Shiva Sutras: Experience thorugh your eyes - SHiva sutras from NIthyananda vedios

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Experience thorugh your eyes - SHiva sutras from NIthyananda vedios

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Shiva Sutra- dec 03 2007- experience through your eyes and experience your aura

Alright, I'll answer few questions that can really add to some more clicks. Somebody very intelligent, just empty cards!

Q: ‘Swamiji, could you please provide an insight on relationship between the person's horoscopes and karma?’

Even though from time immemorial, the so called logical people and thick atheists were abusing, disrespecting the traditional astrology, secretly they were always consulting astrologers. I have seen at least dozens of top Indian atheist politicians who are supposed to be atheists or in the public who show themselves as atheists, who abuse all these things and who claim they are very logical and who claim that they are the owners of their own life. How they project, but secretly they will be approaching many astrologers. They'll call and try to consult.

Even though many people try to abuse or disrespect, the science still holds its power, its influence on human beings. In India, the report says, 93% of the people read or study their horoscopes regularly before taking any big decisions, not just marriage, before taking any big decisions. Surely, there is a science behind it. Even though as usual anything which expands certain limit, goes beyond certain limit will lose its originality, will start getting diluted, there was little dilution in this science also. But, that does not mean that the science itself is a lie.

Understand this one example, then you will be able to understand, connect with the astrology, the science of astrology. It's like, for one moment in camera, when the cover moves, whatever was outside gets printed on the film. Then you can develop that film, it will become photograph. Second time, you can't use that same film. First moment what gets recorded, only that will be there in the film. Same way, the moment you come out, the moment your consciousness enters into the body, the energy level of the cosmos gets printed in that consciousness. Your inner space gets the print of the cosmic energy level based on the time of the birth and the position of the nine major energy centres.

I wanted one more understanding to be internalized by you all. The astronomical planets are not astrological planet energies. Even though number may be same, the astrological planets are energies. For example, planet earth is here (may be I can use this paper to draw and show you.) This understanding will really help. Planet earth is here, sun, different different grahas are there. Please visualize this as eccentric circles and this as some planets. OK. This is sun.

When we say, here in our temple, if you see, there will be nine planetary energies, statues, deities will be there. They will be worshipping. When we say shani graha, that is not exactly Saturn. Consider this as Saturn. A particular energy of pull and push is there always between the grahas. The energy which comes out of the Saturn does not completely come and influence the planet Earth. In between, something will be added, something will be deleted. Different energy clash will be there.

For example, 100 unit push energy comes from the Saturn and a 20 unit pulling energy comes from the Budha, naturally it will be neutralized. It will become 80. And suddenly, here you will see, Sukra may add 30 unit. Then, it will become 110. By the time it reaches the planet Earth, it may get deviated for sometime. Then it may come down to 80 or 50. Whatever finally reaches, that is what we call Shani, Saturn energy. Understand, it is a very subtle science. The same Saturn will not have same influence over planet earth continuously. If he moves, the total calculation of the pull or push will differ.

Even sometimes I have seen, within 12 days, the whole energy will be different, whole energy will be different. If the astronomical planets and astrological planets are same, then the energy difference will not be there. But it is not same, it is not same. It is the totality of the energy that reaches the planet Earth, may be when we say Saturn, the major influence in that energy flow was from Saturn. When we say Budha, it is not that only Budha is radiating. That energy which came out of Budha, by the time it reaches the planet earth, goes through some five to six alterations. So many influences get added and deleted. Then, the energy reaches the planet Earth.

The different energy positions clearly decide the cosmic energy level during your birth, during the time of the birth. Based on that, we will be able to easily predict the course of your life. Understand, not exact incidents. If somebody claims they can predict exact incidents, and I have seen all foolish ads in the newspaper: in three days, your problem will be solved. I am really surprised. I thought of.. Anyhow,..

I don't think incidents themselves can be predicted. Only a course of, kind of a rough course only can be predicted. Incidents are too minute details and you do have a freedom. Understand, even if a minute incident like, which chair you will sit, if that can be predicted, you don’t have freedom. You don’t have freedom. You do have a freedom to decide whether to sit here or not, or listen here or not, or understand or not. All those things, you have freedom. Maybe the major actions, major course like whether you will become enlightened or not, may be those things can be predicted. But, the small decisions, only principles can be predicted, not the policies.

Policies, you have an individual freedom. Having an idea about horoscope, your own horoscope will give you many times, intelligence and acceptance to decide about your life. Intelligence to make decisions, acceptance about the inevitable things. So, according to me, a seeker should have little bit basic intelligence about their own horoscope. Better to read some books and have an idea, than going to some person who is new., who doesn't know. In those days, fortunately, we had family astrologers. I know my own family had an astrologer, who was very precise.

One more thing, if that guy is a family astrologer who knows completely your family, then he can interpret the energy flows. He can easily interpret and guide you. He can be a counselor also, personal counselor also. We had the fortune of having that kind of an astrologer, who is by profession, who is an experienced astrologer, who knows the science, above all, who knows the family well. So, easily he can do the job of counseling. At least, whatever I heard from my parents, not even once his prediction failed. It's very surprising.

His only one prediction failed, that he predicted that I will die at the age of eighteen; I took Sannyas. That is the only thing failed. Of course, Sannyas is practically rebirth and I actually tried to commit suicide at the age of eighteen, came out with inspiration. When I came out of the depression, I was a new person. May be that can be considered as a death. Otherwise, such a precise knowledge! So, try to read one or two books, it will really give you an opening and glimpse and it will be really exciting. When I actually started studying, it was very exciting. You can play a lot with it. Because, the astrological Sutras actually encourage your visualisation and power to connect things, it really helps you.

Q: You mentioned that you had 72 topics and you…

This is a question from yesterday. Somebody is asking ‘would it be possible to name all the 72 topics you wanted to discuss’. Only in some book!

