March 06 2007

Video Title:

Living the Truth || Part 1 || Jain Sutras || 06 March 2007

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Name Of The Convention : Jain Sutras
Session on: Living the Truth Part 1
Date : 06 March 2007
Venue : Los Angeles, CA, USA

In this video, we hear the Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism HDH #Nithyananda Paramashivam speaking on the Jain Sutras. Here, His Divine Holiness explains how Mahavira has created the purest traditions that cannot be misinterpreted. These truths will be instilled in people for generations to come. Swamiji goes on to say that Mahavira, the conqueror of fears, is showing us truth, in its truest form.

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(01:14)

Namo Arihantanam Namo Siddhanam Namo Ayariyanam Namo Uvjhayanam Namo Loye Savva Sahunam Aiso Panch Namahkkaro Savva Paav Panasano Mangallanancha Savvesim Padhmam Havei Mangalam Padhmam Havei Mangalam!!

I welcome you all with love and respects.

(02:32)

Mahaveer, greatest Enlightened Master happened on the planet earth. He is the only Master who is able to create a technology or the formula to reproduce not only Enlightened beings, to create the purest tradition... Understand, vedic tradition or the traditions which are born in India, we can really be proud of one important thing. You can’t misinterpret, misunderstand Mahaveer. You can’t! He has gone to the extreme of great spiritual truths. Not only he expressed in his life, even the teachings which he created or the next generation which he created, in them also he has instilled these great truths in its purest form. Understand, you can’t instill the great tradition, great truth in your next generation if you are hypocrite, if you are hypocritical, if you are saying one thing and living in the other way because, the next generation, the immediate generation is going to only see you and learn. It is not going to learn from what you are teaching. It is going to learn only from what you are doing.

(04:47)

Maybe after two-three hundred years, nobody will know what you did. They will learn from your teaching because only the teachings are recorded and kept but the first generation is going to learn only what you do. If the first generation people are truthful, honest, spiritual, without violence, that means the Master lived a pure life, Master lived beautiful life. Except Mahaveer, there is no other Master who can boast the beautiful first generation means Enlightened first generation who did not fight with themself. The moment Master dies, first thing will happen is, fight among the disciples, the problem among the disciples. Only Mahaveer can boast there is no fight, there was no trouble even after he left the body. The first generation was completely Enlightened. The reason is, He lived that kind of life.

(06:14)

Actually all these days I did not speak on Mahavir’s Sutras, Jain Sutras because I thought people can’t digest it. It is too much truth! It is too much. To tell you honestly, when I tell people please drop smoking, they drop Me, not smoking. If you give the truth as it is, it is very difficult for them and man needs, man actually needs little lies, hope for his life but you can’t add any little bit of lie, hopes and all these things with Mahavira. He is a pure energy, pure Consciousness. How much you try to misinterpret, you can’t do because He is very clear. You can’t entertain people with Mahavira. He is not an entertaining philosopher. No! He is truth in its true form. So I thought let Me have a right group. Only then I should start speaking on Mahavira. Only then I should talk on Mahavira’s Sutras.

(07:50)

Now we are going to see not only the Sutras directly by Mahavira, some Sutras from the disciples also, Acharananda Sutras also. In the publicity material also you would have seen the name Acharananda Sutras because the beauty is the Acharananda Sutras gives you the techniques to apply Mahavira’s teachings. Such pure, simple truths expressed by Mahavira. For a normal man it is very difficult to digest. I was always telling our close people. They were asking Me again and again, “Swamiji, why don’t You speak on Mahavira?” Because I have spoken on Bhagavad Gita, Ashtavakra Gita, Upanishads and Buddha and Sermon on the Mount. They were again and again asking Me, “Swamiji, speak on Mahavira.” I told them, “I am afraid that you guys will run away, because he is a pure truth. He is not compromising.” Understand, He is not compromising.

(09:20)

I always tell people, “If I speak on Mahavira, I am afraid that you may run away because the truth in its purest form. You can’t add any stories or jokes. You can’t dilute. It has to be expressed in a clear, authentic way. One more important thing, you can’t edit Mahavira’s Sutras because there is no repetition. You can’t edit. You can’t say, “Oh! These Sutras are beautiful and these are all repetition.” No! You can’t reduce, you can’t take away even a single word. He is so clear, straight to the point of Enlightenment. He is not starting His works with an introduction. No! No introduction. He is not preparing you mentally. No! You see, you need introduction, if I am going to say something which I have not experienced, I have to prepare you. If I am going to say the straight truth, you don’t need introduction, I don’t have to give a big introduction. I don’t have to prepare you. Here Mahavira is not preparing. No introduction. Straight truth. He is talking the honest truth.

