March 20 2007

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From the works of living enlightened master Paramahamsa Nithyananda. In this clip taken from discourse titled, " See Light Within", Swamiji tells us about the ego fulfillment that arises from acts such as celibacy. If these acts are a step towards enlightenment and it naturally happens during this path they are perfectly OK, but mostly they are used by humans to give them a strong ego fulfillment.

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From the works of living enlightened master Paramahamsa Nithyananda. In this clip taken from discourse titled, "See Light Within", Swamiji tells us about the greatness of Shiva. Shiva is a Master for all kinds of beings -- his compassion is infinite and He does not say No to any being. The uniqueness of Shiva Sutras is the conscious levels in which you are living will determine what you can get out of it. Therefore these sutras can never be misused or misinterpreted. The same sutra will give you a whole new understanding to you if you grow. It will awaken a whole new energy in us since we are now ready.

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(0:16)

I welcome you all with My love and respects.

(0:32)

Today’s subject is, ‘Eee light within’. We are entering into the next Sutra, next aphorism by Mahadeva, Anandeswara. Understand, yesterday Mahadeva, Shiva was giving the sutra to work whenever you face pain, whenever you face suffering. Now, today he is giving you the meditation technique to work whenever you are deeply in love or you are lost in joy. How to use that situation to achieve Enlightenment? Shiva is such a great Master, He is giving us the technique to use every situation towards Enlightenment. Understand, He is giving us techniques for all human beings- human beings who came, gone, who came, who are here, who are yet to come. For all human beings, he is giving meditation techniques. He is giving techniques to use all possible situations. That is the greatness of Mahadeva.

(02:17)

We call him as Jagatguru in the Shiva Ashtottara Namavali, we call Him as Jagatguru. Jagatguru means who can guide the whole world, who doesn't say no to anybody. He doesn't say no, no, no. Any person, any situation He has got technique to help you towards enlightenment. Today he is giving you the technique to work if you are lost in love, if you are lost in joy. Using that situation, that mood to experience Enlightenment, to achieve the Superconscious state, Paramastitihi. Yesterday He was giving us the technique to use when you face pain or suffering. Today He is giving us the technique, the next technique He is giving us to use when you are in love, when you are in great joy, when you are lost in the tremendous pleasure and joy.

(03:43)

Let us see the Sutra. Then we will see the translation and will try to internalize it by understanding it. Damantashova Sambhuta Sookshmagni Tilaka Krutim Bindum Shikhante Hridaye Layante Dhyayato Layaha

I always feel the beauty of these great verses is such you can't translate because the moment you translate, you can express only one dimension of these great words. See, these words are such, you can give hundreds of meanings to these words. Especially Sanskrit is such a poetic language, you can break the words in four-five ways and the sutras are written in such a amazing language, any way you break, you will get a new, new meaning and new, new sutra out of it, new, new technique out of it. That is why Mahadeva says… there was a great master who wrote commentary on this Shiva Sutras. He says, in which level you are there, from that level you will understand these sutras.

(05:24)

See, traditionally we always believe the great knowledge should be given only to a qualified person who really seeks for it, who really wants it. Even in Kathopanishad, Yama says, Yamadharma wants Nachiketa, his disciple this knowledge cannot be given to a person who is not sincere. If it is given to a person who is not sincere, the person who is giving, his head will burst. He will die. Only after thoroughly checking the sincerity of a disciple, this knowledge should be transmitted. This knowledge should be shared. Here Mahadeva, Anandeshwara is not putting any condition. He is straightaway opening up all the techniques much more stronger and deeper than Kathopanishad. Mahadeva opens here all the sutras.

(06:35)

One important thing you should know. Shiva sutra does not have any prerequisite, any morality. No Yama, no Niyama means the moral prerequisites. Patanjali speaks about moral prerequisites - Yama, Niyama, Ahimsa, Satya Asteya, Brahmacharya, Aparigraha. He gives so many conditions. Practice this. Then get all the powers. Only then he even talks about techniques to achieve extraordinary powers. Here Anandeswara is not talking about any Yama, Niyama. Straightaway he is opening with the technique. The first Sutra is Devi’s questions. The moment Devi finish the questions, Shiva is answering. Mahadeva is speaking. He is straightaway opening the techniques. Naturally people will think there is a danger of this knowledge being misused. The bhashyakara, commentator writes, “No, because the sutras are written such a way, only if you are qualified, if you are pure enough, you will be able to understand.” The level in which, the plane in which, the conscious level in which you are staying, only to that extent, you will be able to relate with this sutra. Only that much you will understand. The same line will give new meaning, new understanding if you grow.

