February 24 2006 shiva sutras: Beyond body & mind

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Beyond body & mind

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This is a video taken from the live discourses by living enlightened master Paramahamsa Nithyananda, who has spoken over thousands of hours of public discourses related to various topics ranging from life solutions to corporate talks to enlightenment. These include: Life Solutions like stress-free living, freedom from depression, conflict-free living, holistic living etc. Corporate Talks on leadership, intuitive management etc. Scriptures like Bhagavad Gita, Patanjali Yoga Sutras, Jain Sutras, Brahma Sutras, Ashtavakra Gita, Shiva Sutras

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Beyond Body & Mind

I’ll repeat the sutra once more: As breath curves from down to up and again as breath curves from up to down, through both these turns, realize! Whenever incoming breath takes a turn as outgoing breath and whenever the outgoing breath takes a turn and become the incoming breath, again you experience the neutral space. Your breath moves only in a circular way it is not parallel line as you think. Because it goes in a straight way, you think it’s a parallel line. It’s not parallel it takes a turn and parallel lines never meet. Your breathing and mind, both are very closely associated. As I was telling you yesterday, the prana and mana, prana shareera and mana shareera are very closely connected to each other. If the prana becomes slow, the number of thoughts, thoughts per second also reduces. Along with the length, breadth, depth of the prana, thoughts per second also reduces. Please understand, the length, breadth, depth of the prana is directly related to the number of thoughts which you are having. For example here, if the prana is slowly coming down, slowly going into the inner space to take turn, this is the space in which it takes turn and becomes out going. This is the prana, along with that the mind also slowly slows down, very slowly slows down, but the difficulty is you are afraid of losing your mind, you are afraid of losing your mind that is why you never keep your awareness in this zone. This is like a neutral zone. If you know driving, you can understand, whenever you shift gear from first gear to second gear or second gear to third gear or any change, you have to come to the neutral gear, only after coming to the neutral zone you can change the gear. Even if it’s from first to second or second to third or third to first, whatever it is you have to come to the neutral zone. Same way the incoming breath taking turn as outgoing breath. This turn, this zone is a neutral zone. This is neutral zone. You are afraid of this neutral zone because in this neutral zone you are empty. You don’t have any identity. The biggest fear human beings have is fear of losing the identity, fear of losing the identity. I tell you even fear of losing death is not great fear as fear of losing identity. Fear of losing death is nothing but you don’t know how you will be after death. If you are very clear you’ll be in some way, you don’t have the fear. Here you are not very clear about how you will be after death. How you will be after you leave the body. The identity, fear of losing identity, that is much worse than fear of death. Here, when you pass through this neutral zone. When your breath stops, your mind also stops. You do not want this pain. That is why you just jump this pain. You never keep your awareness, you are never aware of this space, because you do not want to lose your identity. Your mind stops you’ll not have identity for few moments. You will lose your identity and you always think; you are only identity. Exist just only on identity, when you feel you are lost, you are no more. That’s the reason whenever you come to this zone you just take a jump. You are never aware of this zone. Every moment this zone is happening in you again and again. Whenever your incoming breath takes as outgoing or outgoing breath turns as incoming, this is also neutral zone. But you are afraid of these two neutral zones. You just take a jump. You do not want to be aware of this space. Every moment when the incoming breath takes as outgoing and outgoing breath takes as incoming, you are afraid of this neutral zone, because in the neutral zone, you don’t exist. In

