April 29 2013

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Reclaim your Powerful Inner Space

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In today’s morning satsang, Paramahamsa Nithyananda defines the term Chidambara, or Chid Akasha. Each of us has Chidambara. It is the dimension of inner space which we feel belongs to us, which we own and command. Within the boundary of Chidambara we take responsibility for our lives. Whatever we feel powerless about in life creates the limits of our Chidambara: beyond the border of self-ownership lies Maya. Each time we dodge responsibility and blame something external, we shrink our borders and Maya gobbles them up. But we can reclaim our inner kingdom through the Four Principles. Integrity gives us the decision to take back our sovereignty; Authenticity is the process of reclamation. Responsibility is the action generated by our self-empowerment and Enriching is the result as we share our renewal with the world.

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(0:19)

RIGHT SPACE, RIGHT POSSIBILITY, RIGHT LIFE.

(Hindi)

Please understand, in Sanskrit we have a beautiful word called, “CHIDAAKAASHA”. Chidaakaasha is the space what you call as your Consciousness. Another one beautiful word, “CHIDHAMBARAM” means what you feel as you. That is called Chidaakaasha or Chidambara in Sanskrit.

Again I wanted to insist on this one idea. When Ramana Maharishi says, ‘We are all Soul, Consciousness; when Shankara says, ‘Not only we, the whole world is Consciousness; there is nothing other than Consciousness’; Brahmam Sathyam, Jagath Mithya’; when George Gurdjieff says, ‘You don’t have Soul, you have to earn it!’ all three of them are right! Please understand, all three of them are right! As long as you experience, it is good if you think you don’t have it. Otherwise, because you think you have it, you do not put any of your energy to experience it.

When I drive around in the cities, when I see people unconsciously walking – please understand, I wanted to give you that exact glimpse of how an enlightened being sees the world from an insider’s view – when I drive around, I literally get frightened, because I see everyone is walking, driving in a deep sleep! Accidents are not news to be reported; non-accidents are the news to be reported.

Even today morning, I was driving around to come to this venue. Listen, what you experience as you, and you looking at the world through the eye, between these two action there are one-hundred layer! So, the Chidambara, Chidaakaasha, the individual consciousness is not seeing! By the time it reaches the eyes to see and process the fact, millions of obstacles, bumps, highways, sign-boards, “exits”, “take-diversion”, “construction ahead”, “don’t go in that road”, barricades! I didn’t want to stay in that same space continuously; I just closed the eyes and shut myself down. Because, when I looked around I saw my driver is also in the same space and driving!

(4:49)

My only request is, just give me your listening. Don’t judge I am talking something impractical. Don’t judge I am talking some philosophical. I am not talking any philosophy. I am not even interested in inspiring you to do something. My morning satsangs are nothing but my bathroom songs! That is the truth! When you are in excited, joyful mood, when you take bath, how you hum some tunes out of your joy which is there in your inner space – last few days you are listening to that same song, you will be humming the same song while you take bath. just like that, whatever is there in my inner space for last few days, I come and hum that tune, sing that song!

Don’t have that seriousness I am giving you some philosophy. Don’t even feel I am here to enlighten you. Then you become too serious. And you have too many concerns. If I become enlightened what will happen to my job? What will happen to my wife? And you have your own ideas, weird ideas about enlightenment! Nothing, just give me your listening, as a sweet song. You are staying with your friend or somebody; your near and dear one. If that guy is singing in the bathroom, you will have a curiosity to put your ears; what this guy is up to? What is he doing? What some songs he is singing! What song? How with the simple curiosity you will try to listen, give me that listening; and I commit with you, I will transmit my Chidambara to you!

Your simple listening is enough for me to transmit my Chidambara, Chidaakaasha to you! Life is nothing but what you feel as you, expanding that space. That’s all! Nothing else! Just that’s all!

(HINDI)

(8:11)

Creating the right space is not a big sadhana, spiritual practice; not some big achievement. Just stop believing it is impossible. Stop identifying with how you achieve something in your life, like first you find a job, and then you find methods to impress your boss, then you get your promotion, then you conduct your meetings, and then you make PowerPoint presentations, impress people, get higher promotions, have the money you want, and you continue to save the money, then achieve, buy what you want. Just give a break to yourself from this maths; your strong belief everything can be achieved only by this math. That’s all I am requesting you. Because, the Chidambara, the right inner consciousness, right inner space, you do not need anything, any practice other than expanding what you feel as you. If you have a headache, decide you are responsible for it. Then you will simply expand and understand you are residing in your head. If you think the headache is a suffering and it came for various reasons, you give up your ownership on that space and that space is now declared as conflict zone.

