January 29 2015

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Consciousness Pervades Everything - Living Advaita Series Upanishads by The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism HDH Nithyananda Paramashivam

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Today’s (29th January, 2015) Morning Satsang continues with the Upanishads Series - Living Advaita. HDH Nithyananda Paramashivam introduces us into the first verse of the Isha Upanishad. Isha is Consciousness and Intelligence. It is not only the Source or base material of the Universe but it is responsible for keeping everything together, including the base; it permeates everything, even our forms, holding them together.

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Nithyanandeshwara Samaarambhaam

Nithyanandeshwari Madhyamaam |

Asmath Aachaarya Paryanthaam

Vandhey Guru Paramparaam ||

I welcome all the devotees, disciples, samajis, satsanghis, Shrimahants, Mahants, Kotharis, Thanedars, visitors, viewers, sitting with us all over the world through Nithyananda TV, Sadhna TV, and two-way video-conferencing having Nayana Deeksha.

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I welcome all of you with my love and respects.

I am entering into the first verse of the Upanishad. Before entering into every verse, I feel like wipe yourself completely, clean, be fresh, so that this verse enters into you as nectar and starts functioning.

Listen! Listen! Listen!

ईशावास्यमिदं सर्वं यत्किञ्च जगत्यां जगत् ।

तेन त्यक्तेन भुञ्जीथा मा गृधः कस्यस्विद्धनम् ॥ 1 ॥

Eeshaavaasyamidham Sarvam Yathkincha Jagathyaam Jagath |

Thena Thyakthena Bhunjeethaa Ma Gridhah Kasyasviddhanam ||

Recite along with me.

ईशावास्यमिदं सर्वं यत्किञ्च जगत्यां जगत् ।

तेन त्यक्तेन भुञ्जीथा मा गृधः कस्यस्विद्धनम् ॥ 1 ॥

Eeshaavaasyamidham Sarvam Yathkincha Jagathyaam Jagath |

Thena Thyakthena Bhunjeethaa Ma Gridhah Kasyasviddhanam ||

ईशावास्यमिदं सर्वं यत्किञ्च जगत्यां जगत् ।

तेन त्यक्तेन भुञ्जीथा मा गृधः कस्यस्विद्धनम् ॥ 1 ॥

Eeshaavaasyamidham Sarvam Yathkincha Jagathyaam Jagath |

Thena Thyakthena Bhunjeethaa Ma Gridhah Kasyasviddhanam ||

The translation:

By the Consciousness enveloped must this all be,

whatever moving thing there is in the moving world.

With this renounced you may enjoy.

Covet not the wealth of anyone at all.

Listen!

By the Consciousness enveloped must this all be,

whatever moving thing there is in the moving world.

With this renounced you may enjoy.

Covet not the wealth of anyone at all.

Listen! “Eesha”! Understand this word. This word means “Consciousness which has all the auspicious qualities, and which is causal, actual material source of everything is, which we may know or we may not know. And, it is not only the source; it permeates.” Please understand, “Eesha” is not just the source of these plants, stones, you, me; it continues to permeate, fill all of us and everything is, even when we are in this form.

Listen! The consciousness is not just the source; it is the base. Not just the base material; it continues to be the base which keeps the material together in this shape.

ईशावास्यमिदं सर्वं यत्किञ्च जगत्यां जगत् ।

Eeshaavaasyamidham Sarvam Yathkincha Jagathyaam Jagath |

“By the Consciousnessness enveloped must this all be.”

Listen! The word “vaasyam” means “must”. “Must”! There is no “may be”, “might be”, “can be”, “could be”. No! It is a declaration. Declarations are expected to be used as a basic cognition in our tradition. No other spiritual tradition gives so much space for question-answer and debate, and no other spiritual tradition is so conclusive and inclusive.