(08:17)

Sometime people come and tell Me, “Swamiji, two years ago, I heard Your lecture but that time I didn't understand much. Somehow I started meditating. Now if I hear the same discourses, if I read the same books, I understand so much. I feel how did I miss, how I could not understand all these things in those days, that time. I tell them, “You understand new things. You understand things in a matured way because you have become matured. If you grow, the ability to learn from the same books also will grow. The same lines will teach you new things. The same words will awaken new energy in you because now you are ready. Now you are ready.”

(09:28)

This Shiva sutras also, the plane from which you are staying, you will understand in that level. If you start moving to a different plane, if you raise yourself to different level of Consciousness, you will understand suddenly new doors are opening the same sutra with a new energy. I always tell people, what you listen is not the real thing. How many ideas just clicks, how many gives you the feeling, “Oh! This is what I was waiting. Yes, this is what I should listen. He is just exactly telling what I want to listen.” How many times you get that glimpse of satori, that click happens in you, that is the real thing…. How many times you feel that awakening, “Yes, this is the thing which I want. This is what I want to listen.”

(10:45)

See, whenever you just feel like sitting straight, I have seen, sometime if I speak on some idea, suddenly the whole group will sit straight means, the idea is going in. The idea is being digested. Now you need more attention. You will understand from the space where you are staying. The same words suddenly will throw new light because you have become a new being…. For My words, if you use your dictionary, there will always be confusion. If your Consciousness rises, you will use My dictionary for My words. The new meaning will happen. The new understanding will happen in you, the true understanding which is supposed to happen. I always tell people, I tell them, “Please meditate even if you don't understand the words, because the meditation will develop your inner space. It will raise your Consciousness. At one day you will be able to digest, understand, realize these words.”

(12:20)

Sometime you catch the joke. The joke clicks after two-three days. After two-three days only the joke clicks. Small story. Sardarji joke. They are such a nice people, they can laugh at themselves. You see, you need intelligence to laugh at yourself. You need arrogance to laugh at others; you need Intelligence and innocence to laugh at yourself. Only innocent people can laugh at themselves but arrogant people will always be laughing at others.

(13:00)

There was a competition. If you don't laugh for one hundred jokes, you will receive million dollar. First, one guy came. He was able to manage forty jokes because five people are sitting and constantly telling jokes. Forty jokes he managed but afterwards he couldn't do anything. He laughed, lost. Second guy came, managed sixty. Third guy came. Somehow managed eighty. One Sardarji came. He managed ninety six. By ninety seven, little smile very slowly started in his face. Wife was sitting in the front row. She was shouting, “Hey, keep quiet. Close your mouth. Stop, stop. No smile, no laughter. One million, one million.” Out of fear, he just closed the mouth. Somehow managed ninety eight also but ninety nine, he was not able to. Started laughing, uproarious laughter and you know how they laugh. A full laughter and he laughed. Anyhow lost the game, came down. Wife was shouting, “What? You managed ninety nine. One more minute. One million dollar! Why did you laugh?” He said, “No, now only I understood the first joke!”

(15:04)

Understand, you may catch it. The clicking should happen. You may catch after two-three days when you are relaxed. Usually you catch the jokes only in bathrooms. Only in bathroom when you take bath suddenly you remember and start laughing because there you are liberated, free. Ignorance also comes out. Clicking, catching. Same way, if you meditate, these words will suddenly click and create that Satori. See, in Zen tradition, Buddhist tradition, they have something called koans, Zen koan. They will just give you one word and you are supposed to meditate on it just like our mantra, traditional mantra. You are supposed to constantly think about it. They will tell you, “Find out the sound of one hand clapping.” How can sound come by one hand clapping? And you have to go on contemplate, meditate on it. Suddenly when you are in bathroom , maybe, when you are really relaxed, that clicking will happen. That understanding will happen. That is what they call Satori, first spiritual experience.

(16:42)

Going beyond logic means your logic is tired. You give space for your self, for your being, for your Consciousness to overpower you. Your schools, colleges, universities, everything teaches you to sharpen your logic. Constantly you try to bring everything under the control of your logic. You see, gathering knowledge means bringing things under your logic, understanding things according to your logic. That is what is gathering knowledge. All your degree, whether it is bachelors, masters or doctorate, anything is nothing but trying to bring that part of the knowledge under your logic, that part of the understanding under your logic. But these so-called logical people doesn’t understand an important thing. You can't bring mind under your logic, because logic is one part of your mind. How can one part of you understand the whole of you? No.

(18:12)

See, this whole book can understand one page but one page can't understand the whole book. Logic is one part of your mind. So your mind can understand logic but logic can never understand mind. That is why, this psychiatry, psychotherapy, anything related to mind can never be mastered by logic. That is why, in this kind of professions, a logical approach will never give a clear-cut solution. See, with that patient if you have dealt in that way, you can't use the same technique or same thing on some other patient. No. Generalizing is not possible in the field of mind and helping the mental disorders. Generalizing is possible in physical disorders but it is not possible in mental disorders. Generalization is impossible because your logic cannot understand your whole mind.

