February 27 2014

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In today’s morning Satsang, Paramahamsa Nithyananda declares we are all Shiva – Shivoham! Mahadeva does not want us to worship Him, He wants us to celebrate Him. Even He is a stepping stone to enlightenment. By celebrating His presence, we can experience His energy in us - let us celebrate Shiva today and join his team!

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Nithyanandeshwara Samaarambhaam

Nithyanandeshwari Madhyamaam |

Asmath Aachaarya Paryanthaam

Vandhey Guru Paramparaam ||

I welcome all of you with my love and blessings. I welcome all the devotees, disciples, samajis, satsanghis, Shrimahants, Mahants, Kotharis, Thanedars who are sitting with us all over the world through Nithyananda TV, Sadhna TV, Janashree, Eshwar TV, and through two-way video-conferencing having Nayana Deeksha in many countries, many cities around the world at this moment.

The cities sitting with us all over the world and celebrating Maha Shivaratri: Los Angeles-Arunachalam, Vancouver-Bhubaneshwar, Nithyananda Nagaramu-Hyderabad, Charlotte-Srisailam, Scottsdale-Arizona, San Jose-Madurai, Toronto-Kailasam, Oklahoma-Somanatham, Ohio-Prayag, Haridwar Dhyanapeetam, New York-Varanasi, Seattle-Chidambaram, Singapore-Singapuram, Kulim-Tiruttani, Indrani-New Jersey, Guadeloupe-Rameshwaram, London-Kashi, Newfoundland-Canada, Houston Sangha in Kalahasti, Dubai-Vaidyanatham, Bogota-Colombia, Jorpati-Nepal, High Point-North Carolina, Talahassee-Florida, Island Creek-North Carolina and High Point North Carolina, Dakota Dunes, Singapore, Hyderabad-Gupta Kashi, Santa Fe-New Mexico, Slovakia, Kathmandu-Nepal, Oman-Sivagangai, Philadelphia, Tiruvanmiyur-Chennai, San Antonio-Texas, Scottsdale Arizona, Doncaster-UK, Singapore-Singapuram, Phillip Island-Australia,

I welcome all of you with my love and respects.

Today, Maha Shivaratri! The day Mahadeva assumed form from his formless space. Mahadeva existed eternally, he exists eternally but on this day, he entered into the space of form from formlessness. He created Brahma and Vishnu, empowered Brahma to create, Vishnu to maintain; he continued to remain in the formless space. But, when there was a conflict between these two he has to resolve the conflict. So, to resolve the conflict between these two, on this very day on Maha Shivaratri, Mahadeva assumed the form which can be perceived by Brahma and Vishnu. So, just to resolve the conflict between these two, Mahadeva assumed the form.

Actually, you can’t worship Mahadeva! Worshipping Mahadeva is impossible! Please understand, he is beyond all the concept of time, space, form, formless, everything! He’s beyond! He is not an outlaw. Some people are trying to project him as an outlaw. He is not out law. He is beyond law, “out” law. He is the source of the laws, but can never be bound by any law. He is beyond the laws, understandings, principles. You can never worship him. You can only join his team by realizing him in you. Understand, you can only join his team. Based on the various levels of understanding, you can become a Shiva Gana, Shiva Bhoota. When Shiva Ganas, Shiva Bhootas celebrate the existence of Mahadeva, outsiders think Shiva Ganas and Shiva Bhootas are worshipping Mahadeva. Please understand, you can never worship Mahadeva; you can only join his team and celebrate his existence.

See, this concept of “prayer” is contribution of the Abrahamic religions. The Vedic Tradition starts with giving the right context of you to you. Please understand, getting into the right context about you to you, getting into the right understanding about you to you, getting the right introduction about you to you, having the right context about you to you is what I define as “Shiva Bhakta”, Shiva’s follower.

Please listen. Having the right context about you. Only a devotee of Mahadeva or follower of Mahadeva can declare “Shivoham” – “I am Shiva”! There is no tradition where you declare “I am Narayana.” No “Narayanoham” mantra does not exist! In the other religions, if you tell you are God, you will be killed. At least in the Hindu religion sampradayas, you will not be killed; you will be tolerated as some other Hindu sampradayas. But, in other religions, you will be just killed if you say you are God. But in Shaiva Tradition, in Shaivism, your initiation starts with the great truth: “Shivoham”.