Listen! Inclusiveness always takes away the conclusiveness. Inclusiveness always takes away the conclusiveness. ‘Oh, everything is one and the same. Everything is.....’. The inclusiveness takes away the conclusiveness. But, here, inclusiveness and conclusiveness in Completion! Inclusiveness and conclusiveness in the space of Complete Completion! Vedic Tradition is the first and foremost, one and only, inclusive and conclusive tradition.

Understand, inclusiveness is always the extreme of emotion. Conclusiveness is always the extreme of logic. Both never go hand in hand. Only if the logic and emotion, both merge and see the reality..... Logic always operates from fear. So, it goes on dissecting, dissecting, dissecting, dissecting. Emotion always operates in the space of greed, and it tries to go on adding, adding, adding. Emotion tries to be inclusive, so that it can feel fulfilled with the greed. And logic tries to be divisive, so that it can be conclusive. When both ripen and merge, the being blossoms, which is beyond logic and emotion, which I call as your “individual soul”, “bio-memory”. Your basic root cognition from which you operate, only there the inclusiveness and conclusiveness can be in the space of Completion, and it can go completely well with each other.

Listen! The people who lost conclusiveness for the sake of inclusiveness lost the strength. They became Theology Light. All these Theology Light traditions – ‘Oh, okay. Be as you want. Okay. Let us celebrate’ – all the Theology Light groups, most of the cults, function on inclusiveness, but they very badly lose the strength of conclusiveness. And the people who miss the inclusiveness and hold on to some conclusiveness, they become fanatics, terrorists; they are more dangerous than cults. The only and only tradition, Vedic Tradition, which is ultimately inclusive and ultimately conclusive, completely inclusive and completely conclusive, because it is the core. The core cannot choose between inclusiveness and conclusiveness.

Just see this word – “Eeshaavaasyamidham Sarvam” (ईशावास्यमिदं सर्वं). The ultimate inclusiveness and the ultimate conclusiveness! In this one line – “Whatsoever exists is enveloped by this Consciousness” – the ultimate inclusiveness! You cannot include anything further in this. And, “Idham Vaasyam” (इदम् वास्यम्)! “Vaasyam” (वास्यम्)!

“Yathkincha” (यत्किञ्च) – “Whatsoever”. “जगत्” (Jagath) means “Changeful”. Please listen, how much ever you may think it is changing, as long as your thinking is happening you will perceive the universe as happening. When you settle down in Samadhi, you will perceive the whole universe in the space of Samadhi, understand? As long as you are thinking, you will perceive the other part of you as universe which is happening. When the thinking settles down in you and you become peaceful and you enter into Samadhi, you will perceive that the other part of you also is in the space of Samadhi, God.

The “Jeeva” decides to perceive his other part as “Jagath” or “Eeshwara”. When you perceive as “Jagath”, “dwandhwa” exists, the “dual” (“dwandhwa” means “dual”). When you perceive as “Eeshwara”, only “Advaitha” exists. That is why “Eeshwara” becomes “Eesha”. Even if you translate the word “Eesha” into “Lord”, there is a kind of a gap. The Upanishadic rishis are not telling – “ईश्वरवास्यमिदं” (Eeshwaravaasyamidham). No! Because, that word “Eeshwara” (ईश्वरा) can create a kind of a subtle barrier. They say “ईशा” (Eesha) where you don’t feel intimidated, understand?

A mind which is still active, for that mind if you describe God as an embodiment of independent, intelligent free-willed being, you will feel always intimidated. You will say, ‘If something else also exists, then should I relate with that through fear, by begging, praying, or greed, by offering, surrendering, or should I start praying? What kind of relationship should I start developing with it?’ Because, the mind always tries to retain its existence by the methodology of relating. When the method to relate is disconnected, it disappears. It is by the methodology of relating it retains its existence. So, when mind is there, if the Masters utter a word “Eeshwara”, immediately – ‘Oh, he is there! He is intelligent! And he is independent! He has a free will! So he may judge me! He may not accept me! So, how should I relate with him? Should I start praying to him? How should I please him? Should I start talking to him? Should I start escaping from him, denying him? Or what should be the thing? Or should I start conquering him?’

