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Nithyanandeshwara Samaarambhaam Nithyanandeshwari Madhyamaam |
Asmath Aachaarya Paryanthaam Vandhey Guru Paramparaam ||
I welcome all the disciples, devotees, samajis, satsanghis, Mahants, Shrimahants, Kotharis,
Thanedars sitting with us through Nithyananda TV, Sadhna TV, Eshwar TV, and through two-way
video-conferencing having Nayana Deeksha in twenty-nine cities in many countries around
the world.
The cities sitting with us in two-way video-conferencing: Houston-Kalahasti, Seattle-Chidambaram, Kulim-Tiruttani,
Los Angeles-Arunachalam, Toronto-Kailasam, San Jose-Madurai, Ohio-Prayag, Guadeloupe-Rameshwaram,
Nithyananda Nagaramu-Hyderabad, Oklahoma-Somanatham, Varanasi, Ontario-California, Charlotte-Srisailam,
Singapore-Singapuram, Hong Kong-Sirkazhi, Jorpati-Nepal, Bangalore Centre, High Point-North
Carolina, Adi Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam-Avathipalayam, xxxxxMoon-Hong Kong, Hyderabad-Gupta Kashi,
Dakota Dunes, Tallahassee-Florida, Winston-Salem-North Carolina, Kathmandu-Nepal, Oman-Sivagangai,
Hong Kong Central, Doncaster, Scottsdale-Arizona.....................
I welcome all of you with my love and blessings.
I welcome the University of California, Los Angeles, and Seattle, all the people who have
gathered there for Kalpataru Darshan.
And, today, Seattle Nithyananda Vedic Temple celebrates the sixth anniversary! Blessings
to the whole Seattle Sangha, and blessings to the whole Seattle! My blessings to all
of you! I am with you guys!
Today, Mahadeva is gracing us in the Leela of "PADAI KAATAL". Means, he himself creates
an army. Because the army chief spent all the money he got on Shiva Puja, and he prays
to Mahadeva, 'Please create an army for me. Otherwise the King will ask for accounts.'
And then Mahadeva comes and creates an army. He himself comes as the chief. For the sake
of his devotees, what all he has to do! How many things he has to do! So, today he is
gracing us in the Padai Kaatal Leelai.
Today, before entering into the satsangh, I want to make this important announcement.
All over the world, our Sangha, Nithyananda Sangha should become cruelty-free. Not only
we will be vegetarian in our eating, in our lifestyle let us try to bring non-violence.
Means, in so many ways. Actually, the goat needs its skin more than anybody else! The
elephant needs its tusk more than anybody else! The tiger needs its skin more than anybody
else! That is why I am not sitting on a tiger skin. This is a cloth printed tiger-style.......(what
Swamiji is using to sit on); understand, it is not tiger skin. We will try our best to
make ourselves cruelty-free, especially all Sangha-related things. Of course, for all
our devotees, life itself is Sangha! For devotees and disciples and everyone, life itself is
Sangha!
So, I sincerely recommend, even in our life we will stop using leather items where cruelty
plays a major role. Don't think, 'Oh, just if I one person avoid wearing leather
shoes, is it going to save some goats?' Surely, yes! Yes! It will! It will!
So, other than the medical purposes -- medical purposes it is okay, it can be exempted -- other
than medical purposes, I sincerely recommend we will all make our life cruelty-free. Okay
for all you guys? We will not use the silk which grows by the worms getting killed. There
is a silk without killing worms. They make out of metal. Out of copper and gold and silver,
they will make zari. We will use that kind of silk.
So, let us all do a little research about the things we are using and let us all try
to live as much as possible cruelty-free. May be, if you guys are habituated to a certain
kind of lifestyle, it will take may be three months to move from that to this. Many things,
without even knowing, you may be having leather items: leather handbag, leather belt, leather
shoes, car seat, leather car seat. Let us slowly remove all of that. Even if you have
already bought it, slowly stop using. Once you stop using, you will not buy it again.
We will make ourselves cruelty-free. We will make ourselves non-violent even in our lifestyle.
We will also avoid using diamonds. Because, for diamonds, lot of people have to die! The
diamond industry is the worst industry. It swallows so many lives! So, we will also slowly
stop using diamonds. Even on the deity jewelleries, I will start using artificial diamonds. The
natural diamond's cutting process, during the natural diamond's cutting process, lot
of people die, and it is a blood business! Lot of bloodshed happens!
So, all the countries all over the world, especially US -- because US only consumes
so much, the whole world is sucked! So, you guys must be using too many things! -- try
to align everything as much as possible to non-violence. All our temples, ashrams, centres,
you can take maximum three months; and in those three months get back to non-violence.
Everything animal-cruelty-related things should be cleared.
So, in all our decorations, lifestyle, our personal make-up, even in your personal make-up,
you will not be using anything which comes through cruelty, by killing, by torturing.
We will avoid all of that. This leather-based, so many things are there: lipstick! That is
the big fad! I don't know how they put that in the mouth and do "pup...pup...pup"!
