November 10 2007

Title:

Zone of no inner chattering

Description:

From the works of living enlightened master Paramahamsa Nithyananda. In this clip taken from discourse titled, " From Logic to Love", Swamiji describes what enlightenment is from the perspective of an intense zone where there is no inner chattering. He tells us that this is not a dead thoughtless zone, but a zone of intense energy where, whatever that needs to be done expresses itself as a complete visualization. This is called intuition versus the linear logic based system which is the basis for intellect based processes. He tells us that our mind, filled with thoughts can lead us to mindlessness. The conscious decision to add no thoughts, even for a few moments in our lives can add so much to our being.

Title:

Living with Senses versus Living with the mind

Description:

From the works of living enlightened master Paramahamsa Nithyananda. In this clip taken from discourse titled, "From Logic to Love", Swamiji tells us that Shiva in this technique gives us a method of directly experiencing enlightenment by living with our senses. He gives us a simple test to determine if we are living in the mind (i.e in fantasies) or living in the senses (zone of experiences). Due to so much of influence of media, we are all living in the cerebral layer. Swamiji tells us that the biggest lie taught to us is everything can be explained by logic. Logic may be a beautiful tool to handle our material possession, our work and outer worldly aspects, but it is a poor tool to handle life. Swamiji beautifully explains the difference of living in the senses versus living in the cerebral layer through the heartwarming story of Kannappa, a disciple of Shiva who lived in Sri Kalahasthi in South India.