July 16 2010

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Nithyananda on Intuition (Part 1 of 2): Ultimate Trust in Yourself

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The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism, Jagatguru Mahasannidhanam, His Divine Holiness, Bhagavan Nithyananda Paramashivam, expounded on the Cosmic Principles from Intuition during the everyday live public talk - Nithyananda Satsang. In this talk The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism revealed that intuition is the most untapped resource available in every being and when intuition happens, it is realty. He explained that even with Astrology, Nadi, intuitive or psychic readings or Oracles, not to trust them more than your own intuition in order to become Enlightened, but to have the guts to trust your intuition. He shared that intuition awakens the moment when you take up responsibility, and not put blame on others or yourself, when your whole energy is centered on you and you alone. His Divine Holiness revealed that in the Vedic tradition, intuition is the base for many of the Shastras and in order to understand you need to play with the idea of intuition.

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Nithyananda on Intuition (Part 1 of 2): Ultimate Trust in Yourself

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(0:31 ) || sadāshiva samārambhām shankarācāryā madhyamām | asmat ācārya paryantām vande guru paramparām ||

(1:18) I welcome you all, with My love and respects. Intuition. The world's most untapped resource is intuition - available in every being, unused in almost every being. My teacher, Hatha Yoga teacher, Yogananda Puri, he used to tell Me, "Human beings, by their very nature, complete fulfilled the human body, by it's very nature, built for all possible things which can happen in flesh and blood." Please understand, if some body which has flesh and blood, if it can fly, that possibility is there in human body. If some body with flesh and blood can be under the water, that possibility is there in the human body. Human body is the most evolved mechanism, which has all possibilities, which has the energy efficiency to perform everything which is...which is possible with body-whether it is flying or living under the water or living without cooked food, living just with the energy from the Sun, Prana-all the possibilities are available with the human body.

( 4:21 ) I can tell you, every possibility - possibility of flying, possibility of living under the water, possibility of living without solid food, even these possibilities have been awakened in many many more bodies than intuition. That is why I am saying, most untapped resource on the planet Earth, just like most endangered species on the planet Earth is Enlightened beings...most endangered species. Same way, most untapped resource is intuition.

(5:18) The funny part of the whole thing is, it's available very easily. All you need is just being simple. Please understand, I am not saying being simpleton or ignorant. No. Being simple. Ignorance always carries a fear - ‘I don't know’. When you don't carry that fear, it is simplicity-innocence. The only difference between an Enlightened Being and an ordinary person is, he does not carry the fear of unknown or unknowing. He does not carry the fear about something which he does not know.

(6:13) There is a beautiful story about the Sarvajna...Sarvajnatva in Shankara's life. Shankara was supposed to be Sarvajna. Sarvajna means all knower. There is a story, when Sarvajnapeetha was supposed to be decorated by Shankara's presence; one cobbler who stitches the shoes, he appears there and asks the Shankara, "Do you know, how to mend shoes? How to repair shoes? Only then I can accept you as Sarvajna." The whole Pandits, the whole team of Pandits have accepted, but this cobbler is challenging, "Only if you show me, how to mend shoes and satisfy me, I will accept you as Sarvajna." As per the rule, the whole population has to agree unanimously, only then he can decorate the Sarvajnapeetha, Sarvajna...throne reserved for Sarvajna. Then the story says, Shankara picked up the shoe, picked up the needle with which he is supposed to stitch and just scratched the edge of the needle on the nose and inserted the needle into the shoe, into the leather. Cobbler was shocked, because, why the scratching on the nose you know, lubricate...to lubricate the needle, always the cobblers will scratch the needle on the nose. The oil on the nose will be the lubrication for the stitching. Shankara did not miss even that small step. Means, the power of observation...power of observation. The story says, cobbler accepted Shankara as the Sarvajna. Shankara sat in the Sarvajnapeetha and blessed.

(8:25) Now we need to clarify an important doubt. Then it means, Enlightened being knows everything? No. I do not know the atomic science. Surely Shankara do not know how the train works, surely he doesn't know how the steam engine works. No. Surely he doesn't know. Then what is the meaning of the word, Sarvajnatva? A pure consciousness, which operates through the senses, which observes anything comes in front of it and can understand the secrets of everything which is presented in front of it. Please understand, if Shankara wanted, he could have developed a train, if he puts awareness on it. If Shankara wanted, he could have developed a aircraft, if he puts awareness on it. But by his very self he will not know.