neutral zone your identity is lost. You do not want to be aware of losing your identity. You do not want to lose your identity. You are so obsessed with your identity. You are so caught, completely caught with, your identity. You do not want to remain even for a moment, even for a shanaa you do not want to exist without your identity. Constantly you are protecting your identity, but the big problem is, your identity is completely social. It is not existential, it is just comparitive reality. It is not existential reality. Whatever you think as your identity, your money, relationships, your age, your sex, whatever you call as your identity, it is just societal and suicidal. Societal and suicidal. It is not existential reality. It is just comparitive reality. But you are afraid of existential reality and trying to protect your comparitive reality but you think you are protecting something which is, it’s real fun actually. You are trying to protect your identity against your reality that is where you miss the whole game. That is why our life is a big failure. You are trying to protect your identity against your reality that is where you miss the whole game. That is your whole life is a drain. You are trying to protect which is not, you are trying to fight which is not against which is. The life has got an existence, it has got positive existence but darkness does not have positive existence. It exists only in a negative way. It does not have positive existence. You are trying to protect that which doesn’t have positive existence against which has positive existence. In this space, in this zone, the neutral zone or the inner space or consciousness is the reality. It’s the truth, it exists in you every moment. Every moment when your incoming breath takes a turn as outgoing breath or outgoing breath takes a turn as incoming breath. You are in that neutral space, you are in that consciousness but neither you wanted to experience nor you feel comfortable with that zone you are so caught up in your identity, especially in the Western culture surrender means death. Just by hearing the word surrender, people get frightened. But you don’t know, you are trying to protect some thing which doesn’t have basic existence. All your identity, your identity is what your mind. This is what your is your mind, your mind is breath. Mind is nothing but your identity. Again here, outgoing breath mind. This is the zone, neither breath is happening, nor the mind is working. This is the zone where both stop. When your breathing stops, when your mind stops, you experience the zone of consciousness. This is what I call neutral zone. If your mind doesn’t feel comfortable, if your identity doesn’t feel comfortable, then naturally you just jump this zone. You do not want this zone in your life. Constantly you are trying to avoid God constantly you are trying to escape from God. Constantly you are trying to escape from consciousness. Please be very clear Jesus says Knock and it shall be opened, I tell you he’s knocking just open. Jesus says knock and it shall be opened. No, he’s knocking every moment. When your breath takes a turn; he’s knocking on your door. All you need to do is just open the door. You don’t have to knock he’s already knocking. The main thing, you need to feel comfortable with the neutral zone. The more you feel comfortable, the more you feel protected, the more you feel secure in the neutral zone; you will start experiencing the neutral zone again and again. When you start experiencing the neutral zone, you will stay in consciousness. Yesterday Shiva was giving a technique to be a witness of only one neutral zone, incoming breath taking turn and becoming out going breath. He was speaking about only one neutral zone because immediately you can’t be aware of both the zones. Only one you can start. Yesterday he started with first neutral zone, now he goes deep. He goes deep now he says be aware of both the neutral zones, be aware of both the neutral zones. Lets enter into the technique and see how it is playing.

