July 30 2017

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Let Abundance Add Activism to You

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Let - Abundance - Add - Activism - To - You

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(0:27) nithyānandeśvara sadāshiva samārambhām nithyānandeśvari adīshakti madhyamām | asmat āchārya paryantām vande guru paramparām || (0:57) Today, I wanted to talk about an important subject. Abundance... should empower you with responsibility. Understand. Whenever abundance gathers around you, you should be empowered with responsibility, not with laziness. The moment wealth gathers around you and you become lazy, it is a curse on you. It is not Sri Devi - it is Moo Devi. Understand, only if you are empowered with more responsibility and action, alive... contributing... it is Sri Devi. Understand. Before this wealth comes in your life, how active and involved and enriching you were, how many decisions per day you were making, how many people you were reaching out, how you were contributing to people, how you were enriching, what was your physical activities and strength, energy, the mental stamina and the Will persistence. After that wealth is added to your life, after that wealth abundance enters in your life - if all these grows, means, number of hours you are awake, alive, making decisions, actively participating with the goal of enriching the life... and number of hours - the quality

and quantity both, you are involved passionately with the life and enriching - all these if it increases, only then wealth is Sri Devi. The moment wealth came, you dumped it in the bank and you got a very beautiful big cot and bed and AC room cottage and prepared the life of retirement. Then it is not Sri Devi which came to you, it is...  Even if the Sri Devi has come, you have converted it into Moo Devi  (4:14) Understand. Abundance should be making you more active. Abundance should be making you more active; only then it is Sri Devi, it is Lakshmi, it is wealth. Unfortunately, always you visualize – with abundance you will retire. The stupid association of abundance and retirement, abundance and withdrawal mentality, never lets you enjoy life. Understand. What is abundance? The more time you are alive, active, contributing, that is all is abundance. In how many more things you are passionately involved? In how many more things you are passionately alive? In how many more things you are living? That is abundance. Abundance is activism. Responsible activism is abundance. Understand. A great personality like Vivekananda says, during the last few years of His life, “When I see a strong healthy person, if I am given a option to exchange, My intelligence and My mental capabilities for his health, I’ll happily do it.” Can you understand? I have paraphrased the verse, paraphrased the statement. But a personality like Vivekananda is making this statement! He says, “I will choose strong physique instead of mental capabilities.” Responsible activism - being ALIVE is wealth. Responsible activism - being alive is wealth. Abundance should add life to you. Wealth should add life to you. Wealth should make you more active. Wealth should make you more current. If something makes you more current, that is Currency. Whether thought current, spiritual current... be current, constantly be alive, awake and contributing - is all essence of wealth, essence of wealth. (8:35) So, if we don’t take the responsibility when the abundance get added to our life, a serious sickness called ‘abusing the abundance’ starts. Your mind starts taking things for granted. “Okay, I wanted house, now I have 10 houses, what is there?” “I wanted car, I have 20 cars, what is there?” Understand. Abusing the abundance is what I call ‘boredom’. Abusing your freedom is what I call ‘tiredness’. If you are not using your whole day and achieving what you are supposed to be achieving, what you always wanted... you just need to be put in prison for 10 days, you will understand. You will understand, “Oh God, I am wasting my whole freedom and life!” No, really I am telling you. Prison teaches you very powerful lessons. It is teaches very powerful lessons. Suddenly you wake up, that you are always taking your life for granted. You will wake up to the reality, “Oh God, I am abusing my abundance of freedom in the name of tiredness and boredom.” Taking your freedom for granted, you allow the tiredness to be cherished in your life. All chronic fatigue, chronic tiredness, chronic boredom, depression….depression is nothing but you abusing and taking your freedom for granted. When you take your freedom for granted and life for granted, you abuse with the depression. Depression is nothing but the luxury you can afford, “I have nothing to do, let’s be

depressed.” “What is there, everything is there, come on let’s be depressed.” If you are continuously depressed, the best solution is - get married  No, you will have so much of external problem, you will not have freedom to get depressed. See, when you don’t have external problem, you create internally. Come on, have external problem! You will be so busy with external problem….see, husband is a person who will always stand by you, be with you, during all the troubles, trials, problems, sufferings, suffocations, with you throughout your life, which will not be there, if he is not in your life!!. That is, this way - that way - both! (12:02) Depression is taking your life for granted. It’s nothing but taking your life for granted. Taking your freedom for granted. Taking your abundance for granted. Taking your luxury for granted. Aparigraha keeps you ALIVE and constantly functioning and contributing. Understand. You may question - “Sitting in silver throne and wearing golden jewellery, just received the Rajitha Tulabhara and He is talking about Aparigraha?!” We jewel Aparigraha and put that concept on the throne and worship! When we know somebody will be ever in Aparigraha and no wealth can touch Him, now He is the concept - Aparigraha. He represents and lives, radiates the concept - Aparigraha. We put Him on the throne, we jewel Him and worship not only Him - His statues! Neither socialism nor chronic capitalism or communism - no ‘ism’ can make world wealthy. Only responsibilism, activism and aparigraha will make world wealthy. It is the concept, the principle I stand for - Aparigraha, that is throned, jewelled, worshipped, weighed - with precious metals. It is the concept I stand for, I live, I manifest, I radiate - that is worshipped, that is revered, that is responded... nothing else. 1000s and 1000s and 1000s who live, love, this great principle of Aparigraha, continue to radiate the power of life. Understand, Life... whether the wealth is added or not, if you are constantly growing towards more and more activism and responsibilism, you live aparigraha; even the wealth is added, it is only going to be more responsibility for you, then you are living the real aparigraha. Understand. If wealth adds responsibility to you, you live aparigraha. If wealth adds laziness, tiredness, boredom to you, you are living with Moo Devi, not Sri Devi. Person who feels luxurious inside only can do charity, sharing with his wealth; and he is worthy of receiving the wealth and blessings of wealth. He is worthy of being showered with abundance. Essence of today’s satsang - “Let abundance add activism to you. Let wealth make you responsibly active, actively responsible.” (17:08) With this I bless you all.

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232nd Guru Mahasannidhanam of Thondaimandala Adheenam Address in Nithya Satsang

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In Nithya Satsang at Bengaluru Adheenam, we were privileged to have with us our esteemed guest, the 232nd Guru Mahasannidhanam of Thondaimandala Adheenam, Sri Thiruvambaladesika Jnanaprakasha Swamigal.