(9:32) The Sarvajnatva need to be understood very clearly, because misunderstanding of the word Sarvajnatva, will always keep you in the guilt, which will make you away from Sarvajnatva...which will keep you away from Sarvajnatva. Whenever a person has a wrong concept about Enlightenment, that very wrong concept keeps him away from Enlightenment. Same way, this Sarvajnatva, if you have a wrong concept about Sarvajnatva, just that concept will keep you away from Sarvajnatva. Sarvajna does not mean knowing everything. But whatever is presented in front of his senses, will be recorded, without any prejudice, without any disturbance, without any footnotes-your own personal comments.

(10:32) The attitude of writing footnotes starts prob...starts all the problems. That creates a problems. As long as you record all the files and keep it in the archives, you will have complete access to the archives. The moment you start putting footnotes and the ‘favorite’ star, when you put that ‘favorite’ star, when you start marking, that is where the problem starts.

(11:04) Sarvajna is a person who knows everything. There is no special attention. Please understand, when I say the word, who knows everything, you need to understand this word very clearly. When I say, who knows everything, does not mean he knows how the satellite works. No. Anything presented in front of his senses, he knows. Towards anything if he concentrates, he will know. He does not have the fear that he does not know something. Because of his clarity, anything which comes in front of him, he will know.

(11:52) Please understand, when somebody experiences fearlessness for few seconds-usually human beings experience fearlessness when you come in...when they come in touch with huge money, for few seconds, till they take that money for granted, till mentally they plan how to use that money and finish it off. Please understand, if you get 100 crore, to finish that 100 crore, you may take five years or ten years or twenty years or you may not even exhaust it. But, within ten minutes, you will finish it mentally. Mentally you are back to that poverty within ten minutes. That ten minutes, you will not have fear.

(12:53) Same way, relationship. When you really yearn for somebody to be part of your life and that person happens in your life, maybe for 10-15 days you will not take that for..person for granted. That 10-15 days you'll be fearless. Third, sex. When you don't create the perversion of cerebral layer-means when you are physically with somebody, your mind is with somebody else or some other fantasy-if you have less fantasy, more time you will be fearless during the act or the experience of sex and intimacy. If your cerebral layer is more thick, strong, even that sex or intimacy cannot give you the fearlessness.

(13:58) It's almost like, the person who continuously drinks, will not feel anything even if he drinks, because of the habit of drinking. See, first time when he drinks very little quantity is enough to make him feel that kick. After few months, little more quantity is required. After few years, any amount he drinks he will not have any feeling, because his system loses the sensitivity to experience the altered state of consciousness through alcohol. Then he needs some other medicines, injection, some other drugs-strong.

(14:45) I read some of the articles, people even use snake bite. They catch small snakes and let that snakes bite them to get into that kick. Because, the system becomes so insensitive to alcohol, drug or anything, they can't feel that kick unless the poison, straight poison is injected into their system. I tell you, people who live with pornography are almost like, trying to have a snake bite for the kick. Because the cerebral layer becomes so thick, they can't experience that fearlessness; few moments of fearlessness with any physical act or nearness. Act is what I call sex, the nearness is what I call intimacy. So all these three - money, relationship, sex - all these three can give you the glimpse of fearlessness in the initial level. Unfortunately all three will not be able to give you the fearlessness forever. That few moments when you feel that fearlessness, when you experience fearless zone in you, the intuition will be awakened. Please understand, all of you have experienced intuition. If you look back, you will have 100's of incidences.

(16:30) Let Me get into the depth of this intuition. How, fearlessness awakens intuition and the intuition itself awakens the fear. When an intuition happens in you, immediately you have the fear, "If this comes true, all my intuitions will come true, which I don't want." Look in, whenever you had intuition, one part of you says, "No, intuition is suffering, intuition is suffering." Intuition without having the intelligence to digest the suffering or without having the energy to change the things which you see in the intuition is suffering. All of us know, that is why one part of you suddenly awakens and says, "No, no, no. Relax."

(17:39) Intuition is dangerous, because many time it'll inform you which can be dangerous, which can be dangerous. I tell you, the best way to have intuition, is not to be bothered about intuition. The more attention you give for intuition, either it brings greed or fear which takes away the intuition. It's almost like a, the water in the pond is very dirty, you try your best, putting your hands and suppressing all the dirts and make the water clean. What will happen? The more you move the hands in the water, it'll become more dirty.

