3. Chapter 3 — Tṛtīyo’dhyāya (verses 236–352)

236

अथ काम्यजपस्थानꣳ कथयामि वराणने ।
सागरान्ते सरितीरे तीर्थे हरिहरालये ॥

atha kāmyajapasthānaṁ kathayāmi varāṇane ।
sāgarānte saritīre tīrthe hariharālaye ॥

237

शक्तिदेवालये गोष्ठे सर्वदेवालये शुभे ।
वटस्य धात्र्या मूले वा मठे वृइन्दावने तथा ॥

śaktidevālaye goṣṭhe sarvadevālaye śubhe ।
vaṭasya dhātryā mūle vā maṭhe vṛindāvane tathā ॥

238

पवित्रे निर्मले देशे निथ्यानुष्ठान्तो’पि वा ।
निर्वदनेन मौनेन जपमेतत् समारभेत् ॥

pavitre nirmale deśe nithyānuṣṭhānto’pi vā ।
nirvadanena maunena japametat samārabhet ॥

236-238. Now I shall tell, O Varānene, the suitable places where Guru Gītā can be recited with the intention of achieving one’s own desired objects. Seashore, near any river, any place of pilgrimage (tīrtha), temples of Viṣṇu or Śiva or Devī (hariharālaya, śaktidevālaya), cowsheds, all temples (sarvadevālaya), underneath a banyan tree (vat vṛkśa), Vṛindāvana (Kṛṣṇa’s forest of Vṛinda); in any pure place; the chanting of the Guru Gītā can be done. One should begin the chanting of this Gītā after performing one’s daily obligatory duties, observing silence and with a pure dispassionate heart.

239

जाप्येन जयमापनोति जप सिद्धिꣳ फलꣳ तथा ।
हीनꣳ कर्म त्यजेत्सर्वꣳ गर्हितस्थानमेव च ॥

jāpyena jayamāpanoti japa siddhiṁ phalaṁ tathā ।
hīnaṁ karma tyajetsarvaṁ garhitasthānameva ca ॥

239. By doing this chanting, one attains the success and the fruit of japa-siddhi undoubtedly. One should abandon all forbidden acts and also renounce forbidden places.

240

श्मशाने बिल्वमूले वा वट्मूलन्तिके तथा ।
सिद्ध्यन्ति कानके मूले चूतवृक्षस्य सन्निधौ ॥

śmaśāne bilvamūle vā vaṭmūlantike tathā ।
siddhyanti kānake mūle cūtavṛkṣasya sannidhau ॥

240. One should do the chanting (of Guru Gītā) in cremation grounds, under the bilva tree or a banyan (vaṭ) tree or a kanaka tree or near a mango tree for attainment of success.

241

पीतसनꣳ मोहने तु ह्यसितꣳ चाभिचारिके ।
ज्ञेयꣳ सुक्लꣳ च शान्त्यर्थꣳ वश्ये रक्तꣳ प्रकीर्तितम् ॥

pītasanaṁ mohane tu hyasitaṁ cābhicārike ।
jñeyaṁ suklaṁ ca śāntyarthaṁ vaśye raktaṁ prakīrtitam ॥

241. The practitioner should have yellow seat in cases of mohana, white seat for attaining peace and a red-colored seat in case of vaśya.

242

जपꣳ हीनासनꣳ कुर्वत् हीनकर्मफलप्रदम् ।
गुरुगीताꣳ प्रयाणे वा सꣳगृआमे रिपुसङ्कटे ॥

japaṁ hīnāsanaṁ kurvat hīnakarmaphalapradam ।
gurugītāṁ prayāṇe vā saṁgṛāme ripusaṅkaṭe ॥

243

जपन् जयमवाप्नोति जपन् मरणे मुक्तिदायिका ।
सर्वकर्माणि सिद्ध्यन्ति गुरुपुत्रे न सꣳशयः ॥

japan jayamavāpnoti japan maraṇe muktidāyikā ।
sarvakarmāṇi siddhyanti guruputre na saṁśayaḥ ॥

242-243. By doing the chant sitting on a forbidden seat, one attains the fruits of forbidden acts. By doing chant on deathbed one attains liberation. By repeating Guru Gītā at the time of undertaking a journey, in fights, and when faced with fear of enemies, one attains success. To him all acts give the desired fruits, and undoubtedly so, for the Guru’s son (Guru putra).

244

गुरुमन्त्रो मुखे यस्य तस्य सिद्ध्यन्ति नान्यथा ।
दक्षया सर्वकर्माणि सिद्ध्यन्ति गुरुपुत्रके ॥

gurumantro mukhe yasya tasya siddhyanti nānyathā ।
dakṣayā sarvakarmāṇi siddhyanti guruputrake ॥

244. To the person who has the Guru Mantra in his mouth, all acts become fruitful, otherwise not. By the power of initiation, the Guruputra (disciple) attains success in all actions. (In reality, the disciple is the real son of the Guru

245

• Gउरुपुत्र.) भवमूलविनाशाय च अष्टपाशा-निवृइत्त्ये ।
  गुरुगीताꣳभसि स्नानꣳ तत्त्वज्ञः कुरुते सदा ॥

- Guruputra.) bhavamūlavināśāya ca aṣṭapāśā-nivṛittye ।
gurugītāṁbhasi snānaṁ tattvajñaḥ kurute sadā ॥

245. For the destruction of the root (and branch) of saṁsāra (bhava) and for the destruction of the eight kinds of attachments, the knower of Truth always takes bath in the waters of the Guru Gītā.

246

स एवम् सद्गुरुः साक्षात् सद्सद्ब्रह्मवित्तमः ।
तस्य स्थानानि सर्वाणि पवित्रणि न सꣳशयः ॥

sa evam sadguruḥ sākṣāt sadsadbrahmavittamaḥ ।
tasya sthānāni sarvāṇi pavitraṇi na saṁśayaḥ ॥

246. He is the real Guru, Sadguru, who is the knower of the Sat (Truth) and Asat (untruth). All His places are pure and holy, of this there is no doubt. I am the glory of my gurus Actually I am glory of my Gurus. I am just the statement expressing my Gurus’ glories. I am forty two now. Last twenty six years we have photos and videos of me sitting whole day in padmāsana, and taking classes, and jumping, whirling. This is the glory of my Yoga Guru - Yogananda Puri, who prepared my body, and I am going to live at least two hundred years just to glorify my Yoga Guru. His sincere hard work, just to glory him, I am going to be using this body for two hundred years happily, healthily. Each of my Gurus, they poured their life on me. The clarity with which I can grasp all the great spiritual principles and explain is because of my ability to unclutch which is the pure gift from Annamalai Swamigal. It is just a simple gift from him. My ability to operate in Sahaja Samādhi, space of Paramashiva - gift from Isakki Swamigal. All my Gurus’ glory is only my life. My ability to be in Ajapa Japa state: I can actually keep the japamālā whole night, even if you think I am sleeping, the mala will be rolling in my hand continuously. That is the gift given to me by Yogi Ramsuratkumar. He is the Ajapa Japa Puruṣa. He is actually the embodiment of Ajapa Japa. He gave me the gift of Ajapa Japa.

247

सर्वशुद्धः पव्रित्रो’सौ स्वभावाद्यत्र तिष्टःअति ।
तत्र देवगणाः सर्वे क्षेत्रपीटःए चरन्ति च ॥

sarvaśuddhaḥ pavritro’sau svabhāvādyatra tiṣṭḥati ।
tatra devagaṇāḥ sarve kṣetrapīṭḥe caranti ca ॥

247. Wherever the ever-pure Guru stays of His own accord, there all the Devas (Gods) and Gaṇas (divine attendants of Śiva) stay. They move about the kṣetra-pīṭḥa, the place of the residence of the Guru.

248

आसनस्थाः शयाना वा गच्छन्तस्तिष्ठन्तो’पि वा ।
आश्वारूढा गजारूढाः सुषुप्ता जागृअतो’पि वा ॥

āsanasthāḥ śayānā vā gacchantastiṣṭhanto’pi vā ।
āśvārūḍhā gajārūḍhāḥ suṣuptā jāgṛato’pi vā ॥

249

शुचिभूत ज्ञानवन्तो गुरुगीता जपन्ति ये ।
तेषाम् दर्शनसꣳस्पर्शात् दिव्यज्ञानꣳ प्रजायते ॥

śucibhūta jñānavanto gurugītā japanti ye ।
teṣām darśanasaṁsparśāt divyajñānaṁ prajāyate ॥

248-249. One attains knowledge by the sight or touch of those pure souls endowed with wisdom who repeat Guru Gītā while seated, lying, moving, standing, mounted on horseback or elephant back, waking or sleeping.

250

समुद्रे वै यथा तोयꣳ क्षीरे क्षीरम् जले जलम् ।
भिन्ने कुम्भे यथाकाशꣳ तथा’आत्मा परमात्मनि ॥

samudre vai yathā toyaṁ kṣīre kṣīram jale jalam ।
bhinne kumbhe yathākāśaṁ tathā’ātmā paramātmani ॥

251

तथैव ज्ञानवान् जीवः परमात्मनि सर्वदा ।
एक्येन रमते ज्ञानी यत्र कुत्र दिवानिशम् ॥

tathaiva jñānavān jīvaḥ paramātmani sarvadā ।
ekyena ramate jñānī yatra kutra divāniśam ॥

252

एवꣳविधो महायुक्तः सर्वत्र वर्तते सदा ।
तस्मात्सर्वप्रकारेण गुरुभक्तिꣳ समाचरेत् ॥

evaṁvidho mahāyuktaḥ sarvatra vartate sadā ।
tasmātsarvaprakāreṇa gurubhaktiṁ samācaret ॥

250-252. The Ātman becomes one with the Paramātman, just as river water becomes one with the water in the ocean, milk with milk or pot-ether with Mahākāśa. So also, the man of knowledge lives in constant union with the Supreme all day and night. Thus united with Mahāyoga, he exists in all places at all times. Therefore, by all means one should practise Gurubhakti—devotion to Guru.

253

गुरुसन्तोषनादेव मुक्तो भवति पार्वति ।
अणिमादिषु भोक्ततृत्वꣳ कृप्या देवि जायते ॥

gurusantoṣanādeva mukto bhavati pārvati ।
aṇimādiṣu bhoktatṛtvaṁ kṛpyā devi jāyate ॥

253. O Pārvati, one becomes free by pleasing the Guru. O Devī, by His grace (Guru-kṛipā), one becomes entitled to enjoy the eightfold Siddhis, the eight extraordinary mystic powers (aṣtamāsiddhis). Miracles – a play of divinity Someone asked me, “Can you please explain what part divinity plays in a miracle? You say miracles happen. Does divinity make them happen? What are you referring to as divinity?” Normally you understand three things - the person who does, second is the act and the third is the result - the doer, the act and the result. All these three things can be understood as three separate things only logically, that is, in this normal plane. In the ultimate plane of reality there are no three different things. Here you are asking what part divinity plays in miracle. The very miracle itself is a divinity. When you ask this question, you are asking for cause, effect and the act - whether divinity is the cause, the act or the effect. In the language of divinity, these three different things do not exist. Normally if I have to raise my hand, first the brain has to give the order, the order has to be carried to the hand and the hand has to act. In the language of normal human beings, these three things have to exist- head, hand and command. But in divinity all the three are one and the same and do not exist separately. So the very divinity is a miracle. Many people come and ask me who created the world. There is no creator. Please be very clear, Existence itself created. The universe is a self-created thing. The very creation itself is a creator. It is an Intelligence, continually being created. It is a little difficult to understand. It is just the ‘creating’, the process is continuously going on because of its own intelligence. There are no three things - creator, creation and created. There is just creating - a self-expression of intelligence. So in any miracle, the miracle itself is divine. The cause for miracle is divinity, the happening is divinity and the result is also divinity.