Aarrghh!!! Hmmm?
So, I request you sincerely, all you guys, let us make ourselves cruelty-free, non-violent.
I will continue to expand on how directly Inner Awakening enriches your life. Please
listen!
Every-day life of a human-being is not as difficult as we go on believing or are made
to believe. And the success is not always hard work. To tell you honestly, success is
never a hard work. If you are working hard, you will be like a beggar only, who works
hard from morning to night and collects one rupee, one rupee, one rupee, one rupee. Even
by night he will be having maximum only thousand rupees. A person who only makes thousand rupees,
a person who earns thousand rupees is never going to become a millionaire or become a
successful person. He may be successful in having food and a little bank balance. He
may be giving loans. In India, actually, beggars are actually much richer than the middle-class
people! But that is not success! You cannot use the word "success" for it.
Most of the time, that immediate cognition you have, decides the quality of your life.
The immediate cognition you have decides your life. Whether falling in love, or getting
married, or taking sannyas, accepting a job, or rejecting a job, or leaving a job, the
immediate cognition, THAT plays a major role. The immediate cognition plays a major role.
Listen! The immediate cognition plays a major role. I wanted all of you to listen to this
once more: The immediate cognition plays a major role! I am repeating it three times.
When you face a situation, what you cognize immediately. Sometimes, you slowly think,
rethink, meditate, contemplate, complete, you do all of that, and then come to certain
cognition. But, please understand, your decision is going to be done only by immediate cognition.
Your contemplation, thinking, everything may influence your decision, but that itself may
not be decisively decision-making. Please listen! Your thinking, contemplation, analyzing,
intranalyzing, all these, at the most can only influence the decision. They cannot be
decisively decision-making. So, the immediate cognition you carry, immediate cognition you
carry plays a major role.
Please understand, in the Inner Awakening, I am giving you the right immediate cognition.
Because, the immediate cognition goes on functioning in one way in your life, and your intranalyzing,
intellectual understanding goes on functioning in another direction. The gap between these
two is called "Vaasana". You go on visualizing you will have a happy, beautiful, great family
and Sangha around you, joyful employees and employers around you. But the moment your
wife or husband calls, the moment you pick up the phone, 'Grrrr! Tell me!!!!' And
you justify yourself: 'Slowly I will change myself. Later on I will become friendly, loving.
And then they will become friendly, loving. And then we will become happy family.' You
go on keeping your fantasy alive and go on working in a completely opposite direction!
If I expose you to you, you jump on me, try to bite me!
The "vaasana"..... In Sanskrit we have a beautiful word -- "Samskara", "Vaasana".
"Vaasana" means, having the unconscious life patterns which is completely against
the reality you want to cause in your life. Having and working in an unconscious way which
is completely opposite to the reality you want to cause for yourself and others. So,
why is this happening?
Yesterday we were having one of the best processes I have ever designed. Everyone is telling
when they declare their reality, they will have an amazing group of people around them,
they will be loving towards them, and they will all be loving towards them. So such an
amazing description! 'We will speak into their listening and they will speak into my
listening.....lala lala...' Everyone is declaring their reality as a "La la Land"!
But I told them to take one step: 'Alright, for this reality to happen around you, the
first thing you need to do is ability to speak into the listening of the people.' Only
if you release the gas from the stomach, digestion will happen. Only if you remove the "vaasanas"
from your life, only if you make the person understand his "vaasana", you will be
able to speak into the listening of the person. In a stomach with gas, digestion cannot happen.
Understand, same way, in a mind filled with "vaasana", listening cannot happen. If
somebody is filled with "vaasanas", you will never be able to speak into the listening
of that person. So, the first thing to do is make that person understand he is suffering
because of his "vaasanas".
I told the group, 'Each one of you will help everyone to identify only one "vaasana"
and complete. That's all!' First time I am seeing, the whole group is in such an
uncomfortable situation! They didn't say "no" to me. They tried to say "no"
in multi-fold ways. But I am a taskmaster! "Do it" means, "DO IT"! First they
said, 'No, no...' I could see, the people who were telling, 'I want to create a spiritual
community around me...', they were the most reluctant! They were saying, 'No, no, no!'
I said, 'Nothing doing! This is your "vaasana"!'
What you want to do and what is the way you are doing, you go on pushing your hope, saying,
'Tomorrow I will change. After a few days I will change. I will change! Don't push
me too much! Otherwise I may give up!' If you give up who cares? Actually, we blackmail
even ourselves: 'I will give up!' I wanted to give them the name "self-blackmailers"!
Self-blackmailing is self-denial. That is the source of self-denial. SDHDBM -- Self-Doubt, Self-Hatred, Self-Denial,
Self-Blackmailing! Listen! Self-blackmailing is the source of all the invited diseases;
like, when in life your declaration demands you to work more than eight hours, you invite
back pain so that you can lie down, you invite cough and cold so that you can lie down, you
invite fever, you invite body pain so that you can lie down! Understand, you tell yourself,
'If I am forced to work more than six hours, I am going to have leg pain, I am going to
have stomach pain, I am going to have headache...' Understand, this self-blackmailing is the
invitation for self-invited diseases. There are some diseases you inherit, there are many
diseases you invite.