(11:13)

Many time I am surprised, even the so-called followers of Mahaveera, even the people who are born in the Jain community do not read or do not give much time to the philosophy of Mahavira. They spend more time in front of Mahavira’s statue because you can easily escape from a statue. They spend more time with Mahavira’s idol because it’s more like a, you are only going to do anything. He is just sitting silently. You can do whatever you want. If you don’t do also He will not ask you but with the words, with His teachings, He will start working on you. I have seen. People go to the Jain temples, sit in front of that moorthi. From morning till night, they will do all rituals but they are afraid to read the literature. They are afraid to read the words of Mahavira.

(12:21)

As long as you are playing with Mahavira’s moorthi, you can work on him. You can put flowers, you can put sandal, you can put prasadam, you can put offerings. You will be working on him but the moment you read his teachings, He will be working on you. We are afraid of that. We are afraid of allowing Him to work on us. It is very easy if you work on Him because you are a Master. If you are just stopping with the idol worship, you see, I am not saying idol worship is wrong. Beautiful, it is beautiful if it inspires you to follow Him. If it inspires you to follow His teachings, follow His words, idol worship is beautiful technique but many time I have seen, people use idol worship to escape from His teachings. Then it’s dangerous.

(13:31)

Understand, please don’t work on Mahavira; allow Him to work on you. Let Him work on you. Let the teachings penetrate your being. Again, I request you all, if I hurt you in some way, please forgive Me because the teachings of Mahavira, the straight truth. He is basically by blood, kshatriya. Kshatriya doesn’t know courtesy. because He is not begging from anybody. A Brahmana will always be courteous because by his birth, he is supposed to receive and eat. Understand! When I say those words, they will not, they don’t have meaning for the modern society. In the modern day, the Brahmana does not mean he is from others. I am saying from the, from those days. Those days the Brahmana is supposed to receive and eat. So naturally he will be little humble, courteous. He will not, he will think twice before hurting people.

(14:55)

Kshatriya especially, if he becomes Enlightened, he will not compromise. He will tell the truth straightaway and one more thing, kshatriya is not afraid of death. It doesn’t bother. If you kill me, that is okay but I am going to tell the truth. I am going to tell the truth. Arihanta means who conquered all the enemies, who killed all the enemies. First enemy is fear, your own fear. The desire to live, thirst for living is the first enemy. You may say then, “Should we commit suicide?” No, I am not telling you commit suicide but too much of desire or so much of fear that you may die, that’s the first enemy. Mahavir has conquered. He has conquered that enemy-the fear. That’s the reason he was able to tell the truth as it is.

(16:10)

One more thing, before entering into any Enlightened Master’s teachings or any great Master’s teachings, you should analyse to whom it is delivered, for what purpose it is delivered because you should see the ulterior motive of the teaching. What for those teachings are delivered. He came and he said. “I take bath everyday in Ganges three times and I do all the Sandhya practices”. So he started boasting and he claimed that he will achieve the highest moksha, heaven. Vivekananda said, “Just taking bath in Ganges, you will become God means then, fishes which are in the Ganges, they are the Gods and holiest creatures. So I can’t say just taking bath in Ganges will make you holy.” The guy was shocked, the traditional pundit and he left the place.

(17:26)

After few minutes, one young guy came. Graduate from Calcutta University. He said, “Swamiji, I heard that you are a very modern person who does not bother about the traditional things like taking bath in Ganga and doing Sandhya and all these kind of things. I really appreciate your teachings and I was, I am searching for a Master like you. I also don’t like all these traditional things.” Vivekananda said, “Who told you? Everyday I take bath in Ganges and I worship Ganga. Who told you I don’t acknowledge all these traditional things? I respect tradition. I live according to tradition.” The young man said, “Oh! Is it so?” Anyhow, Vivekananda gave few teachings and young man left. Old man also received the teachings which is for him. Young guy, he also received the teaching which is for him.

(18:38)

Now the disciple who was sitting at the feet and watching both the scenes, he got confused just like you all now. He asked, “What is this? What are you telling? When that man came, you said different thing and when this guy came, this young guy came, you are telling something else. What do you mean?” Vivekananda says beautifully, “That teaching for that old man. This is for that young man. Who needs what kind of teaching, that is given to him. For you, press My feet.” Before entering into the great truths of an Enlightened Masters, we should analyse to whom it is given, what was the ulterior motive, purpose. Then we should enter into the teachings. Only then we will be able to understand, assimilate and practice the truth in its purest form.