254

साम्येन रमते ज्ञानी दीवा वा यदि वा निशि ।
एवꣳविधो महामौनी त्रैलोक्य-समताꣳ वृजेत् ॥

sāmyena ramate jñānī dīvā vā yadi vā niśi ।
evaṁvidho mahāmaunī trailokya-samatāṁ vṛjet ॥

254. The Jñānī remains in and enjoys the Bliss of equanimity, be it day or night. Thus, the Mahāmounī, the great silent one, acquires the state of equanimity (samataṁ) in the three worlds.

255

अथ सꣳसारिणः सर्वे गुरुगीताजपेन तु ।
सर्वान् कामाꣳस्तु भुञ्जन्ति त्रिसत्यꣳ मम भाषितम् ॥

atha saṁsāriṇaḥ sarve gurugītājapena tu ।
sarvān kāmāṁstu bhuñjanti trisatyaṁ mama bhāṣitam ॥

255. By the recitation again and again of Guru Gītā, the people of the world (saṁsāris) will attain all their desired results. Whatever I have said, O Pārvati, is true.

256

सत्यꣳ सत्यꣳ पुनः सत्यꣳ धर्मसारꣳ मयोदितम् ।
गुरुगीतासमꣳ स्त्रोत्रꣳ नास्ति तत्त्वꣳ गुरोः परम् ॥

satyaṁ satyaṁ punaḥ satyaṁ dharmasāraṁ mayoditam ।
gurugītāsamaṁ strotraṁ nāsti tattvaṁ guroḥ param ॥

256. It is Truth. It is Truth. It is again the Truth. Whatever is declared by Me in this connection is the essence of dharma. There is no stotra (devotional hymn) equal to Guru Gītā and there is no truth greater than the Guru Tattva. Tyaga of Guru Tattva Tyaga of Guru Tattva. Let me define Tyaga. Using conscious decision-making power to give great breakthroughs to your DNA's natural selection process and make your DNA take a quantum jump to the next level is Tyaga. Listen, I will repeat. For example, say you decide to sacrifice taste, eat only for keeping the body alive, energetic, I tell you, please understand the statement I am making is a real Truth. If you decide to sacrifice taste, your very DNA learns to live with the natural renewable energies like air, sun rays; it starts producing starch and energy, converting the sugar to energy directly from space. Please understand, digesting, converting sugar into energy, that whole process, that mechanism, that DNA is same in tree and you. What I am talking about is not only from the Vedas and Agamas, shastra pramana, it is even from pratyaksha pramana, science, and from my own atma pramana. Understand, when I decided to sacrifice taste, I started living on begged food. That is the best way to sacrifice taste, because when you beg and eat nobody is going to give you for your taste, they are going to give you only for your stomach, for your survival and you can't choose; what is offered you are going to eat. I tell you, any person who lives by begging lives longer than any fellow who is given the food freely as he wants. I challenge, and I guarantee this statement I am making is truth. The person who is given the free choice and free supply of food and the person who lives by begging, I guarantee the person who lives by begging at least lives twice as much. A person who renounces taste, lives by begging, who does not have a choice, who eats what is offered lives at least twice as the fellow who is given free food as he wants, when he wants delivered on his table. Listen, when the taste is sacrificed, your body starts developing, your DNA starts developing subtle capabilities to live not only with minimum food but also with renewable energy. So naturally you go on renewing the source for your existence. I tell you, food is the worst, last way of recharging your body. The best way of recharging your body I tell you, the best way of renewing your body, energizing, is sweet visualization. The moment you wake up from the bed, sit and celebrate the sweetest visualizations of your life. The bhava you established with your God and Guru, celebrate and enjoy, fantasize for a few minutes. I tell you, bhava is the most powerful, best way of rejuvenating your body. That is the best source of energy to make yourself energetic. The second is mantra, third is pranayama, fourth - liquid, last only is solid diet; never non-vegetarian or diet chemical products. The best way to recharge yourself, rejuvenate yourself is having the most sweetest intimate visualizations. If you feel you neither have Guru, nor have God, even loving memories with your spouse or with your boyfriend or girlfriend is ok. That’s the next level but that is ok. The second way of rejuvenating the system is powerful words, verbalizations, mantra chanting. Third: pranayama - the restrained, controlled, trained breathing. I tell you, every time you hold the prana and do the kumbhaka, your DNA gets the breakthrough. It starts learning to survive. It develops multiple abilities and capabilities. Understand, how one cell started going through the mutation process with the natural selection, started recognizing the sunlight, then started recognizing colors, then started seeing visuals and evolved as eyes, in the same way every time you do pranayama, your internal organs goes through a powerful quantum breakthrough in the natural selection process of your DNA. Fourth way of rejuvenating yourself is liquids. Last is only solid. So, I tell you, when I started dropping the idea of taste, I had the best life as I begged and ate. The healthiest period of my life is when I was begging and eating. And now I have decided to almost drastically reduce the food intake. Last few months very rarely I had a full meal. I brought down my food intake to almost 10 percent, I increased the liquid intake. The solid quantity is brought down to 10 percent. I tell you, I can see the whole DNA getting awakened to the next level, the natural selection process going through such a quantum leap. And I am telling you in every level you can do tyaga - start sleeping under the sky, reduce the thickness of your mattress, start living with minimal clothes. Don't try wildly. Supporting the natural selection process of your DNA to have a quantum jump, tyaga, conscious decision helps like anything. In every level tyaga makes your DNA take a quantum jump. And same way I tell you, when your body is filled with sexual hormones, especially when your body is getting sexually matured, between 14 to 21 if you do that tyaga of sex, I tell you, you will build the best body and mind and the kind of the natural selection process your DNA will go through and the kind of a system you will build, you will have an amazing capacity to receive information, process and make decisions. Something called dhee, medha, buddhi, gets awakened in your system. Brain develops the most subtle grooves which receives information from multiple directions, processes them and reveals the reality and gives you the decisions. I tell you, any one who renounces sex and sexual fantasies between 14 to 21, your DNA will go through its natural selection process with a quantum jump. It knows what kind of a jump it needs to take, especially the cognition with which you sacrifice sex, that powerful cognition will attract multiple powerful cognitions from cosmos and insert all of those powerful conscious decision making in your cognition, in your conscious decision-making system. You will create such an amazing body. That is why celibacy between 14 to 21 is called science of living like God - Brahmacharya. When that whole gushing happens, your internal organs, intra-organs, everything, develops the way it is going to respond. It is almost like your inner software gets written in those 7 years. During that time, tyaga of sex does something extraordinary to your body, internal organs, intra-organs and superconsciousness. In my Gurukul, tyaga should be added under the classification of science, not moral. It’s a science of living, not moral of living. No! The best body, best mind, you manifest tyaga. When I say wake up in brahma muhurta 4:30 to 6 AM, give up your sleep, that tyaga makes your DNA develop in the natural selection process, choose, take a quantum jump, which will make your brain never fall into a coma. You will be alive and aware even when you go into dream, deep sleep and even when you leave the body. Icchamrutyutva - death by Will - is given to you if you wake up in brahma muhurta. Anybody wakes up in brahma muhurta, eats sun's energy, suryakiranas, the gift of Sun in the early morning sunrise time in the form of the energy He gives and the light He showers, is given icchamrutyutva. Understand, between 7 to 14, the body develops; unfortunately nowadays, even by 10 boys and girls become physically mature. So, when I say 14 to 21, I meant in those days. If I have to precisely tell, from the time you are physically matured to 21. That’s the way I should put it. Because nowadays kids become physically matured due to the altered food and various reasons and social pressure to become sexually active, all that stupidity; by 10 they become sexually mature. From the time you become sexually matured till 21, every time you sacrifice the pleasure and visualization of sexual experience, on multiple levels, not only not allowing the pleasure, not allowing the fantasy, not allowing the pornography being fed into your system, if you just do tyaga of sex completely, your DNA in the natural selection process takes a quantum jump and selects next level. That develops a very powerful ability to cognize the Existence, because the sexual hormones are the most powerful hormones. When you are able to do tyaga of the instincts invoked in you by the sexual hormones, you develop certain energy, strength, grooves in your brain and the whole system goes beyond the normal, survival, multiplication, instinct based existence. See, unfortunately, this survival and reproduction, this instinct based existence is animalistic existence. It is the tyaga you do at that time that makes you Divine. Understand, I am not saying be celibate for whole life. I am saying be celibate just between the time you have become physically matured to 21. That does a very powerful transformation. It gives you the maturity to handle relationships. You become responsible for the other person, being; you will not be silly, exploiting in your relationships. I tell you, whenever you exploit the other person in your relationship, it looks so silly. How long do you think you can hide this silliness? Everyone is silly enough to realize others are silly. So, you can't hide your silliness if you are silly. Just realize, being royal, elite, matured is the only way to exist. I can see very clearly that people who are not active in enriching and causing, even in my sangha, they destroy their life because then you try to become a fox; if you don’t become lion, you become a fox. When you don’t deliver you start getting all the techniques and ideas and methodology how to cheat, how to lie. Then naturally Kalabhairava doesn't let you survive, let you live in Kailash and you run away; that’s it. Because Kailash is the place guarded by Kalabhairava only for the elite and matured souls can live in Kailash. Tyaga matures your soul, your existence. Every level I tell you, celibacy between the physical maturity time and 21 really matures your system. Building the system with which you are going to live your whole life is done when you have the tyaga between the physical maturity and 21. And I tell you, the most authentic, best way to run a Gurukul is, everyday the kids should go for unjavritthi - collect, come back, cook that and share and eat. Unfortunately now in India you cannot practice Hinduism. That’s the problem. Otherwise, if I am given complete freedom, I will give golden thrones for my kids to sit and meditate and do puja or sit and teach this great science to the world. But I will tell them to go everyday for morning bhiksha, come back and eat that. Golden throne is different, asking them to beg and eat is different. I tell you, when they beg and cook and eat and live with that, they develop the quality such they are ready to sit in the golden throne and teach this science to the whole world. When I have a place where Hinduism has social and religious, political legitimacy, all the Gurukul kids, every morning, after the puja and satsang will go round and have madhukari bhiksha, come and cook what was offered, renounce the idea of taste and mix the whole thing, share with all the kids and eat. That is the best way of building the DNA where you cannot plan for your meal. You know food will be given for your survival, for your rejuvenation, not for your tongue. I tell you, fortunately I had an amazing mother who loved my real purpose and who loved my soul; not stupidly pampering the body and destroying the DNA. She loved my soul, she always listened to my Gurus. From the beginning that idea of taste never was part of my life. Whatever was given, food is for the stomach, that’s it. I tell you, if a kid is brought up in this way till 21, he will be literally like Shiva, Rudra, Kalabhairava, incarnation, little Paramashiva; sweet, cute little Paramashiva; because the best body, best internal organ, best intra-organ, best Consciousness the kid will be carrying. So, when I get social, cultural, political legitimacy to practice Hinduism in some place, in that place the Gurukul will be like this only. Kids will be made to understand scientifically; experientially they will be taught when you deny sexual instincts gushing in your system and do tyaga, see what happens to your DNA, how the DNA's natural selection process takes a quantum jump and develops the most subtle powerful grooves to receive and process and cognize information. I will scientifically demonstrate it to them and make them understand and do the tyaga. Understand, when I say reduce the quantity of food and sacrifice taste, that’s the best way to live long, it’s not that I am talking only about shastra pramana, Vedas and Agamas. No! Modern day science says whenever they put people in fasting, controlled fasting, supported fasting, they are living a long time. All Hindu religious fasting is supported fasting, controlled fasting, not denial of food, but supporting your DNA to rejuvenate itself. I tell you, when the DNA learns and does the natural selection process and takes a quantum jump and starts rejuvenating, recharging itself from the space, air, water and fire elements, it starts not only living healthy life, it lives for a long time; because these are renewable energies, continuously available. Beautifully the great saint, Thiruvalluvar Nayanar says, (he is one of the Saiva saints, His book Thirukural was part of Shaivite literature, he was culturally raped by the atheist terrorists of TamilNadu and his identity was stolen and he was put to controversy and shown as if he doesn’t belong to Hinduism), marundhena vendavan aakaiku arunthiyathu atrathu pottri uni “Your body does not need any medicine if you eat only after confirming that whatever you ate, everything has left your system.” One meal if you take, it takes 3 days for it to completely leave your system. So, 1 meal in 3 days is the best way to live. Scientific American magazine elaborately describes how intermittent fasting might help you live a longer and healthier life. Not only is it the apta pramana of the great saint Thiruvalluvar, it is also the pratyaksha pramana of Scientific American journal. I tell you, in every level tyaga makes your DNA's natural selection process take a quantum jump and makes you evolve as Paramashiva. Do not think tyaga is moral science. It is life science. Practicing tyaga is equivalent to living in the physical presence of Guru. If somebody practices tyaga in every dimension, you are already living in my physical presence; you are having the quantum jump in the natural selection process of your DNA. Tyaga was lifestyle of the elite in Hindu tradition. The elite, cream of the society, Brahmanas, lived as tyagis; they don't own property, they live by unjavritthi, means everyday begging, madhukari bhiksha. Like how the bee goes to every flower and collects honey, like that going to every home and collecting food is called madhukari bhiksha; means, idea of taste is not only denied, forgotten. Collect everything, come and mix, cook and share with all the people who are living with you and the animals who are living with you and eat. Of course, offer it to Lord Paramashiva, make that as prasadam and eat. If I get in some country social and political legitimacy to run a Gurukul, I will run a Gurukul exactly like this; because I know the benefit of it. This is not to not spend money on the kids. No! But it is to make the best DNA for the kids, making the best body and mind for them. I tell you, in every level tyaga makes your DNA's natural selection process take a quantum jump and raises you to the level of manifesting state, space, powers, being and Consciousness of Paramashiva.