Mahadeva, only Mahadeva can celebrate making more and more Mahadevas! Only he celebrates by making more and more Mahadevas. He doesn’t introduce you to you as a sinner or a slave or a follower. In Shaiva Tradition you are introduced yourself to yourself as Mahadeva, Shiva. The best introduction you can get about you to you is from Shaiva Tradition.

So I tell you, worship can be tolerated if it inspires you to experience the non-dualistic state, the Advaitic state. The worship can be tolerated if it inspires you to evolve to the level of Shivoham. If any worship does not inspire you towards that experience, not only it should not be tolerated, it should also not be encouraged, it should not be practiced.

Please understand, only, only Vedic Tradition has the courage to declare, even the concept of God is a stepping-stone for enlightenment, even the concept of God is a stepping-stone for enlightenment. The concept of Shiva is just to experience the oneness, the non-dualistic state. I don’t want to translate Advaitha as “oneness”. No - “Non-dualistic state”! That’s the word I will use. The non-dualistic state. Even the concept of God is used as a stepping-stone to experiencing non-dualistic state. Shiva is also stepping-stone for Shivoham. And he is happy about it, understand.

Today is the day every one of us should decide to join Mahadeva’s team. Don’t just worship him. Worship him just to get inspired to join his team. Your worship should inspire you to join his team; then your worship is worthy. If your worship is putting you in a powerless space, if you are building, developing a wrong context about you by worshipping Mahadeva, I don’t think your worship is worthy, I don’t think Mahadeva is going to accept it. So, please understand, even your worship is worthy when you put yourself into the right context, when you give a right introduction about you to you. Bring right introduction about you to you. Mahadeva, who resides in the space of eternal completion, Nithya Poornathwa, who resides in complete completion, let us celebrate his presence today.

That is why Mahadeva’s worship has no methodology. He is the only god there is no methodology to worship. Just pick a stone from the street, pour the water which is running in the street, and put a few grass or any leaf and say “Namah Shivaya”. Over! He is worshipped! Nothing else is required. Easiest way of worship on Planet Earth is worship of Mahadeva, because he does not expect to be worshipped; He only wants you to celebrate him; He wants you to join his team. Understand, joining in his team is the real celebration.

And, I also take this moment to bless all the birthday babies, the Sannyasis who took Sannyas last year on this same day, who joined Mahadeva’s team. Sannyasis, Brahmacharis, Krama Brahmacharis, gurukul kids who joined Mahadeva’s team exactly on this same day last year. And I also welcome the big team today going to join into Mahadeva’s team. Today again a big group is joining Mahadeva’s team. We will be having Krama Brahmacharya initiation. Today we are not having Viraja Homa as Sannyas initiation. We are having Krama Brahmacharya initiation.

The approach you need to have with Mahadeva is, celebrate his existence and celebrate his presence and if you can join his team. That’s all. So, understand, joining his team and celebrating his presence is what we are supposed to do today on this Maha Shivaratri Day.

Mahadeva is embodiment of Liberated Thinking. He does not want even himself to be an obstacle for you to achieve that ultimate liberation. That is why he starts with Shivoham.

Today, whole day we will be having celebrations, festivals, worshipping just to celebrate his presence and to become him and to join his team. See, worship from the context of becoming him, experiencing him. Don’t worship from the context of prayer. Prayer can be tolerated, as I said, if it inspires you to experience his presence. Today, all our temples, ashrams, centres are celebrating Mahadeva’s presence. Bidadi is celebrating by offering 1008 naivedyams. 1008 naivedyams are offered to Mahadeva. And, only with Mahadeva I can make Mahadeva’s linga on the same food items and offer the same food items as a naivedyam! He is the food and he is the eater. And they made Shiva Linga also with the same food items. And each temple, each ashram is offering different naivedyams, offerings to Mahadeva, pujas to Mahadeva.

I just wanted all of you to remember today: Today do everything, whatever you do, do it from the context of joining Mahadeva’s team. Celebrate his presence, do Rudrabhishekam, do puja, do everything. Today the whole day, we have packed programs day and night! We have Rudrabhishekam, Rudra Homa and Abhishekam to Nithyanandeshwara and Nithyananda Linga in Vaidya Sarovar, Shiva Kundalini Dhyan meditation. Whole day, whole night, we have so many wonderful programs. And we have Rathotsavam and Kalpataru Darshan. Do everything from the context of celebrating his presence and joining his team. That is all.

