Shiva Sutras : Light as Life Energy

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM HDH BHAGAVAN NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

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Light- As Life Energy

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Question and answers Question: Since our society is at least partly controlled by politicians how do we, as spiritual beings exist as part of our society. Can we be both political and spiritual beings? Master: ‘Yes! Understand: politicians may not be spiritual beings but spiritual beings can be, tolerate and be with politics. There won’t be a problem. Spirituality gives you such an open understanding and vast inner space. You will be able to accommodate. You will be able to accommodate even those things. That’s not a problem. When you become spiritual neither politician nor religious person fights. There were few spiritual kings, who never fought like Akbar and so many others. During Akbar’s time Hindus never felt threatened. That was one great beautiful thing, Akbar’s contribution; he neither converted nor killed. He is one of the exceptions. Same way, there were some, in religious side also. There were some people who were supposed to become politicians, but became religious people. They always created fight, war. So the spiritual essence: if not imbibed whether you are a religious leader or politician, you will create fight; If you imbibe that, even if you are a politician you won’t create fight. The first chief adviser of Akbar, his name was Maheshwara. In the course of time they started calling him as Birbal. No! He was a Brahmin from a nearby village, and his name was Maheshwara. For quite a long time the record was saying his name was only Maheshwara. Even if you see Akbar’s court records, his name was mentioned as Maheshwara. He received salary every month. The court document says his name was only Maheshwara. And if you read his stories you will understand that he was a very intelligent wise adviser though he was depicted as a joker. He was not a joker but a very intelligent adviser and if you read his history, it says he was from a Brahmin family and his name was Maheshwara. May be because Akbar had such intelligent advisers, he neither converted nor killed people. His period was a golden period. Both Ashoka and Akbar created golden period. During his reign Ashoka created a golden period because of Buddhist enlightenment, Buddhist knowledge, I don’t know if Ashoka was enlightened himself but he had Buddhist Masters guiding him. Same way, with Akbar, Akbar created a golden period because he had a Brahmin, a very intelligent Brahmin, as a guide. Question: last night’s sutra also is a way to learn to function on two to three hours of sleep a day. I need that in order to be closer to you. Master: Two to three hours of sleep happens as a by product of psychological revolution. When the intensity comes to you, so much of love to do something or to enjoy something, happens to you. Suddenly sleep reduces. That’s all. If you have something which is more interesting than sleep, then naturally sleep will reduce. Most of our life, there is nothing much interesting than sleep. So we decide to just lie down. Question: Since bondage and liberation is relative, why not just eat, drink and be merry? Master: perfectly alright. Be intense. That’s all. Eat intensely. When you are eating; only eat.

When you are sleeping; just sleep. When you are drinking; only drink. When you are merry, just be merry. If you can be merry, you don’t need anything else. The whole problem is because you can’t be merry. That’s why you need so much of teachings and ideas about liberation. See: here you think why not just eat, drink and be merry. You think it’s very easy. No. The problem is you can’t be merry, that’s why you drink the things which are not directly needed by your body: Which can’t be accepted by your body. If you can just be merry you don’t need what you mean here as drink. Because if you are constantly merry little water is enough, drinking water is enough. It’s more than enough for me to be merry. I don’t need anything else to be merry. Understand: sometimes the Master’s words should be understood completely, with intensity, clarity and not superficially. Eat, drink and be merry is not a simple thing as you understand, as you think. . If you do that intensely, that’s perfectly alright. You heard my words without intensity. That’s why you are thinking, what you think as simple thing, is meant by that word. Listen intensely and live, do all these three, eating, drinking and being merry. Do all these things intensely. You won’t have a problem. One small story about this intensity and understanding: after twenty five years of married life, one day wife discovers three soy bean seeds and thirty dollar cash in her husband’s drawer when she was going through it. She goes to him and asks with lot of curiosity, ‘what is this? Why three soy beans and thirty dollar cash? How did it come there? What is the meaning?’ He says, ‘now I have to confess to you. Whenever I cheated on you, I put one soy bean in that’. She said ‘twenty five years! but what about that thirty dollar cash? He said, ‘No, no, whenever soy bean was selling at ten dollar per kg I sold it’. Understand: understand intensity. If you understand only about three soy bean seeds, it’s ok. But you have to understand about thirty dollars also. So, eat, drink and be merry, these three words, if you understand like three soy bean seeds, you will not be able to understand the truth. You have to see the thirty dollars behind it. Only then you will understand the truth: you will understand what liberation is. Let’s enter into the sutra: In the spaces between feel this as lightening. Actually yesterday doctor requested me to give the Vignana bairava thanthra print out to you all, we brought them, but the small confusion is, during chanting, we chant all the sutras. But I am not giving discourse on all sutras. The first few sutras are introduction. That part I did not speak. So our order and chanting order did not match. So tomorrow we will all have the printouts. I told them to edit the first few sutras which I have not spoken, and which does not need any commentary. Those are sutras describing the place or the situation or some stories of what Bairava thathwa is and descriptions of consciousness state of Shiva and Devi. Tomorrow you will all have the sutras. You will be able to follow the Sanskrit verse and the English translation along with me. The sutra: In the spaces between, feel this as lightening. It’s a beautiful thing. Mahadeva says, you intensely experienced the energy centers. You visualized yourself as light and felt concentrated on every energy center. Now Mahadeva says, feel the same energy as lightening hitting you. When an enlightened