257

गुरुर्देवो गुरुर्धर्मो गुरौ निष्ठा परꣳ तपः ।
गुरोः परतरꣳ नास्ति त्रिवारꣳ कथयानि ते ॥

gururdevo gururdharmo gurau niṣṭhā paraṁ tapaḥ ।
guroḥ parataraṁ nāsti trivāraṁ kathayāni te ॥

257. Guru is God. Guru is Dharma. The greatest penance (tapa) is niṣṭha, unshakable one-pointed integrity to the Guru. There is nothing superior to Guru or beyond the Guru. I repeat this three-times.

258

धन्या माता पिता धन्यो गोत्रꣳ धन्यꣳ कुलोद्भवः ।
धन्या व वसुधा देवि यत्र स्याद्गुरुभक्तता ॥

dhanyā mātā pitā dhanyo gotraṁ dhanyaṁ kulodbhavaḥ ।
dhanyā va vasudhā devi yatra syādgurubhaktatā ॥

258. Blessed is the mother, blessed is the father and blessed is the family community and tradition, blessed is the Earth, O Devi, where there is Guru Bhakta (Guru devotee). The Enlightenment Ecosystem of Tiruvannamalai I will explain few things which happened before my enlightenment experience. You will understand exactly the reason why this happened in me. First thing, it all started with Annamalai Swamigal telling, “We are not the body. We are beyond the body”. He started teaching Ramana Maharshi’s teachings and I ran home and wanted to check how we can be beyond the body and beyond pains and sufferings. I took the shaving razor razor and literally cut my thigh. Of course, there was bleeding. My mother saw and immediately rushed me to the hospital. The family doctor, Dr Karunanidhi, had to put almost thirteen stitches to stop the bleeding. He did medically what needed to be attended to and then he told in front of me to my parents, “This is not an accidental cut. He has purposely done it because so deep, so long accidentally you cannot cut. Ask him why he did it.” So they started investigating why I did it. The doctor even had the doubt whether it was a suicide attempt; then I explained the whole thing to my mother and father and to the doctor, “Annamalai Swamigal told, we don’t have pain; and I just wanted to check whether I have pain or not. So I cut myself and to see whether I have pain and suffering or not”. Neither my mother nor my father was angry with Annamalai Swamigal. They did not have a single ill-feeling to my Guru Annamalai Swamigal. For my mother I am literally life, not only now even in those days. My father and mother, both of them know the purpose of their life is to give birth to me and protect me and make me flower. Once my father saw I had already fully flowered and started my mission, he just relaxed and left the body. Understand, they know their lives’ purpose is me flowering. So they were so protective of me. But the moment they heard the whole story, my mother said, “Andha Saami solli irundha thappu irukadhu kanna. Adha naama dhan thappa purinjitu irundirupom. Avar kittaye kekalam. Aah, enna avanga sonnaga, nee enna purinjikiteenganu avar kitaye kekalam kanna” - if that Swamiji Annamalai Swami said there will be nothing wrong. We will ask him what he said and what you understood. We will just find out and attend to that. We will try to understand what Annamalai Swamigal said - that was my mother’s first response. My father said, “Bandage ellam potuko kanna, aprama appa Saami kitta kootitu poren, avar kitta kekalam aah” - So first let us do all this first aid, medically what needs to be attended then I will take you to Annamalai Swamigal and get clarity. The doctor who attended to me, he is literally part of my family; his house drinking water would be taken from my house. He was a very good loving person, very caring person. He never took money from my family for any medical care; even for other villagers he would charge maximum ten rupees. Understand, the doctor’s response was, “Kanna, unga Saami solli irundhanganna thappa onnum solli iruka maatanga, namma epdi purinjikitomnu theriyala. Avanga kitta poi pesi paapom. Kattayam Saami solli nee thappa purinjite cut panni irundha kooda, avanga sari paniduvanga kavalaipadadhe - Kanna, your Saami wouldn’t tell something wrong to you. We don’t know how we understood. We shall go and talk to him. Even if you had misunderstood and cut yourself he would correct it. Don't worry. Understand, what the great ecosystem, Arunachala, gave me - not only my father or mother did not have any ill-feeling; but the powerful cognition, “I don’t have any question about my Pati (God and Guru). I will not question Pati. I will only question Pasu and Pasa. I will only question me and the Maya, delusion. I will never question Pati, my Guru.” My father was telling, “Let’s finish this first aid band-aid. I will take you to Swamiji and let us ask Swamiji more details of what he was telling you and teaching you.” My mother was consoling me, “If that Swamiji had said something, there will not be any wrong. We only would have misunderstood. Let us ask that Swamiji more details of what Swamiiji was trying to teach you”. If I had even one poison around me, they would have stopped me going to Annamalai Swamigal. Actually after this cut, I started going to him more regularly everyday. Neither my father nor my mother or the doctor put any ill-feelings about my Guru to me nor they even tried to slow me down, keep me away from my Guru. My father was telling, “Eh, let us finish the band-aid Kanna. Kattu pottukkita udane, na Saami kitta kootitu poren, avar peslam kanna, avar keppor” - After tying the bandage, I will take you to the Saami and we shall talk to him. He was just waiting for the doctor to finish the band-aid and then the doctor was telling, “I also did not see that Swamiji for many days. I will also come, let us go and meet, and have darshan of Swamiji.” Understand; when we went to Annamalai Swamigal, my mother was having tears but not even one small ill feeling towards my Guru. It was all about I did not understand fully, I misunderstood something and did this mess up. What a mother and what a father and what a doctor and what an ecosystem! My street knows that Annamalai Swamigal gave me some spiritual instruction. I went and cut myself; not even one person had one ill feeling for Annamalai Swamigal. Forget about having any bad words for Annamalai Swamigal, not even ill-feeling. Not a single fellow even thought of coming and telling me, “Why do you go to that Swami? Because of him, you cut your thighs and you have so much pain and thirteen stitches. What would have happened if you did not cut the thigh, you just cut the neck?”.Not even one person tried to have one thought against Annamalai Swamigal, my Guru or trying to even stop me going to my Guru regularly. It is not that people don’t care about me. For many people I am their favourite. I was literally like how Bala Krishna was treated by the Brindavanavasis. Same way, that whole Tiruvannamalai village and my community celebrated me. I tell you, all of them love me so much but neither they had this thought nor they told me or even tried to stop me indirectly. My father could have said, “No, no, no. First you attend, take the treatment and get well. Later on we will see when we should see that Swamiji. We will see later on. Now no hurry”. He said, “First, let us finish the bandage. Immediately I will take you to Swamiji”. What an ecosystem! Immediately after the... that band-aid, I was taken to Annamalai Swamigal. Anna... to Annamalai Swamigal I bowed down and said, “Saami, Saami, cut pannikiten. Konjam valiya dhan irukku neenga sonneenga naama vali yellam illa, naama udambuku appala nu, konjam purira madiri sollunga Saami”. I went and asked him, “I cut My thigh and there is a pain. You said that there will not be any pain and we are beyond body and mind. Can you explain more detail?”. He is a Paramashanta Svarupa. He is... he is not the person to react, and he just... a light smile on his face and then he started explaining with lot of care and he looked at the doctor, Karunanidhi doctor and doctor said, “Ah… it’s all treated and under the control. He will become alright”. He said… only said, “Romba neelama kilichikitan Saami. 13 thaiyal pottu iruken, adhu sariyaidum, oru 15 naal la sariaidum”. I cut very deeply and long. It was a 13 stitches he has to make, to stop the bleeding. “Intense guy”, he is saying. Not only none of My relatives, family people had ill-feeling to Annamalai Swamigal, they did not even stop Me going to My Guru. Then next, the most important thing is Kuppammal, My godmother, My Guru, Gurumata. She is not only My Guru, she is literally My grandmother means My father’s mother’s close friend. Both of them were only the... very close thick friends and both of them are initiated into Sri Vidya Sampradaya by Isakki Swamigal. Both of them were great Yoginis. They were running a team, a group “Abhidabujam…” in the name of Abhidabujambal, the Parashakti. Parashakti’s name in Tiruvannamalai is Abhidabujambal. Kuppammal is president of that team and My grandmother is the vice president, so they were very intimate, thick friends literally, same family and Kuppammal, “Eh, vidra. Enda periyanvanga enna sonnalum adha vaalkaila test panni pakardhu nu panrala, idhu podhum da, ellathaiyum sadhichiruva da ne, vidra”, (Eh, just let it go. Whatever your elders say you test it for yourself in your life, this is enough, you will achieve everything) that’s all; means, she was actually encouraging Me to experiment whatever My Gurus are teaching. You can see this photograph, one circle is my Guru - Kuppammal, another one circle is my grandmother, and the third circle is me sitting. This a small building my Gurus have built for me. One of the most beautiful thing, I had many Gurus. None of them are possessive of Me. Everyone was trying to support Me, enrich Me, make Me flower. Kuppammal will call every specialist, expert in different, different fields like a Kuppammal’s relative is Narayana Swami Thata who is adept in the power manifestation science and Mantra Shastra, herbal Aushadha science. She will call him regularly and make sure I learn everything from him. She had many of that kind of contact, the great enlightened beings, Siddhas adepts in various fields. She will get all of them and make sure I receive all the knowledge, and I am enriched; never possessive. She always owned Me and made Me successful, never possessed Me or controlled Me. She will only protect Me from anti-spiritual elements coming near Me. But as far as the spiritual science she will get every best things and provide for Me; and she will make sure when every day I meet whoever I need to meet whether Ramswarat Kumar, Annamalai Swamigal. She had her own schedule and internal mechanism kind of a thing, support system. It was literally like a university, spiritual university. Arunachala is living spiritual university. She will make sure I learn the Shaiva Siddhanta from Pandurangan, Panduranganar, My Shaiva Siddhanta Acharya. There was one elderly woman Kanakambaal, Kanakammal, she is the disciple of Ramana Maharshi. She wrote commentary on all the Ramana Maharshi’s works. So Kuppammal will make sure I learn all the lessons from Kanakammal and Annamalai Swamigal, Sadhu Om. I tell you, that whole ecosystem! Oh God!