Understand, he is not “Eeshwara” as you perceive, who moves like you. He is “Eesha”, who can be perceived only when there is no movement in you. Any perception you have about him, when there is a movement, he is only “Jagath”, not “Eeshwara”. Only these three, these three you need to know in life. Everything else will be clear if you know just these three:

“Jeeva” – the individual soul which perceives;

“Jagath” – the universe, which is constantly changing. “Which changes” is “Jagath”; and

“Eeshwara” – God.

Listen! Please listen! As long as there is a movement in you in the form of thought and feeling, which tries to include and conclude – “thought” tries to conclude, “feeling” tries to include – as long as these movements are happening in you, what you perceive inside you and outside you is “Jagath”, “changing”. When this thought and emotion which try to include and conclude merge, and that “Shanthi” – silence – prevails, you will understand that whatever you perceived as “Jagath” also is nothing but “Eesha”!

I can say, the whole Sanatana Hindu Dharma starts and end in this first line. The logic which goes on trying to conclude, and the emotion which goes on trying to include, these both, when they are moving, when they have not completed with each other, when there is an incompletion..... Only when there is an incompletion there will be movement. When there is Completion, no movement; pure silence. When there is a movement, listen, when there is a movement, you will perceive yourself inside you, outside you. Whatever you feel as “Mamakaara”, as “Ahamkaara”, “Anyakaara”, “Sva-Anyakaara”, all these will be changing – Jagath. Listen! Even when something is changing, it is “Eesha”. Even when you think, when you perceive it is changing, it is “Eesha”. When you reach the silence of you, when inside there is no movement, there is no incompletion, there is only Completion, you will perceive you, inside, outside, as “Eesha”, understand? When there is a change in you in the form of thinking or feeling, what you perceive and what you perceive inside and outside is called “Jagath” – “Universe” – which is changing. And when you are in the space of Completion, peacefulness, then what you perceive as you and everything else is “God”!

Here, the Upanishadic rishis are declaring, Upanishads are declaring..... I should not even use the word “Upanishadic rishis are declaring”. No! “Upanishads are declaring”! Dharma declares its authority by itself is Upanishads. Without the help of any author, or the authority of any author! Author not only brings authenticity, he brings authority also. Here, Dharma does not need authenticity or authority from anyone else. The person who lends authenticity, naturally lends authority also. When he lends authenticity, he has authority. Upanishads don’t need anybody to authenticate it. So, nobody has authority over it. That is why “Apourushya” – “no author”! It is declaring its own grandeur and beauty by its own existence.

Please understand, now what I am revealing is, layer by layer, Akashic Records, about this one verse!

OM! If I have to expand on this, OM! The sound of whatever is, the vibration of whatever is still vibrating, vibration of whatever is still vibrant! OM! OM! OM! It has to be experienced! OM! OM! OM!

ईशावास्यमिदं सर्वं यत्किञ्च जगत्यां जगत् ।

Eeshaavaasyamidham Sarvam Yathkincha Jagathyaam Jagath |

Conclusive! “Idham Sarvam” ( इदम् सर्वं)! “Vaasyam” (वास्यम्)! No other doubts – “may be”, “must be”, “could be”, “this is what should be”, “what else can be”. No! ‘This is what is my experience. I don’t know. It is up to you.’ No! Nothing of that sort!

ईशावास्यमिदं सर्वं यत्किञ्च जगत्यां जगत् ।

Eeshaavaasyamidham Sarvam Yathkincha Jagathyaam Jagath |

Whatever you perceive as changeful inside and outside you, even when you perceive as changeful inside and outside you, it is God, Consciousness, which is beyond any change!

Listen! The different levels of understanding:

‘When there is a movement, thought-flow in you, when there is a change in you, outside also changes. So, it is called “World”.’ This is Yoga.