Q: Somebody is asking about food. We don't know who has touched the raw foods, vegetables between the harvest and the shop. Should we not eat salads made from store brought vegetables? Does washing purify them or is cooking the best way?

Washing and energizing, see offering to the deities is nothing but purifying process that purifies the food completely. Offering it as a naivedya or offering to the divine, then eating will really purify and change the very quality of the food, very energy of the food. Still, even I personally tried this experiment. I told some of the people who make the laddoos in Thirupathi. Some of them are our devotees. I told them to separate few pieces before it goes for offering, and after it goes to offering and comes back, really I tell you, honestly I have tried at least two to three times, surely, taste is different. I don't know what goes on in the Garbha mandir, what Venkaeshwara does, but the taste is totally different. I can very clearly tell, the taste is different.

Understand, surely, energizing does a big job even though logically this is very difficult to relate. See, till Dr. Emoto, Japanese scientist, till he proved the power of our thoughts over the water, we can't imagine in fifteen minutes, you can pollute water. You don't need anything else except your mind to pollute water. So, just like air pollution, water pollution, you should say now conscious pollution. He proved the consciousness, the world can be polluted by the ordinary mental thoughts. So, power of the mind over the matter is proved by Emoto. Not once, 300 different experiments and every experiment says, proves the power of mind over the matter.

I think, whether you believe it or not, the ceremonies like purifying or offering and all does a big job.

Q: Somebody is asking, can you please give some guideline on raising children, as there is no Gurukul system in this country.

We don't have Gurukul, but we already started the weekend classes. I initiated the class. First class, I myself conducted. For half an hour, I had the patience to sit with them, sit with the kids. Because, half an hour, they were shy, after that, they opened up, then I decided that I can't sit anymore with them. As long as they were shy, I was able to sit with them. The moment I saw they have now opened up and now they are ready, I said now class ends, please go.

(Laughter)

Anyhow, but we do have regular classes. This weekend, we were not able to have because of the weekend workshop. But from next weekend, we do have regular classes. It will be happening. Bring them, surely we will at least do the damage control. We may not be able to bring them up as we want, at least we'll do the damage control.

Q: What is the trick to get rid of fantasy on childhood friend and keep current relationship happy?

I tell you, very simple trick. Meet that same childhood friend now for two three days, it will disappear. Really. The fantasy remains fantasy because you did not see the reality. You see, in the childhood, not only he becomes your fantasy, you would have become the fantasy for many persons, because they do not have the real idea about you now. See, in the chldhood, he was also happy because he was just expressing the joy or ecstasy. He made a deep impression in you. Because you are expressing the excitement and joy, you made a deep impression on the other person, on so many persons.

Now, if you see the same person, you will understand, same dull fellow like me. And if they meet you, they will realize: same fool, there is nothing to be fantasizing. There is nothing worthy of fantasy in that person. Suddenly, you will see the reality and the childhood fantasy will disappear. That is why, I always tell people, it is very nice to attend alumni meetings if you are not enlightened. If you are not enlightened, good to attend alumnni meeitngs. Alumni means where the colleges gather, where the childhood friends gather to meet once in a while. So this is the best technique. Go and see that just once or twice, then all your fantasies will disappear. You will come to reality.

Q: Should we avoid group meditation with an unenlightened leader?

I can say, if the technique is from enlightened being, then it won’t do big harm. But, if the technique also from an unenlightened person, if the unenlightened person tries to add or delete, if he starts commenting, then please avoid. Please avoid.

Q: What about Yoga training, you are asking.

Same with Yoga. If the system is from enlightened consciousness, have it. If the system is not from enlightened consciousness, If the person is adding or deleting or doing his own masala job, then relax.

Q: I have tears of revelation and bliss when I am in your presence. You have suddenly changed my junky iron ladder into a golden one which will never rust. I have cried with joy with numerous clicks you offered in the last eight days of your discourses, especially the one which attempts to clarify the reality, that everyone and everything is an extension of one another. Yesterday with the same pool of love overflowing in my heart, I gave you a hug after taking the blessings from you and this act of mine was brought to my attention as being arrogant.

See it was not arrogant, if I hug people, it will not be a problem. If people start giving me a tight hug, just imagine, four hundred people giving me a tight bear hug. For you, I am the only one person hugging. If you imagine four hundred people giving me a tight bear hug, and especially, this is the only chance they get to come near me. So, nobody misses the chance to hug. Moreover, I don't know whether there is a spiritual superstition going around, if you squeeze more, you'll get more energy! That is the reason we tell people, please you do not squeeze, Swamiji will hug you, but you do not squeeze.

Actually if you see, the earlier devotees, I would have allowed them also to hug, because they will not squeeze, they know. But the new persons, I really tell them, please, I'll hug you, you can just have your hands, but do not just use the chance. That is the reason we tell; and nothing else. That’s the reason. There is no other disgrace or disrespect or anything. What you have done is not wrong. But when too many people do physically; not only that, during energy darshan, body is very subtle. That is the reason we tell people, please you be little careful. That’s all. That’s nothing, no other technical reason. It's just a simple social reason.

In India what all people do, you don't know. No, really! Now, just before coming to this trip, I went to inaugurate one of our ashrams in Namakkal. One guy came and he just literally bit my feet, my finger and the toes he bit and there was even little blood. And later on, people asked him, ‘why did you do that?’ I also asked him, ‘why did you do this?’

‘Swamiji will always remember me.’

Oh God! That day, something like a 22,000 people had darshan. If all 22,000 cry that I should remember them, I think nobody can remember me, I can't remember. So, and another one big danger. That is the state in the first list of HIV infection. Anyhow, there is no problem, we took care that neither that person was infected… and then I also had to go through all the basic medical check up completely to care, ensure, and all this unnecessary headache. See, we had a first aid; Immediately then I had to take care. Anyhow, medical and all those things are also secondary. But, it at least stops half an hour to one hour work; Half an hour one hour next darshan. So, that's the reason we tell people that please try to be a little practical.