(18:32) Same way when the intuition happens, whether the fear or greed, if it is awakened because of that intuition, that very intuition will be killed. The best way to have intuition is - be simple. If it comes, comes; if it does not, does not. Suddenly that simplicity starts rolling your being in a different way. I'll give you the deeper techniques for intuition. Intuition is a very soft, simple feeling. It's like a perfume smell - perfume smell or the smell of a flower which is carried in the air. The moment you try to catch it, the moment you try to bottle it, it disappears. Catching it or bottling it is fear or greed.

(19:35) It looks very paradoxical. If I should not have fear or greed, then what is the use of intuition? This question unanswered, un-understood is responsible for My statement, which I said - intuition is the most untapped resource, natural resource available in the earth. Most untapped natural resource on the Earth is intuition. Because we always think if I should not have fear or greed, then what is the use of intuition...what is the use of intuition? I tell you, fear or greed makes life juicy. It gives you something to do. Unless your life looks heavy in front of you, you do not want to move your body. But, fortunately life is not heavy as you feel. Unfortunately, constantly you want life to be heavy… life to be heavy.

(20:49) Please understand, if you look inside, sometime a simple, casual sitting of looking into you and your desires and your fears, understanding it - you feel life is too simple. But, your mind does not let you stay in that space ‘life is too simple’. It wants heaviness. It just creates some idea, "No no, no, life is simple as long as I have this chair, this students, this everything. If somebody is missing, if this chair is not there-what to do? Life..now life is heavy.

(21:36) Understand one thing, trust your capacity; trust your capacity to bear with suffering. Trust your ability to bear with suffering. Your maximum bearable limit or the bearing limit is much more than what you always think. Your MBL is at least few hundred times more than what you think. Before entering into anything, you consider your past MBL, then plan the future incidents. That is where you fail. That is where life fails.

(22:27) I can tell you hundreds and hundreds of stories. A guy goes to a master, late night, in the middle of the forest, asks, “Master, I have to cross this forest, please make this whole forest alive with your light, with your spiritual power, so that I can cross the forest. Master says, "Don't bother have this lantern. Walk. You will see light." This guy says, "No, this lantern gives light only to five feet. How can I cross this whole forest with this small lantern?" Master says, "Don't worry, it is a magic lantern, it will lit the whole forest. You walk." And it happens, that guy walks with the lantern, every five feet is lit and he crosses the forest.

(23:22) Everybody asks, "Solve all the problems of my life." Everybody asks the foolish idea about Enlightenment, "When you are enlightened all your life problems are solved." Enlightenment is lantern, not the floodlight. Understand, Enlightenment is lantern, not the floodlight. Floodlight happens on the planet Earth as an incarnation. As an incarnation, floodlight happens on the planet Earth or as a Sun or as a Moon, incarnation happens on the planet Earth. But, Enlightenment itself is a lantern.

(24:14) So all of us need to understand, the wrong idea about the intuition is the major impediment for intuition. All you need, to awaken your intuition is, courage to fail in your intuition. Just have a simple courage to fail. Understand, always your mind frightens you, constantly it frightens you and makes you feel as if you are never going to fail. No. The man who does not carry the idea of failure, never fails. That's all. As long as you carry any idea about failure, mark my words - you will fail.

(25:33) One preacher goes and tells a small boy, "Jesus never fails." That guy says, "No in my class he failed." Understand, even Jesus as long as he carries the idea of failure, he will be failing. Fortunately, he did not carry any idea of failure. That is why, even when he was crucified, he did not feel he failed. As long as you carry the idea of failure, you will be a failure.

(26:07) So to awaken the intuition, the first thing is, decide, next ten days, do it like a homework - just go on listening to your Manipuraka, navel center, that is the intuition center. Whatever comes from it, whatever comes from inside, without the fear, go ahead, make the moves, take the steps. I am not saying you will not be doing anything wrong. But I can assure, you will be doing less number of wrong things than your previous time. See, if you start this exercise today, I am not saying next ten days you will not make any mistakes. But you will surely make less mistakes than the past ten days, that I can assure. When you start trusting you and start living with this intuition, means; you see, when the intuition starts, it starts with a lot of dirt-dirt of fear and greed-because your bio-memory is not sensitive enough to feel the intuition as it is.

(27:28) First thing you need, clear idea of intuition. Second thing, courage to move your bio memory based on your intuition. Please understand, if you have an intuition, if you don't move your bio-memory as per that intuition... for example: You feel such and such a thing is going to happen, and if you don't move your body as per that intuition, the ability to be intuitive will disappear from you. In the initial level, you need courage to make mistake or right or wrong to go behind that intuition. In the initial level, you need to have that courage. You need to have the courage to make the mistakes; first few days. Then, the third important thing you may need for awakening the intuition is strong trust (28:34)