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Nithyanandeshwara Samaarambhaam Nithyanandeshwari Madhyamaam |
Asmath Aachaarya Paryanthaam Vandhey Guru Paramparaam ||
I welcome all of you with my love and blessings.
Today, Mahadeva is gracing us in the form of the Leela “Ezhu Kadal Azhaithadhu”.
Means, “Calling all the Seven Oceans”.
See, when Sundareshwara was ruling the Pandya Kingdom, Kanchanamala, the mother of Devi
Meenakshi, was advised by Sage Gautama to take dip in all the seven oceans, as that
would bring her Completion and lead her to enlightenment.
So, Kanchanamala informed this to Meenakshi and requested Meenakshi to give her recommendation
to Mahadeva.
Meenakshi took the recommendation to Mahadeva.
Sundareshwara (Mahadeva) immediately called all the seven oceans to come to Madurai in
one pond, and Kanchanamala took bath in that pond and got blessed.
Even now that pond is there in front of Meenakshi Temple (in Madurai). And, very funny thing,
only that water is so salty it gives the experience of literally the ocean water! All over Madurai,
it is all good water; because of that only the Vaigai (the river Vaigai), the underground
water is so nice. But only this area, means that pond, only that pond has salt water.
So, it is very surprising!
So, Mahadeva today is gracing us in that form of “Ezhu Kadal Azhaitha Leelai”.
And, as part of Ganesha Brahmotsava, Ganesha is also gracing us on the Lion Vehicle – “Simha
Vahana”, “Suvarna Simha Vahana” (Golden Lion Vehicle).
I will enter into today’s Nithya Satsangh.
First thing, I would recommend everyone who are born Hindus, or who are practicing Hindus,
to all of you find why you are practicing, what you are practicing. Have adequate and right reasons.
Most of the Hindu organizations fail utterly, bitterly, badly, because they don’t have
adequate cognition, adequate reasons, enough reasons. Understand, Hinduism is not one more
religion which is out there for the sake of numbers or to achieve political power or control
over the people through religion. That is the first understanding we need to have. The
Western civilization, unfortunately, do not know what is religion. Please understand,
they know only a set of rules, and regulations, organization-based, some concepts which are
usually used for political manipulation or controlling people. That is why I make this
one statement very boldly. As per the Western definition, Hinduism is not a religion and
wWe are a lifestyle! The beauty of this religion is, no one can use this to control or manipulate
people; no one can use this religion for political power, political manipulation. Hinduism is
a lifestyle – enriching yourself and others with consciousness.
As I said, wherever the mystery is explored, the mysteries of consciousness are explored.
Wherever people try to complete their incompletions, wherever people try to experience the Ultimate,
taste the Ultimate, wherever people seek the Ultimate, Hinduism is practiced there, understand!
It is practiced there!
What really is the main reason for the suffering we go through? What really is the reason for
the attack we go through?
Unfortunately, Hindu organizations, whether it is a spirituality-based organization like
teaching Yoga, meditation, spiritual concepts, or the religion-based organizations, the ritualistic
component of Hinduism – that based organizations – or organizations created for the social
justice of Hindus, demand of social justice for Hindus, or the organizations created to
reach out all over the world to remove the wrong ideas, concepts taught about Hinduism,
and to clear, to stop the defamation, any type of these organizations, please understand,
or doing service to society based on the Hindu faith, any of these type of organizations,
need to do one thing mainly, please understand, needed to do one thing mainly, even for Nithyananda
Sangha I am giving this as important advice, our work is not inside our Sangha, our work
is mainly outside the Sangha, to reach out to the mainstream Hindus. But, fortunately
or unfortunately, knowingly or unknowingly, we are overwhelmed, we are overwhelmed with
whatever you call as your completion or incompletion, your knowledge or practice, what you think
as right or wrong, most of the Hindu organizations are caught within themselves. They are again
and again and again, including Nithyananda Sangha….. Please understand, whatever I
am saying is for all the Hindus and for Nithyananda Sangha; whatever I am saying is a self-criticism;
it is not criticizing somebody else; it is my introspection and the truths I realized
by intranalyzing. We are overwhelmed and forget the mainstream Hindus.