Oh!Bhairavi, he starts with a beautiful word, O! Bhairavi! Yesterday he started with O'Radiant one. Everyday he gives new, new names. Understand Shiva is not speaking a single word unnecessarily, not even a single word from Shiva’s mouth is unnecessary, and not even a single word can be edited. As I was telling you yesterday, when I wanted to speak on Brahma Sutra, I could edit Brahma Sutra it was 555 I spoke only 3 shlokas only 3 sutras. When I wanted to speak on Yoga Sutra, it was again 555, I don’t know what to do with those numbers, Yoga sutra and Brahma sutra both are 555. I chose only ten or eleven sutras when it came to Geeta with 700, I chose only 120 but here, Shiva has given 112 shlokas, I’m not able to drop a single shloka. I couldn’t drop a single sutra as every sutra is just overflowing with energy overflowing with the meaning and you can’t say the Shiva sutras is something less than the Shiva sutras. It is pure essence something already distilled. The whole essence is completely used it’s intelligence. What maximum can be done, Shiva himself did nothing more needs to be done. Small Story: One multimillionaire goes to a New York Citibank and says I wanted $5000 loan. The Manager asks, please give some guarantee, please give us some guarantee. The man said please have the car key of my new Rolls Royce. He gave the car key. Manager took the car and safely parked it in the underground parking. The man left, he went for Europe trip. After one month, he came back. Straight he came to the bank and said Sir I wanted to settle, I want to give your money back. Manager said $5000 and $15 interest. Man gave the check and took the car key. Manager asked, Sir when you were away I checked your account, I checked about your identity, I found you are a multimillionaire, why did you take just $5000 loan of just $5000, what happened. He said see where else can I park my Rolls Royce for $15 for one month. Where else can I park my Rolls Royce for $15 for one month in New York? Be very clear, where else you can learn much better way about spirituality than from Shiva. He has done whatever can be done, just like that person, just like that guy. Shiva has distilled the whole thing. Now nothing more needs to be done. He has given the essence. He starts with the word, O! Bhairavi. The word Bhairavi is a beautiful word. He says Bhairavi; means the person who has gone beyond ‘bhaya’. There are many meanings. In Sanskrit, you can give at least 25 meanings to a single word. Because it is poetic, it is not prose. The whole language is poetic. The whole language is poetic; you can give at least 25 meanings to a single word. Bhaya ramyaete means one who can flirt with fear is Bhairava. Understand flirt with fear. Ramya means flirting. Bhaya means fear. Be very clear, fearlessness is not bhairathwa; fearlessness is suppressing fear. We also sometimes experience fearlessness. When you are really shaken, when you have to cross some dark area in the night, you start chanting, Rama, Krishna, Krishna. All Gods will come only at that time in our mind. All possible names,Rama, Rama Govinda, Govinda, Krishna, Krishna whatever name, everything will come and you will really feel that you don’t have fear also because, you’re inner chattering is engaged with something else. Whenever you engage your inner chattering in something else, you’ll really feel that you are out of fear. Please be very clear when you repeat the mantras, you are only diverting your attention. Don’t think you get the solution. You are not solving the problem, you just divert your attention, and you just turn your attention somewhere else. It’s like a, there’s a proverb, cat will think. You can see, cats when they drink milk, they’ll always close their eyes

tight because they think once they close their eyes, and the whole world will become dark. Nobody will see that they are drinking milk. You are also doing the same thing. When you chant some mantra, because you don’t pay attention to the fear, you think the fear has disappeared. Let you be very clear, fearlessness does not mean non-existence of fear. It means the fear will be there and you’ll have tremendous energy or courage to live with it. Who can flirt with the fear? The maximum fear and the energy or courage to live with it, is what is the quality of Bhairava. Bhairava means, it’s not that he doesn’t have fear he can flirt with fear. He is not affected by fear. One more thing, the very quality of life is fear. People come and ask me, Swamiji I’m always having the fear of unknown, what to do, I tell them, please be very clear, you are alive. There is a possibility of losing something that is why you are afraid. If you don’t have any possibility, you’ll never be afraid, you’ll never be afraid. That is why these barbarians, barbaric societies, they are never afraid. You can see, constantly these fellows going out and killing people. War, all war you can see, people who are barbaric only win in the war. Big problem is people who are sensitive respectful to the life, they don’t feel like fighting. They don’t feel like fighting, because they don’t feel that there is need for protecting anything. But barbaric people go on killing everybody. Please be very clear, fear is the basic quality of life. You can be fearless if you are in graveyard. If you are already in graveyard, there is no need to be afraid of anything. Nothing to loose. If you have something to loose, you will have fear. Nothing can be done about it. That’s the quality of life itself. Here Shiva says,Bhairavi, O!Bhairavi means O!, energy who can flirt with fear. Who can have or go beyond. You are neither attached with fear nor detached from fear. One more thing if you are afraid of fears, if you are frightened about fears, again don’t think you are detached from fear. It is one more kind of attachment. All detachment is one more kind of attachment. The negative way of attachment is detachment. If you are afraid of fear, if you are frightened about fear, again you are in fear. Your consciousness will be moving around the fear. One thing, sometimes if you are energetic, if the hormonal pressure in your body is high, you do things without intelligence. Without thinking about the result. That is what you call as courage. Let you be very clear, whatever you think as courage is not courage, you do not think about consequences. In hurry, just when you run, you do not know what you are doing and you just do it. And you do not know what you’ve done or you do not know what you want to do, you just run and finish it off. Small story: Few friends ran to the railway station. Last moment at 10:21, 10:20 is the train time,10:21 somehow two of them made, they got into the train, third one missed. Station Master came and patted, tried to console him don’t worry at least your friends have made it. He said No, No they came to see me off. They came to see me off. Be very clear sometime in the hurry, you don’t know what you are doing and that is what you claim as courage. When the hormonal pressure is little more than your intelligence or logic, you do something, which you claim as courage, that’s all. Otherwise, except a man who has experienced his neutral zone, nobody can talk about courage. The real courage is to let go your identity, which you think as you. To relax from the identity which you again and again associate as you, whether you have money or your relationships, whatever you think as your power. Whatever gives you the power as and now, the source for inspiration or the source for power is only the matter. Your bank balance, your house, your relationship, your car or