(19:25)

One guy, a big philanthropist who donates lot of money went to a social service organization which was running a mental hospital, asylum, lunatic asylum. The caretaker, the doctor.... Sorry, here the caretaker word has got different meaning. US slang has got different meaning for that word. The person who takes care of the hospital, asylum, he was taking that philanthropist around the hospital and showing. In one room, there was a patient. All over the room, in blood he has written Rosy, Rosy, Rosy, Rosy. The doctor said, “This guy became mad because he fell in love with that girl and he was not able to marry her.” And he took the philanthropist to the next cell and he was explaining about all the patients. How he became mad and how she became mad and what happened to him and what happened to her- all the stories. In the end, they saw one more patient. He also wrote all over his room same way in the blood Rosy, Rosy, Rosy. The philanthropist asked, “This guy also fell in love with her and did not marry her? Was not able to marry her?” Doctor said, “No, he fell in love with her but he got married to her.”

(21:14)

You can't generalize. You can't generalize in the field of the mind because logic is only one part. Part can't understand the whole. Understand, if your logic cannot understand the mind itself, then how can it understand Consciousness which is beyond its reach? From the young age, you are constantly taught to bring everything under the control of your logic. You are taught to bring everything under that one umbrella- logic. In the Eastern tradition, you are taught to expand the umbrella so that the whole world can come under it, but in the so-called outer science, so-called logic oriented educations, logic oriented education system, it teaches you to bring everything under the control of logic. So naturally you reduce the world. You do not expand you. You do not expand your umbrella. You reduce the world to keep it under your umbrella.

(22:39)

The Vedic tradition, the conscious based education system teaches you to expand your umbrella so that the whole world can be under it but the logic based education system teaches to bring the whole world under your umbrella means it’s trying to make your world small. That is why constantly you analyze, analyze, analyze means creating divisions, divisions, divisions. Any specialization trying to bring things under your control, under your logic naturally you make it smaller and smaller and smaller. Constantly you are taught to bring things under your control but these Zen koans do the opposite work. They tire your logic. Your logic will be completely tired and suddenly you will create a space. You will allow the Consciousness to open. You will allow the relaxation to happen. That moment only suddenly you realize that click happens.

(23:56)

I always emphasize on meditation because the possibility for that click, satori, that unclutching is more in meditation. During meditation, the possibility for satori, the click, the unclutching will be more. You can't make, directly you can't do anything for that unclutching to happen. Directly you can't do anything for that click to happen. No. You can only create a space where the possibility is more. That's all…. You can't do anything for a seed to grow. You can create a space, the possibility so that the chances are more. That's all. Directly you can't do anything. You can't just open the seed and take the plant out. No. You can't do any operation. No. You can't even open the seed. Forget about opening the seed and seeing, you can't even open the ground and see again and again whether it is sprouted or not.

(25:09)

Small story: Three monkeys somehow they got one mango. If one monkey gets one mango, you know what will be the fate of that mango. All three, and all three of them are fighting. They want some judge who will really do the fair job of sharing that mango to all these three guys. Somehow they found a enlightened person. They went to that person and asked, “Master, please help us to share this mango.” And you know how these enlightened guys work. They create more complication. He said, “You see, this one mango all three of you can't enjoy and it is really difficult. All three of you can't feel fulfilled.” See, these guys don't give immediate solution. They go for eternal solution and he said, “Please make a small hole on the ground. Put this mango, close it and pour water everyday. It will become tree and you will have lot of mangoes and all three of you can enjoy forever, eternally. These guys never give temporary solutions or immediate solutions. They always go for eternal solutions.

(26:54)

Anyhow, but this guy did not tell the time also, time limit also. The monkeys obeyed. They did the same way. They planted the seed, they planted the mango and now, all three of them are taking turn to take care of that plant or take care of that place. One guy takes care of watering. Other guy puts little manure. The third guy is security. Whole day and night he has to stand there. So work is going on. One month over. Two months over. Six months over. The seed did not sprout. There was no plant. Now these three guys have started suspecting each other. “I think this guy is not doing his job properly.” One started telling, “I think you are not putting the water properly.” “No, no, you are not putting the manure properly.” “No, no, I think you are not taking care of the mango. Somebody has stolen it.” The third guy said, “No, nobody has stolen it.” The other two monkeys asked, “How, how?” “Everyday, I am opening it and seeing whether it has sprouted or not. I know it is there inside because everyday I am checking!”