Master gives energy darshan, you can just be aware and you will feel a lightening shock. In whichever chakra you feel the shock strongly; you need to work on that chakra. Understand: whenever you receive energy darshan, you try; today you try with a deep, relaxed but intense prayerful mood. Don’t think of it as an everyday ritual. No! Today come with intensity. And just look deep. Don’t try to talk anything. Everyday you speak, ask, and talk many things. Just today, try, try not to talk, don’t try to look this side and that side, to see what is around you or look at the Murthi (idol) or don’t divert your attention. But in energy darshan you are supposed to see your face, not just mine. So when you come, close your eyes and look inside to feel the chakra where the shock is happening, which chakra is receiving the lightening. Be sensitive. It will always happen every time when Master touches you. Today be sensitive. That’s all. If you are sensitive, you can see. See where the lightening is happening. Or when you touch an energized deity, you can have that lightening. Actually, you can touch and feel Dhakshinamurthy, that’s the deity energized, but outside. You can touch the feet of Dhakshinamurthy, embodiment of guru. You can touch that Murthy, the feet and see. Whatever happens inside you when the Master touches you, the same thing will happen when you touch the energized deity. That is the power of energized deities. Once the life is added to them, they become independent intelligence. They do the same work of Master’s body. Whatever is said and done, if you had seen that hall before putting the garbha and deities and after putting the garbha and deities, you will understand the difference, the energy difference. When the Master touches you or when you enter into the energy fields, intense energy fields like Thirumala or the Arunachaleswara temples or Madurai Devi temple, you can feel the same energy shock. And there are so many other temples, intense energy fields, Vishwanatha, Badrinath and Kedar, are also these kinds of strong energy fields. If you enter these places, there also you will have the shock. Yu will see the lightening starts happening inside the system. Whether you are touched by the Master or you are touching the Master’s body or you touch an energized idol, the idol or deity installed by an enlightened being or you enter into a strong energy field, this experience, what Shiva says, can be experienced. Suddenly you will see the lightening happening in your spine. Whenever that happens close your eyes and rest with it. If it happens in a temple, stop doing all other rituals. Just sit, go to a corner just sit and digest that. When it happens be aware. Be sensitive to it. Allow it to work, cooperate with it. You will see: you will receive thousand times more than what you will receive by prayer. Prayer is like you are trying to connect. This experience is like He is trying to connect. Whenever He calls you, it goes to voice mail. And whenever you call you blame He is not picking up. He is not picking up, true, but when He calls you back it again goes to voice mail. That’s why never the dialog happens Understand: this experience is like He calling you. Allow, don’t be engaged. Don’t be engaged in something else. Just go to one corner, sit with closed eyes, forget about the pandas, priests, pujaris, worship, this that, whatever is going on, sit in one corner and internalize.

Whichever chakra you had the shock or the lightening or if you had all over the body, then internalize. Sit with it, let you encourage, cooperate with it. Let that penetrate you deeper and deeper. You will see: the process which is supposed to happen will start happening. Mahadeva says all the spaces between, feel this as lightening. This will not happen ordinarily. By visualizing you cannot do this technique. No! It only happens by the strong energy field. If you are visualizing, you will only be visualizing. That is not experience. You will only be visualizing. Here this has to happen. This has to happen. So understand: sit with yourself whenever this happens. During three different times it can happen. One, when you are touched by an enlightened body or you are touching the enlightened body: second, when you touch an energized deity, of course energized deity cant come and touch you at least in ordinary level or in ordinary way: third, whenever you are entering into intense energy fields like Thirumala or Arunachala, you may not be able to touch the deity but the moment you enter the energy field, you will see it happening. Fortunately we got one rare red card about some of the offerings done to Lord Venkateshwara by the devotees. Shahjahan had a dream about Venkateshwara. During some problem, he was praying in the masque and saying, ‘I don’t know if god is there, whatever form whatever way you are please come and help me now’. He was praying desperately. Not only he had darshan , he also made a chain weighing four hundred kg made of gold, which can go around Venkateshwara seven times, and donated it. It is still there in the temple. I was surprised. I can’t imagine. Shahjahan who was a worst womanizer, made such an offering. Of course I can be sure unless it was a strong experience, he would not have given four hundred kg gold. He offered the chain, very strong golden chain which can go around Venkateswara seven times. They still use it on some function or festival days. I was surprised. It seems he came to the temple also. After he had that experience, he came to the temple and offered the gold chain too. Thirumala is a very powerful energy field, strong energy field. I was going through all the major donations given to the temple. I had the fortune of sitting with some of the officers who were working in the temple. There were so many other wonderful offerings; everything shows the strong lightening energy which entered into the devotees when they entered into the energy field. You have to respect the energy field with a deep intense devotion. So many stories: so many stories about Thirumala. They say the moment they entered into Thirumala , the energy experience starts. And they donate something. That is the way the whole temple was created. The whole temple is the living testimonial of millions of devotees’ experience, millions of devotees’ spiritual experience. One small story about this energy field: Ramanuja was a great enlightened Master. He was going around teaching enlightenment and whatever He discovered, the bakthi, the devotion to people all over the country. He went to Thirupathi along with his disciples, had dharshan of Venkateswara and stayed there for quite sometime and he was leaving. Entry of vehicles was prohibited. He came out from the place, walked up to thirty miles. They all became tired, so sat down to eat and opened the food which they brought from Thirumala. In Thirumala itself they had cooked and started carrying the food. When they opened the food they saw it was full of ants, they saw ants in the food. Ramanuja not only did not eat , he completely repacked the whole thing without missing a single ant , not leaving a single ant outside, he put them all back , packed it and started walking back to Thirumala. Some of the disciples started shouting, some started shouting, ‘what are you doing? We are tired.