259

आकल्पजन्मकोतीनाꣳ यज्ञ-वृअत-तपः-क्रियाः ।
तः सर्वाः सफला देवि गुरुसन्तोष-मात्रतः ॥

ākalpajanmakotīnāṁ yajña-vṛata-tapaḥ-kriyāḥ ।
taḥ sarvāḥ saphalā devi gurusantoṣa-mātrataḥ ॥

259. O Devī, by the mere satisfaction of the Guru, all penances, sacrifices, austerities, etc., practiced in crores of births, in crores of Kalpas (ages) become fruitful. Power of Aushadha Just by Aushadha, I have seen my Gurus transmitting powers to me. Just by Aushadha, they raised the frequency in which I exist. They would just transmit, transform my frequency and transmit enlightenment experience. It’s too much actually. I have seen this thing done by my Gurus. And I want you to know one important thing, the Hindu medicinal system has absolutely no side effect. It has multiple internal branches. We call it Siddha, Ayurveda, but actually the fundamental science is one and the same. If it is practice based on the different zones, the different words are used. That’s all, nothing else. I have studied at least a hundred medicines. Literally exactly the same will be in Tamil Nadu Siddha tradition, and Kerala Ayurveda, Calcutta Bengal Ayurveda, and Uttar Pradesh Ayurveda, and Gujarat Ayurveda. At least a hundred examples I can give. And I was wondering why the different names. It is just the language, local language, the medicines availability; based on all that, there are differences.

260

शरीरमिन्द्रियꣳ प्राणश्चार्थः स्वजन्बन्धुता ।
मतृकुलꣳ पितृकुलꣳ गुरुरेव न सꣳशय ॥

śarīramindriyaṁ prāṇaścārthaḥ svajanbandhutā ।
matṛkulaṁ pitṛkulaṁ gurureva na saṁśaya ॥

260. The body, the senses, the vital life energy (prāṇa), wealth, one’s own relatives, the mother’s clan, the father’s clan - all those are present in one’s Guru. There is not the least doubt about this.

261

मन्दभाग्या ह्यशक्ताश् च ये जना नानुमन्वते ।
गुरुसेवासु विमुखाः पच्यन्ते नरके’शुचौ ॥

mandabhāgyā hyaśaktāś ca ye janā nānumanvate ।
gurusevāsu vimukhāḥ pacyante narake’śucau ॥

261. The unfortunate, the powerless, those who have turned their faces against the enriching service of the Guru, Gurusevā, who do not avail the opportunity of service of Guru, these persons suffer in terrible hells.

262

विद्या धनꣳ बलꣳ चैव तेषाꣳ भाग्यꣳ निरर्थकम् ।
येषाꣳ गुरुकृपा नास्ति अधो गच्छन्ति पार्वति ॥

vidyā dhanaṁ balaṁ caiva teṣāṁ bhāgyaṁ nirarthakam ।
yeṣāṁ gurukṛpā nāsti adho gacchanti pārvati ॥

263

ब्रह्मा विष्णुश्च रुद्रश्च देवताः पितृअकिन्नराः ।
सिद्ध-चारण-यक्षाश्च अन्ये च मुनयो जनाः ॥

brahmā viṣṇuśca rudraśca devatāḥ pitṛakinnarāḥ ।
siddha-cāraṇa-yakṣāśca anye ca munayo janāḥ ॥

262-263. Learning, wealth, strength, high fortune - all these are of no use without the grace of Guru, Gurukṛpā. Even if one has attained the status of Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Rudra, Devatās (Gods), Pitṛas (ancestors), Kinnaras, Siddhas (perfect beings), Cāraṇas, Yakṣas or even great Munis, (without Gurukṛipā) he falls down.

264

गुरुभावः परꣳ तीर्थमन्यर्थꣳ निरर्थकम् ।
सर्वतीर्थमयꣳ Dएवि श्रीगुरोश् चरणाम्बुजम् ॥

gurubhāvaḥ paraṁ tīrthamanyarthaṁ nirarthakam ।
sarvatīrthamayaṁ Devi śrīguroś caraṇāmbujam ॥

264. Guru-bhāva, the space of feeling connection to the Guru, is the greatest purifier or Tīrtha, holiest of the holy spaces, other tīrthas are worthless. O Devi, all tīrthas are present and absorbed in the sacred holy feet of the Śrī Guru.

265

कन्याभोगरता मन्दाः स्वकान्तायाः पराण्ग्मुखाः ।
अतः परꣳ मया Dएवी कथितन्न् मम प्रिये ॥

kanyābhogaratā mandāḥ svakāntāyāḥ parāṇgmukhāḥ ।
ataḥ paraṁ mayā Devī kathitann mama priye ॥

265. Those who are averse to their own wives and indulge in enjoying with other women, including their own daughters, are fools and thoughtless men of beasty nature. Therefore, O Devi, I am giving out these Ultimate Truths to You, My dear.

266

इदꣳ रहस्यम्-स्पष्तꣳ वक्तव्यꣳ च वरानने ।
सुगोप्यꣳ च तवाग्रे तु ममात्मप्रीतये सति ॥

idaṁ rahasyam-spaṣtaṁ vaktavyaṁ ca varānane ।
sugopyaṁ ca tavāgre tu mamātmaprītaye sati ॥

266. O Varānane (Pārvati), this great secret, difficult to understand, should not be revealed to all. It is to be kept well guarded. I have clearly revealed this to You, because you are very dear to Me. svāmimukhya-gaṇeśādyān vaiṣṇavādīmśca pārvati | na vaktavyaṁ mahāmāye pādasparśaṁ kuruṣva me

267. This should not be revealed to any one including Subramanya, Gaṇeśa, even the Gods, or even the Vaiṣnavas, O Mahāmāye. Give Me this assurance by touching My feet.

268

अभक्ते वञ्चके धूर्ते पाषन्डे नास्तिकादिषु ।
मनसा’पि न वक्तव्या गुरुगीता कदाचन ॥

abhakte vañcake dhūrte pāṣanḍe nāstikādiṣu ।
manasā’pi na vaktavyā gurugītā kadācana ॥

268. To the devotionless, the cheat, the wicked, the faithless, the atheists and to others of their type, this Guru Gītā should never be told, not even mentally.

269

गुरवो बहवः सन्ति शिष्यवित्तापहारकाः ।
तमेकꣳ दुर्लभꣳ मन्ये शिष्य-हृत्-तापहारकꣳ ॥

guravo bahavaḥ santi śiṣyavittāpahārakāḥ ।
tamekaṁ durlabhaṁ manye śiṣya-hṛt-tāpahārakaṁ ॥

269. There are ever so many Masters in this world who rob the wealth of their disciples. But I consider him, that one Guru a rare one, who is able to dispel the afflictions of the disciple’s heart. Love of Guru Kuppammal I still remember Kuppammal used to tell, “Dei, nee paal la irundhu vandha vennai illa da, paar kadal la irundhu vandha vennai da. Naanga dhan da unna paathukanum.” (“You are not the essence which came from the milk, you are the essence which came from the Milky Way! I am the one who has to take care of you!”) She used to work so much to protect me and care for me, and, sometimes for six-seven hours, she will walk. See, there used to be a place in Tiruvannamalai called Kattu Siva Ashram, deep inside the interior forest. Still, that place is there. There used to be two Swamis in Gautama Ashram - senior Swami and junior Swami. And, that senior Swami is very close to Kuppammal. He used to be called as Kattu Siva.She will walk with Kattu Siva. Usually he wears only loin cloth and he will have one big stick with him. And, she will walk with him sometimes for six-seven hours to get herbs and aushadhas. Actually, in between there was sometime Kattu Siva just went inside for a samadhi. And, ... ordinary, normal human beings will not be able to see his form. But he will come whenever Kuppammal wants to identify any herbs. Actually when I saw him, he was not having a physical body. He was having a Divya Śarīra. His body has become Siddha Śarīra. So he will just appear anywhere and disappear anywhere. And he used to take Kuppammal to show the herbs. Isakki Swami used to be very intimate with Kattu Siva. He’s called Kattu Siva because he knows the whole forest. He knows the whole forest. He used to have a small kind of a herb. He will bite that, then his body will disappear. There used to be an empty wooden manai (traditional seat used in Indian villages)in front of Isakki Swami. Suddenly Kattu Siva will appear sitting on that and he will pull that herb out of his mouth, means, he is assuming the body. And they both will sit and sometimes talk, and sometimes don’t even talk. Half hour to one hour they will sit. And whenever he wants to go somewhere, he will put that herb in the mouth, then I know that he is going to now dissolve into the air. He is going to move to a different plane, that different existence, Then he will move. Understand, she (Kuppammal) will walk sometimes six-seven hours and bring the herbs (from Kattu Shiva). I used to ask her, “Why are you working so hard?” She will tell in Tamil, “Dei ne paal la vandha vennai illa da. Paar kadal la vandha vennai da.” “You are not the essence of just milk. You are the essence of milky ocean.” In Tamil, there is a word “paarkadal.” Paarkadal has two meaning: milky ocean and Milky WayBecause there is no other separate milky ocean; this (Cosmic) Milky Way is only called in Tamil - paarkadal. Whatever my Gurus have given me; as the way to build the superconsciousness for the being of Paramashiva to grow and how they manifested Paramashiva in me, I am giving you precisely those methods. As I said, “Nithyananda is,small but continuous living stream of enlightened Masters in a remote village ... of India gone right.” That’s a punchline: “gone right.” Actually there is nothing new I started. Everything my Gurus have done! I am only reviving it and taking it to the larger scale. Guru does the Ultimate Tyaga for the Disciple The greatest sacrifice I have seen from my own Gurus - their integrity to my enlightenment. Whether Arunagiri Yogishwara or Annamalai Swamigal or Raghupati Yogi or Vibhutananda Puri. I tell you, the only thing I observed in all of them: such high integrity for my enlightenment. They never care. They sacrifice anything. They never bothered. They were ready to sacrifice anything. Not just their food or clothes or their physical items, they are ready to sacrifice even their good name. They never bothered even if I screamed at them out of ignorance, they’ve never bothered. They may not even be sure that one day I will realise their sacrifice for me and I will be overwhelmed with gratitude just by remembering them, I will put their statues and photographs all over the world and worship. They may not know all these. I don’t think they have expected it. Actually, they denied. They told me again and again, “No need. You just do what for you came down. Let you manifest that. That’s all we care.” That is why my Guru Vibhunanda Puri, she writes, “I am accepting my fortune as my disciple, the boon given to me by Paramashiva. I am accepting as that, that as my disciple.” See the paradox. She’s telling, “I am accepting somebody else disciple who is a boon given to me.” In Tamil she writes beautifully, “All the tapas I have done, the result of that which has come in my life, I am accepting that Being as my disciple.” For the sake of society of course, she wants to, she wants the Guru Parampara to be maintained so nobody will question me later on about my legitimacy to teach Hinduism and do this mission. She wanted the legitimacy to be continued. That kind of integrity they had for my enlightenment. I can give hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of incidents to show their dedication to disciples’ enlightenment. It’s not that my Gurus did not go through the abusal from society. They all went through so much of abusal from the unconscious people. If they were popular in a few states, in the few states they went through (the abuse). Because I am popular all over the world, I went through attacks all over the world. Otherwise, they went through in their own scale. But their commitment for the disciples’ enlightenment. Only after they finished, completely quality checking (QC) and making it QC passed, only then all of them left their body. And such a funny thing. Within one year, all of them left the body - Annamalai Swamigal, Vibhudananda Puri, Raghupati Yogi, all of them just in one or two years' gap. And when I entered the public life, Ramsuratkumar called and said, “Yes! Now I am done. You have come to carry the mantle. It’s time for me to leave the body.” He called some of his disciples and temple people and important people and introduced me and told everyone, “He will carry the mantle now. The tradition of the Arunachala will continue.” And he just left the body! The kind of a sacrifice!