‘Stop the movement inside you. Inside when the movement stops, outside movements also will stop. You will perceive the world as Consciousness.’ This is Tantra.

‘Hey, listen! Even while you perceive the change inside and outside you as changeful, it is Consciousness.’ – Living Advaitha! Advaitha!

Listen! Your logic functions continuously in the form of thought, dividing, dividing, dividing, dividing, dividing, to come to conclusion. Your emotion functions in the form of including, including, including, including, to reach Completion. Only when the inclusion and conclusion merge into each other, Completion happens.

People who sacrifice conclusion for the sake of inclusion are “Poets”. Poets can be amazing inclusive people, but can never be conclusive, practical.

People who sacrifice inclusiveness for the sake of conclusion are amazing “Mathematicians”. They will be amazingly conclusive, practical. You cannot live with them. They can never make a good husband or wife. They can be amazingly conclusive, but you cannot live with them. They will be really dead. Dead means DEAD! If I have to use the word “DUD”, that will be much better! Even in the word “dead” there is a little life. The word “DUD”, where completely no life!

Listen! The best statement ever made with the ultimate inclusiveness and conclusiveness is this one statement – ईशावास्यमिदं सर्वं यत्किञ्च जगत्यां जगत् (Eeshaavaasyamidham Sarvam Yathkincha Jagathyaam Jagath)! The Dharma declaring its own authority!

Once, I was sitting and having a discussion with one of the Acharya Mahamandaleshwars. He said beautifully.....

I was asking him, ‘Why are we doing all the great rituals at the feet of the Dhwajasthambha – the Flag Pole – in the Akhada?’

He said, ‘Swamiji, that is the best way of presenting. The Flag Pole is the best representation of Dharma without intimidating us in course of time.’

If you put a statue of Chathur Veda, Veda Maatha, anything, in course of time the next generation will use even that to intimidate themselves. It will become one more god! The moment you utter the word “God”, the intimidation starts. “Consciousness”, the word itself expresses so much of intimacy! The very word feels so intimate and gives you intimacy. If you translate that same word “Eesha” into “Lord”, it is intimidating. If you translate that word into “Consciousness”, it is so intimate! As long as you have a will, Free Will, you will always be intimidated by something which has Free Will. Listen! So, you need to be told that the Lord’s will is not like your will which intimidates, which feels threatened by anything which exists. It is neither interested in intimidating you, nor bothers to protect you, understand? I am making this statement: If you are expecting protection, you will only end up in hopelessness! Listen! Nobody can protect you, nobody can save you, because, YOU DON’T NEED TO BE SAVED! Wake up to your reality! You neither need to be saved, nor you need to be Saviour! At the most, any saviour needs to utter only this one statement: ‘Neither you need to be saved, nor you need a Saviour!’ Wake up!

Inclusiveness and conclusiveness in its pure form, in its pure form! Inclusiveness and conclusiveness in its pure form! No mathematician can be so conclusive as this verse. No poet can be so poetic, so inclusive than this verse.

ईशावास्यमिदं सर्वं यत्किञ्च जगत्यां जगत् ।

Eeshaavaasyamidham Sarvam Yathkincha Jagathyaam Jagath |

Whatsoever changeful there is in this ever-changing world, is all enveloped, is all personification, is all “Eesha”, Consciousness. A being who has experienced “Eesha”, has received “Eeshwathwa” as “vara”, is “Eeshwara”. Who is established in the space of “Eesha”, is “Eeshwara”. This word “Eesha” should be understood as Consciousness, Intelligence, Consciousness Intelligence, material, subtle, cause, and all-pervasive, sustaining, support, and the reason why the universe is still bound in this form, understand? Lord, “Eesha”, is not just the source of this flower; he permeates this flower, and he envelopes this flower. For this flower to exist in the form of this flower, he is the reason. So, he is the material, he is the subtle and causal, causes this to exist. Tomorrow it may change in a different form. It may wither away. It may become a seed for another plant to happen. It may become whatever. At that time, at this moment, and earlier, the “Eesha”, the Consciousness fills all this.