(19:54)

Video Title:

Living the Truth || Part 2 || Jain Sutras || 6 March 2007

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Name Of The Convention : Jain Sutras
Session on: Living the Truth Part 2
Date : 06 March 2007
Venue : Los Angeles, CA, USA

In this video, we hear the Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism HDH #Nithyananda Paramashivam continue the discourse on the Jain Sutras. Here, His Divine Holiness describes how Mahavira’s teachings affect your consciousness. They create such a beautiful inner space for you, that you experience extremely deep levels of expansion. Swamiji tells us that by taking the time to understand these Sutras, your inner richness is cultivated more and more.

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(0:16)

Here the teachings are given only to liberate you, give you Enlightenment. That is the goal. Achieving ultimate level of Consciousness, experiencing the greatest truth but if you see the beauty of these teachings, you see, this whole philosophy of Mahavira looks life negative but all the followers of Mahavira live with such richness. We should enter into that paradox. We should analyse how this happens. Here Mahavira is not giving any management techniques. He is not management Guru. In the modern day, all our philosophies or the teachings are used in the, for management or there are so many management books which came based on the vedic tradition. Even the so-called masters in the modern day, they all became management gurus only, but Mahavira is not a management guru. He is not giving you any solutions related to the outer world, but the very teachings when you follow, the expansion of the inner space which happens as a side effect of that expansion, by-product of that expansion, wealth accumulates around you.

(02:15)

Understand, if I say Mahavir is the ultimate management guru not only for the inner world, even for the outer world. He never speaks about how to create or manage the wealth. All he does, he creates the beautiful inner space in which you can accommodate many things. He is not talking about karma yoga. If He talks about karma yoga, you can use those words and make Him as a management guru. The other day, I was reading an article in Wall Street Journal the Gita is taking a big shape. Gita is getting an important place in many corporate companies of US. They are using for management. Mahavir is not talking anything about karma yoga. You can easily use teachings related to karma yoga for management. He is not talking anything. He simply does something in your Consciousness. You become a leader. He is not telling that you should become a leader; he just makes you leader. He creates a beautiful inner space. One important thing you should understand. When your inner space is expanded, when you are living with inner richness, outer richness follows you. Not only follows you, it becomes your servant.

(04:14)

Let us enter into the words of Mahavira. We will understand how He does this great thing through His unique teachings and techniques... So before entering into the Sutras, let us all remember the great Master Mahavira and all other Tirthankaras, all other great Masters by repeating this mantra. If you all know this mantra, you can repeat. Otherwise at least remember all the great Masters, all the Tirthankaras, all the Sadhus, all the Siddhas, all the Acharyas who preserved this science of Enlightenment, who protected this science of Enlightenment and let us offer our humble respects to them before entering into their teachings. Let us pray to them. Let them give us intelligence, let them bless us to realize the truths of their teachings, to experience the truths of what they are teaching to us, to experience what they really want us to learn, what they really want us to do, how they want us to be. Let us pray to them:

(06:10)

Namo Arihantanam Namo Siddhanam Namo Ayaryanam Namo Vajrayanam Namo Loye Savva Sahunam Eso Punchnama karo savva papavanasano Mangalanancha savvy sim Padamam havaihi mangalam

(07:37)

Let us first understand this mantra. It is such a wonderful mantra. I will tell the translation. I will read the translation. Then we will try to understand this mantra: I bow in reverence to Arihantas means the people who have conquered the enemies. Enemy does not mean the outer world enemy, the inner world enemies. I bow in reverence to Siddhas means all liberated souls. I bow in reverence to Acharyas. I bow in reverence to Upadhyayas. I bow in reverence to all Sadhus. These five-fold salutation destroys all sins and amongst all auspicious things, this is the most auspicious one. Mangalanancha savve sim. Padamam havai mangalam. This mantra is an amazing mantra. We should understand few things before understanding this mantra.

(09:08)

See, this great tradition of Mahavir starts with this mantra and ends in this mantra. Whatever He has to say, the whole gist of this tradition is this mantra. Please understand, they are not worshipping the Gods who will give wealth. No! They are not worshipping the Gods who will give knowledge. No! They are not worshipping the Gods who will give power. No! We should understand the psychology of religion. Bible says God created man in his own mould but actual truth is man created God in his own mould. If you are caught in ignorance you worship the god of, Goddess of knowledge, Saraswati. Whatever you don’t have, you worship that because you want that. If you are matured, your worship or Ishta Devata also will be matured.

