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…

[02:57]

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.

[03:31]

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.

[06:03]

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.

[08:33]

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.

[18:25]

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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