Q: Same as in India, respect for Gods and the Gods to be, it would be great that the temple carpets be ??? in regularly.

O God! That's great. You are telling all the temples should be carpeted. Understand, in this country, the carpeting is possible. But, I don't think in India it is possible. In India, all the temples are granited and these are just ordinary things. May be you can talk to the Indian Government and tell them to do.

Q: Master, just a note: Born again and again and again, every time I think this is the ultimate, you give another birth's chance, every second on going process when I am in your presence or absence. I was playing pool yesterday after Nithya Dhyaan, which was intense, saw light after Darshan, big explosion, I felt sleepy, like no other sleep experienced before. I almost did not make it home, felt sleep three times on the road driving. I do not know how I made it home, safe and alive. Drove sleeping, I slept night day till 4 pm today.

O God! Then it's not sleep.

Light flooding my body kept me calm and deeply mesmerised in sleep.

Wonderful. This is not sleep. You can say, it is a glimpse of turiya.

Q: It's a wonderful question. In the West, most seekers of truth have thought that channel information published by many new age leaders to be path to Enlightenment. As decades go by, seekers learn tens of meditations and healing styles with more and more phobias and self doubts as well. In the East, the self is put in jail of sin and shame or controlled by half Gurus that use magic to gather masses. But, you, in a very short time, have shown the breakdown of phobias and religions. Would you speak to these three ways people take as seekers and teachers.

Wonderful! First thing, nobody is responsible. Neither the Gurus who are channeling some ideas and writing, the new age Gurus. Neither the Western new age Gurus who bring out channel books nor the Indian Gurus, the half Gurus, what you say; I don't want to say full Gurus; the half Gurus. Neither of them are responsible for our thing. Understand, if you are waiting to be cheated, you will feel connected only with the person who is interested in cheating you. You are inviting them. It's not that they are inviting you. You are inviting them in your life.

One thing, I always tell people, take up only if something is straight, open, based on, supported by traditions, supported by thousands of years of knowledge. We call it aptha pramaana. The great scriptures like the Upanishads, fool proof, time tested. When there is no support or the reference or the base principles from those scriptures, then please be aware and avoid. Because, many times, people, when they get into delirium and fever, what they write, that becomes holy scriptures. No, really! They go into deliria and something, they come out and whatever they spell out or write, that becomes holy scripture and leads the whole world into deliruitic state, deliria state.

I can only give this one scale, may be this can guide you. That technique or that person, after you come in contact with that person, initial introduction or initial exposure, does it add intelligence, awareness, and bliss to you. If this three quality, even one quality increases in you, go behind that person, surely you'll be helped. Or in this three, if you are not growing in this three, forget about him even if he brings fortune and wealth in your life. It'll only be danger for you. It will only be danger for you. Even if he brings fortune, or wealth, wealth in your life, it will be like a Yaksha's pot. I'll tell this small srory on Yaksha's pot. I love to tell this story. 

Understand, one guy, one barber everyday, he will go and shave the face of the king and receive his salary, one gold coin and come back. King will be waiting to see him just because of the joy this barber radiates. This guy is fully contented guy. Never asks any favor to the king. See, shaving is a practically personal service, means everyday he is touching the king. So, when you are in such close proximity, naturally you can take advantage of that nearness. But, he never asked anything; radiating contentment, just fulfillment.

Naturally, if you want to impress a politician, be fulfilled. He will be impressed by you. I tell you, these are all few things: If you want to impress a poor idiot, show your wealth, he will be impressed. If you want to impress a fool, show your knowledge, he will be impressed. If you want to impress a politician, show your contentment, he will be impressed. Because, that is what he does not have. He has everything, he has enough cunningness, enough display, enough of all qualities. You can't display anything and attract attention of politician or inspire or influence him. You can impress him if you show your contentment, fulfillment.

That is the way Buddha influenced all the politicians of India. During Buddha's time, there was not a single guy, single king who did not become Buddhist; who did not become Buddhist. Practically, ninety percent of the India became Buddhist. Because, of the contentment he was radiating and he was just showering or expressing through his being. The whole group of politicians became his disciples. This, guy, for him, this barber is almost like a little Buddha.

Every morning, he feels seeing him is an auspicious thing. He will be waiting to see. And, never ever that barber asked for pay raise. Suddenly, one week continuously, the barber's face was not so contented, so peaceful, so fulfilled. First thing the king asked is, 'Did you get the golden jar from Yaksha?'

The barber was shocked. He said, 'Yes sir, how do you know?'

Then, king tells the story, ‘Listen here. I'll tell you the story what the Yaksha would have done. You would have been walking under that particular banyan tree. Somehow these banyan trees are the place where Yakshas and Gods both come and sit. And you would have heard the voice, 'Do you need money? Gold jar filled with golden coins.'

The barber said, 'Yes, sir'.

' Did that voice show a particular place below the tree and ask you to dig? '

He said, 'Yes, sir'.

When u digged, you saw the big jar? Almost full?

He said, 'Yes, sir'.

Then what did you do?'

Then he said, 'Now, I'll tell you the story what I did. I took the jar to the house, I saw it's almost full. Only few coins are needed to fill it. So, I thought one day I will not spend the coin which I took from you as a salary. I put it in that jar. Just I wanted to have a jar filled with golden coins. Now, some ten fifteen coins are less. So, I put the coin in that. That day, we both of us managed from our savings whatever we had. Same way, for a few more days, we just put the coins. How many days I put the coins, again I see the jar is not full, there is little emptiness. What to do?

Suddenly I saw, my wife has become very angry with me, because I am not allowing her to use the money. And my kids are angry with me. Now, I am caught in the rut, one side, my desire to have a full jar of gold coins; the other side, I have to fulfill my regular responsibilities.'