(10:37)

Understand, a person who has renounced the world, who wants Enlightenment, you will never expect him that he will be sitting in front of Lakshmi and worshipping Lakshmi. No! What is he going to do? Even if Lakshmi showers on him, he has no utility. He has no use. So naturally you will not see a monk sitting in front of a Lakshmi. Maybe he may worship Mokshalakshmi, not Dhanalakshmi. Surely not Santanalakshmi. So your Ishta Devata will very clearly tell in which state of Consciousness you are living. Here this whole tradition starts with worshipping Enlightened Masters means the highest conscious beings.

(11:44)

Understand, there are different levels in religion. If you are caught in ignorance, the lowest level, you will worship or you will be interested more towards a fanatic beliefs. You will expect somebody to give you the readymade beliefs. You will not analyse. Second, if you are fear oriented, if you are fear based, if you are afraid and you want God who will remove fear from you, you will worship gods with big, big swords, with too many weapons, eighteen hand, twenty hands, all kinds of weapons but here, you are worshipping Arihantas and Siddhas who are sitting in meditation. You are not worshipping Gods who are with too many hands

(12:50)

If you are fear based, if you are caught in fear, you will create a God who has got too many hands and too many weapons so that you will be protected. At least some one weapon will protect you, and if you are greed based, naturally you will worship the Gods and Goddesses who are giving wealth, who are promising you wealth. Lakshmi or any gods and goddesses who are showering gold coins and if you see the Lakshmi’s statues and photographs, you will see that she is showering gold coins and is just projection of your fantasy. Nothing more than that.

(13:46)

If you are greed based, it is very easy to exploit you. If somebody comes and gives you the promise, just verbal, enough or creates such a words that your fantasies will be fulfilled through him, you are gone and really an incident which happened. One astrologer used to come to our ashram. Earlier he was coming in two wheeler. One day suddenly I saw him in a new car. I asked him, “How come suddenly a new car? Did you win any lottery?” He said, “No, no, Swamiji. These are all happening around me because of Lakshmi Yantra.” I said, “Lakshmi Yantra? I never heard of this. Who gave you this?” “No, no, no. Nobody gave me Swamiji. I started giving to others.” Understand, if you start having Lakshmi Yantras may be a person who sells will become rich. I don’t know about you.

(15:13)

If you are greed based, you will worship the Gods and Goddesses, you will bow down to Gods and Goddesses who are promising wealth. If you are logic based, the next level, you will worship philosophers. You will worship the people who give you words. Communism. They don’t worship other Gods but they worship their leaders. Any ‘ism’, any philosophy, person who gives you words, he is worshipped, respected and all these four level, you can’t call as a religion. They are not religions. They are not going to give you solutions. They give you support. Understand, these four level will give you only support, not solution.

(16:18)

There you will see the true spirituality. Love based means you will worship a person who is radiating love. You will be attracted towards the person who radiates love. Next, meditation based. You will be attracted to a person who is sitting in meditation, who is radiating peace, who is radiating energy, who is radiating life, who is radiating Consciousness. Last, ultimate celebration based who is not only radiating, who can make you also to radiate the same energy. Celebration means who can share, who can create that ambience, who can create that energy in you also. Celebration based. Arihanta means not only the person who has achieved himself, who can reproduce it, who can create it in you also. This is religions, traditions based on Enlightenment.

(17:39)

Understand the seven levels. Ignorance based and fear based, greed based, logic based- these four are preliminary levels. They are, you can’t call them as religions. They are just solutions. Support, not even solution. It’s like a adding little oil to you and making you run in the same way like, when too much friction happens, you need to add little oil to reduce the friction. Same way, these four level, it’s like a little oil to run your machine. It won’t give you solution. The other three levels, higher levels: love based, meditation based and celebration based, joy, bliss, ananda based. Here we are worshipping, bowing down to the great energies, Masters who are love based, meditation based and celebration, Enlightenment based, Ananda - ecstasy based.

(19:09)

Video Title:

Living the Truth || Part 3 || Jain Sutras || 06 March 2007

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Name Of The Convention : Jain Sutras
Session on: Living the Truth Part 3
Date : 06 March 2007
Venue : Los Angeles, CA, USA

In this video, we hear the Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism HDH #Nithyananda Paramashivam continue the discourse on the Jain Sutras. Here, His Divine Holiness describes how Mahavira’s has created a tradition without anything being diluted over time. Through Swamiji’s delivery of these Sutras, we see clearly that even today, Mahavira’s main truths and core messages remain strong and undiluted.