Please understand, it is just like China incursion. They try to come into your border, 10 kms, 20 kms, put some 20-30 tents and then declare that as a conflict zone! After they declare that as a conflict zone, they take a two strategic point and say, ‘Alright you give up ownership over this two point, we will give up all these 18 points back to you!’ Negotiate! Finally, they get that two point and give up this 18 point. We think we won! We won! And we come and give a big Press Meet note, media news that we won! Boost ourself! But actually what happened? We lost two point, two strategic points which will be very useful for them if there is a war!

It is exactly the same way Maya does! You will have a headache, agitation, slight stomach pain, may be little pain in the calf muscle; the moment you accept all that as a disturbance by the external reason, over! Your Chidambara, your Chidaakaasha has shrunk now. Now that zone is already declared as a conflict zone. Now it is conflict zone. Now Maya can negotiate with you. ‘Alright, you don’t disturb me in this, this, this area!’ Literally, this negotiation goes on. Your Authenticity is your ambassador who is negotiating.

(13:14)

Please understand, Maya will say, ‘Alright, unnecessarily don’t try to show you are a big guy! You are under me. I will relieve you from headache. But just be normal. Don’t try to be extraordinary. Don’t try to go on believing these foolish things this Nithyananda is telling you: “You are extraordinary! You are God!” No! You are under me!’

Then you settle down. ‘Okay, what can be done? Let me be out of the disease.’ You settle down, and now you feel you are healed. You come out and tell, ‘See I became alright! I became alright!’ But in the inner space already you compromised! Please understand, the China incursion is a direct, straight, right example. It is, continuously Maya is doing the incursions into you. Your inauthenticity is such, you go on allowing Maya to win, but you go on bragging you are winning! More and more you allow the zones to be declared as conflict zones, more and more destruction in your life starts happening.

Today, do this as a home-work. Sit and pen down all the areas already taken away by Maya. If you can’t get up morning and do your Yoga, do your Kriya, morning whatever time you can’t get up – 4:30 to 6 for example, brahmamuhurtha – if you can’t get up and do your spiritual practice, be very clear, that part is already claimed by Maya; the border boundary gone to Maya. It is not any more in your Chidambara! It is not any more your Chidambara! Means, your territory. It is gone! Now Maya will be doing the incursion into your satsang time also! And then, finally, you come to the compromise, pada puja time – 7 to 8 – is conflict zone. 8 to 9 no leave it to me. Now the border fight is going on. I am giving you example.

In your health, in your relationships, in your attitudes, in your patterns, everywhere, everywhere, please understand, everywhere it is the fight between you and Maya. Maya knows if she makes you sleep for one more hour, you will not wage all-out war on Maya. China knows if they just do a little incursion in the border, India will not go for an all-out war. They will only come for discussion. Wherever you allow the incursion of Maya, you lose your Chidaakaasha.

(17:10)

Life is all about reclaiming your Chidhaakaasha. Just see wherever you allowed the inauthenticity to have, inauthenticity is allowed to do the incursions, how your border is shrinking. I can see many human-beings are doing vanavaasa. Just like Pandavas were completely kicked out of the kingdom, your ownership, your space is not there in your body. You are kicked out! You are there in the vanavaasa. Your body is living. It is being used by Maya - means, your inauthenticity! When Maya is using your body, you don’t even know what time you do, what you do, why you do, what for you are living, why you are making money, why you are living, why you have married, why you are having kids, why you are studying, what exactly is going to happen? Nothing! It is just there! It is just there! It is just there!

(HINDI)

(19:58)

You don’t need any spiritual practice! You don’t need any spiritual activity! You don’t even need learning! I tell you, you don’t even need four tattvas! I go to that extreme! Just if you reclaim your possession, means, which belongs to you, your Chidambara, your Chidaakaasha, that is enough! When you have a headache, if you feel powerless in front of your headache, you already gave up your head to Maya! It is no more in your inner space! It is no more your border! It is no more your Chidaakaasha! It is no more your Chidaakaasha! If you feel your anger or violence, vengeance is suddenly rising in you, lust or fear is suddenly rising in you and making you do some actions after that for which you repent, be very clear, when those emotions have overpowered you, when they were ruling you and making you do some actions, you have gone to vanavaasa!

Emotions overpowering you is exactly the scene of Duryodhana grabbing the kingdom of Dharma and sending him to vanavaasa. Emotions are so powerful, I tell you! Vengeance is Shakuni. Greed is Dhritharaashtra. Fear is Duryodhana. Cunning strategy-planning naturally happens when Vengeance and Fear joins hand in hand - means, Shakuni and Duryodhana! When all these emotions gather together, it does a very cunning logic of gambling with you, Yudhishtra, and you are such a naïve fellow you can easily be trapped! Your emotions will convince you beautifully, ‘If we cannot even have this, this, this small things in our life, what is the use of life? We are doing so much!’ Your fear will say, ‘If you don’t do, you can’t even do spiritual practices!’

