little more in the present, little more in the future, little more in the outer and inner space. That’s it. So the yearning to perceive more, suffocation of lower level of perception is the basic requirement for enlightenment. Unfortunately, when that happens you give different reasons for that suffocation and run away. Actually when somebody comes into the organization, when I awaken their kundalini, the suffocation of insufficient perception only is awakened in them. But unfortunately, they feel maybe this suffocation is because of structuring, because people don’t care about me. They attribute to all outside and run away. Escape! It is not because of any other person it is because of the kundalini awakening. When the kundalini is awakened, the first thing will happen to you is you will feel the insufficient perception. The suffocation of insufficient perception. Shraddha is the strength to face the insufficient suffocation and break it, make it into a complete perception.

Your capability to perceive, your capability to expand, Bhagavan is hitting again and again on this same point last three verses. You can see very clearly last three verses he goes on talking about spontaneous readiness for intense action. Still that word is there in my tongue like a hangover of a sweet. See if you eat a sweet you really like at least for next ten minutes you will have hangover in your tongue. That word is such a beautiful word – spontaneous readiness for intense action. Still that word is there in my throat like a sweet. Now Bhagavan uses beautiful word – ‘sraddhavan labhate jnanam’ these three words are used in Vedanta again & again in many places. These three words are popular words. In Aatma bodha in many of the Shankara’s literatures and later in Sureshwara’s vaartikas and Bodhendra Sarawathi’s teekas and many other post Shankara Vedantic literatures talk about these three words ‘sraddhavan labhate jnanam.’

All you need is the courage to stand your own yearning, intense yearning. I tell you seed has to feel the pressure from outside the pressure of sand, from inside the pressure to become a tree. Only then it slowly opens up and becomes a tree. Same way, when somebody comes here to learn from me, to imbibe from me, the first thing I do I try to expand their perception their capability to look into past, present future, outer space and inner space. Please understand, if somebody is screaming at you, if you start immediately hating that person, your perception is too small in the outer space. But if you can wait and look into his pattern and the pattern from which he is shouting and respond only to that pattern and wait for him to get out of that pattern, you have more perception, expanded perception in your outer space. Same way in your inner world. If you just behind yoru instinct again reduced perception suffocating perception. Instead you wait, watch, how ball rolls inside your inner space, how you respond from your pattern, how you try to fulfil something which can never be fulfilled. How you try to run behind something which is never your praarabdha. I have seen people with narrow perception suffer, suffer, suffer, suffer and destroy themselves. See the whole spirituality is nothing but expanding your perception. Naturally when I start expanding your perception immediately you lose something inside you and start feeling oh God! then there is something more than what I am perceiving. This whole understanding that there is something more than what I am perceiving, shakes your whole thing. Larger yearning, deeper discontentment, suffocation of lower perceptions starts happening in you especially when I awaken kundalini your perception expands, the possibility of perception becomes more. That is why I insist once your kundalini is awakened try to be around the master in a stable way. Otherwise you will blame the situation or somebody else for your suffocation. If a seed starts blaming somebody for its suffocation, it will never become a tree. Unfortunately sometime people assume somebody else or something else like a reason for suffocation and try to run away from this place, escape from this place. Its like almost when the seed is about to open up and become a tree, it escapes and runs way, goes back to the granary – father’s place J But unfortunately in granary all the grains will be fried. Understand the seeds which fight with the sand or the atmosphere create for it to flower to become a tree and goes back to the granary gets fired. Please understand pressure of the sand is million times better than the heat of the frying pan! Because once you are fried, you never ever sprout again. The possibility for sprouting is destroyed. But unfortunately, people feel in that warmth-ness very comfort, in the frying pan you feel comfort, very comfortable than the pressure of the sand.

Understand, even if it is suffocating, even if it is pressure be in the sand to grow. Do not jump back to the granary from where you came. Again and again and again standing with the tremendous understanding. I can give you one powerful technique -simple technique to reduce the suffocation and pressure you feel. Go round and start teaching, connecting with people. Then you will see you will neither lose your yearning shraddha nor go back to the granary to get fried. See if you are just constantly working on you – you feel too much of suffocation. If you move out of you the working you go back to the granary where you will just get fried and you will never ever sprout again. Instead you teaching, relating with people, connecting with others as a method, process technique to ease the suffocation. To ease the suffering.