Understand, we need to remind the mainstream Hindus, and we need to educate the mainstream
Hindus. Answer for this great question: “WHY”. The answer for this great question “Why”
is necessary. When we don’t address the question “Why”, the atheists, anti-Hindu
elements, which is a lot, huge– people who want to convert, people who want to terrorize,
people who want to divide, people who want to politicize – they will teach people “Why
Not”! When you don’t answer for the question “Why”, they will answer for the question
“Why Not”! Understand, before they feed their ideas “Why Not” – means, “Why
don’t you give up this lifestyle? Why don’t you give up Hinduism?” – before they start
providing “Why Not”, you better spread “Why”. Before they start infusing the
ideas of “Why Not”, you better spread the ideas of “Why”.
It is the inability to answer “Why”, is the biggest suffering Hinduism is going through.
And the tradition which started with “Why”….. See, the first statement of our tradition
is not “There is God. He is above somewhere. He made the world.” No! The first statement
we make is: “Athato Brahma Jijnasa” – “Let us investigate, inquire into the Truth”.
Means, we started with “Why”. Actually, we should be asking all the civilizations
this question: “Why”. Not that we will be asked, we will be questioned “Why?”
Asking “Why” should be our brand. Asking “Why” should be our life-style, asking
“Why” should be our thought-trend, because we start with “Why”. We don’t start
with definite statements, please understand. And we reached the heights of defining “indefinite”.
We reached the heights of defining “indefinite”, but we start with the great “Why”.
Kapila, the first man who started thinking on Planet Earth….. I still feel men are
from Mars, women are from Venus, and through meteorites, life has landed on Planet Earth.
And still I am not having any proof for what I am saying, whether from the Hindu Cosmology,
or the modern-day researches. If I get proof, I will present it to you guys. But, intuitively,
I still feel men landed on Planet Earth from Mars through some, may be, those days’ vimana
(aircraft) or whatever. Anyhow…!
The first man who started thinking on Planet Earth is Kapila. When I see the teachings
of Kapila, I could see so beautifully it starts so clearly with “Why”. So I commit with
Veda Matha, I will come up with a huge volume just with the title “WHY”! Just with this
“WHY”! Because, there are tons and tons and tons of answers required for all the “Whys”.
I will at least answer 1008 “Whys” and come up with the volume “WHY”, so that
people can understand. See, answering “Why”, the “Why” should be answered with all
possible questions.
20 mins
It is not that when people ask “Why”, you will address only that “Why”, then
after that they will ask “When”, you will address “When”, then they will ask “How”,
you will address “How”, then they will ask “What”, you will address “What”.
No! The moment they ask “Why”, finish addressing everything – “When”, “How”,
“What”, “If” – everything, so that they have adequate cognition, right cognition,
adequate reason, right reason. This “Why”, that great “Why”, only if this great “Why”
is addressed, only if this great “Why” is answered, and I tell you, please believe,
this is another one big problem. The modern day Hindus have a deep self-doubt due to the
strong Westernization, a deep self-doubt. Unfortunately even Hindus don’t know they
can handle the “Whys” of the world. I tell you, not only you can handle the “Why”
of the world; you can ask the world “Why”. You have enough knowledge to ask the world
“Why”. Wake up, for fear, fear of you asking “Why”, they forced their “Why”
on you. If you are allowed, if they don’t push their “Why” on you, you are so strong,
so powerful, built on “Why”, you will ask that great “Why” to them. That is
why they pushed the “Why” on you and put the self-doubt in you. O Sons of Immortality,
living Hindus, from now onwards I decide I’ll use only this word “living Hindus”. I’ll
use only this word “practicing Hindus”. I am not going to use any more the word “Hindus”.
I am only going to use the word “practicing Hindus”. O living Hindus, practicing Hindus,
listen, listen, first understand you have adequate and right and more than enough reasons
for all “Whys” that happens inside you and all “Whys” happens outside you and
it is time you answer, you learn and answer all the “Whys” happening inside you, outside
you and ask the other guys “Why?” Put the strong “Why” on them. Let them answer.
Hinduism is a spiritual lifestyle, spiritual thought-trend, spiritual experience. That is why I am telling
you, please understand.