So, understand, you can never worship Mahadeva. First of all you can’t grasp Mahadeva how will you worship him? You can only celebrate his presence that he has happened in your life, he has at least introduced himself in a small way as you understand in your life; he has graciously introduced himself, his existence in your life. I tell you, even to know the existence of Mahadeva, you need his grace.

We have satsangh today night also and lot of bhajans. So, I request all of you, please just be tuned in to Nithyananda TV today whole day and enjoy Maha Shivaratri!

I bless you all on this auspicious day of Maha Shivaratri. May all of you experience the intense Shiva energy on this day. My blessings.

So, the essence of today’s satsangh:

You can only celebrate his presence and join his team. So, celebrate his presence to join his team.

Swamiji gives blessings in other languages including Hindi, French, Spanish, Italian, Croatian, Slovak, Tamil, Nepali.

My blessings to all the centres which are celebrating Shivaratri. Washington DC is fully lit. All the deities are glittering in the light, shining.

And please be tuned in to Nithyananda TV today whole day. We will have the Kalpataru process tonight, means Indian Standard Time night.

And I bless you all! Let you all radiate with Integrity, Authenticity, Responsibility and Enriching and causing eternal bliss, Nithyananda! Thank you.

Transcript:

I welcome all the devotees, disciples, samajis, satsanghis, Mahants, Shrimahants, Kotharis, Thanedars sitting with us live through Sadhna TV, live through Janashree TV, live through Lotus News channel, and live through Nithyananda TV, and through two-way video-conferencing all over the world celebrating Maha Shivaratri.

Nithyananda Sangha all over the world is simultaneously celebrating Shivaratri Mahotsava, in hundreds of places at the same time. Now I can see many of our temples, ashrams.

The cities and ashrams I could see now connected with us in two-way video-conferencing having Nayana Deeksha: Toronto-Kailasam, Oklahoma-Somanatham, Seattle-Chidambaram, Ohio-Prayag, Nithyananda Nagaramu-Hyderabad, Redondo Beach and Kaliamman Temple-Penang, San Jose-Madurai, Paris-Kalighat, Vancouver-Bhubaneshwar, Phoenix-Kanchipuram, New York-Varanasi, Los Angeles-Arunachalam, Singapore-Singapuram, Charlotte-Srisailam, Paris-HomeTemple, John’s Creek-Georgia, Kuala Lumpur-Palani, Oman-Sivagangai, Rajapalayam Dhyanapeetam, Selangor-Malaysia, Warrington-UK, Poprad-Slovakia, Santa Fe-New Mexico, Ahmedabad-Gujarat, Devon-UK, Mitras-Mexico, Bogota-Colombia, Mill Valley-Vairavan Koil, Mumbai-Mulund, Hong Kong-Sirkazhi, East London-UK, Mumbai Dhyanapeetam, San Diego-Tirualavai, Devon-UK, Montreal.

I bless you all and I welcome all of you on this auspicious Shivaratri celebration. And, of course, everyone who is here in the Raja Sabha, I welcome all of you for this great Shivaratri celebration.

3:50

Nithyananda Publications is releasing the following e-books on this auspicious Maha Shivaratri Day: ‘Kalpataru – The Science of Powerfulness’, ‘Mahabharata – Realizing your Ultimate Reality.

And Nithyananda Vidyapeetham is releasing eleven CDs on parenting session: Space of a Child, Space of Listening, Love and Attachment, Responsibility, Parenting and Education, Anger in Children, Health, Intelligence, Violence, Teen and Tantrum, and Lifestyle.

We are also inaugurating the second Bala Vidyalaya in Slovakia today in Poprad.

And we are on the exact auspicious hour of Mahadeva assuming form from his formless space. We are on the exact time of Maha Shivaratri.

Nights if you sleep well, you will wake up. Waking will happen if you sleep well in the nights. Tonight if you don’t sleep, AWAKENING will happen. This night is used for experiencing awakening.

I really wanted to define ‘awakening’. Please listen.

Having the right understanding about you, having that understanding as the basic cognition for your every functioning, whether the functioning of your body, functioning of the mind, functioning of your intellect, having this right understanding about you as the basic cognition for life is what I call ‘awakening’.

Today morning satsangh I was explaining you can never worship Mahadeva, you can only be part of his team. You can only experience him, you can become him. Because, to worship something, you need to know about that and know about you; only then the relationship can be established. Neither you know what you are worshipping; neither you know who is worshipping. Neither you know what you are worshipping, nor you know who is worshipping. Then how can worship happen? In our case, neither we know whom we are worshipping, nor we know who is worshipping. That is why I say worship can never happen. Bringing the right context to you about you, bringing right understanding about you to you is what I define as ‘Inner Awakening’.