Then king said, 'Understand, just now go and tell that Yaksha: please take your jar back; and get rid of it. I also had the jar once. And I have not returned that jar, that is why I am king. Understand, that is why I am king. You return that jar and be as the old person. I love, I envy your state. That is why everyday morning I wait to see you. Somehow I neither had maturity and now it is too late to return. Now, it is too late to return.'

One guy. one liner: one guy says, 'By the time I found out I have nothing to write, I have started writing books and after sometime suddenly I found out I have nothing to write, I am not that intelligent to write books.'

Another guy asks, 'Did you stop?'

'No No No, by now I have become too famous.'

So, by the time the king gets the clarity that he has to return the jar only then he will be contented, the kingdom is created, he is already in the rut. He can't come out. He can't escape. That's the one worst thing. You can't get out of that rut. You are caught. Once for all, over. I have seen. At least in India, many politicians, at some time, some way, by mistake or by accident, when they see some enlightened beings, something clicks in them also. Because of their experience and feeling of the unfulfillment, something clicks in them.

I myself have seen personally. When I tell them, then why don't you start turning your life into the new direction, he says, No Swamiji, now if I step down, either I'll be put in prison or killed. I have to play this game till I die. Because i created already enough of enemies. Already I created enough of enemies and enemity. Whoever is unfulfilled or dissatisfied when I was in the power, he's waiting. Now, I have to at least maintain a certain kind of level of power, at least I will not be taken revenge. I cannot just completely quit and retire. The moment I retire, I'll be finished. It's like a game.

King says, 'yes, now it is too late to return. Please you don't get caught in this mess. And king says very beautiful word 'Your head is that Yaksha's golden pot. How much you put, it will never be filled. Understand, how much you put, it will never be filled. Go and return to the Yaksha: your head’.

The unfulfillment, you see, anything you put in your head, you will see, it will take it for granted. Anything, the moment you have it, the head will take it for granted. When you came to this country, you would have had the list of having one house, one car, one family, and second, bank balance. All that would have happened in three four years. But now, you don't celebrate about you achieved that goal. You took it for granted. And now the yaksha's head is working. The yaksha's pot is working. I tell you, at least return the head. You don't have to return the pot, but return the head. Person who's filled with that kind of greed will naturally be suffering with Yaksha's pot.

Q: What is the key to discipline in spiritual practice, is it just Americans who have this problem of lack of discipline?

No. I don't say. As far as discipline and immorality are concerned, it is universal. It is not Easterner or Westerner. There is a very beautiful line from Patanjali. He says, after describing the yama: the basic understandings of the life, ahimsa: non violence, satya: truth, aasteya: non-stealing, aparigraha: not possessing more than what you need. Again, if you are possessing more than what you need, you are stealing.

Yesterday, just yesterday I read a statistics. In this country 30 million people are undernourished and exactly 30 million people are suffering with obesity, means, too much obesity, means, the obese people have eaten the undernourished peoples' food. I was really surprised to see the same number. Same number! That's what, when you have more than what you need, the aparigraha, you are stealing.

It’s aasteya, non-possessiveness and above all, the brahmacharya, means behaving decently. Having relationship only based on love. May be I can translate the word ‘brahmaharya’. Yesterday I was struggling to translate that word. This can be a wonderful translation. Having relationship only based on love, not based on anything else. Because the person who is having physical relationship only based on love, even when he has relationship, he will not have the side effects of the immorality, side effects or dangers of anything else. He will have the more deeper settled balanced life.

Anyhow, when Patanjali describes all these great five vows, he makes a statement. ‘saarvabhoumya vrataaha’, very beautiful statement. Let me translate ‘these understandings are for the whole world for ever’. Bhaashyagaara says, like the morality is universal, immorality is also universal. Do not think, in the West, the immorality is more or the east, immorality is more.

Nothing like that! Both always same and don't think that now only it has become more and in those days it was less. No! In those days there was no CNN or website, now we have. That's all. I don't think there is any other difference, because, five thousand years ago, in the Harappan culture, if you read their stone writings, whatever they carved in the stone, those words, it feels like a modern day morning newspaper, newspaper editorial. It says, nowadays, kids are not respecting the parents. There is no morality in the place and people are living on their own and nobody is responding, nobody is respecting the tradition and spirituality. These are all the words written in that stone. Means, five thousand years ago, the same problem was there.

So relax, immorality is universal and eternal. Same way vratam morality, the yamas and niyamas are also universal and eternal. There is no such thing as West or East or those days or nowadays. See the those-days concept is actually a fantasy. When you were young, everything was looking great because you are innocent. Not because everything was great. Because you were innocent. Either you were not aware of what was happening around you or you were not that cunning to judge; to judge everybody, everything around you. These two reasons, you were not informed and you are not that cunning or judgmental, continuously judging everybody.

Now, the change has happened in you, not in the society, same drama only is going on.

Q: Here somebody, personal question. I am not even able too read the name.

That person can ask in the energy darshan.

Q: What is your view about organ donation?

Now, I wanted to put this in record. Organ donation is no way disturbing your enlightenment or your spiritual growth. Many people ask me, after somebody dies, if the organs are donated, will the soul have enlightenment or Moksha? Will it not disturb the flow of life?

Nothing. No way it will be disturbed. You are not going to wait and see whether your eye, everything is properly burnt or properly buried. See the greed, even after death, it is not leaving. The possessiveness over the body, even after death, it is not leaving. No way it will affect your further journey. Actually, in three kshana you take the next body. You will not even be attending your funeral. Understand, by that time you will be attending your birthday celebration somewhere. So, you will not even be there for your funeral. So, I completely acknowledge, welcome, encourage any organ donation. I wanted this to be on record, for our devotees' sake; at least for our tradition.