Please understand, many time, you compromise spiritual principles, thinking, ‘Now I will compromise. I will make money and settle in the life. Then I will have enough space and place to do more practices, what I want!’ Gambling is what? Those emotions, conflicting emotions, making you feel powerless. Dharma also tries sometime, ‘No, no, no, no, no!’ But, finally, the cunning logic takes over. Your boundary is grabbed. You are kicked out. You are orphan now in the forest. After that, in the forest or somewhere, if you have the grace of Guru, he comes, and he goes as an ambassador to the Maya. But even then Maya is not ready to listen. They try to tie the Guru himself. They try to arrest the Guru himself! And then Krishna takes his Vishwaroopa. Then he starts the war. Finally, Dharmaraja reclaims his boundary. The whole Mahabharatha has to happen for you to reclaim your boundary!

(25:23)

(HINDI)

That is all I am saying. What is your body? What is your mind? What is your emotion? Powerfully reclaim it! Don’t come back to me like a beggar with a powerless mood, ‘How can I, how can I have my own mind under my control, can you tell me?’ Once you are married, you don’t go around and ask, ‘How can I have kids?’ You are a man! You know it! Once you are initiated, you don’t go around and ask, ‘How can I reclaim my mind to me? How can I reclaim my body to me?’ You are a man you know it! Better know it! Or don’t get married! Don’t take human birth! It is simple decision! Sometime, I can’t understand, when people come and ask me, ‘How can I reclaim my mind?’ Then why are you having it? ‘How can I reclaim my body?’ Then why are you having it? It is a simple decision!

Please understand, it is a very simple decision! No, I am not going to be bored to repeat the same thing even though you are not ready to listen! Let me see whether you get bored of non-executing my teaching or I get bored by continuously repeating. It is a simple, aggressive decision!

You don’t need any other spiritual practice other than aggressively reclaiming your boundary. Tell yourself, ‘My body! My head! There won’t be any headache! It is mine! I will be the owner! It will be under my control! My inner space, I will be the owner! There will not be any confusion or worry or low mood! My inner space, I will be the owner! There will not be any incursions, interference!’

Immediately, you say, ‘No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! Even in my own, my own part, one part is there.’ Weakness is death which you are giving to yourself. Nobody can save you. Vivekananda is right when he says, ‘Person filled with weakness, nobody can save!’ Arrey! You don’t need to swim and save yourself! If I come in the ship and throw the rope, at least you can hold the rope so that I can lift you! Even for that if you are not powerful, then nobody can save you! Aggressive reclaiming of your inner space is enough! Nothing else is required! Don’t be mesmerized by this idea you are old, you allowed your wrong patterns into your body for a long time, you have been weak for ages, years! No!

(30:24)

(HINDI)

When you are a man, you know what to do with your life. When you are a living being, you know how to reclaim your body and mind. Reclaiming your inner space to yourself is what I call Authenticity! Decision to reclaim is Integrity. Reclaiming is Authenticity. After reclaiming, using it for your life’s mission is Responsibility. And enriching, helping other beings to do the same is Enriching. It is all about reclaiming your inner space!

(HINDI)

Any powerlessness you feel in your inner space, those areas you allowed the incursion to happen. In Advaithic tradition, there is a beautiful book called, “SWAARAAJYA SIDDHI”. Means, “RECLAIMING YOUR OWN KINGDOM” Swaaraajya Siddhi! I tell you, life is all about Swaaraajya Siddhi – reclaiming your kingdom! It is simply possible! Possible by Authenticity! Every day go on deciding you are going to reclaim today more inner space of your life, more space of your life. For example, after working eight hours, in the evening 5 o’clock if you feel tired, you are allowing the Maya inside. Decide, ‘I will reclaim two more hours of my space to me. Till seven, I will not allow tiredness.’ After a week, decide, ‘Till nine, I am not going to allow tiredness.’ Reclaim your time, your mind, your inner space, your body to you. What you feel as you, stands as you.

(34:41)

I continuously promote body-building, support people doing yoga and anything related to body-building. Whether it is running, or gymming, or exercising, or yoga, anything related to body-building, because you reclaim your space, your power over your body, your say over your body! Just like body-building, practicing these principles are “mind-building”. Reclaiming your body and mind is “conscious-building”. Build your inner space. Build your Chidambara. Build your Chidaakaasha. You will see, somebody will be blissfully dancing! Mahadeva will be blissfully dancing! If you look, you will see, his face is your face! You are dancing there! There is no separate Mahadeva! It is you dancing! Reclaim your Chidambara. You will see Mahadeva dancing in Chidambara! This is the secret of Chidambara – Chidambara Rahasya!