whatever you think as yours, your education. The I and Mine, you derive inspiration from the I and Mine, fear and greed, your wealth and relationships. Let you be very clear, if you are deriving inspiration, if your fear and greed, or your properties or your identity is the source of inspiration for you means, let you be very clear, you are not too far away from depression. Because how long greed will be alive, how long fear will be alive. The greed will disappear the moment you have the product or if you understand that you can’t have it. If you understand if you achieve or you understand you can’t have it. Both the time, the greed will disappear. Then you don’t have any source of inspiration. You don’t have anything, which makes you run, you don’t have anything, which brings you to life. Same way with fear. If your identity is based on society, be very clear you are nothing more than a puppet. Big problem is, at least in puppet show, one man in a show handles puppets, and you are handled by thousands of people. Any single man can put you into depression, one word is enough, you are already in depression. Somebody asked, are you mad? You shout and prove you are mad. Somebody asks, are you mad? You shout and prove yes, I am. I always tell people, if you don’t open your mouth people may suspect you are a fool, if you open, you’ll confirm it. And if your identity is based on the outer world, you will not feel comfortable in that neutral zone. Person who feels comfortable in the neutral zone will be constantly rejuvenated that is what I call eternal bliss. Constantly, you’ll be energized. Understand, it’s like every moment you are sent to a high plane, every moment you are high. I just wanted to name this lecture, Get High On Air. Get high on prana. Every moment if you start feeling comfortable with the neutral zone, every moment you get high on prana. Prana means the life source, the life force. The energy or the consciousness which is the base for your existence. Let you be very clear, the word prana doea not mean air. In Sanskrit, the word Prana has got deeper meaning. It is not simply air. It is like a, air is the product delivered from the outer world, prana is the energy which you receive from the product. Prana is the energy. It is like a lorry is coming into your house and delivering some parcel and going away. The lorry is air and the parcel is prana. What is directly useful or what is directly the energy is the base of your consciousness is what only is addressed or called as prana. If you can be comfortable in that neutral zone, be very clear again and again you’ll be infused with energy. Because that is the energy zone. That neutral zone is what I call Shiva Consciousness, eternal consciousness, bliss space, Ananda Gandha or whatever, samadhi, satori whatever names you call, God. The neutral zone only is given different names. If you can be comfortable in that neutral zone, every moment again and again you’ll be rejuvinated, flooded with energy. In this lower neutral zone, when the incoming takes an outgoing turn, you are flooded with energy. When the outgoing takes the turn of incoming you are flooded with intelligence. Please understand, as I was telling you yesterday, Incoming is life and out going is death. Incoming breath is life and out going breath is death. This is the life line and this is death. With the life you are flooded with energy, with death you are flooded with intelligence. If you are unaware, you’ll miss the energy and miss the intelligence. Every death teaches you, every death. And one more thing, when I use the word death, I don’t mean only physical death. If you loose some money, suddenly you loose million dollars, some part of your being is dying that is why you feel so much of pain. Your identity as a millionaire is dying. Same way, even if you don’t have a good relationship with your parents, if they die suddenly you feel emptiness, the pain. I’ve always seen in India, as long as parents are alive you guys will not get even little