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(0:18)

This great tradition, that is the reason I am saying. This is the tradition which retains its purity. One more thing, if your core message is love, meditation and Enlightenment based, maybe outside your temples you can have few statues also. Nothing wrong, like a visiting card, like a visiting card. Please if you are greed based, fear based, ignorance based also you can come. You are welcome. We don’t say you can’t come but please come beyond that. There is something beyond. If you keep this as a main idol means the love, compassion, love, meditation and celebration base as the main moola vigraha or the main base, you can have few of the other things also in the outside, nothing wrong but there are some traditions which kept, which started keeping the fear based, greed based, ignorance based things as in the main altar. That is where corruption starts. That is where dilution starts. That is what I call dangerous distraction.

(02:02)

As long as our focus is towards these main truths, corruption or dilution is impossible. Somehow, Mahavira the great Master managed to create a tradition without dilution, without corruption. Still the main truth even after 2500 years is same. Still the core is same. Still the religion is love based, meditation based and Enlightenment, celebration based. Maybe in course of time outside there is little bit of fear base or greed base but that is not the core. That is not the truth. The dilution also is not able to affect the truth or the core. Here he starts namo arihantanam. I bow in reverence to Arihants who achieved the highest truth. Not only who achieved, who are radiating the truth so much that others who go near him, they are also inspired to achieve.

(03:37)

Understand an important truth. Arihant does not mean person who teaches. No, person who inspires. You can’t reproduce Enlightenment by teaching. No. If you can, long before we would have started selling. We would have created stores. wwwenlightenment.com. Please visit our website to get enlightened and we would have created Enlightenment guaranteed shop. No, fortunately or unfortunately you can’t create Enlightenment in some being by teaching. No. Only by inspiring, you can create Enlightenment. You can reproduce Enlightenment only by inspiring. Arihanta is the person who is radiating the truth so powerfully, so strong. His presence is so intense. Anybody who comes near Him, even if they spend few minutes around Him, they are inspired. The fire is ignited. The transmission of lamp happens. They feel this is the best state to live in. This is the best space to exist. This is the best thing which can happen to me in my life.

(05:16)

Understand, if you go near an Enlightened being, even if you have spent two-three minutes, suddenly you will feel, ‘This is the best thing which can happen to me.’ If you had that thought in you, only then he is Enlightened. Otherwise be very clear, something is seriously wrong with his Enlightenment. If he cannot radiate, if he cannot create that inspiration in you, forget about him. There is something seriously wrong in his Enlightenment. Arihanta is a person not only who became Enlightened, who radiates it. Just His very presence you will feel, ‘GOD’. He will become fantasy in you. He will inspire you so much, He will occupy your inner space so much, either you start working towards achieving that state or you feel, ‘I am not able to.’ Even if you feel, ‘I am not able to,’ that’s okay. At least you have put the first step. You have started.

(06:47)

Understand, respect towards an Enlightened being is the first step towards Enlightenment means you wanted that state. You will not respect anything unless you agree with that ideology. Unless you have a little bit of attachment, feeling towards that ideology, a subtle feeling that you should also have that same. Unless you get that, you will not have respect for that. If you are respecting somebody, beautiful, handsome. Be very clear, you have a subtle desire to be in that state, to have that quality. Same way, if you respect rich guy, there is a subtle desire to have wealth. Anything you respect automatically enters in your inner space. When you say I bow in reverence to Enlightened being, you give respect to Enlightenment. Here you are not bowing down to somebody who will help you when you are in fear. No. You are not bowing down to a thing. No. You are not bowing down to a rich guy who will give you money, No. You are not bowing down to a person who will give you logic or philosophy, words. No, no. You are bowing down to a person who inspires, push the seed of Enlightenment in you.

(08:36)

There is a beautiful commentary means the explanation which says when you sit in front of a Arihanta, the ultimate Conscious Being, without your knowledge, without even your Conscious understanding, your whole being is integrated towards that one goal - Enlightenment. Understand, as on now, you are not one being as you think. Your head is calling you, pulling you in one direction, your eyes are pulling you in the other direction, your ears are pulling you in different direction. People ask Me. Just the other day, I was facing a question, “Swamiji, in all organisation there is so much of politics and why are You creating one more spiritual organisation and You know there is going to be so much of politics!” I tell him, I told him and it is a important thing. I told him, “You don’t need even two persons to create politics. One is more than enough, because morning you will be doing something else and the evening your mind will be telling something else means politics inside you! You don’t need two persons for politics, one is more than enough!