Either give us food or if you don’t want to eat the ants give it to us, we will drive the ants and eat at least the food. What is wrong? It’s ok. We will drive the ants away and eat the food’. Ramanuja said, ‘No! I am going back’. And one more thing: in Ramanuja’s group, Ramanuja was very senior. He became enlightened very late and all his disciples were young guys. Even though they were young, they were tired and said, ‘no, we are all tired and not interested in walking back. Why are you going back? What is the need? Drive the ants and eat the food’. Ramanuja said, No! How many janmas (births) these ants must have been doing good deeds to take birth in Thirumala! We don’t know. We have no right to remove them from that energy field. Understand: very easy to talk but very difficult to walk thirty miles back. It is very easy to tell this idea but very difficult to walk thirty miles back to drop the ants back in to the energy field. That was the respect they carried for the energy fields But even after that he walked back and left the ants there then started back his journey next day. You don’t know the respect they showered for the energy fields; because they experienced it. Same way Ramana Maharishi will never allow a single tree to be cut in the whole Arunachala boundary. He will say, ‘fools: you don’t know rishis and munis and siddhas are coming here and taking birth as a tree, as animals. They are all living here just to enjoy this energy field’. He always used instruct to never disrespect animals or trees inside the ashram where he was staying. He always used to say siddhas, rishis and munis have come here to be in the energy field. So they never disturb them. There used to be a dog which used to come to Bhagavan before He starts eating. He would give little food and the dog would eat and go. This was annoying one Brahmin who was too much of a washing mania. No, the south India suffered too much by the washing mania, the madi, they call that washing as madi, ( Madi was a concept which emphasized absolute cleanliness to be followed by people involved in religious related routine such as working inside the holy places like the sanctum sanctorum of temples or while cooking for the holy persons and the like. But over a period of time, the concept was lost on people and it became an obsessive routine of washing themselves and the things they came into contact with constantly) and this Brahmin, a washing mania, had little irritation. The dog coming all the way to Bhagavan’s place where He was eating and Bhagavan giving the food for the dog to eat was too much for that Brahmin to handle. He shouted at the dog one day. ‘Don’t come here and disturb when Bhagawan eats. Have you no sense’? Something like that he shouted. You will be surprised. The dog jumped in the well and committed suicide. The dog committed suicide. Dogs can actually swim. This dog did not swim, just jumped into the well and committed suicide. When the news was brought to Bhagawan , He was moved, He brought the dog’s body, placed the body on his own lap and applied vibhudi ( sacred ash), which he used to apply on his body and did the Samadhi, the traditional ceremony of burying the enlightened beings. He buried the dog and put a mark on it and whenever he used to walk that side, he would stand there and spend few minutes with the dog, with the Samadhi. Understand: energy field is a different phenomenon. You can’t logically understand the value of energy field. And there was a great saint, Manikkavasaga. When he came to

Arunachala , same way the moment he entered the area from where he could see the hill , he would remove the shoes. He won’t walk on his feet. He used to say his feet should not touch the energy field. It was disrespect. So he was rolling, just by rolling he went around the whole hill and paid the respect. Of course it’s the extreme .at least you can understand the spirit, you can understand the spirit behind the whole concept of energy field because it was giving such a strong experience to them. That’s why they were able to show so much of respect. If it is just a mental understanding or faith, you can’t show so much respect. If it is faith you know what he would have done. He would have asked a young disciple to take the ants back and leave them in the Thirumala and come back. He could have done that. That’s what you would have done; intelligent, very intelligent or you would have asked, you would have told alright drive them out, its ok or at the most you would have sent somebody to drop. You guys might even drop them in between and come back. I can’t take that risk. But Ramanuja goes back himself and drops the ants and comes back because the energy fields are centers which can awaken the lightening, the truth in your being. So in today’s energy darshan, be ready and be aware and see which chakra receives that lightening, that experience. This technique can’t be practiced when you want. You have to practice only when it happens, whenever you enter into an energy field or touch an energized deity or you touching or touched by an enlightened Master. Those are the few moments the lightening will start happening in some chakra or all chakras. Be aware, receive and sit with it, allow it to penetrate and expand and go into your system. That will do the work. May you all achieve and radiate the eternal bliss, Nithyanandam. Thank you.