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Nithyanandeshwara Samaarambhaam Nithyanandeshwari Madhyamaam |
Asmath Aachaarya Paryanthaam Vandhey Guru Paramparaam ||
I welcome you all with my love and respects.
(HINDI)
Todayís subject for Nithya Satsangh: PRACTICE! PRACTICE! PRACTICE!
Yesterday I was attending the great WHY? today the great HOW!
(HINDI)
Listen! Please listen! How many of you are bored of going to the same office, living
in the same house, of course, with the same spouse, same lifestyle? Can you raise your
hand? With Integrity and Authenticity raise! (Some people raise their hands). Understand,
you need to know, No! Relax. I can say 99%! And the remaining people are lazy to raise
their hand, thatís all!
No, you need to understand, if you donít explore, you will end up in boredom. If you
are doing a job, if you donít explore the deeper and deeper dimensions of that job,
even if that job is paying billion dollar, you will be bored, you will donate everything
to charity and start doing charitable work, like Bill Gates! No! Bill Gates must have
been thoroughly disgusted and bored of life! It is the boredom made him donate all the
money to charity and doing the charitable work! Any field, whether it is your relationships,
business, even living with your body, if you are bored of same routine, you bring sickness
to your body, so that you have a change of routine. Many time, just for a change, you
bring disease to your body! It is
the truth. Listen!
Listen! Anything, anything, anything you donít explore will bore you.
(HINDI)
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If your so-called exciting things like money, profession, business, even sex, even all these
things can lead to boredom, then what about spiritual practice? If you donít explore,
this will also lead you to boredom! That is why, millions of unguided seekers, in the
name of meditation, everyday, sleep well! But that one good thing is happening! Because
even sleep has becomeÖÖpeople are bored of even sleeping! That is why sleeplessness!
Anything which you donít explore will bring boredom. That is why, sometime people are
terrorized about meditation. No, really! ëMeditation! Not for me!í As if they have been asked to
take poison! Meditation terrorizes them! ëNo, no! I will die by boredom!í
Listen! ëPracticeí means ëexploring the deeper dimensionsí. Listen! I am defining
Practice. Exploring deeper dimensions! I tell you, donít go to a person who is not exploring
deeper dimension for any purpose.
If you want to invest your money, go to a person only who is exploring the deeper dimensions
of, in the field of investment.
If you want health, go to doctors or institution which is constantly exploring the deeper dimensions
of health.
If you want legal services, go to a person exploring the deeper dimensions of law, different
aspects of law.
If you want to know spirituality, go to a person continuously exploring the deeper dimensions
of spirituality.
Practice has died! Even in the big companies, established companies, they will suddenly
sit and try to follow, get ideas from start-up companies. Because start-up companies has
a new brain, new blood!
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Listen! Listen! As long as you continue to explore, you continue to practice, you continue
to raise yourself, you will be alive; life will be oozing out in you. In any field, continuous
exploration keeps you alive. There is no such thing as ëtop personí. Who is the top person?
Who is still exploring is top person! Listen! Listen! Listen! Come back to listening, listening
space! In any field, people who explore, people who explore remain alive. Even in spirituality!
Yoga! I wanted Dhyanapeetam to be ever-practicing, alive, exploring.
(HINDI)
Understand! Get it! Get this truth! If you donít practice Authenticity, you will be
practicing slow suicide. There is only two ways of life: either you go on expanding you,
practicing Authenticity, exploring OR you will be practicing slow suicide. First, your
mind will say, ëOh, every morning I have to come for yoga, Paada Pooja, what is going
on?í Then you will come and sit, and do the yoga. I have seen people doing yoga. Yoga should be done as
bhoga, not as roga! Yoga should be done as an enjoyment, excitement, not as a roga, disease.
The excitement you radiate in your body, the whole bio-memory should be alive! Whole intelligence
should be alive, up! Practice constantly exploring, constantly exploring, constantly exploring!
If you are doing yoga, explore the different possibilities of your body. The ability to
bend, make your body strong, flexible. If you are sitting in paada pooja, explore your
emotions, heart.