Listen! This statement is the ultimate truth and the ultimate technique. A flawless truth and technique! Please listen! There are some statements, truth, but cannot be applied as technique; some statements, technique, but cannot be truth. I will give you an example:

When Ramana Maharshi says, ‘Whatever is moving is moving only by the grace of God. Without His grace, nothing can move’, it is an amazing technique. When Ramana Maharshi’s mother came to take him back to Madurai, take him back home to Madurai from Tiruvannamalai, Ramana Maharshi writes a letter, a small chit, and gives to her. In that he says, ‘Whatever happens, happens by His will. And without His will nothing can move.’ It is an amazing technique. But, please understand, it is not true! In reality, in truth, you do have Free Will. Why, he coming all the way from Madurai to Tiruvannamalai happened by him (Ramana Maharshi)! Because, he did it! So, what he said is a technique. If you relax into that, you will realize the truth. Truth of the Free Will merging into the Cosmic Will, it is a technique, not truth.

And, same way, there are truths which cannot be used as technique. Which I tried! Annamalai Swamigal told me, ‘Atma has no pain. Atma has no suffering. Soul has no pain, no suffering.’ It is a truth, but it can’t be tried as a technique. I went and tried on my body!

There are some truths which can never be a technique. There are some techniques which can never be truth. Here, the master-stroke, the rishis know there may be some students who may not even come back to the next class. Even if you come to just one Upanishad class, they want to give you enlightenment. So, they LOAD the whole truth into this one statement. Understand, this one statement, which is all-inclusive, ultimately conclusive, which is truth and technique. If some statement has to be truth and technique, it has to be clear. If the same statement is made – ‘The Consciousness envelopes everything’ – it can only be truth, not technique. You can’t try that in your present state. If the statement says – ‘Whatever moving IS, whatever moving WILL BE only Consciousness’ – it can be technique, not the truth immediately. The word ‘वास्यमिदं’ (vaasyamidham) – “is now” – the word ‘वास्यमिदं’ (vaasyamidham) makes this line as a truth and technique, both! Because, here, “जगत्यां जगत्” (Jagathyaam Jagath) – “whatever is moving, perceived as moving in this moving world”, whether this moving is a perception or reality, it is perceived as moving. Sometimes it really feels like it is moving. Whether you perceive it as moving, or really it is moving, it is pervaded by Consciousness, enveloped by Consciousness. Because it is so inclusive and conclusive, it is a truth and technique, it needs to be lived as your cognition. “How to”, I will continue in the further satsanghs. “How to”, I will continue in the further satsanghs.

Anything can be missed for Upanishads! Don’t miss Upanishads for anything! It is too much! Even I am sitting and enjoying! Even I am sitting and enjoying! Last two-three days I could not physically come and sit, because I gave the Shivoham experience to NKY (Nithya Kriya Yoga) participants. So, this Shivoham experience, still the body needs a little bit settling. And even in this weekend Nithya Dhyan Yoga (NDY program), there will be one session Shivoham process. And, first time I gave Shivoham experience in two-way video-conferencing in this four-day Nithya Kriya Yoga. The Shivoham was done in remote first time ever on the Planet Earth! Understand, not just Kundalini awakening; SHIVOHAM! So, this weekend NDY, there will be one session, Shivoham process.

With this, I bless you all! And from today we may start whole day Dial-the-Avatar IA (Inner Awakening) Kalpataru calls. For IA Kalpataru, I am going to make myself available for more and more time. The timings you can call the Enriching Temple and find out.

So, with this, I bless you all! Let you all radiate with Integrity, Authenticity, Responsibility, Enriching and Causing Living Advaitha, eternal bliss, Nithyananda! Thank you!