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चातुर्यवान् विवेकी च अध्यात्मज्ञानवान् शुचिः ।
मानसꣳ निर्मलꣳ यस्य गुरुत्वꣳ तस्य शोभते ॥

cāturyavān vivekī ca adhyātmajñānavān śuciḥ ।
mānasaṁ nirmalaṁ yasya gurutvaṁ tasya śobhate ॥

270. The clever, the discriminative, the pure, the knower of the Truths of the spiritual sciences, the one whose inner-space is absolutely spotless, in Him only the state of the Guru, Gurutva shines.

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गुरवो निर्मलाः शान्ताः साधवो मितभाषिणः ।
कामकृओध-विनिर्मुक्ताः सदाचाराः जितेन्द्रियाः ॥

guravo nirmalāḥ śāntāḥ sādhavo mitabhāṣiṇaḥ ।
kāmakṛodha-vinirmuktāḥ sadācārāḥ jitendriyāḥ ॥

271. Masters (Gurus) are those who are pure, peaceful, who have saintly character like exalted, pious, calm and complete, who speak less or moderately, who are totally free from desire and anger and who have conquered their senses and are established in living with right conduct.

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सूचकादि-प्रभेदेन गुरवो बहुधा स्मृताः ।
स्वयꣳ सम्यक् परीक्ष्यार्थ तत्त्त्वनिष्ठꣳ भजेत्सुधीः ॥

sūcakādi-prabhedena guravo bahudhā smṛtāḥ ।
svayaṁ samyak parīkṣyārtha tatttvaniṣṭhaṁ bhajetsudhīḥ ॥

272. Masters (Gurus) have been declared of various kinds with different capacities; they are known by names, sūcaka, etc. The wise (seeker) should himself test and know properly and worship the Tattva-Niṣṭhā Guru - the one firmly established and steady in knowledge of Truth.

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वर्णजालमिदꣳ तद्वदबाह्यशास्त्रꣳ तु लौकिकम् ।
यस्मिन् देवी समभ्यस्तꣳ स गुरुः सूचकः स्मृतः ॥

varṇajālamidaṁ tadvadabāhyaśāstraṁ tu laukikam ।
yasmin devī samabhyastaṁ sa guruḥ sūcakaḥ smṛtaḥ ॥

273. O Devi! The one who is well versed in the external wordly sciences proven by the sounds and letters, he is called the Sūcaka Guru.

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वर्णाश्रमोचिताꣳ विद्याꣳ धर्माधर्मविधायिनीम् ।
प्रवक्तारꣳ गुरुꣳ विद्धि वाचकꣳ त्विति पार्वति ॥

varṇāśramocitāṁ vidyāṁ dharmādharmavidhāyinīm ।
pravaktāraṁ guruṁ viddhi vācakaṁ tviti pārvati ॥

274. O Pārvati, know the instructor who gives education as per the duties of different castes and orders - varṇa and āśram, and principles of dharma, adharma, etc., to be the Vācaka Guru. Teacher gurus VS Mystic gurus There has been an age old fight between the teacher Gurus and mystic Gurus. The teacher Gurus who do not express and have extraordinary powers and experiences go on abusing the mystic gurus who express this extraordinary powers and experiences. The real kaivalya (Ultimate State) is establishing yourself in enlightenment, expressing extraordinary powers and experiences to transmit this enlightenment to the next generation. These teacher Gurus always abuse mystic Gurus. These mystic Gurus do not abuse. See, when you don’t have money when you are poor, you always abuse the rich people and try to destroy the richness of rich people. But rich people just do their job. I tell you the combination of teacher guru and mystic Guru is happening in Me for the first time! Unfortunately, these mystic gurus do not have the orating capacity to debate with the logic of the teacher gurus with their logic. Always the teacher gurus will have loud mouth but will not have ability to express the powers. Same way, mystic gurus will have powers but cannot stand on stage and express the truth. First time I am not only a mystic guru, I can challenge the logic of all these teacher Gurus. I wanted to tell all teacher Gurus what you are doing is great work but stop abusing the mystic Gurus. This teacher Guru have brought a lot of confusion to the Planet Earth without understanding the whole truth. They do not know what a joy is experienced by devotees when extraordinary powers and experiences are shared! The evolving is taught by teacher gurus. Exploding is taught by mystic gurus. great scriptures should be heard from mystic gurus, not teacher gurus. Teacher gurus are those who would have studied Sanskrit, Tukrunj karana, Vyakarana for years and years and have analyzed and studied for years and are waiting to vomit out on some fool who will come to them.

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पन्चाक्षार्यादि-मन्त्राणाम्-उपदेष्ता तु पार्वति ।
स गुरुर्बोधको भूयादुभयोरयम्-उत्तमः ॥

pancākṣāryādi-mantrāṇām-upadeṣtā tu pārvati ।
sa gururbodhako bhūyādubhayorayam-uttamaḥ ॥

275. The Guru who gives the initiation into the pancākṣari mantra, etc., O Pārvati, he is the Bodhaka Guru and he is superior to both (sucaka and vācaka type) named above.

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मोहमारण-वश्यादितुच्छ-मन्त्रोपदर्शिनम् ।
निषिद्धगुरुर्-इत्याहुः पण्डितास्-तत्त्वदर्शिनः ॥

mohamāraṇa-vaśyādituccha-mantropadarśinam ।
niṣiddhagurur-ityāhuḥ paṇḍitās-tattvadarśinaḥ ॥

276. The one who instructs into the lower type of education like the Mohana, Māraṇa, Ucchāṭana, Vaśya mantras, etc., the learned (Panḍits), the seers of Truth (tattvadarśina), call by the name Niṣiddha Guru.

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अनित्यम् इति निर्दिश्य सꣳसारꣳ सङ्कटालयम् ।
वैराग्यपथदर्शी यः स गुरुर्विहितः प्रिये ॥

anityam iti nirdiśya saṁsāraṁ saṅkaṭālayam ।
vairāgyapathadarśī yaḥ sa gururvihitaḥ priye ॥

277. O Dear Pārvati! ‘Everything here is ephemeral and the world is an abode of calamities’ - viewing thus, the one who shows the path leading to dispassion (vairāgya), is known as the Vihita Guru.

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तत्त्वमस्यादि-वाक्यानाम्-उपदेष्टा तु पार्वति ।
कारणाख्यो गुरुः प्रोक्तो भवरोगनिवारकः ॥

tattvamasyādi-vākyānām-upadeṣṭā tu pārvati ।
kāraṇākhyo guruḥ prokto bhavaroganivārakaḥ ॥

278. The Guru who initiates into the Mahāvākya—tattvamasi, etc., O Pārvati, he is called by the name Kāraṇākhya Guru. He removes the disease of

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wओर्ल्द्ल्य् एxइस्तेन्चे (सꣳसार) . सर्वसन्देह्-सन्दोह-निर्मूलनविचक्षणः ।
जन्ममृत्युभयघ्नो यः स गुरुः परमो मतः ॥

worldly existence (saṁsāra) . sarvasandeh-sandoha-nirmūlanavicakṣaṇaḥ ।
janmamṛtyubhayaghno yaḥ sa guruḥ paramo mataḥ ॥

279. He who is an expert in the removal of multitudes of all doubts from the very root, and who destroys the fear of birth and death, is considered to be the Paramaguru.

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बहुजन्मकृतात् पुण्याल्लभ्यते’सौ महागुरुः ।
लब्ध्वा’मुꣳ न पुनर्याति शिष्यः सꣳसार-बन्धनम् ॥

bahujanmakṛtāt puṇyāllabhyate’sau mahāguruḥ ।
labdhvā’muṁ na punaryāti śiṣyaḥ saṁsāra-bandhanam ॥

280. One attains such a MahāGuru as the result of merits (puṇya) acquired in many births. Having attained such a Guru, the disciple is never again bound to the world; he becomes absolutely free.

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एवꣳ बहुविधा लोके गुरवः सन्ति पार्वति ।
तेषु सर्वप्रयत्नेन सेव्यो हि परमो गुरुः ॥

evaṁ bahuvidhā loke guravaḥ santi pārvati ।
teṣu sarvaprayatnena sevyo hi paramo guruḥ ॥

281. O Pārvati! Thus, in this world there are many kinds of Gurus. Of all these, one should by all means and efforts surely serve the Parama Guru.

282

एवꣳ शृउत्वा महादेवी महादेव-वचस्तथा ।
अत्यन्त-विह्वलमना सङ्करꣳ परिपृअच्छति ॥

evaṁ śṛutvā mahādevī mahādeva-vacastathā ।
atyanta-vihvalamanā saṅkaraṁ paripṛacchati ॥

282. Thus, on listening to the words of Mahādeva, MahāDevī (Pārvati) asked with a greatly distressed mind to Saṅkara (Mahādeva). (paripṛacchati – asking with request)

283

पार्वत्युवाच ॥

pārvatyuvāca ॥

namaste devadevātra śṛotavyaṁ kimcidasti me

283

श्रुत्वा त्वद्वाक्यमधुना भृअशꣳ स्याद्विह्वलं मनः ॥

śrutvā tvadvākyamadhunā bhṛaśaṁ syādvihvalaṃ manaḥ ॥

283. Śrī Pārvatī said: O Lord of Lords, I surrender onto you. There is something which I have to listen to from you. My mind is rather confused and agītāted by listening to Your words.

285

स्वयꣳ मूडःआ मृत्युबःइताः सुकृताद्विरतिꣳ गताः ।
दैवान्निषिद्ध-गुरुगा यदि तेषाꣳ तु का गतिः ॥

svayaṁ mūḍḥā mṛtyubḥitāḥ sukṛtādviratiṁ gatāḥ ।
daivānniṣiddha-gurugā yadi teṣāṁ tu kā gatiḥ ॥

285. What is the fate/destination of those disciples, who are by nature foolish, who are afraid of death, and who by their natural course turn away from good deeds, if they approach a Niṣiddha Guru by fate?

286

स्री महादेव उचाव ॥

srī mahādeva ucāva ॥

285

निषिद्धगुरु-शिश्यस्तु दुष्टसङ्कल्पदूषितः ।
ब्रह्मप्रलय-पर्यन्तꣳ न पुनर्यान्ति मर्त्यताम् ॥

niṣiddhaguru-śiśyastu duṣṭasaṅkalpadūṣitaḥ ।
brahmapralaya-paryantaṁ na punaryānti martyatām ॥

285. The disciple of a Niṣiddha Guru impelled by evil and wicked intentions of a harmful nature, never again gets a human body till the end of a Brahma-Pralaya (Universal deluge). (Brahma Pralaya takes places at end of every 100 years of Brahma or

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2 लख् Dइविने येअर्स्) सृउणु तत्त्वमिदꣳ Dएवि यदा स्याद्विरतो नरः ।
तदा’सावधिकारीति प्रोच्यते सृउतिमस्तकैः ॥

2 lakh Divine years) sṛuṇu tattvamidaṁ Devi yadā syādvirato naraḥ ।
tadā’sāvadhikārīti procyate sṛutimastakaiḥ ॥

286. Śrī Mahādeva said: O Devī, listen deeply to this Tattva (principle). When a human becomes dispassionate, the Śrutis say that is when he is said to be a qualified one (adhikāri).