Yesterday I was going through the Bhagavatam, some of the chapters of Bhagavatam, to study
the original words of Kapila. The original words of Kapila is recorded only in very few
books. So I am , I was studying. All of you should know, Bhagavatam officially records
Buddha as the twenty-first incarnation of Vishnu. Please understand, Buddha is one of
the incarnations of Vishnu. Bhagavatam, one of the oldest scriptures of Hinduism, officially
records that he is going to come with his clear name and place he will be born, his
mother’s name, the message he is going to teach. Bhagavatam is written at least 5,000
years before. Buddha happened 2,500 years before. With the clear Buddha’s various
names Bhagavatam records Buddha as “bhavishya”, means future incarnation, with his name “Buddha”.
Anyhow the truth I wanted to convey to all of you, please listen, the truth you need
to understand now - we were never, we can never and we were never fit ourselves into
the Western definition of religion – a set of ideas, whoever believes that is belongs
that religion and you vote for a particular people for your vested interest, you become
a power centre. No. We don’t fit into that definition. That is why our lifestyle was
always who now? Who is the best available person who can lead us to the next level of completion and next level
of consciousness? That’s all.
Understand, when Kapila comes the whole of humanity follows him.Raise us to enlightenment.
Next when Dattatreya comes, the whole civilization follows him. Next when Buddha comes, the whole
civilization follows him, even though he was completely against what Dattatreya and Kapila
taught. Krishna beautifully explains in Bhagavatam. He says, ‘There are a lot of atheist people.
How much ever you make them understand, they will not have the trust on the Ultimate and
they will not be able to reach Completion and Enlightenment.’ Because that was the
period the human brain has gone to next level. Whether fortunately or unfortunately it has
reached a level where the integrity is not part of your life you can just be completely
out of integrity and continue to exist. See the good things happened through that is,
a new way of thinking has been developed. It is not that that was altogether wrong or
altogether negative but the bad thing that happened is the spirituality has become very
distant. Later on, I will analyse on that subject. Along with the human brain development,
the different incarnations have happened based on the requirements.
Krishna explained beautifully. When that kind of a new type of brain started developing,
Krishna, Bhagawan lands in the form of Buddha and encourages, attests their agnostic atheistic
principles. So, finally what happened these guys who did not believe anything and anybody,
they started believing Buddha, who is again incarnation of the Lord, who is again incarnation.
That feeling connection, that trust, that shraddha, through that he helped them to reach
Completion and led them to Enlightenment. After Buddha suddenly comes Shankara. We did
not have a second thought to simply follow Shankara who is completely teaching against
the principles of Buddha. At this moment who is available to help us to reach next level
of consciousness. That’s all, only with that we lived. All knowledge centres, Mokshapuris
of Hinduism – Kanchi, Puri, Madurai – all Mokshapuris of Hinduism have changed their
main deities at least ten times, understand. At least ten times. I am telling you from
my own authority, who can read Akashic Records. All the top Mokshapuris – Kashi, Kanchi,
Puri, Dwaraka. Because, when a new person comes who can raise you to the next level
of consciousness, we never bothered about sticking to the old infrastructure. We handed
over the old infrastructure to the new person and told, ‘Please take it up and raise us.’
Still in many Buddha temples, Hindu deities are there and in many Hindu temples, Buddha
deities are there. Sometimes it is covered and sometimes it is uncovered but it is there
and we don’t have a problem about it. We don’t have problem about it. After Shankara,
suddenly Nagarjuna comes. People understand, ‘Yes, this guy can take us, raise us to
the next level of consciousness.’ The whole group, Nagarjuna’s teachings are completely
against Shankara’s, he just followed. Then comes Ramanuja who is totally against Shankara,
Ramanuja, Nagarjuna. We just followed him. Then comes Madhwa who is completely different
from Shankara and Nagarjuna. We followed him. Then comes Vidyaranya who is completely different
from Buddha and Ramanuja and Madhwa. I can say in a way very safely, he is little different
even from Shankara, from his own Guru, Guru Parampara, but we just followed him.
We are established on one truth, ‘Who can lead us to the next level of consciousness.