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Somebody told me yesterday in the energy darshan, ëSwamiji, I have developed such an intimate,
close relationship with you through the computer watching your discourses. When I come near
you, see you, actually I feel distanced! Because, you know so many people by names, I feel they
are all getting your attention, not me!í In Hindu tradition there is a concept called
ìatma moorthyî ñ my own version of Shiva. Atma Linga. Means, He is just my version;
nobody else is allowed. That is the beauty of Hinduism!
Please understand, you can have your own version of God ñ that is atma moorthy. When you go
to temple, you cannot push your possessiveness on atma moorthy, on the temple deity. That
is for all! Understand! You can have your own laptop and screensaver with whom you talk
whole day and night. How many of you have that habit of talking to my photograph? (People
raise their hands). See! Great! Actually, it is called ìishta nishtaî. Leela Dhyana!
Bhagavatha acknowledges this process as a very powerful spiritual practice. That having
your own version of the Guru or God, and relating is a very powerful process! It is called ìLeela
Dhyanaî. Literally living with him!
What I did with my Ganesha; See my Ganesha ate. But I cannot go to the temple and make
that Ganesha eat. Because, the temple Ganesha belongs to whole world. I cannot tell the
temple Ganesha, ëI will put you in the well!í But, my own version of the Ganesha, I can
play with him. I can say, ëI will put you in the well!í I can do anything I want! I
tell you, with your atma moorthy the spiritual life starts. But you should take care you
donít lose that feeling connection when you go to the temple moorthy also. You should
understand temple moorthy has space for everyone!
The problem is, listen, problem is, in your inner space if you have one person, you donít
have place for anybody else! That is why you go on believing I am also like that! You are
a house connection; I am a transformer! Understand! In your house the electricity connection you
have you can use it only in your house. It cannot light up the whole city! But you cannot
have the same idea when you go to the transformer! You are a house connection; I am a transformer!
I have place for everyone!
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Listen! When you explore more and more, deeper and deeper dimension of your heart, life will
be so exciting, joyful! I have seen people who are lost during the Paada Pooja! Whole
day they will be so active, alive, because still they are in that feeling-connection,
they are exploring that feeling-connection. Still their honeymoon is not over! Still their
joy, their life, their devotion aspect is not over! Blessed are those whose feeling-connection
continues to explode, explode and explode! Unfortunate are those whose feeling-connection
ends, whose possibility for exploring ends!
I know if somebody sleeps during Paada Pooja, whole day his life is in hell; he is in depression!
Because, what else is there? Such beautiful moment if you are not able to explore your
heart! See, only if you have that attitude of that atma moorthy, having your own version
of me and talking to it, sometimes fighting with it; you cannot have one God for Paada
Pooja, one God for fighting. Both you have to do with one person only. Of course, he
hits back very strongly, donít worry! I will never be a victim just because you fight with
me. THU! I will give back! I am not going to be taking it. But, only with thatÖ.!
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In Narada Bhakti Sutras, there is a beautiful word, Naradaís aphorisms of bhakti explains
the spaces a devotee travels during the journey and how to keep the practice alive. How to
keep the bhakti kindled, rekindled, alive. I tell you, when the bhakti is alive, you
will see, continuously you are showered with miracles! Not only you have the problem, ëWhen
I am far away, I have such a strong feeling-connection; when I come near I have so much fear and feel
intimidated!í How many of you have this problem? Raise your hand! (People raise their hand).
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Even Meera had this problem! Andal had this problem! Meera had this problem! Andal had
this problem! But this is not a problem. It is like aÖ.when you get too many orders in
your industry and you are not able to supply that level, it is a right problem to have.
Understand! Wrong problem is not having any order and you are just empty! That is the
wrong problem! There are some problems which are right problems to have! This problem is
a right problem! So donít worry! But just because of this problem, donít allow the
feeling-connection to reduce. Continue with this Leela Dhyana. You will see the power
of your Leela Dhyana moves even the temple deity and makes the temple deity responds
to you as you want! See, temple deity shows as if it doesnít even know you and it doesnít
responds to you, just to see the depth of your Leela Dhyan! Whether still you will strengthen
your Leela Dhyan, or ëOh, you will not respond to me? Then I also donít care!í
ëIf you donít care, I donít care!í - is inauthentic attention-need! Not devotion or
love! ëWhether you care or not, I take the responsibility to build the bridge between
you and me!í is authentic devotion! Paada Pooja time is the space for exploring that
possibility. Exploring that possibility! Exploring that practice! Understand? Practice, Exploring,
keeps the possibilities alive!
