Aparigraha

Aparigraha is a consciously chosen minimalistic simple living - as a spiritual lifestyle

I tell you the lifestyle of aparigraha, means living with minimal things, is the most luxurious thing you can have, because that will constantly keep you active in your peak possibility, your mind will be active, your body will be active. - HH Paramahamsa Nithyananda Paramashivam

Why Aparigraha

The context of aparigraha, the reason to live with minimal things is to keep you alive, active, to keep your muscle-memory and bio-memory brilliant, bright.

See the luxurious lifestyle makes you insensitive; above all it makes you life negative. It just makes you life negative. It destroys your metabolism, it destroys your ability to enjoy, finally it destroys your very approach towards life.

I tell you, luxurious fellows are the most frustrated people on planet earth. Much of the problem of developed countries is not depression, frustration.

Is one of the biggest problem the developed countries are facing, because they have not understood with their own wealth they are torturing themselves. Having wealth is not wrong, but torturing yourself with the luxurious lifestyle is wrong. Don't punish yourself with a luxurious lifestyle. It’s an old way of living.

It is not cool, it's not modern, it’s not fashionable. Living luxurious lifestyle like kings and queens is the old stupid way of living. Don't think it is fashionable, fashionable—cool is living simply.

Understand, lifestyle of Mahadeva is most fashionable, modern and cool lifestyle. Catch it. The modern should accept, adopt lifestyle of Mahadeva, cool, that should become cool. That is cool.

Create when you want, celebrate the way you want and don't punish yourself with luxury. That is the biggest punishment will you be giving to yourself. Why do you want to be a fool? Don’t you see and the kings, queens……duh duh duh….destroyed themself. Come back to lifestyle of Mahadeva, which is fashionable and cool.

Possess nothing, Enjoy everything

DO YOU respect a beggar? Do you disrespect a rich man?

In today’s world, people are evaluated only on the basis of their possessions and status. A person’s worth in society is decided on the basis of how much he or she owns. Apart from his physical wealth, his power and influence become important.

Success in life is related to ownership of assets and the extent of influence.

In reality, nothing can be more damaging to a person’s real success in the world than possessions and status. The desire to possess rises from comparison and jealousy.

If your neighbour buys a new refrigerator your house gets warmer. From early childhood we are conditioned to desire what others have. When we are not able to possess something, we are unhappy and consider it a failure. We become happy when we do acquire what we want. This happiness, however, lasts for a brief period. It lasts till we find one more thing to covet. Happiness seems to be in the acquisition, in the chase rather than through enjoyment of what we have.

Ramana Maharishi says: Till you get something you want, it looks as big as a mountain. Once you get it, the same thing becomes the size of a mustard seed! Greed drives us. Greed and envy are the root cause of all our sorrow.

Gautama Buddha said that all suffering is caused by human desire. But Buddha was not referring to genuine need-based desires when he said this; he was referring to the unending stream of wants that we develop based on comparison. Joy is the natural state of a human being. Joy happens when there is no comparison. Joy happens when there is no attachment to an acquisition. It gives rise to sorrow when the desire for possessions imprisons us within the boundaries of time and space. When we recall a happy time, we keep trying to possess that time again. A desire rooted in the past becomes the driver of our present state of mind.

Stop wanting to acquire more and more. Enjoy what you have.

I keep saying this: enjoy what you have; there is no need to renounce what you already possess. Renounce only what you do not have. You do not have to move into a forest as a monk or sanyasi to find happiness. You can find it in the middle of your worldly comforts. All you have to do is to renounce your fantasies. That is the gateway to Bliss!

Live Simply

Live simply. To live in aparigraha is to strip your life down to its essentials . At the material level, the secret of optimized living is to use your resources efficiently, so that you achieve maximum results with minimum expenditure.

When you live with minimal resources, you automatically learn to operate at peak performance.

At the mental level, aparigraha is the courage to live with minimum beliefs or preconceptions. Only the courageous can live without beliefs, because it means that you will have to contact life every moment as it happens.

At the spiritual level, aparigraha means living with no other support than the Divine.

Obviously, this does not mean you will give up your job or your family. Aparigraha only means that you will live life with simplicity, discipline and tremendous internal freedom.

Sannyas - Living the Lifestyle of Aparigraha

This is a beautiful unique space which only a sannyasi of the Nithyananda order gets – every personal item used by you is personally blessed by the Master!

References

http://www.nithyananda.org/video/luxury-sure-killer-intelligence-powers#gsc.tab=0 http://www.nithyananda.org/video/kumbh-mela-chalo-–-experience-power-sacred-sentiments#gsc.tab=0 http://nithyanandatimes.org/naga-sadhus-the-embodiment-of-non-violence/ http://sannyas.nithyananda.org/?page_id=2742 http://nithyananda.org/video/nachiketa-child-who-conquered-death#gsc.tab=0 http://www.nithyananda.org/video/yama-ferociousness-pure-space-oneness#gsc.tab=0 http://nithyananda.org/node?page=42 http://nithyananda.org/video/secret-time-anti-ageing#gsc.tab=0