Who can lead us to the next level of completion?’ So please understand, we always lived on “Why”,
not on any organization. Don’t try to imitate seeing the Western organized religion the
Hinduism can live on organized religions, organized structure, on organization. No,
we are not cut for that. We are cut, we are designed, our consciousness is evolved, the
collective soul of the Veda Matha, the collective soul of Indic knowledge is based on this one
truth, ‘who can answer for our more number of “Whys”?’ Only the ability to answer
more number of “Whys” was the base, foundation on which the Indic tradition, Indic Knowledge
Tradition is established.
I can say very safely, this word “Indic Knowledge Tradition” can be the beautiful
word to mention the whole Sanatana Dharma and Hinduism and all the, everything put together.
Indic Knowledge Tradition. That is why still Mahanirvani Akhada has one mudi means one
chapter dedicated to Buddhism. Please understand, still Buddhists are respected, recognized
as part of Mahanirvani Akhada and they are given the equal respect as a Mahamandaleshwar
in Kumba Mela, still, and they also come and participate very actively and always they
fill their seat any bhandara, any program, any festival, they come and represent and
they live in the places allotted to them by akhada. All the mudis , means branches of
Akhada, Buddhism is respected as a branch. So the Indic Knowledge Tradition is built
on the great “why”. Just few days before, one of my sannyasis, he was telling me, ‘Swamiji’
– he went for a trip to meet devotees, people, outside the campus when he came back, he said
– ‘Swamiji, I feel only one thing we need to create, nothing else is required.’ I
asked him, ‘What?’ ‘Men! Sannyasis with integrity, authenticity, because’, he told
me, ‘only few days I went for rounds. In nine places people wanted to donate properties
to our ashram!’ He says, ‘Nine places, wherever I go and talk, speak about our tradition,
answer their questions, people immediately they said “Swamiji, take this property.
You build school, temple, or do any charity you want. We will collect money also and support
you monetarily’ He went for one round and nine places. He says all good-sized properties.
People who are giving are not too rich people, middle-class people. Whatever they have in
that they are making one portion and giving it and in that nine people, eight have not
even met me even once. They have not met me even once. In those days we used to get donations
from people who have met me, who have attended the program. Now, they say, ‘We listen to
Swamiji’s satsanghs every morning, that is enough. Please have your temple or a Gurukul
or goshala, annalaya any activity you want, we will also raise the funds and donate.’
He said, ‘Swamiji, the only thing we need to build now is people with integrity and
authenticity’ People, I tell you that will happen only when you know how to answer the
great “Why” of people. The “Why” of people should be answered. The more number
of “Why” you are able to answer, the more you are going to keep this Indic Knowledge
Tradition alive. It’s my passion subject so I will go on and on and on.
I’ll continue, I’ll continue and next few days’ satsangh also. We need to create
men who will answer the “Whys”, the great “Whys”. They should go around having a
big board on themself, “I can answer all your “Whys” about Indic Knowledge Tradition,
India and Hinduism. May I help you with your “Why”?” We should go around answering
people’s “Why”. Understand, neither Hindus lost their tradition, nor tradition
has given up on them, it is just that the bridge needs to be strengthened by answering
more and more “Whys”. “Why” is enough. Answer “Why”, that is enough. You don’t
need to give up on people and nobody is violent, nobody is giving up on you, nobody is throwing
you out, everyone is ready to listen. I request all the Hindus, the Hindu leaders – religious,
spiritual, social – all leaders affiliated to Hinduism, please just enrich yourself and
enrich others to answer the “Whys” of people. This is the first step to revive Hindu
tradition. I’ll speak about the next steps in further, next satsanghs.
With this, I will move to the next segment of the morning satsangh, Nirahara Samyama.
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With this I request all
the Nirahara Samyama participants, sit straight, close your eyes, visualize you become Bidadi
Kalpavriksha. Cognize you have become Bidadi Kalpavriksha. Inhale through both nostrils,
hold as long as you can and exhale through both the nostrils. Please listen inhale through
both the nostrils and the mouth simultaneously, hold as long as you can and exhale through
both the nostrils. Do this same process for next twenty one minutes, with the cognition
you have become Bidadi Kalpavriksha. I bless you all with Integrity, Authenticity, Responsibility
and Enriching. Let you all radiate the highest bliss. Let you all experience Kundalini awakening.
Let you all produce the energy directly from space and live health, bliss and enlightenment.
Namah Shivaya!
Let you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share and explode in eternal bliss,
Nithyananda.