June 09 2010
Title
Nithyananda Discourse Series: Love as Meditation
Narration
In this clipping, Paramahamsa Nithyananda describes how love can be a beautiful meditation. Expression of true love is a meditation itself.
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Nithyananda Discourse Series: Love as Meditation
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Transcript
(00:21)
Dear one and all I welcome you all with My love and respects
Today’s questions –
Question: Can Love also become a Meditation?
Answer: Only Love can become Meditation! Without the component of love, any technique you do, will be dry, dull; you will not be able to continue more than few days. I have seen people doing this technique - that technique, but not more than few days. Only with a deep love, even a technique become meditation. Please understand, technique is not meditation. Technique becomes meditation, when the Love is added. When the Love is added, anything you do is meditation. When you are floating in love, you are in meditation. Real Meditation, will awaken love in you, the real love will awaken meditation in you. They are two different names. When your soul with its pure Energy flows through your senses to the outer world, it can be called as Love, the same Energy when it flows inward it can be called as Meditation. Whether it is Love or meditation - from same source, same energy, same purity. Love should become meditation; meditation should become love.
(02:10)
Please understand, from My own experience I can say, the time I spent with Arunagiri Yogishwara in the physical form, maybe, I don’t know, around nine months, from summer vacation to the end of the year, around April, March–April, that time, to end of the year. In India April is the time the summer vacation starts usually; the end of the year around nine months, I can say. The time I spent with Him physically, having His darshan, being around Him, I can say, still I remember very clearly, the experience of love in Me. That was the first, and, I can say in a way last experience. I experienced Love in such a beautiful way towards a person, towards a Being. Then it became a different experience, kind of a radiating and connecting with the whole world. But the kind of Love I experienced with Him, I used to continuously feel what I can do to Him, what I can give Him. But I am a small boy, it will feel very silly! What can I give to God Himself, an Incarnation, an Avatara Purusha? At that time, I do not know all this big, big words – this avatar purusha, God and all that. I know that He is a sadhu - from My idea any sadhu means he is an enlightened or avatar purusha; that’s all. These big, big words I do not know; but I know ‘Sadhu means God’. That’s the way I felt. And it was such a, such an intense connection, experience.
(04:32)
Still I remember, in the night I will be sitting with that alarm clock and changing the time, pushing the time fast, so that early morning again I can rush to the temple, to see Him, to have His darshan! But of course, Me changing the alarm clock won’t push the time!! 😊 That intense Love, and night only when the watchmen is about to close the temple, when they go round the temple and vacating everybody, I will come out, out of the temple. Whole day practically I will be sitting with Him. I have never bothered about food or water; whenever I was around Him, I never even remembered about food or water; just sitting, sitting, talking or walking with Him, going around that area. Nothing particular; not that He will be teaching Me in a very systematic way, nothing like that; sitting and chatting casually. And still I remember, when I had His darshan it is not that the other things have been taken away from My sight. I was able to see everything very clearly. It was physical darshan! So just sitting, chatting; you don’t know how time passes. I continuously used to feel what I can give. Whatever I get in my hand whether it is a little money in the house or some cloth or some sweets, anything I am given in the house, first thing I will pack it and keep it for Him and bring it to him. 😊 He will laugh…. of course, sometime He will eat also, He will enjoy.
(06:24)
And, there is a beautiful story, in saint named Kannapar, there is a very beautiful story. That saint he sees a Shiva linga in a place called Kalahasthi in Andhra Pradesh and he just falls in love with that deity. He is just in love with the deity, with Shiva and the story says Shiva wanted to test his devotion and that Shiva linga the eye was carved, from that eye the blood started oozing out. This Kannapar tried all the herbal medicines and everything to heal him, heal the eyes, nothing worked out. He is a hunter, so he knows only one method - eye for eye will heal the eye! So, he just removes his own eye and replaces it in the place of Shivas eye. The story says the first eye bleeding stopped, and immediately within few minutes the next eye stared bleeding. And, he is not bothered, he was ready to give even the second eye. But before taking his second eye, he suddenly remembered “If I take my second eye, I will become blind, how will I find out where to fix the eye, where the Shiva’s eye is there” So he puts his leg on the second eye of Shiva as a mark. Then he removes his second eye, to fix on the Shiva’s eye. At that moment Shiva’s appears and gives darshan and gives him Enlightenment and Shiva padavi. Shiva saayujya we call it - means becoming One with Shiva. Very beautiful story. The Love become meditation - that Love for Shiva, whole day he was living in meditation. That is why he just feels “what can I give, what can I give, what can I give?” I can understand that Kannappars feeling, because I went through that same feeling with Arunagiri Yogishwara. It was such a strong experience. The deep Love simply becomes meditation and real meditation just becomes love in you.
(09:05)
Love, Energy, Meditation, Compassion - all these are same ingredient with different names. Different names, Intelligence, Energy, Love, Compassion, meditation- all these things are just different words for the same experience. You may use different name but experience is one and the same.
So Love is Meditation, Meditation is Love. When you feel love, you will just feel “what can I do for that person, how can I serve, how can I be of help, how can I be available”. Love is Meditation. Meditation is Love. Thank you.
(10:00)