water for them, they won’t take care of them. The moment they are dead, they’ll have beautiful big photograph and put all kinds of food and sweets in front of that photograph and do aarti. There’s a nice proverb, nice one liner I read, As long as the Grandfather is alive, he lived only in the out house, the moment he’s dead, he’s allowed inside the house as a photograph. His photograph will stay in the main hall, but he has to stay in the outhouse. You don’t feel, even when they are alive, you don’t feel so connected to them. But when they are dead you feel the emptiness, because something in you is dying. With every incidence, something in you is dying. If you can be aware, if you are aware of that moment, you will receive intelligence. Every incident teaches you. Be very clear every incident in life teaches you something if you are aware you learn the lesson, or you miss it. Then again the life has to teach you but till you learn life is not going to leave you. Be very clear, small story: A singer was trying to satisfy the audience. He started singing Carnatic music, Aah, Eeh, Uuh. After he finished the whole group, the whole audience shouted once more, once more. Again he started. After he finished, again the audience shouted, once more, once more. He thought, Oh! God, people are all enjoying and it went on and on five times. He stated to suspect what is happening, anyhow after the sixth time, again the people started shouting once more, once more. Then he asked, why you are all enjoying the song. They said, No! till you sing properly, we are not going to leave you. Till you do at least once properly, we are not going to leave you. Be very clear, till you learn the lesson, life is not going to leave you. If you are aware of the death and birth gap you will be aware when you loose something, when life teaches you something you will be awakened to intelligence. Let me repeat once more, this technique does not mean, you’ll only sit for half an hour and watch the breath incoming and outgoing or outgoing taking turn into incoming. Please understand, it is not just half an hour technique. You’ll sit with eyes closed you’ll observe incoming breath, outgoing breath, outgoing breath, incoming breath that is the way to start but that is not the complete technique. When I say be aware of incoming breath taking turn as outgoing breath and outgoing breath taking turn as incoming breath, I mean be aware, when you are flooded with energy and intelligence. When you are given life, sometimes even a single desire can bring life to you. You can see, you are lying on the bed, in the weekend, you don’t feel like getting out of the bed. Suddenly, you’ll remember some friend, somebody’s name and you just wanted to meet him. A single thought, your whole body is alive. You are out of the bed; you just wanted to run. When you are flooded with energy, be aware that is happening in this neutral zone only. Same way, when you are flooded with intelligence, when something is taken away from you, you are flooded with intelligence. If you are losing something, something is lost immediately you are given some message, some understanding about the life. Be aware when you are flooded with intelligence. This is intelligence neutral zone; this is energy neutral zone. When the birth is disappearing into death, when the death is disappearing into birth, be very clear you are flooded with intelligence; energy and intelligence. If you can bring your awareness to these two zones, the whole day you’ll be constantly flooded with energy. Yesterday, Shiva was teaching us to be aware of this energy. See yesterday I warned you please do not create any strong thought or emotional attachments after the meditation because

you’ll be flooded with energy. Any thought, which you create will become alive and you do not have the intelligence to use your viveka, to analyse whether it is right or wrong for you. Now with this meditation, you don’t have to control yourself. You’ll awaken the intelligence also. When you watch both the gaps, when you are aware of both the gaps, you’ll be constantly be flooded with energy and intelligence. If you go little deep, you’ll understand one more important thing, every moment you have thought and energy. Zero and one, the whole binary system is based on this only. The whole binary system of zero and one, thought and energy, energy and thought, thought and energy, energy and thought both are directly related. Actually, for a moment you’ll be flooded with Icha shakti, next moment you’ll be flooded with Kriya shakti. One moment you are flooded with energy, next moment you are flooded with intelligence. Constantly, these two are playing the game. This is the game of Shiva and Shakti. This is the whole cosmos, matter and energy. Constantly in your inner space, Shiva and Shakti are dancing, the matter and energy are dancing. If you can be aware of the gap, you’ll experience the Eternal consciousness, the Shiva consciousness. Icha and Kriya shakti both are dancing in your inner space, if you can be aware of the gap, you’ll achieve the gynana shakti. Icha shakti and kriya shakti, both of them are just dancing, the energy is enjoying its self, the energy is expressing itself in your inner space, if you can be little aware of the gap, you’ll be flooded with the Divine consciousness.