287

अखण्डैकरसꣳ ब्रह्म नित्यमुक्तꣳ निरामयꣳ ।
स्वस्मिन् सन्दर्शितꣳ येन स भवेदस्यम् देशिकः ॥

akhaṇḍaikarasaṁ brahma nityamuktaṁ nirāmayaṁ ।
svasmin sandarśitaṁ yena sa bhavedasyam deśikaḥ ॥

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जलानाꣳ सागरो राजा यथा भवति पार्वति ।
गुरुणाꣳ तत्र सर्वेषाꣳ राजायाꣳ परमो गुरुः ॥

jalānāṁ sāgaro rājā yathā bhavati pārvati ।
guruṇāṁ tatra sarveṣāṁ rājāyāṁ paramo guruḥ ॥

287. One who enables the disciple to see within himself the one indivisible, unified essence (akhanḍa-ekrasa) Brahma, that is eternally free, free from disease, only he becomes his savior and Guru (Deśika). 288. Just as the ocean is the king of waters, O Pārvati, in the same way, a Parama Guru, Supreme Master is the king among all the Masters. (Deśika means the Demonstrator or Spiritual Teacher who explains and points out the Truth to our intelligence, so we may properly and precisely internalize the Truth into our

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एxपेरिएन्चे.) मोहादिरहितः शान्तो नित्यतृइप्तो निराश्रयः ।
तृनीकृत्-ब्रह्म-विष्णु-वैभवः परमो गुरुः ॥

experience.) mohādirahitaḥ śānto nityatṛipto nirāśrayaḥ ।
tṛnīkṛt-brahma-viṣṇu-vaibhavaḥ paramo guruḥ ॥

289. A Parama Guru is one who is devoid of delusion (moha), etc., who is peaceful, eternally-satisfied, non-dependent on anything or anyone, who considers even the grandeur of the status of Brahma, Viṣṇu as a mere straw.

290

सर्वकालविदेशेषु स्वतन्त्रो निश्चलस्-सुखी ।
अकन्डैकरसास्वाद-तृप्तो हि परमो गुरुः ॥

sarvakālavideśeṣu svatantro niścalas-sukhī ।
akanḍaikarasāsvāda-tṛpto hi paramo guruḥ ॥

290. One who is independent at all times and places, who possesses an immovable and ever happy inner-space, who is satisfied in the blissful taste of the one indivisible, unified essence (akhanḍa-ekrasa) (of the Ātman) is certainly the Parama Guru, Supreme Master.

291

द्वैताद्वैत-विनिर्मुक्तः स्वानुभूतिप्रकाषवान् ।
अज्ञान-अन्धतम्श्छेत्ता सर्वज्ञः परमो गुरुः ॥

dvaitādvaita-vinirmuktaḥ svānubhūtiprakāṣavān ।
ajñāna-andhatamśchettā sarvajñaḥ paramo guruḥ ॥

291. One who is free from duality and non-duality (dvaita-advaita), who is self-effulgent and shines by the light of His own experience (svānubhūti) and cuts through the deep darkness of ignorance and destroys it, and who is the All-Knower (sarvajña) - is the Parama Guru, Supreme Master.

292

यस्य दर्शन्-मात्रेण मनसः स्यात् प्रसन्नता ।
स्वयꣳ भूयात् धृतिश्-शान्तिः स भवेत् परमो गुरुः ॥

yasya darśan-mātreṇa manasaḥ syāt prasannatā ।
svayaṁ bhūyāt dhṛtiś-śāntiḥ sa bhavet paramo guruḥ ॥

292. By whose mere Darśan (vision), the mind becomes delighted with great joy (prasannatā); and firm patience and peacefulness (dhṛti-śanti) happens by itself, he is certainly the Parama Guru, Supreme Master.

293

सिद्धिजालम् समालोक्य योगिनाꣳ मन्त्रवादिनाम् ।
तुच्छाकार-मनोवृत्तिर्-यस्यासौ परमो गुरुः ॥

siddhijālam samālokya yogināṁ mantravādinām ।
tucchākāra-manovṛttir-yasyāsau paramo guruḥ ॥

294. Beholding the network of extraordinary powers (Siddhis) of the Yogis and of the Mantravādins (those learned in power of Mantras), one who has the mental determination—‘all this is nothing but straw’—he is the Parama Guru, Supreme Master.

294

स्वशरीरꣳ शवꣳ पश्यन् तथा पश्यन् स्वात्मनम्-अद्वयम् ।
यः स्त्रीकनक-मोहघ्नः स भवेत् परमो गुरुः ॥

svaśarīraṁ śavaṁ paśyan tathā paśyan svātmanam-advayam ।
yaḥ strīkanaka-mohaghnaḥ sa bhavet paramo guruḥ ॥

294. One who looks upon his own body as a corpse, and his own Self as the non-dual (Brahman), who is the destroyer of the delusion of women (pleasure) and gold (greed), he is the Parama Guru.

295

मौनी वाग्मीति तत्त्वज्ञो द्विधाभूच्छृणु पार्वति ।
न कश्चिन्-मौनिनाꣳ लाभो लोके’स्मिन्भवति प्रिये ॥

maunī vāgmīti tattvajño dvidhābhūcchṛṇu pārvati ।
na kaścin-maunināṁ lābho loke’sminbhavati priye ॥

296

वाङ्ग्मी तूत्कट्-सꣳसारसागरो-त्तारणक्ष्मः ।
यतो’सौ सꣳशयच्छेत्ता शास्त्रयुक्त्यनुभूतिभिः ॥

vāṅgmī tūtkaṭ-saṁsārasāgaro-ttāraṇakṣmaḥ ।
yato’sau saṁśayacchettā śāstrayuktyanubhūtibhiḥ ॥

295. O Pārvati, listen! There are two classes of knowers of Truth—Tattvajña. They are Mouni (Silent One) and Vāgmi (Expressing One). O Dear, no enriching happens to anyone in this world through the Mauni. 296. But the vāgmi is capable of saving others to cross the great whirlpool of ocean of birth-death (saṁsāra sāgara). Because he cuts through all doubts by his scriptural knowledge (śastra), his intellectual clarity and logic (yukti) and his direct experience and expression (anubhūti).

297

गुरुनामजपाद्देवि बहुजन्मर्जितान्यपि ।
पापानि विलयꣳ यान्ति नास्ति सन्देहमण्वपि ॥

gurunāmajapāddevi bahujanmarjitānyapi ।
pāpāni vilayaṁ yānti nāsti sandehamaṇvapi ॥

297. O Devi, by the chanting of the Guru’s name (Gurunāmajapa) even the sins acquired in countless births are annihilated. There is not even an atom’s size of a doubt about this.

298

श्रीगुरोस्सदृशꣳ दैवꣳ श्रीगुरोस्सदृशः पिता ।
गुरुध्यानसमꣳ कर्म नास्ति नास्ति महीतले ॥

śrīgurossadṛśaṁ daivaṁ śrīgurossadṛśaḥ pitā ।
gurudhyānasamaṁ karma nāsti nāsti mahītale ॥

298. There is no God like the Śrī Guru and no father like the Śrī Guru. There is no act (karma) equal to the meditation on the Master, Guru Dhyāna; there is no act like this, nothing like this in this whole world.

299

कुलꣳ धनꣳ बलꣳ शास्त्रꣳ बान्धवास्सोदरा इमे ।
मरेणे नोपयुज्यन्ते गुरुरेको हि तारकः ॥

kulaṁ dhanaṁ balaṁ śāstraṁ bāndhavāssodarā ime ।
mareṇe nopayujyante gurureko hi tārakaḥ ॥

299. Family lineage, wealth, strength, knowledge of the scriptures, relatives, brothers - none of these is useful to you at the time of death. Guru is the only one savior.

300

कुलमेव पवित्रꣳ स्यात् सत्यꣳ स्वगुरुसेवया ।
तृप्ताः स्युस्सकला देवा ब्रह्मद्या गुरुतर्पणात् ॥

kulameva pavitraṁ syāt satyaṁ svagurusevayā ।
tṛptāḥ syussakalā devā brahmadyā gurutarpaṇāt ॥

300. By the service to one’s Guru, truly the entire family lineage is purified. By the satisfaction of the Guru, all the Devas, Brahma, etc., become satisfied and pleased.

301

गुरोरेको हि जानाति स्वरूपꣳ देवमव्ययम् ।
तज्-ज्ञानꣳ तत्प्रसादेन नान्यथा शास्त्रकोटिभीः ॥

guroreko hi jānāti svarūpaṁ devamavyayam ।
taj-jñānaṁ tatprasādena nānyathā śāstrakoṭibhīḥ ॥

301. It is the Guru alone who knows the real nature and form, Svarupa of the Imperishable Lord. That knowledge of the Supreme is by His (Guru’s) grace (tat-prāsad) and there is no other way. Even through crores of scriptures one cannot attain that knowledge.

302

स्वरूपज्ञानशून्येन कृतमप्यकृतꣳ भवेत् ।
तपोजपादिकꣳ देवी सकलꣳ बालजल्पवत् ॥

svarūpajñānaśūnyena kṛtamapyakṛtaṁ bhavet ।
tapojapādikaṁ devī sakalaṁ bālajalpavat ॥

302. Without the knowledge of the Self (Svarūpa), whatever act is done becomes fruitless. O Devī, penance, chanting of mantras, etc., everything becomes like the prattling of a child.

303

शिवꣳ केचिद्धरिꣳ केचिद्विधिꣳ केचित्तु केचन ।
शक्तिꣳ देवमिति ज्ञात्वा विविदन्ति वृअथा नराः ॥

śivaṁ keciddhariṁ kecidvidhiṁ kecittu kecana ।
śaktiṁ devamiti jñātvā vividanti vṛathā narāḥ ॥

303. Some say Śiva is the Supreme Lord, some hold Hari to be the greatest. Others say Brahma is all this and some say this is all Śakti Līlā. Holding different views, men argue without any purpose.

304

न जानन्ति परꣳ तत्त्वꣳ गुरुदीक्षापरान्ग्मुखाः ॥

na jānanti paraṁ tattvaṁ gurudīkṣāparāngmukhāḥ ॥

304

भ्रान्ताः पशुसमा ह्येते स्वपरिज्ञानवर्जिताः ॥

bhrāntāḥ paśusamā hyete svaparijñānavarjitāḥ ॥

304. Those who turn away their face or are averse to the Guru’s Initiation, Guru Dīkṣā, never know the Supreme Truth (Param Tattva). They are confused and roam around just like mere animals devoid of their experiential Self-knowledge (Svaparijñāna).

305

तस्मात्-कैवल्य-सिद्ध्यर्थꣳ गुरुमेव भजेत्प्रिये ।
गुरुꣳ विना न जानन्ति मुढास्तत्परꣳ पदम् ॥

tasmāt-kaivalya-siddhyarthaṁ gurumeva bhajetpriye ।
guruṁ vinā na jānanti muḍhāstatparaṁ padam ॥

305. Therefore, for attaining the perfected state of Kaivalya (aloneness), you should worship the Guru, O Dear Pārvati. Without the Guru, the foolish ignorant ones of the world cannot know That Supreme Abode (Tat Param Padam). (Kaivalya means established in aloneness, completely happy in your very aloneness. In your very aloneness being joyful, there is no need to bring anything from outside world to excite you; you are there in

306

जोय्, एच्स्तस्य्.) भिधते ह्र्दयग्रन्थिश्-च्छिद्यन्ते सर्वसꣳशयाः ।
क्षीयन्ते सर्वकर्माणि गुरोः करुणया शिवे ॥

joy, ecstasy.) bhidhate hrdayagranthiś-cchidyante sarvasaṁśayāḥ ।
kṣīyante sarvakarmāṇi guroḥ karuṇayā śive ॥

306. All the knots of the heart are cut asunder, all doubts are cut through, all the karmas are destroyed by the grace and compassion of the Guru, O Śive (Pārvati).

