Shiva Sutras: Shiva Sutras, The Manual for Enlightenment

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Shiva Sutras, The Manual for Enlightenment

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Shiva Sutras, The Manual For Enlightenment

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DATE OF TALK April,2006 LOCATION OF TALK Los Angeles, CA, USA START TIME 0.20 END TIME 11.56 DURATION 12.09 TITLE Shiva Sutras, The Manual for Enlightenment

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English

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URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiRdTAam-7s

Today one devotee asked me, what is this swami when you spoke about Gita you said Gita is the ultimate book, now you say Shiva sutras is the ultimate book. See Gita is a beautiful book to start. It has got little bit of Sastra, little bit of stotra and little bit of sutra. There are some techniques and there are some Stotra, the glory part and there is a sastra which gives you intellectual base. It is like a mix of everything, but the danger is you may miss the essence. You may get caught in the Sastra or Stotra, you may lose the Sutra part, and you may lose the technique part. It is a mixture. Whenever you mix there is always problem. You may miss the essence, you may miss the truth. But here you cannot miss the truth. It is a fool proof book. Anybody goes through this book cannot miss. It is a fool proof technology. You can't escape and you can't miss the truth, because here nothing else is there, no sugar coating, straight away he gives the truth. No teaching. No intellectual stuff, There is no need to avoid anything. There is no need to use your intellect to separate, to analyze what is truth and what is not truth; you don't have to use your intellect at all. As far as this book is concerned, straight open and starts practicing, it is a practical manual. That is why no teachings. This is not for the people who are yet to be convinced. It is a straight book for the people who want to practice. I have brought a few stories. To tell you all about the teachings, how teachings’ work. A passion goes to the psychiatric doctor and says "doctor, it is too much. I cannot run my life. I don't know what to do. But one thing, I cannot live my life in the same way. It is too much problems. Physiatrist says. Yes we all have problems I know. Let's try to help each other; I'll start four sessions a week. Hundred dollars per session. We'll start from tomorrow. Patient says, yes doctor I understand. This will solve your problem. What about mine? So teachings may solve the problems of the teacher, but not the student. Teachings may solve the problem of teacher, but not the student. All teachings, either it is given as a commandment, or given as a theory.

(4:11)

One thing, at least with commandment you know directly commands are given to you. But when you start reading theologies, in a very cunning, subtle way the commandments are inserted into your inner space. Logically you are convinced to follow these rules. Logically you are convinced to follow these rules, about these teachings than great damage. Permanent damage is done to your consciousness. Let me be very clear: Unless it becomes your experience, any teaching it does only damage to your inner space. It does great damage to your consciousness. It is better to escape from teachings than having them without experience. I have one more story. Suddenly one day farmer noticed that one of his cows is missing. And there is a railroad near his farm and he sued the railroad company, thinking that the cow has died. And the company hired the best lawyer, the big lawyer in the city to settle the matter out of court. Somehow lawyer convinced the farmer, farmer accepted 50% of what he was claiming, and settled. After the settlement, after farmer signed the release form and took the check, lawyer felt really happy and he was not able to keep quiet. He was talking about his victory and said "I am really happy I won the case. Because I don't have a single witness, I can't stand in the court. I am happy that we have settled out of court. Farmer said yes I am also happy. I was also worried yesterday how to take only half of the amount. But today morning cow came back to the how, so I agreed. Be very clear. Neither the farmer knows nor the lawyer knows what is going on. He is trying to cheat the other person; the other person is trying to cheat this person. Lawyer is thinking he is cheating the farmer, the farmer is thinking the other way. The teachings also, the person who teaches, he is thinking. People are all listening. He is talking for them. People are sitting; they are thinking anyhow he is talking what to do? I have to sit, I have come. It becomes sort of a routine. It becomes sort of routine. I anyhow we are not going to do anything; he is going to speak, let's have some good time. Please be very clear. Neither the teacher knows what he is saying, nor does the student understand what he is hearing. All teachings, it adds only more and more words. More and more trouble. That is the reason here Shiva is not here to convince you he is here to give the experience,

(8:14)

One more thing. I have always seen a deep inferiority complex in all teachers. Teachers suffer with inferiority complex. To hide their inferiority complex they start teaching, see when you are teaching you can show you are a big guy. Really it is a big addiction, you don't know. It's a big addiction. Be very clear, teaching gives you a big strength you feel you have become a big guy. Your ego is strengthened when you teach. That is the reason you will find thousands and thousands of teachers but not a single student. Be very clear; never think people who are sitting in front of the teacher are students. No. There are learning just to become a teacher. They are not students. They are just waiting to catch that seat. You can't directly catch the seat. You need to know something. So just for that, they put up with the teacher's teachings. Alright, tell whatever you want. Anyhow I will have to sit in that chair, for that I also need to repeat all these things. Let me listen. Students are polite they relax, keep quiet, so that they can start their turn. That's all; never think somebody is a student just because he is sitting in front of the teacher. All teachings is just pure ego game. He's trying to show his greatness. And student is just waiting so that he can show his greatness to somebody else. He's just putting up with the teachings. So that when time comes, he can start that is why, I have always seen the moment class is over, people go back to their house and start teaching. If you have digested, you will never feel like opening the mouth. You are even I have seen even when people listen, in their mind people will take notes, I should go and tell this to my mother in law, I should go and tell this to my father in law., I should go and tell this to my friends, I should go and tell this to my wife. Of course you can't tell your wife that is different; at least I should go and tell this to my husband. You just develop your intellect. So that you can use it on your family and friends. And you just use all these teachings to support what you want to express and one more things, I have seen people sharpening their intellect with my teachings and using it to fulfill their wishes. Whenever they couldn't get something out of somebody, they will start using these teachings in their own form. In the mind, they will have all the notes. Whatever is said .When they go back, they will manipulate whatever they want and use it to get what they want. Let me be very clear, that is the reason here Shiva is not interested in giving any teachings, he is straight, I think, he doesn't want to contribute to the already existing confusions.