(10:20)

Morning your mind will be telling something and you will work towards that. By evening, your mind will be telling something else and you will try to put your effort towards that. It means what? You are already a politician! You are afraid of politics because too many different opinions and you think you don’t have politics inside? So you don’t need two persons for politics. One person is more than enough to create politics. Single person is more than enough to create politics. You can’t escape from politics by not creating organization because organization has got its own benefits, merits also. You can escape from politics only by creating a strong group Consciousness means a strong inspiration and the commentary says the Arihanta is a person who creates a group Consciousness among, among parts of your being.

(11:30)

As on now, there are so many parts in your being. You have so much of politics amongst the parts. Your head is doing politics against your leg and your eyes are doing politics against your ears, because ears want something else, your eyes want something else and your tongue wants something else and your touch wants something else. Each guy is having his own agenda and they are having big problem amongst themselves. Finally you are suffering. I should tell you a beautiful story how by the politics of the trustees, Gods suffer. Politics between the trustees, how the God is put to suffering. In a South Indian temple, very famous temple. Fight between the trustees and the pujaris who worship the, who do the rituals and who pay for the rituals. Fight started between these two. A simple reason. The thing is that whether you should put U shape mark or the straight, the verticular, the vertical mark.

(12:57)

Among that Vaishnava mark, there are two-three varieties. They call it Vadakalai and Thenkalai means just a straight line or U shape. Curve or straight line. That is the problem and not even on God, on the elephant, temple elephant. No, understand, it really happened. I wanted all of you to know. It may look funny but it happens in every temple. You may not publicise all these things. It happens in every temple. The fight is whether to put the U shape mark or the straight line mark on the temple elephant. The pujaris are saying it should be only U shape and the person who paid for the elephant, he says, “No. It should to be only straight line because I paid for elephant.” And pujari says, “You may pay for elephant but we are only going to the mark.”

(14:06)

So fight went to the local court. Local court gave the judgement ‘the god which is going to sit on the elephant, he is wearing only the U shape. So only the U shape should be put on the elephant’ but the trustees they have enough money. So they went to the higher court, High court and High court said ‘the person who paid for the elephant, only he should decide’ and the pujaris, they are very strong with their ideology, went to Supreme court. Really! Understand, I am not telling the story. I am telling the history. Went to Supreme Court. Finally Supreme court gave the judgement: ‘whenever god is travelling on the elephant, he should have the mark of that god which is U shape and whenever the elephant is free without the procession or anything, for public programs, he can have straight line.’

(15:08)

And one important thing. Two days after the judgement, elephant died because the process took fifteen years. Elephant died and don’t think story ended. Story is not ending here. Somebody donated one more elephant. Now the pujaris came and they want to put the mark according to the judgement, Supreme Court judgement. Trustees said no. That judgement is for that elephant, not for this elephant. Let us go to the court again and still now, at least twenty five years, God is going in procession by walk, not on elephant. Last twenty five years, He stopped riding on elephant. The fight between the trustees and pujaris. Who is suffering? God. Same thing happens to us. When your indriyas suffer, when your indriyas fight among themselves, your Consciousness will be suffering. Understand, when your senses and mind, fighting amongst themselves, your Consciousness, your inner space will be suffering.

(16:47)

Arihanta is a person in whose presence all your senses, indriyas and the mind is integrated by itself. Understand, in front of a warrior, automatically you will feel that you are supposed to behave with respect. Just by his presence, you will not talk anything. It is called Sthana Bala. In Sanskrit, we use the word Sthana bala. Anybody who holds that seat, that very Sthana, you just go in front of him and sit silently and come out. You know if you talk what will happen, the results. Just the very sthana bala, you will be frightened. Same way, in the presence of Arihanta, just the very presence, just the sthana bala, your senses will be integrated.

(18:07)

Your inner personality, your mind, indriya, buddhi, chitta, everything will be integrated because all your senses, they know he has killed all his enemies. Any moment he may kill me also. Let me be silent. For example, if you are going and sitting in front of a person who has done hundred murders, will you talk? Will you oppose him? Unless you are mad. You know he has killed all his enemies. So if I show, if I give an idea that I am also his enemy, simply I will be killed! You will keep quiet. Same way, all your senses, your mind, they know he has killed his enemies. Arihanta, who has conquered all his enemies. So naturally he will kill me also. Better let me keep quiet. Your personality will be integrated just by his presence.