307

कृताया गुरुभक्तेस्तु वेदशास्त्रानुसारतः ।
मुच्यते पातकाद्घोराद्-गुरुभक्तो विशेषतः ॥

kṛtāyā gurubhaktestu vedaśāstrānusārataḥ ।
mucyate pātakādghorād-gurubhakto viśeṣataḥ ॥

307. Guru Bhakti, devotion to Guru, practiced according to the principles of the Vedas and Śastras especially by one devoted to the Guru, is capable of freeing one even from all capital sins.

308

दुःसङ्गꣳ च परित्यज्य पापकर्म परित्यजेत् ।
चित्तचिह्र्मिदꣳ यस्य तस्य दीक्षा विधीयते ॥

duḥsaṅgaṁ ca parityajya pāpakarma parityajet ।
cittacihrmidaṁ yasya tasya dīkṣā vidhīyate ॥

308. One who has abandoned the bad company and also given up the incomplete acts, and who has an inner-space free from incompletions, to such a one Guru Dīkṣa or Guru’s initiation is ordained.

309

चित्त्त्याग-नियुक्तश्च क्रोध-गर्व-विवर्जितः ।
द्वैतभाव-परित्यागी तस्य दीक्षा विधीयते ॥

citttyāga-niyuktaśca krodha-garva-vivarjitaḥ ।
dvaitabhāva-parityāgī tasya dīkṣā vidhīyate ॥

309. One, whose inner-space is fixed in tyāga, renunciation, who is devoid of anger and pride, who has abandoned the feeling of all kinds of duality or dvaita bhāva, to him dīkṣā or initiation is ordained.

310

एतल्लक्शण सꣳयुक्तꣳ सर्वभूत-हितेरतम् ।
निर्मलꣳ जीवितꣳ यस्य तस्य दीक्षा विधीयते ॥

etallakśaṇa saṁyuktaṁ sarvabhūta-hiteratam ।
nirmalaṁ jīvitaṁ yasya tasya dīkṣā vidhīyate ॥

310. One who is endowed with these characteristics—who is interested (who carries the space) in enriching all the beings of the world, whose life is pure and spotless, to him is dīkṣā, initiation ordained. The Space you carry decides your life In Sanskrit we have two beautiful words, “drishti-srishti”, “srishti-drishti” either you cognize as ‘seeing what exists’ or ‘creating what you want to perceive, what you want to see’. Please understand, the subject I am talking about is a very subtle, very important truth. I wanted you to be complete, settle down. The space we carry inside directly affects the reality which we experience, and the people around us experience. Internalize these two words, because I am going to use these two words, again and again: “drishti-srishti”, “srishti-drishti”. “Drishti” means “seeing”. “Srishti” means “creation”. “Srishti-drishti” means, you believe what IS is seen by you. You see what IS. Sometimes you believe what is. The creation is and you are seeing it, which most of us cognize most of the time. Most of us always feel, ‘It is there. I am seeing. So I am caught. I don’t know what to do.’ It is feeling powerless. You put all the blame on what is, ‘It is there! What can I do?’ Please understand, when you cognize, ‘It is there, I am seeing’, already, you lost the game. The moment you cognize what ‘IS’ is perceived by me, the possibility for transformation is closed; the possibility for enlightenment is closed. But the good news is, it is not true. Please understand, the moment you cognize what ‘IS’ is seen by you, the bad news is the possibility for enlightenment is closed. Possibility for transformation is closed. Good news is, it is not true. You are not seeing what IS. You are only seeing what you want. It is always drishti-srishti. You create what you want. It is not “you see what IS”. You create what you want. But, unfortunately, human-beings are in a space of such an unfortunate level, very strongly you believe what IS only is perceived by you. Especially when you cross 35-40, when the possibility for a new way of thinking becomes difficult, and already with the old way of thinking you built your personality. Now if you change those basic truths, you have to change your whole existence. You have to change your whole life, which you feel is too much. Please understand, your every suffering and every ignorance is because of your decision which you made due to some other vested interests. Why do you not want the transformation? Because, transformation means now literally the earth on which you are standing for the last 40-50 years will shake. With many things you consoled yourself that you are a success; we cannot bear the truth that we are not a success. So we have to constantly make ourselves believe we are successful. To make us believe we are successful internally, we go on planning, looking, altering and continuously convince ourselves to believe the ideas with which we built our life. The person who finally lands into the utter confusion:, ‘Which side can I support? One part of me claims and consoles me I am successful. One part of me claims and condemns me as a failure. Which part can I support?’ If you are in utter confusion, be very clear, the seeking has started in you. If you have not yet faced the confusion, the possibility for transformation has not yet opened. First thing any person has to face in life for enlightenment is the utter confusion: ‘Am I a successful being or am I a failure?’ As long as you are convinced you see what exists, you will not have this confusion. And we are also afraid of entering into the confusion. We do not want to rock the boat., ‘No, it is all going well; why unnecessarily create problem?’ You do not want to come to terms with the reality. You do not want to take any argument which is arising in you to the logical conclusion. How many of you postpone taking any logical arguments in you to the logical conclusion? When the argument rises, you postpone it, you push it aside. You don’t want to take the argument to a logical conclusion. You suppress it. You push it under the carpet. How many of you do this in your life? Look in. Anything you push under the carpet without taking to the logical conclusion becomes a mechanism which restrains your possibility. Please understand, the pattern of not reaching the logical conclusion is what I call life imprisonment. How will you be in restful awareness? That is why you are not able to sit with you. I have seen people who are not able to sit with themselves. See, when I started this sanyas sampradaya - a large number of people, especially youngsters getting trained and initiated into sanyas - the first biggest problem I had to face is: I needed to teach human beings to sit with themselves. When I travel all over the world, especially when I go to countries like Nepal which has only 6% Buddhist population, 83% Hindu population, I would see when I walked on the streets of Nepal, scores of Buddhist monks walking but would not see even few Hindu sanyasis walking. I used to wonder, “Why? What happened? Have we lost trust in the Sanyas tradition? Have we taken up that Sanyas is not required for enlightenment or teaching religion, spiritual tradition? Have we distanced ourselves from the Sanyas tradition?” When I started studying, I realized the basic truth of no ability to sit with oneself. We forgot to learn and teach that truth. We were too busy building huge temples. Our leaders were too busy in creating infrastructure, creating disciples, creating so many things. Unfortunately, we forgot to teach human beings to come to terms with reality. And the funny thing is, huge infrastructure Hinduism has; but the inspiration and the infrastructure is always separate. See, all the gurus, enlightened beings, when they start their mission, they have to spend their whole life in building the infrastructure. By the time they build the infrastructure to teach, their life is over and they leave the body and go away. And the infrastructure lies dead and wasted. And some other master comes. He has to spend his whole life creating infrastructure. Then finally, by the time he is ready with the infrastructure to reach the world, he is gone. This is one of the biggest problems Hinduism is facing. The reason is, the mainstream sanyas tradition has not become alive. Why does the mainstream sanyas tradition, the mainstream Hindu society not feel the need of the sanyas tradition? Because we have not learnt to sit with ourselves. We use religion only to the extent of makeup. Makeup is not surgery. We feel little help and little peace and one or two things whatever I want should happen. For that if the religion helps, that is enough. “I go to a temple or deity or a God, Goddess and get some boon,” that is enough. Religion has to start from the space of restful awareness. The conflict resolution, ability to take our logical thinking to the logical conclusion is important. Please understand, in Buddhism they start with restful awareness. Of course, it is not that Buddhism does not have a ritual to receive what you want from a Ggod, to receive a boon from a goddess. It is not that Buddhism doesn’t have. But Buddhism doesn’t start with it. Unfortunately, we start with it. We have to start with restful awareness. We have to start with carrying the right space. We have to start taking our logical questions to the logical conclusions. This should become mainstream Hinduism. See, all religions will have both components: the knowledge component, means enlightenment science; and prayer component - consolation. You don’t have a job? Pray to god and you will have a job. You don’t have health? Pray to god and he will give health. That is one component. And cognitive shift, the spiritual knowledge, the enlightenment science, that is another one component. All I am trying to tell is: I am not here to judge one is lower, one is higher. I am not saying, “Where else will you go if you can’t pray to god?” You have to pray to him only. But that teaching of religion has to start with the science of restful awareness, by helping human-beings to create the right space inside. The concept of prayer should come as next. First human beings should be taught to create the right space inside. The mainstream Hinduism should start with the teaching of creating the right space. Please understand, the space you create inside is so powerful, it can straightaway affect the way you experience life and others experience life. I think, when I talk about the space we create inside, many people think, ‘Okay, he is talking! Let me sit. I should not talk now. I will keep quiet.’ Many think it is going above your head. Let me define that word. “Space you create inside” means how you feel things are going to be is what I call space you create inside. If you are very clear your space is already in a low energy, that ‘Anyhow, whatever I am going to do is not going to work out, it is not going to be successful!’ already you dictated! You gave the plan to the Cosmos! ‘My life, I want my life like this only, as a big failure. Please do it and give!’ Cosmos will stitch it and give you. The space you carry inside is not the effect of the happenings of your life, it is the order you are giving to the Cosmos. You may blame, ‘No, no, no! I am in low mood! Because of so many failures, continuous failures happened in life, my life. You don’t know! If you are in my shoes then you will understand why I am like this!’ Whatever reason you may give about the space you are in, but you need to understand the seriousness of the space you are in. Please understand, the space you are in is the order you give to the Cosmos to prepare your future. Listen! It’s like in the hotels how you order, you see the menu card and order, ‘I want this, this, this!’ The inner space you carry is also an order you give it to the Cosmos. ‘I want this, this, this way my life is!’ Whatever you carry in your inner space is a possibility. If you are carrying sadness, you are ordering the Cosmos for a bigger sadness to come in your life. If you are carrying joy, you are waiting for a bigger joy to come in your life. If you are carrying fulfillment in you, completion in you, you are ordering the Cosmos to bring bigger completions in your life. So understand, anything you carry inside, if you are carrying an inability, ‘Yes, I have a wrong inner space! I am depressed! But I don’t know how to change!’, that is one more inner space you are ordering the Cosmos to give you more powerlessness. You are a human-being. You can’t afford to say, ‘Yes, I am in problem. I don’t know how to transform!’ No! You have to transform. You can’t afford to say, ‘Yes, yes, I am hungry, but I don’t know how to get food!’ Then die! That is the solution. You can’t afford to give up on you. You can’t afford to be powerless. You have to stand up. You have to find the method. You have to transform. That is the only way life is possible! The space you carry has to be changed. One more good news about the space is, you can change it this moment, because the space is not gross. Gross things takes time to clean. Subtle things can be cleaned immediately. Please understand, if the earth is dirty, if the ground is dirty, it takes time to clean. But if the air is polluted, easily you can clean it just by one spray. Subtle things are easier to clean. Your inner space is such a subtle thing, one right declaration is enough, you are free! One completion is enough, you are free! You are out! You are out of that low mood you are carrying! You are out of that wrong inner space you are carrying! You are out of that deep negative cognition you are carrying! Only one thought of fear can make you unsettled. Only one thought of lust can make you excited. Only one thought of your enemy, only one thought of your enemy, please understand, only one thought of your enemy can aggravate anger in you. If this is the case, only one thought of completion can purify your inner space. If only one thought of lust can excite you, if only one thought of fear can agitate you, if only one thought of your enemy can bring anger in you, then only one thought of completion is enough to transform your space. Somehow, we don’t believe that last statement. ‘No, everything else looks logical. I experienced. But the last statement; is it true?’ Then we say, ‘No, no, no! You are an enlightened being. May be for you it is possible; not for us.’ See, whenever you feel you are now cornered to transform, you immediately push me aside. ‘No, you are a great person! You are an enlightened being! You are an incarnation. You can be. It is possible for you; not for normal people like us.’ I always feel, sometime to escape from my teaching, people show devotion. Please understand, even devotion, if it is for the wrong, it cannot transform you. It has to be for the right reason. First thing you need to know, the inner space can be transformed. Inner space can be transformed! Now please understand, what you feel with you about you, can somebody else be responsible for it? No! It is your boundary! Your inner space is your boundary! Nobody else can be responsible for it. It’s only you who can be responsible for it. It is only you who can be responsible. Even if you say somebody is a reason, that person is not suffering. Suffering is to whom? To you! So when something is affecting you, whether you are reason or not, you are only responsible. It is not that always the person who is the reason will take the responsibility. Many time, where you are the reason for the mess, you don’t take the responsibility. Now it is time, whether you are reason or not, whatever is inside your inner space you are responsible. You are a reason or not, you are responsible. The moment you decide you are responsible for the inner space you are carrying, now you know you have to change it. You need to change it and your inner space is nothing but the words you repeat, again and again, within you. Am I right? Is there anything else? So, now decide consciously you will repeat the right words. Consciously you will repeat the right words. You will say, ‘No, no, no! I tried this, but again I failed!’, forget and go back to the same old wrong words. How many times you tried? Ten thousand times you repeated negative words. So, try now at least ten times to repeat the right words. You may fail ten times. Nothing wrong! Because of the pattern built by you, you are failing. Now try ten times. Bring awareness. Decide, you are reason, you are responsible, and you have to change it because it is affecting you. Your wrong inner space is directly affecting you. So, naturally, whether you are the reason or not, whether somebody else is the reason or not, you have to change it. You are responsible. It is you who is responsible. It is you who is the reason. The inner space you carry has to be transformed, because based on the inner space you take the decisions. Please understand, if you are in a peaceful, relaxed mood, even if the big risks, dangers, difficulties you take the right decision with so much of patience, and you expand in life. If you are in suffocating mood, even small risks you don’t take and you throw tantrum. You throwing tantrum is going to affect only your life. How many of you feel just because of the wrong inner space, you missed your business deals, your expansion in the life, growth in life, in many possibilities, in many dimensions? So, then all of you know, all of you know the importance of the right inner space. Now I wanted you to understand, whether you believe it or not, whether you accept or not, how many millions of reasons you give or not, there are some things which can’t be changed. Please understand, I have good news for you. Whether you accept or not, believe or not, understand or not, you are God! Your inner space is all-powerful! It carries the DNA of Aham Brahmasmi! Your inner space carries the DNA of Aham Brahmasmi! Sometime, how many arguments you may give, Constitution cannot be changed. Same way, how many arguments you give for the side of “Yyou are not God” and “You are not divine” and “You are not all-powerful”. You may give million reasons. ‘No, no, I wanted to have a cup of coffee. I am not able to get. Then how can I be all-powerful?’ No, all your reasons are that level reason only. No reason is a solid, worthy reason. ‘I wanted to have a tasty coffee. But there is no sugar in the coffee. Then how can I be all-knowing, all-powerful? I don’t even know what is happening in my next person’s mind, in my spouse’s mind. How can I be all-knowing?’ You have very silly reasons to deny the possibility of your inner space. Please understand, you never tried to explore your inner space. Before even trying, how can you deny? Ramana Maharshi gives a very beautiful example. He is from my native place. People go on saying, ‘God is not there! This extraordinary energy is not there!’ He is just walking behind you! You never look back even once! You never look in even once! But you go on denying His existence. You never tried to work on your inner space with Authenticity and Integrity even once! I tell you:, No, I am not talking for pride or ego or anything. I am just stating the truth and fact. Many times I express the ashta maha siddhis and extraordinary powers, not to show something I am extraordinary; just to show it is possible for you! IT IS POSSIBLE FOR YOU! Nothing is required other than carrying the space, ‘When he can do, I can do!’ That’s all! To learn swimming you don’t need anything. You need to see somebody swimming, and cognize ‘When he can do, I can do!’ That’s all! Then you will simply know which leg to move first, which leg to move next; which hand to move first, which hand to move next. Without that, how many volumes, encyclopedias on all types of swimming, even if you read that, you won’t be able to learn swimming. It is just a knack. It is just a knack. Same way, the space of possibility is just a knack. You need to see somebody playing with it, doing it and you need to know:, ‘When he can, I can!’ When you know somebody is swimming, when you see somebody is swimming, ‘Wow! When he can, I can!’ Thatthat is the first step. Second, ‘Let me jump and do what he is doing!’ But that jumping! ‘No, no, no, no, no! If I drown what will happen?’ One disciple jumped like this into the river and started screaming, ‘Master, save me! Save me! Save me!’ Master was standing on the bank. He said, ‘Save yourself!’ ‘No, no! Teach me all your Vedanta later on! Now please save me first! I have to be alive! Only then all your Vedanta I can practice! You do all that, you experiment on me, teach me all that when I am on the ground, not on the water! Save me! I am drowning! I am drowning! Master very cooly said, ‘Save yourself!’ Then, he started screaming, ‘Save me! Save me!’ Then, Master thought this is a big nuisance. And he shouted, ‘Fool! Stand up!’ In that fear, the disciple did not know what he is doing; he stood up, and he saw water is only up to knee level! I tell you, all your problems are only like this! It is just your decision to stand up in your inner space! But the fears you carry look so real, so real, you say, ‘No, I cannot stand up! I cannot stand up! I can’t stand up! You are telling! I will listen! I will worship you also! But I cannot stand up! Don’t tell me to stand up! I will do anything else!’ Exactly what you don’t want to do, you have to do! You should be made to do that! Forcibly! Because that is where your inauthenticity is there! If you look inside, the reason for your low inner space, powerless inner space will be some root-pattern, root thought-pattern. Break that! Reclaim your freedom! Declare your freedom! Raise your inner space to the peak joy, fulfillment, excitement! Please understand, when Shwethakethu, he is the Upanishadic character; when he was initiated by his guru, his guru said only nine times “Tat Twam Asi! Tat Twam Asi! Tat Twam Asi!”. Shwethakethu became enlightened! Then why, even if you listen 9,000 times “Tat Twam Asi”, you don’t become enlightened? NO. Carrying the right inner space! On the rock, seed cannot sprout as a tree. In the right fertile ground only, the seed can become tree. In the right inner space only, the teachings can become reality. Right inner space means, where all the root thought-patterns of suffering are destroyed. All the root thought-patterns are destroyed where your inner space is fertile for experiencing the higher ideals and ideas. I tell you, start playing with your inner space to gain courage, to gather courage. Decide to tell yourself, try, try to play with it, tell yourself, ‘Yes, with the inner space of completion, I am declaring, I am the space for my spouse listening to me!’ You will see miracles will happen! He or she will simply listen to you! ‘I am the space for my boss granting me vacation!’ Go with that and play. Actually, only when you play with that space and see miracles happening – if you try ten times, at least eight times you will see miracles happening – only when you see miracles happening you will understand the power of the inner space. Don’t go, ‘I will go with this space, I will be failure!’ Then, naturally, you will be failure. That is the miracle! See, if you go, ‘Yes I will go with this space, but even then I am going to be a failure!’, then, this is the space you are carrying! Then failure is again a miracle! Because you go with the space of failure, you attracted failure! Understand, the inner space you carry is such powerful inner space! That is Hiranya Garbha! Means, where the planets, worlds get created! Worlds happen! Your inner space is so powerful; the worlds can be created or destroyed by your inner space! You may be individual, but your inner space is not individual; it is well-connected with the whole Universe! So, anything you decide in your inner space becomes reality in the Cosmos, reality in the life, reality in Existence! Have right inner space to create your life. That will always lead to enlightenment, inspiration, success in every level of your life, in every sphere of your life, every dimension of your life. I bless you all to experience this great principle of inner space, right inner space and change the world through your word. Your word can change the world! Experience this extraordinary power in your life.