(28:30)

Understand, just the water or the manure won't do. You can't make it happen. You have to create the space and wait. Many time the clicking does not happen because everyday we dig and see whether it has clicked or not. The satori does not happen. The clicking does not happen because of the pressure we create just like this monkey. Everyday we try to see, “I think still Enlightenment has not happened. Still satori is not happening.” Understand, whenever you come and ask Me, “Swamiji, I am meditating for so long and still Enlightenment is not happening, you are doing the job of third monkey. You are digging and seeing the mango everyday. You can't make it happen. You can't do anything aggressively. You can only create the space and wait with a deep passiveness, a deep patience and the passive waiting after creating the space. That is the only thing possible.

(29:51)

These Zen koans are created for that. Even our mantras are created for that. These mantras also when you repeat, suddenly it clicks. I tell people, repeat this word- unclutching. Unclutch, unclutch. Even you can use it as a mantra. Of course, if you understand the truth, that is more than enough. Even if you don't understand, try to use that as a mantra. Suddenly you will see that it clicks. And you understand the truth behind that one word, truth behind that unclutching. I always people, when you get that satori, that clicking, you are initiated. That moment only initiation happens. That is what I call by the word initiation means the transmission of the lamp has happened.

(30:53)

Here, Shiva is giving wonderful sloka, wonderful sutra which can give, which can create the new understanding about the life and death because this sutra is directly related to presence and absence. Let Me read the translation: Feel an object or person, the presence in front of you means the touch or by seeing through your eyes. Feel the presence. The next word says feel it, not just seeing. Next step, feel the absence of all other objects but this one. Understand, step by step, let Me give the translation. Feeling the presence of an object or a person. Second step, feeling the absence of other objects. First, feeling the presence of one object or a person. Second step, feeling the absence of all other object and persons except this one. Third step, feeling the absence of this one also and centering on yourself. Realize Paramasthithi Dhyayato Layaha. Let you disappear into Enlightenment, into the state of meditation.

(33:05)

See, Shiva is such a great person, such a great master. He gives techniques for all kinds of human beings and all situations. Yesterday the technique is for people who are in pain or suffering. Today the technique is for people who are in love, on the way to pain, people who are in joy. He is giving technique even for them. Understand, that is the greatness of Shiva. Shiva is life positive. He is not telling you only for people who renounced the world, I will give meditation technique. No. Buddha would have told that. Mahavira would have said that but Shiva is life positive. He is giving techniques for all kinds of human beings. This technique is for the people who are in love with some object or with some person. Understand, I Am not saying if you were in love with somebody, if you had experienced the deep love to some object, then this technique won't help. If you are now, currently in love with some object or some person. Please understand, when I say being in love, I do not mean the legal so-called social system. No. You are legally committed or you are supposed to love somebody. No.

(35:02)

It is like a just two days ago, I got a letter from a devotee. That person was telling, “Swamiji, ten minutes we wait before You come. That ten minutes looks such a long time. Every second I am just looking at the door but after that, I sit for two hours. Not once I even think about looking at the door. What is happening? What happens to me? That ten minute I am not able to wait and the two-three hours I don't even know how the time passes means the number of thoughts is more when you wait. That is why you feel boredom, tired and the number of thoughts are less when you are in the presence means the… your kshana becomes big. If your kshana becomes big in somebody's presence or in some object’s presence, you are in love with that object or that person. This is the scale. Understand, this is the scale to measure whether you are in love with that person or object. If you are in love with some person or object, this technique is for you. Please try this. This is for you. Try this.

(36:32)

Just like how I said yesterday, if you are having some strong pain or suffering, that technique will help you to achieve Enlightenment. This technique will help you if you are deeply in love with some object or some person. If you are not in love with some object or in person, no God can help you. Not only Shiva, nobody can help you.

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From the works of living enlightened master Paramahamsa Nithyananda. In this clip taken from discourse titled, "You Are the Source", Swamiji takes us through a wonderful technique from Shiva to use your emotions of love and anger to fall into the ultimate inner space.

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From the works of living enlightened master Paramahamsa Nithyananda. In this clip taken from discourse titled, " See Light Within", Swamiji expounds on this sutras from Shiva. This technique, Swamiji tells us is for those who are in love with an object or person. He further elaborates what the true meaning of the word love rather than the societal meaning for this word. It will awaken a whole new energy in us since we are now ready. Swamiji goes on to say that Shiva is the only Master who accepts you as you are and provides techniques for all possible human beings. This sutra if fully understood will give us the basic science of devotion, falling in tune with the master or the feeling of being connected to a deity.

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From the works of living enlightened master Paramahamsa Nithyananda. In this clip taken from discourse titled, " See Light Within", Swamiji tells us about the story from Ramanuja's life. He goes on to tell us that Ramanuja, Shankara and Madhva created the three major philosophies that are alive in India. Through this story from Ramanuja's life Swamiji teaches us that if we cannot experience love to an object or person in front of us, we cannot experience god. Swamiji goes on to give us greater insights into why we are not able to open up completely and resort to various alternatives to experiencing love.

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