There was lot of discussion. Even the other day, I was reading some article in some magazines and books related to Hinduism. Fools were saying that, ‘No No the karma of that person who donates the organ will go to the new person’. Nothing! Karma is not in your head. Karma is in the system which is operating the head. You are donating only hardware, not software. If hardware of some computer is taken and fixed in you, you will not have the same software or memory in this new computer. So, only if the software is transmitted, you will have the same memory. Mind is software, body is hardware. Donating hardware or the spare parts of the hardware will no way transmit the software, no way transmit the karmas. Karmas are related to software. So, be very clear about it.

Q: Here is again some personal question, can ask in the energy darshan.

Q: Somebody has put a question about the child abuse, and he has given a shocking statistics, I don’t know from where the person got the statistics:

In US, over 60 % of girls are sexually abused before eighteen. And something like, different different statistics, may be I don’t know different region or something.

This problem, I can tell you, because of the pornography. Too much of unnecessary fantasies have been put inside the head. If that is banned, the problem will disappear. I actually studied this problem. In India, it is practically nil. Only in the cities, the cities are no more part of India. I don’t say cities are India. Cities are no more India. Anyhow, let us not talk about it. And only in cities, I am hearing all this. In villages, they don't even have idea about this, even idea about this.

I think the wrong fantasies and ideas going inside. I can tell you one more thing. If that depth of relationship can be created, the man will have the fulfillment. One nice thing, in India, even if you fight, they will stay together till the end, just for fighting. No! wonderful! What else? You see, at least you will not have loneliness. You will have somebody to fight with. That is the only way they know how to relate, that's all. That is okay. No really! It is not that the people who fight, it is not that couples, just because they are fighting with each other, they can be separated. No! If they stay even few days separately, they miss the fight, they miss the fight.

So, I tell you, the depth of relationship really brings a kind of fulfilment, even if it was fighting based. So, I really feel there is a strong reason why our masters decided not to allow diverse as a social custom. Even if there was a fight, there was a disrespect on both side, the diverse was never allowed and that was never a custom or part of life. I have seen. I have seen even in the families in which I was born and brought up. The husband and wife not only that they will not sleep in the same room, they will not even talk to each other. They wouldn't have slept in the same room for twenty thirty years, but they will not go for diverse.

Even while they cross, they will only give a look. But, husband will never mind bringing the saree and leave it in the room or he will never miss to bring the money and put it in the kitchen. And, wife will never miss to keep the food on the table. At least there's something, it goes on. It goes on. So, sometimes, I can say, even that kind of relationship brings a sort of a fulfillment and there is no loneliness, you see. You don’t end up in the extreme loneliness. I can say the extreme loneliness and all is one reason, why we start perverting or diverting our love.

Let's enter into the Sutra.

Devi, enter etheric presence, pervading far above and below your form.

This is a Nithya Sutra, means you are supposed to internalise and practice whole day. Morning till night.

Let me describe, explain exactly the word etheric, that is the keyword here. Understand, you are not just the body as you think. It is only one part of you. Physical body made out of flesh and bones is one part of you. There is a second layer. The air which you inhale and exhale. Understand, the prana which goes inside and comes out, that is the second layer, second part of your body.

To kill somebody, you don't have to even poison the body. If you are just your body, if you have to be killed, poison has to be added inside your body. But if poison is added, poisonous gas is added even in the room, the person will die. Means, your boundary is not just the skin. You are not ending where your skin ends. The pranic layer is like a, may be if you inhale and exhale deeply, from which distance you can smell. For example, some people may be able to smell any smell which is there at six feet distance. Some people, they can smell even twenty feet. For some people, fortunately, who kept the nose very sharp. In the young age, if you are not suppressed, your nose will be very sharp. Your sense of smell will be very sharp. They can smell even seventy eighty feet.

The distance you can smell is your pranic layer. That area air, if it is polluted or corrupted, directly you will be affected. Then, you must think, if my nose is too sharp, then I've to maintain too much area. Understand, pollution, even if you don't maintain, it is going to affect the health. If your nose is sharp, at least you will know you are inhaling polluted air, you are inhaling polluted air, nothing else. The distance you can smell will be your pranic layer, prana shareera.

Understand, in the physical layer, the distance between two persons is more. In the prana shareera, many of our prana shareeras are overlapped, means the distance between two persons is less. That is why, sometimes when you sit next to somebody, you will feel uncomfortable; with somebody you will feel very relaxed, very restful. In the meditation classes I have seen. Before meditation, they will not feel any discomfort to sit next to somebody. But, after meditation, because, the sensitivity has grown, they will just move out of that person, move out of that person, because, now we can feel the pranic layer, now the boundary is overlapping.

Animals are very conscious and very intelligent about the pranic layer. You can see in the zoos. If the other animal enters the pranic layer, that's enough, this fellow mmmm arrrrrrrr, he will show him the face. And early morning, if you see, Indian streets, I have seen, the dogs will go around and ensure their pranic layer is protected, by pissing in the light poles. They will go around and ensure that their pranic layer is, their boundaries are protected. Anybody who enters inside the boundary itself is enough, this fellow will get ready for fight. After all he will be in the next street, but, from here he will create a sound arrrrrr arrrr.

You see the wild street dogs in India. You will not even see that dog, the enemy; he will say, 'why are you shouting? Nobody is here around.' But this fellow will go on continuously rrrrr rrr ..preparation. And suddenly you will see he will jump out of the home and run and see, if you come out and see, you will see the dog, somebody has entered the street entrance, some dog has entered. These guys are very sharp about the pranic layer.

That's why in India there is a belief, if somebody is going to die in a particular house, that house dog will start crying. It's not belief, it's true. I've seen. It's true. Because, when the person leaves the body, the prana will go through a very big drop. The pranic level will go through a big drop, like, there will be a big imbalance. Dogs can smell that imbalance. Dogs can really smell that imbalance and they will start crying. Animals can smell really the pranic layer. You also, if you do techniques related to breathing, softening your breathing, you will be able to feel the comfort or uncomfort in your pranic layer and you will be able to very clearly feel whether you want to relate with that person or not. Second layer is pranic layer.