“sraddhavan labhate jnanam tat-parah samyatendriyah | jnanam labdhva param santim acirenadhigacchati ||”

“The person with the trust catches hold of consciousness. Beyond that he subdues the power of the senses. Having attained the state of consciousness very soon he acquires supreme auspiciousness.”

Enlightenment is literally the alchemy process. Sometime people think it is option. I tell you no. it is compulsion. Everybody who assumed the body has to achieve enlightenment. It is not just destination, it is destiny. It is destiny and destination of every individual who assumed the body. Ramakrishna says very beautifully even if you were far away from Ganga, you want to drink only Ganges water and you are travelling towards it. Even if you are not getting the Ganges water, don’t drink drainage water. Proceed, proceed and progress in the path of getting the Ganges water. Even if you die in between it is okay. You will take one more body and start from that place where you left. But don’t drink the drainage water. Don’t compromise. The sacred secret in this verse is exactly that. ‘Shradddhavan lapate jnanam.’

Do not feel comfortable in the warmth of the frying pan. Even if it is heavy pressure under the sand, be there you will open up and become a tree. Be there where the possibility for the higher opening is there. Don’t be in a place even if it is warm now which will freeze all your possibility. Sometime this bramhacharis or brahmacharinis they are not able to withstand the pressure of this spritual practice and this spiritual alchemy. They run away and they feel very relieved in their house. They also write I feel very relieved. But the warmth you feel, the relieved you feel is the warmth of the frying pan. It will be very relieving for two days. The warmth you feel in frying pan is the killing warmth. The pressure you feel under the sand is a growing pressure. Do not decide based on the small perception. Let me rid of this now – don’t work with that idea. Even the devotees I have seen. When they feel the pressure of the spiritual practice or the Sangha working on them, they tend to run away, they give the key back. But don’t you understand, it is only in the pressure you expand and grow. It is the pressure of the sand which gives the life. Never the warmth of the frying pan. The comfort which destroys the possibility is the warmth of the frying pan. Pressure which awakens your possibility is the pressure of the sand. Seed has to decide what it wants to do, how its life should be, where it should be. Every successful banyan tree has gone through the pressure of the sand and the pressure to become a tree internally. Pressure of the sand externally and pressure of the possibility internally. Pressure of the sand externally is what I call pressure of the Sangha. Internal pressure is what I call your yearning shraddha. Every banyan tree successful banyan tree has gone through that pressure as a seed. If it has not gone through it would have become fried seed, it would have never become tree. I tell you if you are feeling pressured, suffocated, by anything happening around me, whether you are part of the Sangha as a volunteer or Ashramite or as a devotee, or samaji, satsangi understand remember this one truth Swamiji also has gone through this same pressure. But he stood! That is why he has exploded. I tell you the moment you remember I have gone through, your tremendous love for me, your feeling connection that itself takes away the suffering part of that suffocation. When he has gone through why not me? That gives you tremendous shraddha to perception the higher perceptions of the same suffocation and to presume the path courageously. Having higher perception, perceiving in a larger scale and pursuing your saadhana is what I call Shraddha.

“Shraddhavan lapate jnanam” - I give you this 3 word – repeats also as one of the important quotation. Try to write this 3 word 11 times in your book of heart and try to internalize this three word – “shraddhavan lapate jnanam”

Now sit for few seconds and internalize this word “shraddhavan lapate jnanam.”

Close your eyes. Feel the master’s presence and internalize this one word – “shraddhavan lapate jnanam.”

We will move to the next segment of morning Satsang – Dial the Avatar. Bela Patel from California you are able to hear me ma?

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(29 May 2012) The Kanjanoor Agniswarar Temple is located in the village of Kanjanur, Tamil Nadu and is one of the temples under the hereditary trustee of Madhurai Adheenam. The presiding deity of the temple is "Agniswarar" or Paramashiva. Said to be 1400 years old the temple was built by the Medieval Cholas and renovated by the kings of the Vijayanagar empire. Kanjanur is one of the nine Navagraha sthalas located in the Cauvery Delta region dedicated to planet Venus, called Sukra. Unlike other Navagraha (9 planets) temples, the main deity, Agniswarar in the form of lingam depicts Lord Sukra. His Divine Holiness, 293rd Guru Maha Sannidhanam Paramahamsa Nithyananda visits this historic temple to pay His respects to the deities.

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Paramashivoham Oneness Capsule 155 (29 MAY 2012 Kanchanoor Temple Visit)

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