10:26

Please listen. When you do not have the right understanding about you, you don’t know what is good for you, what is bad for you; you don’t know what is right for you, what is wrong for you; you don’t know who is right for you, who is doing wrong things to you. Understand, if you bring the right context about you to you, I insist on this again and again.

Few days before, somebody told me, “This whole Science of Completion is going above my head.” No. Only incompletions can go above your head, not completions; not completions.

Look in. Bringing right context to you, bringing right understanding about you to you - Today I wanted only this one message to become part of your very inner-space. Bring right understanding about you to you.

Most of the time, the concepts, ideas, rules we think are necessary for survival, which we impose on others, like ‘If you work this many hours, this much of money I will give you’, ‘If you do this, I will do this to you’, ‘If you do this work, I will give you this favour’. The rules you impose on others, unfortunately when you do not have the right context about you, you start imposing that on you. Listen, imposing the rules you created on others, the rules you created for others on yourself is what I call self blackmailing.

Please listen if you set a rule for others ‘if you work this many hours this much I will give you money’ slowly you start believing; in your life also you start playing the same game with yourself. ‘If I do this, this has to happen. If not, I am not going to co-operate.’ Sometime even if it is your own responsibility, you start living based on the rules, based on the games you created for your own convenience. That is the worst part.

If you are a master of dice, play with others and win, that is at least okay. But you become such a great master, you start playing with yourself and trying to win. When you start playing with yourself and trying to win, whether you win or lose, you lose.

15:35

Understand, I am talking a very important subtle truth. Not having self-blackmailing patterns is ‘tapas’. Means, you will express all your peak possibility. Mahadeva is embodiment of ‘No SBM’ – No Self-Blackmailing patterns. Many time for various reasons you start thinking, ‘Oh, if I work for more than five hours, I will become tired. Don’t give me more work.’ When you try to act as a victim to others, you start believing that and you start using that same ideas and blackmail you. Most of our diseases are self-blackmailing. If you just complete with those self-blackmailing patterns, you will do extraordinary things which other human-beings can never do, understand.

On this great Shiva’s night, I wanted to introduce this one principle to all of you: Self-Blackmailing. Just like Self-Doubt, Self-Hatred, Self-Denial, this Self-Blackmailing is another one important negative pattern. Understand, any restricting principles you strongly believe and start adopting it in your body and mind and lifestyle becomes Self-Blackmailing patterns. Any restricting principle which you strongly believe and adopt it in your body, mind and lifestyle; in your body, mind and lifestyle, becomes Self-Blackmailing pattern.

I am not only going to talk about the problem, I am going to talk about the solution. Understand, when you are complete with these Self-Blackmailing patterns, when you cross this Self-Blackmailing patterns, even if life brings a mess to you, you will make message out of it. If life brings test to you, it will become testimony for you. If life brings trial to you, you will make it triumph. If life tries to make you a victim, you will have victory.

Understand, the antidote for Self-Blackmailing is inner awakening - bringing the right context about you to you, the best introduction you can have about you to you, the right introduction you can have about you to you. How much ever it feels difficult, even if you have to catch a bus, go in the town-bus, local auto, walk in the late night, you have to reach your house; because you don’t walk in the late night in the darkness you cannot land up in somebody else’s house. Even though you strongly think it is very difficult, you have to have right introduction about you. That is life. The right introduction I will give for you about you is this one word: SHIVOHAM. Constantly meditate on it.

Whether you walk, or catch a town-bus, or local auto, or share-auto, or roll on the ground, you have to reach the house. So, whether you struggle with incompletions or get angry with yourself and others, or get angry with Mahadeva or me, the straight truth has to be told. This is the right introduction I can give for you to you: SHIVOHAM. Means, wherever the idea ‘I exist’, the ‘I’ is experienced, all that is Shiva. I am not saying, when I use the word ‘SHIVOHAM’ I am Shiva; I am saying, whoever is feeling ‘I am’, they are all Shiva. If you feel you exist, you are Shiva. If you feel the ‘aham’, you are Shiva. However difficult the incompletions may look, however long the incompletions may take to complete, how much ever you may be enjoying your incompletions and ‘vaasanas’, understand, you can rest, you can be at your best only when you understand, have the right introduction about you to you.