Listen! The self-blackmailers are the most cunning human-beings on Planet Earth, because
they develop the pattern of constant blackmailing from the young age. If the mother does not
give the biscuit, start crying! If the brother is not giving the chocolate, kick the leg
and jump on the floor! If the sister is not giving the sweet, go and hit your head on
the wall! Self-blackmailing! I tell you, the peak of the self-blackmailing pattern is suicide!
And peak of the self-blackmailing pattern is inability to decide! SBM -- Self-BlackMailing
pattern!
So, immediate cognition, your immediate cognition, and the cognition which you derive after intranalyzing,
when there is a gap, you suffer with "vaasanas". I tell you, most of your sufferings are not
from "samskaras"; it is from "vaasanas". Most of your suffering is not from "samskaras".
You are not that big a guy that "samskaras" need to come and torture you! "Samskara"
is the strong pattern you build on which your life functions. "Vaasana" means, the unconscious
patterns in which you are functioning, which is completely opposite to the reality you
want to cause. Smell of the "samskara" is "vaasana". "Samskara" is like an
army, "Vaasana" is like local police. Listen! The "vaasanas" you carry continuously
inside you, the self-blackmailing patterns you carry, those are the immediate cognition.
Finally I managed to inspire, convince the participants, and only after going through
the process they realized this process literally makes them to stand HUGE in front of them.
It is realizing your own state of Nirvana! This word "nirvana" has been abused, misinterpreted,
wrongly translated as "nudity". No! Nirvana means, "standing in front of you without
any covering; you facing you"! When you find your "vaasanas", you face you! The
beauty of the "vaasanas" is, the moment you find, it will disappear. For "samskara"
only you need completion. For "vaasanas", spontaneous completion is enough.
I tell you, this was part of the pratyahara that yesterday the Inner Awakening people
were doing. See, for every extraordinary power, Patanjali has given a certain pratyahara,
dharana, dhyana. That pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, Samadhi, all these four put together
is called "Samyama". Patanjali has given for every special power, siddhi, certain Samyama
-- special pratyahara, special dhyana, special dharana. Only Samadhi state is one and the
same. Only pratyahara, dhyana, dharana differs. Yesterday, first time I revealed the pratyahara
for Mano Siddhi, Ishta Siddhi, Ishta Siddhitwa. To achieve what you want, the pratyahara.
To cause your reality and others' reality, the pratyahara. I wanted all gurukul kids
to be trained in this process. May be the Mahants who are managing the Gurukul, both
Mahants, can take the notes from yesterday's class. And I wanted this to be taught to our
kids from the beginning. Because, I am going to do the next experiment: making a different
variety of banana happen in one tree, making a different taste of mango happen in one tree,
through the power of the gurukul kids. I will teach them the Mano Siddhi. How they made
the rose bush drop the thorn, same way the mango tree, just by relating with it, doing
this Samyama with that tree, they will make that tree give a very sweet mango fruit!
Yesterday I saw our gurukul brahmacharis were doing Rudra Homa. The moment they finished
the Rudra Homa, it started drizzling. We were walking away....and I looked back. They said,
'Yes, Swamiji! Before doing the Rudra Homa, we made an intention it should rain....and
it started!' Otherwise it is not the rainy season! Our kids are mastering, really mastering
the science! I tell you guys, I will surely produce at least a few thousand siddhas just
through the gurukul in the next few years! Our Gurukul will be like a Harry Potter house!
Harry Potter, he does magic. Here, our gurukul kids, they will play with the different Mano
Siddhis!
Understand, one of the important qualities of the "vaasana" is, how much ever spiritual
awakening, spiritual inner awakening you may do for you, it will just give you one cup
of wine and make you sleep. Over! It will never allow you to proceed. The intranalyzed
cognition which is the prasada of the inner awakening will never be allowed to become
the immediate cognition; that is the power of "vaasana". The food you eat will never
become energy in your body; that is the power of the gas sitting in your stomach. Like gas
in the stomach will never allow food to be converted as energy, the intranalyzed cognition
which is the prasada of the inner awakening, your "vaasana" will never allow it to
become immediate cognition. Understand, the intranalyzed cognition becoming immediate
cognition is the work of the Guru. Guru's grace is required only there. But that can
happen only if you are completely non-violent, surrendering to the Guru. Because I expose
your "vaasanas" to you, you will experience so much of anger and violence towards the
Guru.
One of our Swamis was trying to train his brahmachari. This fellow, completely no integrity,no authenticity
Let all the intranalyzed cognitions become immediate cognition so that the "vaasanas"
Let all the intranalyzed cognitions become immediate cognition so that the "vaasanas"
are completed, Ishta Siddhi is achieved, postponing stops.