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I used to do this. I used to have a Shiva Linga in the house and do pooja every day.
I have read in many of the saintsí lives, the flower they offer in the house doing Shiva
Pooja will be there suddenly on the temple deity! And the king will find out! And he
will call and recognize the great devotion of a devotee! We have lot of stories, you
see, like that. Poosalaar Naayanaar who built temple inside his visualization; Means, just
through his Leela Dhyaana!
God himself went and appeared and told the king, the temple king built, God said, ëDonít
do inauguration on that day; I am too busy in attending another one function.'
He said, ëWhat, what, what function?í
ëNo, I have given my appointment for attending the inauguration ceremony of the Poosalaarís
temple.í
As if God cannot attend both the functions at a time! He just wants the world to know,
the word moves the world! The space you carry can move the world!
I used to think. I used to play with that deity. And every day I select one particular
bael or flower and offer it to him; then run to the temple and see whether it is there
on the deity or not; whether it is there on the temple Shiva or not; whether it reached
him or not! I have never seen even once the same flower appearing there. But, I tell you,
that excitement and exploring of that Leela Dhyan has made me realize that the flower
I offered to my deity, it may not appear on the temple deity, but it has reached the main
deity itself!
Listen! Constantly exploring in every field you spend time, is ëPracticeí! If you are
spending one hour with your family, get to know each other! Not that you will be staring
at the TV and Facebook! Sit with others! Get to know each other! Explore the possibilities
of each other! How, one another can support the otherís fulfillment! Donít be like street
dogs! If you see the street dogs, even if they live together for seven years in the
same street, the way they relate is Grrrrrr! Grrrrr! Grrrr! Grrrr! That is their way of
saying Hello! Every morning this fellow wakes up and that fellow wakes up Grrrrrr! Grrrrrr!
No! Explore the other person! He may be your son, brother, sister, spouse, daughter, mother,
father. Listen!
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Exploring every dimension of your life for which you spend your time is ëPracticeí!
Even while you are attending your patient, if you are a doctor, you are attending a patient,
look at the whole patient. Donít say, ëI am a lung specialist! I am going to look at
only lungs! Let him have diarrhea and die! I donít care!í No, that is what all the
research scientists are doing! Do you know? I was studying. I wanted to do some scientific
researches and I wanted to record medically, scientifically the powers of meditation and
initiation, Kundalini awakening. Already I have proved that Alzheimers can be healed
by the Kundalini awakening by healing many patients. But I wanted to scientifically record.
So, I was studying the Alzheimer research field ñ the people who are doing research
on that Alzheimers, people who are doing research on Parkinsons ñ I was studying their papers
and their purpose, motto, vision, who is doing, how they are trying to record, how the trials
are done. You will be shocked! The only purpose of that people who are doing research on Alzheimers
is, they are saying, ëIf we somehow postpone Alzheimers, the Alzheimers and Parkinsons
death five yearsí, means, at least, five years they should not die of Alzheimers and
Parkinsons, ëthey will have some other disease and die! That is not our problem! The patients
will have in that five years some other disease and die! That is not our problem!í What a
narrow purpose, you see. And you call them as scientists and you believe them! Good punishment!
When the Vedic Rishis who can see the things holistically and who donít have any vested
interest, when they say, ëYou say, no, no, no, no, no! It is not scientific! It is all
old stuff! Mom, keep it for you! Donít put it on me!í You want to go for cool stuff
nah, go! All your cool stuff is fool stuff, understand? No, the very aim of these guys
is just to push the death through Alzheimers and Parkinsons five years more! It is all
boiling down to statistics and reports andÖ.! It isÖ.the aim is not to look at human-beings
as whole! If you just remove all the holes in the medical field, we will know Whole!
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Listen! So what these people who do research and pharmaceutical companies are doing? They
only push your death! They try their best to just push your death little away and make
sure that you donít die out of this disease! Thatís all! They want to just postpone the
onset of disease for which they have not yet come up with any cure, so that the patient
can get some other disease instead and die! That is life! That is life!