In Tamil Nadu, there is a temple, Chidambara. They say there is a Chidambara Rahasya, Chidambara Rahasya – Secret of Chidhambara. This is the Chidhambara Rahasya! Reclaim your body, your mind by Integrity, Authenticity, Responsibility, Enriching and aggressiveness! When you reclaim your body to your life, mind to your life, be aggressive! Powerlessness cannot help you to reclaim your Chidambara. Weakness cannot help you to reclaim your Chidambara. Be aggressive when you reclaim your Chidambara!

(HINDI)

(38:28)

I tell you, only when I create the civilization of human-beings with miracle powers as a regular lifestyle… See, if you want you can raise your right hand. If you want, you can smoke. If you want, you can eat. How it’s a normal power for you, same way, human-beings, with what you call as “miracle powers”, living all that as a normal power, only then I will rest! My mission is to create human-beings living extraordinary powers as normal powers, as a normal lifestyle! You don’t claim raising your hand as a miracle, because everyone can do it. At least, majority can do it. Same way, I will make sure majority of the humanity has their body, mind, time, their inner space under them; they own their inner space!

I tell you, your inner space is not individual, isolated, island, as you think. In the inner space all of us are connected. So, anything you do in your Chidambara, the whole world supports you. That supports the whole world. Anything is done in Chidambara, Cosmos makes it as reality. World makes it as reality. Cosmos tells you, “Tathaasthu” – So be it! Even if you experience a little bit of powers of Chidambara, you will not have the greed for perverted powers like political power, social power, power which you feel by abusing others, power which you feel by ruling over others. No! Sometimes, power which you feel by fooling others! These are all the perverted powers. Power perversions! I tell you, if you experience even little bit of your Chidaakaasha powers, powers of your Chidaakaasha, simply you will be free from the greed for power.

One of my sannyasi asked me the other day, ‘Swamiji, we people who live around you, we don’t feel you are such a powerful person. We only feel you are a relaxed child or kid relaxed way playing around. That is the way we feel when we are around you based on your vibes or the words, behavior, actions, lifestyle.’

I told him, ‘Not only you, even I feel like that only.’

(42:07)

Because I tasted my Chidaakaasha, I do not have the greed for perverted powers. So, even if those powers are lying around me, I am neither excited by it, nor inspired by it or even feel like tasting it. If you enjoy the beautiful food in your kitchen, even if there is a drainage outside your house, you will not go and feel like eating that or drinking that. When you don’t have anything, really thirsty, you are about to die, nothing can be done, only then you will feel like, ‘Alright, at least let me drink the drainage water!’ If you have good food, beautiful food, nice food in your kitchen, why will you go and drink the drainage water?

Power perversion is a drainage water! Perverted powers are drainage water! I tell you, people who are greedy of power just need only one thing - knowledge of their inner space and simple decision to reclaim their inner space. If they can just cure their headache, that much if they experience their inner space, the power of their inner space, their greed for power will disappear. They will stop giving headache to others! Sitting in a power-center of the country, I am talking this! But I am telling you the truth! That is why, in India, people who are going to become power-centers are trained to experience the space, power of their space.

If you see the life of Shivaji, if you are really authentic and read, you will see there is no perverted power hunger in Shivaji. That is why Aurangzeb felt so powerless just by remembering Shivaji! Shivaji was so powerful even in front of the whole Moghul Kingdom! As a single man, Shivaji protected the whole South India and South Indian temples! Nobody was able to cross him and come to the South India! Whenever I see temple in my native place, Arunachala, that temple is so beautiful you will not see a single damage! Not like usual how you see the North Indian temples – broken, abused by the Moghul terrorists. Whenever I see that temple, I feel grateful to Shivaji only. It is he who is responsible as a single fellow! His inner space was so powerful, he reclaimed his inner space! That is why he was not hungry towards the perverted powers.

(46:15)

(HINDI)

The essence of today’s satsangh is:

Be aggressive and reclaim your space, your possibility in time, mind, body and your responsibilities. Whatever is yours, just reclaim them. Let your space be yours. Let your space be yours! Let nobody else, no other force, nothing else have incursion over it. If you are a man, you will not allow somebody else to interfere in your life. Same way, if you are a living being, do not allow some other patterns, somebody else to get into your inner space. “Reclaim Your Space” is essence of today’s satsang.