The third is mental layer. Understand, mental layer is like how much of area you are able to visualize without moving away when you close your eyes is the mental layer. For example, if you close your eyes and able to visualise this hall in one single frame of mind, in one single visualization, if you are able to visualise this hall, this is the distance of your mental layer. For example, if you have to visualize the parking lot, you may have to leave this frame and go there. You may have to unclutch from this frame and visualize the parking lot.

Kids can visualize at least ten times more space than you. That is why, many questions they ask, you are not able to answer. Understand, if you are in the open space, if you are in front of an ocean or a vast hilly region, how much area you can visualize, you may be able to visualize some 30 degree vision, this much area only you will be able to visualize in one picture, in your heart, in your inner space. If you have to visualize the other side, you have to move this out, only as a second thought, or as a second visualization only, you can visualise. But, with kids, they can easily visualize 120 degree.120 degree.

And especially the kids who doesn't go to school, who are not abused by the so called verbal based, word based education system, logic based education system; of course I can't say it is western, because, now Eastern ,Western everywhere, the logic based education system. the kids who are not abused by the logic based education system, they will have 360 degree visualization.

Understand, when I talk about my first experience, I talk about this only. I was able to visualize, I opened up to the visualization of 360 degree. Kids, till you finish making them like you, till you give birth to your software into them… When you give birth, you give birth only to hardware, your hardware in them. Only genetically we are affected. When you put your education system in them, you have affected them mentally also. You have affected them mentally too. Till they are affected mentally, till they are abused by the logic based education, which is the worst damage done to the human mind.

When the logic based education system is given, they will lose the ability of visualization, seeing things under one visualization. The creativity or innovation is lost. I tell you, along with the verbal, word based or the logic based education, if your kids can do little meditation, or this carving, anything directly done by using the hand, carving or painting or completely involving the eyes and the hands, they can bring the visualization energy back, efficiency back to their system. That can be done. It will really take care without abusing the kids.

Anyhow, mental layer means, the area you are able to visualize without any need to move away. For example, if you are visualizing now, able to visualize now this whole hall… One more important thing, most of you may not even be able to visualize this whole hall at a time. Even the whole hall if you see, you will see first people, then you will see the screen. Even for this hall, you may need two three movements. The area which you are able to visualize without moving is the mental layer boundary, mental layer boundary.

One more important thing, if annamaya kosha has to be killed, poisoning annamaya kosha is needed. For pranamaya kosha corruption, poisoning, polluting the air is needed. In the mental layer, anybody who is inside that mental layer, his ideas will go into your system without your editing. That's an important thing. So, corrupting ideas are put in your head. That is why, whatever ad goes on in the television enters your head. Because that time, that becomes your mental layer. That becomes part of your mental layer.

Hardly 10 percent you logically analyze the news which is read out to you in the TV, or the information which are told to you through the TV. Because in the TV, in ten minutes, almost you become part of that mental layer. That becomes part of your mental layer. That is why, 90 percent of the words and ideas which is told to you through the TV just goes inside. Corrupting two three TV channels are enough to pollute the whole mental setup of particular country, certain country.

Fourth layer, very important, etheric layer. Understand, Mahadeva talks about the fourth layer here, means layer of emotions, sentiments. Here, the boundary will be bigger. Here the boundary will be even between USA to India. If your relatives are there in India, the distance is too much, even if they are there, if they are sick, the suffering will be there for you. If somebody dies, the suffering will be there for you. The etheric layer is too big.

Understand, physical layer is only six feet, your skin is the boundary. Pranic layer is the area up to which you can smell, up to the area you can smell, is the pranic layer, boundary. Mental layer is the area you are able to visualize in one frame, one visualization, that is mental layer. Etheric layer is based on emotional connection, it does not have boundary, does not have boundary. It is only based on the love or emotional connection you have with people, the feeling you have with people, the connection you have with people.

An important thing you need to understand about the feeling or the connection you carry with the people. Even unconsciously it affects you. Even if you don't know they are sick, suddenly you will be low, why you don't know, then you get the telephone call they are sick. When you are really connected, even without logic, without knowing, even if you are not informed through your conscious mind, your unconscious will start suffering.

Mahadeva says, start feeling the etheric presence. Understand, when you start feeling the etheric presence of you, means, where all your energy is invested, all your emotional connections are like your energy investments. You can easily unclutch yourself from the sufferings if you can find out all the etheric presence connections, your etheric layer connections, you can easily unclutch and enter into the Enlightenment, or the energy place, energy plane where there is no bondage, where there is no disturbance.

If food poison happens, the physical plane can be corrupted. If the air pollution happens, your pranamaya kosha can be disturbed. If a thought pollution happens, your manomaya kosha can be disturbed. If emotional, ideology pollution happens, your etheric layer can be disturbed. Understand, somebody can be tortured or prisoned; Here, you will be suffering, without even you directly getting involved in it. You can be tortured through remote control way. That is what this etheric layer is all about.

Many times, I have seen people feel etherically connected, means, emotionally connected, may be the word etheric is too mysterious or mystical. If you are emotionally connected to the people who are there in your home, or if you are emotionally connected to people, some group of some religion, some group or some language, whenever some problem comes for them, you are here suffering.

I have seen, people suffer for no reason. I am all for serving lovingly and compassionately. If a Tsunami hits, serve compassionately; nothing wrong. But, don't start suffering. People think, only by suffering you can serve. No. If you are suffering, you will not have energy to serve. You'll not have energy to serve. Stop suffering. have empathy. Empathy means, feeling their suffering and immediately working to remove it. Sympathy means, suffering along with them. Empathy means, working to remove their suffering. 