(19:22)

Understand, this bowing down, remembrance will invoke their presence. You need to understand an important thing. Remembrance is not just thinking. In ordinary things like a flower or a sweet, in ordinary things, remembrance is just thinking but when it comes to Enlightened Beings, remembrance is invoking their presence. It is called Avahana. When you remember Enlightened Beings, they are there in front of you. You invoke their presence because constantly they are waiting. They are available. They are waiting just to help you.

(20:20)

Video Title:

Living the Truth || Part 4 || Jain Sutras || 06 March 2007

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Name Of The Convention : Jain Sutras
Session on: Living the Truth Part 4
Date : 06 March 2007
Venue : Los Angeles, CA, USA

In this video, we hear the Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism HDH #Nithyananda Paramashivam continue the discourse on the Jain Sutras. Here, His Divine Holiness describes the many ways in which the master can appear for the disciple through sharing some short stories. Swamiji then goes on to speak about how remembrance is enough for you to become closer to the Master.

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(0:16)

Please understand, when you remember some object of the outer world, that object doesn’t have intelligence or power to appear in front of you, to be there in front of you but Enlightened Beings are not objects. They are energy and intelligence. One more thing which is a very important thing you need to understand. Enlightened Masters, even if they leave the body, they will have to retain their sukshma sarira, subtle body. They will have to make themselves available. They will have to available for all of you. Please understand, till you all become Enlightened, they can’t disappear even if they have given up their bodies. One more thing, for Enlightened Being, even while He is in the body, He is not touched by the body. I always tell people, Enlightened Masters are not present as you think and they are not absent as you think.

(01:51)

See, always when some Enlightened Masters die, you think they are absent. No. Same way, when some Master is in the body, you think they are present just like you. No. They are not present even while they are in the body as you think. They are not present. It is their presence. Understand, when an Enlightened person is in the body, He is not present as you think. He is present in a totally different dimension. He may be in front of you but He is not present as you think. He is in a different space. His body may be visible to you but He is in a different space. Same way, even after He leaves the body, He is not absent as you think.

(02:51)

A small incident which happened in Nisargadatta Maharaj, a great enlightened being who lived in India. Somebody asked him, “Master, you say the Enlightened Beings don’t have karma. Then how you are speaking with us? How you are able to talk?” Nisargadatta Maharaj says, “I am not talking to you.” He is talking and He is saying, “I am not talking to you.” The disciple was completely confused. He said, “What are you saying? ‘I am not talking to you’ and you are talking to me and you are saying I am not talking to you.” Then Master says, Maharaj says, “Because you want, you are getting the answers from this system. This system is programmed to respond like a voice mail, automatic intelligence which responds to you. That’s all. Otherwise, this system itself does not have an ego like you.

(04:10)

Understand, you can’t say automatic replying machine is living mechanism. No. It just responds to you because you wanted somebody to respond. Maharaj says, “I am responding to you because this is the way you wanted.” And He says beautifully, “If somebody approaches me with the attitude of Dasabhava means servant, I look like a leader. If somebody approaches me with the attitude of a disciple, I look like a Master. If somebody approaches me with the attitude of father, father and son, I look like a father. So whatever attitude they have, just I reflect it. I just fulfill what they want. Otherwise, I myself don’t have any identity or ego. He says, “I am not talking to you. You are listening the answers which you want to listen, which you need to listen. That’s all. Automatic replying system.

(05:27)

They are not present as we think. Same way, Enlightened Beings who have left their body, they are not absent as you think. When they had a body, their presence had a body. When they left the body, their presence does not have a body. That’s all. Otherwise, having a body or not having a body is no way going to disturb or change you connecting with that Master. Understand? As far as Master’s concern, whether they have the body or not, it is not going to disturb them. It is not going to change anything. It is not going to...they are not going to miss anything. So do not think just because they don’t have a body, you can’t experience their presence. This simple remembrance can invoke their presence immediately in that very moment wherever you are. Remembering them will simply create their presence because they are waiting. They are waiting to be called.

(06:59)

The TV advertisements you say, you see that operators are waiting for your call. Please call now, call now, call now. Same way, Masters are waiting. Please chant now, chant now, chant now. They are waiting, available. All you need to do is remembering them. Just the remembrance is enough. You will see that their presence is in front of you. They are not absent as you think. Just because you are not able to see the stars, you can’t say stars doesn’t exist. Same way, just because you don’t see them with your eyes, you can’t say they don’t exist. Only one benefit if the Master is with the body, you may be able to feel him with all your five senses. If he is without the body, you have to feel him, experience him only in the inner space which is beyond body. That’s all but you can verily experience him because they can’t disappear till you become Enlightened.