When you are attending a patient, look at him as whole! Expand your possibility. What
you mean for him, fulfill his anyakaara. Life will not be boring. If you think, ëWhy should
I fulfill his anyakaara?í, then die! Life will be boring! If you fulfill others anyakaara,
life will be exciting! If you fulfill only your own anyakaara, you will shrink, shrink,
shrink, and die in boredom!
In every step of life, explore. Exploring is ëPracticeí. Whether in your profession,
or relationships, spiritual practice, knowledge accumulation; if you are reading only your
syllabus, you are never going to be successful! You may pass exam, but you will not be successful!
The kid who is educated only in the school, is uneducated! Understand! This is the statement
of the day! The kid who is only educated in the school, is uneducated! Means, he has not
explored the possibilities of life. He has not explored the possibilities of life.
(HINDI)
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I have a story:
Patient comes to a doctor with cold.
Doctor says, ëStand outside in the snow at night for three days.í
Patient says, ëWonít I get Pneumonia if I do that?í
Doctor replies, ëBut you see, unlike the Common Cold, I know only how to cure Pneumonia!í
Because, the cure for Common Cold, he left it in choice in examination!
(HINDI)
Everything you do, even eating, if you donít explore the different possibilities, it will
be boring! Even sleeping, if you donít explore the depths of the sleep or decide to explore
the depths of the sleep, you will be so bored, you will start suffering with insomnia, sleeplessness!
As long as you continue to explore, you will be practicing life. As long as you practice
life, life practices you. Means, keeps you alive! When you stop practicing life, life
also feels you are useless; no need, no need to keep your body alive anymore!
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Practicing! Practicing! Practicing the different possibilities! Practicing every inch! Try
to
explore the different ways of dressing. Try to explore the different ways of brushing.
Every small, small things in your life, the small things like brushing your teeth, to
great things like sitting and unclutching for enlightenment, in everything, explore,
explore, explore. Exploring keeps the practice alive! When the practice is alive, you are
enlightened! Listen! Enlightenment is not end of the practice. When you learn to keep
the practice alive forever, you are enlightened! Keeping the practice alive is enlightenment.
(HINDI)
Exploring life is practice. Unfortunately you have been taught, you canít explore the
field of emotion, excitement; it has to come by itself, you cannot explore. No! You can
create anything, including your own consciousness, then why not your emotions? It is you who
create it! I am not born with devotion; I created it! Devotion is one of the best way
to be eternally excited in life. Devotion keeps you in eternal excitement. I donít
need anything. Just if I morning I go and see Nithyanandeshwara and the Banyan Tree,
I am excited. And this Bhairava, this fellow, the morning the moment he comes and sees me,
he is excited! He jumps all around! So understand, devotion keeps you eternally excited! Devotion
keeps you eternally excited! Understand this! That is why atheists are so boring, so dull,
colorless, dead!
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When I went to Melkote, I understood what devotion can create! God! He has created an
empire thousand years before in that dense forest, purely out of devotion! Understand,
just purely out of devotion! Only devotion creates! Devotion makes you explore deeper
and deeper dimensions of life. If the temple of that city or village, town is alive, I
can say, the collective mental health of the village is alive! The collective mental health
of the village can be measured only by the health of the temple, the way the temple is
functioning; because that is the symbol of the collective devotion, mental health, the
excitement of that village. Devotion excites you, helps you to explore the different possibilities
of life.
I tell you, I tell this as my command to Dhyanapeetam, Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam and my Sangha, in
every city, the way our temples function only will tell the way our devotees health and
the excitement to explore life. I can see very clearly; no, any temple, I can say that
the way the temple is flourishing very clearly will show the way those people are excited
in their life. I have seen all the successful temple heads are successful in their business,
in their profession, in their family, in their whole life; because devotion excites you to
explore life.
I give you this word, as long as you guys continue to build temples and run, you will
be alive. The day you stop building temples and stop running temples, you will be dead.
So, to keep yourself alive, continue to build temples. And keep it running, up alive, with
excitement!
The essence of todayís satsang is:
Explore! Explore! Explore, everything you do in your life, from brushing your teeth
to cleaning your garage, to sitting in unclutched space for enlightenment! In everything; for
whatever you spend time, spend your energy and explore it, so that you practice life,
you are excited about life, you are alive! This
is
the essence of todayís satsangh.
(HINDI)