You are not supposed to suffer with them. I have seen, if Tamilians suffer there, here the Tamilians feel suffering. If the Hindus suffer there, here Hindus feel suffering. Somewhere if Muslims are suffering, here the Muslims feel suffer. If you have etheric connection, emotional bondage, you invite, you accept, you are waiting for more and more suffering. Mahadeva says, feel your etheric presence with whom all you feel connected.

Just for ten days, try this technique. Feel you are present to all the people with whom you are feelingly connected, you are emotionally connected. Feel like a light beam, in the form of a big light. You are connected to all the people with whom you emotionally feel connected. For example, if your parents are there in India, (mostly none of you feel connected emotionally), if at all you feel emotionally connected, just visualize continuously, your body is huge enough to accommodate the whole India inside and they are there inside you.

It may look very funny, but in ten days, you will have so many new revelations, understand, so many new revelations about how you imbibe, bring, invite new new unnecessary sufferings. When you feel connected to them even if they are not suffering, if they are going through some incident which you think as suffering, you will create suffering for you. Many time, they will be completely free, relaxed, resting. But what you think as suffering if they go through, what you will do, you will feel suffering and you will create suffering for them by forcing it on them: ‘No No No, this cannot happen to him!’

We do same thing in the name of love. I call that as a loving torture. I go through many times from disciples, especially when they feed, they think if I eat more they will get more punya. Based on my weight, they will get more punya. I don't know then, what will happen to me. See, the suffering which we invite unnecessarily, unconsciously, the moment it is brought to your conscious awareness, it will disappear.

Not only with parents and relatives I am talking, many ways you may be connected to your religious people, or your community people, your group of people or your language people, you will have the common identity connections. Understand, conditioning is one of the dangerous thing. If you are connected to the whole world, that is wonderful, you will never bring suffering for yourself. Because, when you expand to the whole world without boundary, there is no ideology based connection. That does not belong to etheric, that belongs to cosmic body. Etheric body means, emotion based connection, conditioning based connection.

Conditioning based love, conditioning based connection will always lead to calamity, will always lead to danger, will always lead to violence, because, the other part, the part which you excluded, naturally, you will be violent towards them, naturally, you will be violent, angry towards them. I have seen how the conditioning brings so much of suffering, unconsciously to a person and the suffering which he enjoys or cherishes adds, creates more violence and suffering.

Understand, ego means working based on pain body and expanding the boundary of pain body is ego. If you are making some decisions because of the people whom you think is your own is suffering, all your decisions to aliviate their suffering will add only more suffering to the planet earth. You may add suffering to somebody else, and that person naturally will add suffering to the group which you are thinking as your own.

See, eye for eye will only end up making the whole world blind. You will remove his eye and he will remove, as a revenge, one person from your party. And all you guys will remove now one person from their party. If continuously this goes on, where it will end? It will make the whole world blind, that's all. Ending place will be whole world blind.

Mahadeva says, enter etheric presence pervading far above, understand, He knows I think, people are going to live too far and have the etheric connection. That's why he does not say above, far above and far below your form. Your form may be the center, but, with whom ever you feel connected emotionally, if some particular language people or religious people, or relative or community, anything, condition based connection, condition based connection.

Ten days from morning till night, be aware of all of them as a part of your own body. Visualize you have a huge light body, body based on light, all of them are inside you as part. May be looking very funny, feeling very funny, you may think, how this can lead me to enlightenment? You do not know, you do not know with how many conditionings you are suffering in unconscious level.

Only when you practise this, you will realize, all the layers and layers of conditionings with which you are suffering unconsciously. They will all come up to consciousness. The moment they come up to the consciousness, naturally, you will be unclutched from them. You will be relieved from them. You will be relaxed from them.

Understand, the sutra is very powerful. Directly, now you may not feel, how can this open enlightenment. Till you open the door, you will not be aware what is inside the building. I have seen so many people, when they come inside our temple, when they open that Vedic temple door, it’s hardly seven feet door, they never imagine anything. They can't imagine what is inside. The moment they open the door inside, and second door and look inside, God! Ah! They get the shock, because, psychologically, you always feel inside you will see things only based on the height of the entrance.

If the entrance is seven feet, inside also, you already imagine or come to a pre-conclusion, prejudice that you are going to see only the things which are tall or equivalent to this height. You never imagine. Only when you see, suddenly, you have a shock, God! What is this? How did it all come inside? How all these deities are there. The moment only when they see inside, they get the shock. That is why, I just wanted to really name that place as shock spot! The moment they open their eyes, O God! Such a shock. Till you see, you do not know what you are going to see with that key.

Same way, till you practise for ten days, you do not know how many layers of your own conditioning you are going to experience with this technique. You will see, too big things, much more than what you expected. It is a very wonderful technique.

The next sutra is a continuity. Actually, it is the same sutra, only one small difference, technique, the difference in technique.

Put mind’s stuff in such inexpressible fineness, above, below and in your heart.

Understand, the same technique. In first technique, Mahadeva says, experience the etheric presence above and below you. In the second technique, he says… it’s actually a developed version. After you practise the first, you have to do second. You can't do second directly. He says, be aware of all the etheric connections you have, means the etheric bodies, boundaries you have. Along with that, be aware of your boundary also.

Here, you need to put awareness in two place. Le me describe exactly what Mahadeva means. In the first sutra, he says, just put your awareness on mind, that is enough, ‘I’ will get automatically dismantled. Becuase, ‘I’ has no individual base, except the mind. The second he says, sometime, you would have collected a very strong ‘I’, you don't even know the depth of corruption which exists in that ‘I’. Beyond conditioning, you may be having some ideas. So, put your awareness on that also. Understand, two different technique. May be the second technique, for real thick heads, real thick heads.