(08:19)

During initiation, before every initiation, all the Masters, Enlightened Beings, they take vow. Understand, during initiation, don’t think only you take vows, only you make commitments. Master also makes commitments. He says, “Till you become Enlightened, the energy which is working through this body, even if this body is dropped, will help you and assist you till you reach the same state in which I am living.” That is the commitment all the Masters give. “Till you reach, achieve that same Enlightened state, even if this body drops, this energy promises you to guide.” That is the commitment a Master takes.

(09:11)

Understand, so even Mahavir leaves the body, He has to available. He has to make Himself available to all of us till we become Enlightened, till we achieve Enlightenment. He has to make Himself available. The moment you remember these great Masters, you will see their presence is there in front of you. And next line: I bow in reverence to Siddhas, means the liberated souls. The word namo, you should understand that word also. Namo means you offer ‘I’ and ‘mine’, ahankar and mamakar. ‘Na mama’, ahankar and mamakar you offer both. Me and mine. I and mine. See, important thing, it is very easy to offer ‘mine’ means wealth. You can very easily give wealth, check because after sometime all rich guys feels the futility of wealth. What will you do? What will you do?

(10:40)

Now you can buy anything which money can buy. After all these basic things, what will you do with the money? Maybe more and more zeroes are getting added in your bank balance sheet and in this country, you don’t even see the currency. Only two percent is in the printed currency form. Only the pass book or the bank balance, more and more zeroes are getting increased and for that zeroes you give your whole life and you are constantly running, running, running, running, running and finally the person who is making you run, only those leaders’ egos are expanding and you don’t even know what are you going to do and suddenly you will leave all these zeroes one day and become zero and after sometime, all rich people feel the futility of wealth. What to do? Ah, it’s okay.

(11:40)

It is very easy to give money. I have seen all rich guys erecting temples in every city. Why? They understood there is no value. There is no value. Money is valuable only till you achieve all your basic needs. That is why people are kept in poverty without giving them the feeling that they have all the basic needs. We have enough wealth to take care of all the beings who are already on the planet earth. We can give them food, we can give them clothes, we can give them shelter, we can give them medical care. All the basic care we can provide. It’s a cunning strategy created by this so-called leaders to keep common man in poverty without fulfilling his basic needs so that he will run, run, run, work and create more and more infrastructures and these guys’ ego can be feel fulfilled.

(12:54)

Understand, we have everything. A right strategy is all we need. Right planning is all we need and we have enough intelligence and first time, we are facing a situation where so much of intelligence is available and so much of technology and science has done miracles. We have everything and we can take care of the whole society. All the basic needs can be taken care. It’s not big thing. Rich guy knows money is valuable only for a common man who has not achieved fulfillment in his basic needs. Giving the ‘mine’ is not a big thing. Very easy but giving ‘I’ is the real thing. Giving ‘I’ is the real thing. If you give ‘I’ you become God in the temple; if you give ‘mine’, you become a person who build temples. That’s all.

(14:17)

Mahavir became Mahavir because he gave ‘I’. He gave away the ‘I’. He dropped the ego. He has gone beyond the ego. He has gone beyond the ‘I’ and ‘mine.’ Understand, do you want to be a donor or do you want to be a person who is sitting inside the temple? You want to become a worshipper or the person who receives the worship. The moment you give away the ‘I’, you become a person who receives the worship. If you are giving away only the ‘mine’, you are worshipper. Person who gives up ‘I’ and ‘mine’ both, he becomes the Arihanta. Now when you give away your ‘I’ and ‘mine’ to the Arihantas, you achieve the same state in which they are living.

(15:22)

Video Title:

Living the Truth || Part 5 || Jain Sutras || 06 March 2007

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Name Of The Convention : Jain Sutras
Session on: Living the Truth Part 5
Date : 06 March 2007
Venue : Los Angeles, CA, USA

In this video, we hear the Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism HDH #Nithyananda Paramashivam speak about how offering what you have is the ultimate way to open up and surrender to the divine. By maintaining a certain level of intelligence, we can break free from the game that we are caught in.

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Living the Truth || Part 6 || Jain Sutras || 06 March 2007

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Name Of The Convention : Jain Sutras
Session on: Living the Truth Part 6
Date : 06 March 2007
Venue : Los Angeles, CA, USA

In this video, we hear the Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism HDH #Nithyananda Paramashivam come to the end of the discourse on the Jain Sutras. Here, His Divine Holiness sincerely expresses the beautiful meaning behind the mantra chanted and takes some time to pray with the delegates of this discourse.