First technique is, remember, be aware, expand to all the phychological, emotional, etheric connections which brings you suffering. I have seen many times. See, if you can stop accumulating etheric anger and etheric lust, that is enough; you are liberated. Because the anger or lust which you can contain in this body will never be harmful to you, will never be harmful to you.

I have seen, people carry the anger which directly is not involved their life. If somebody is killed somewhere, who is supposed to be the community in which he is born and brought up, here his blood will boil. When they read the news, 'Let him suffer. I mean, I know he should have it.' Sitting in front of TV, they will be shouting. Accumulating the anger more than what you need to run your day to day life is the danger. Accumulating the lust more than what you need to run your day to day life, somebody, some celebrity is dancing in the TV, and already you accumulated the lust, which you cant directly use in your day to day life; which is useless. \

In your day to day life, that lust is not going to be useful. But, you accumulated that lust. Naturally, that is going to stay inside you as a blockage. If you have the lust with a person with whom you are living, which you can directly express, means useful to your day to day life, useful to your day to day life, accumulate lust or anger useful to your day to day life, that will never be dangerous. That will never be dangerous. I tell you, it will only help you to run your day to day life with excitement.

Somebody goes to doctor and says, 'Doctor, I want to live hundred years What all should I do?'

Doctor asked, 'do you drink?'

He said, 'No'.

‘Do you smoke?’

‘No!’

‘Do you fool around? Date around?’

He says, ‘No! I live a straight, simple pure life’

Then doctor asked, 'then why do you want to live hundred years?'

Understand, I am not saying, disconnect or destroy everything. Accumulate the anger which is needed only for your day to day life. You may need anger to run your business. You may need little shouting to maintain your office discipline. You may need little lust to have the excitement, to add excitement in your relationship. You may need little lust to keep the love or to keep the family going on. Have the lust, have the anger, have the emotions which are directly needed for your day to day life, not etheric.

Seeing some particular dimensioned male or female, who are called models jumping somewhere, if you accumulate the lust, which is not going to be directly straightaway useful in your day to day life, you are creating blockages. You are creating disturbance in your etheric system. Understand, be aware of even all those attachments. If you have your hero, if you are fan of somebody, fifteen days, remember that person is part of your etheric body. Because all those things are also directly connected. With who ever you are attached, remember all those things as part of your body for fifteen days. Suddenly, you will see, how much of suffering is added into your life by them. Not directly by them; your emotional attachment to them, your attachment to them.

Same way, whoever you don't like, for no reason, you don't like somebody. Alright, you don't like, that is true. Your hatred, can it do anything to that person directly? No. It is not directly going to be useful in your day to day life. I have seen people, sitting with the newspaper and reading the mortuary column and feeling, 'This fellow, he needs it.' As if you are not going to die. As if your photo is never going to appear in that mortuary column. May be, it may not appear in that column in the newspaper; but, it's not that you are not going to die. At least, somebody has given an advertisement for him in the mortuary column.

I have seen, vengeance which is not directly useful in the day to day life, lust which is not directly useful in your day to day life. If you can accumulate the anger, lust, all the emotions which is directly needed for your everyday life and spend it, your life will be like that barber before finding the golden jar. It’ll will be contented, fulfilled, wonderful. But the moment you find the golden jar and try to fulfill it, like collecting the anger, and collecting the lust, collecting the violence which is not directly useful in your day to day life, which you can't spend.

The big problem with that Yaksha's jar, golden pot is that you will never feel like taking it out and spending, you will only feel like filling it. Same way, the collected anger and lust which is not directly useful in your life, you will never be able to spend it. You will be only accumulating it. And, anybody who is working based on the accumulated anger and lust without reason, without the direct use, will continue to suffer, continue to suffer, continue to suffer. Because, all their decisions will be made on the pseudo anger, pseudo lust, which is not directly useful in their life.

Be aware. Two technique. Understand, be aware, first ten days only about the etheric body. That itself will take your awareness. You will not be aware of you also. Just be aware of all the etheric connections and the body around the world, all your likes and dislikes, love and hatred and all the connections. Remember, everything is inside you as part of your body. Move with this same visualization for ten days. You will see, so many understandings and revelations and great spiritual clicks happening in you. So many initiations will open up.

Second thing, second part, if in the first part itself if you achieve the truth, then no need for second. Otherwise, the second part. Be aware of you also, center also. Then, so many other things can happen.

Put mind’s stuff in such inexpressible fineness above, below, and in your heart.

That is the only word added. The keyword added is 'and in your heart'. That is the essence. Understand, both techniques are today, fortunately part of the same sutra. Because, I am seeing many of you are tired after attending two long days of workshop. So, I think, Shiva knows may be, after the two day workshop, this sutra is going to be taken. So, he gave both the techniques in one sutra, so that you don't have to sit for more time.

I'll tell the essence in few lines. Visualize all the love, hatred, emotional relationships which you have in your life as part of your etheric body, means light body, visualize you have a huge light body. If you have somebody who is really emotionally connected to you in India, visualize you have a huge body which extends up to India and that person is inside that body. Ten days, carry this visualization. Let all the emotional, hatred or loving connections be inside your etheric body. And if you experience the ultimate click with this technique, go ahead with this.

If not, the second thing, add, along with that be aware of your center also, your center also. Then you will see the new layers of click opening up. So, let you, of course tomorrow we have the last day of Shiva Sutra, so I welcome you all to be here tomorrow to enjoy the last day of Shiva Sutra here. Because, I'll be doing the remaining few sutras may be in the ashram, Indian ashram, I'll complete it. So, formally, the public lecture Shiva Sutra, we'll be ending tomorrow.

It took almost two years. I remember, 2006 January, we started, and 2007 December. It took two years to comment on at least around hundred sutras. We'll be finishing the public discourses on Shiva Sutras tomorrow. I welcome you all. So, let these sutras be internalised by you and practised by you. Let you all achieve and radiate the eternal bliss, Nithyananda. Thank you.