311

क्रियया चान्वितꣳ पूर्वꣳ दीक्षाजालꣳ निरुपितम् ।
मन्त्रदीक्षाभिर्ध सागोपान्ग शिवोदितम् ॥

kriyayā cānvitaṁ pūrvaṁ dīkṣājālaṁ nirupitam ।
mantradīkṣābhirdha sāgopānga śivoditam ॥

311. The entire process of dīkṣā has been ordained by Śiva along with all the rites and principles (sāgopānga) including the Mantra Dīkṣā together with the proper rites thereof.

312

क्रियया स्याद्विरहिताम् गुरुसायुज्यदायिनीम् ।
गुरुदीक्षाꣳ विना को वा गुरुत्वाचारपालकः ॥

kriyayā syādvirahitām gurusāyujyadāyinīm ।
gurudīkṣāṁ vinā ko vā gurutvācārapālakaḥ ॥

312. Without Guru Dīkṣā, without the proper rites, who can be said to be a follower of the Guru Tattva, which has the power of bestowing Guru Sāyujya, Guru’s company?

313

शक्तो न चापि शक्तो व दैशिकाꣳघ्रि-समाश्रयात् ।
तस्य जन्मास्ति सफलꣳ भोगमोक्षफलप्रदम् ॥

śakto na cāpi śakto va daiśikāṁghri-samāśrayāt ।
tasya janmāsti saphalaṁ bhogamokṣaphalapradam ॥

313. Whether qualified or not qualified, one by unstinted devotion, service and complete refuge in the Guru, becomes eligible for the fruit of enjoyment of all happiness and liberation here in this world. The life of such a disciple becomes fruitful. Nithyananda – Guru-shishya parampara gone right! Nithyananda and Kailasa is nothing but a small stream of living enlightened Masters, Guru-shishya parampara gone right. In a small village, in those days existed a living stream, small living stream of enlightened Masters. That Guru-shishya parampara gone right in the modern world is Nithyananda and Kailasa. That’s it. You might have heard anything can go wrong will go wrong. I tell you, anything can go right will go right. I am just a simple living stream of Hindu Guru-shishya parampara from a small village gone right. Literally my Gurus birthed me, brought me from Kailasa and protected me, groomed me, made me manifest. By the time I started knowing me, they already made me realize my identity. Never they allowed me to forget my identity as Paramashiva. Smoothly, beautifully they did the transition of the macrocosm to microcosm.

314

अत्यङ्तचित्तपक्कस्य श्रद्धाभक्तियुतस्य च ।
प्रवक्तव्यमिदꣳ देवि ममात्मप्रीतये सदा ॥

atyaṅtacittapakkasya śraddhābhaktiyutasya ca ।
pravaktavyamidaṁ devi mamātmaprītaye sadā ॥

314. O Pārvati, this should be revealed to one who has purity of the heart to the greatest degree and who is endowed with intense devotion, authentic faith in the Guru. Dear, it gives Me the greatest satisfaction, always!

315

रहस्यꣳ सर्वशास्त्रेषु गीताशास्त्रमिदꣳ शिवे ।
सम्यक्परीक्ष्य वक्तव्यꣳ साधकस्य महात्मनः ॥

rahasyaṁ sarvaśāstreṣu gītāśāstramidaṁ śive ।
samyakparīkṣya vaktavyaṁ sādhakasya mahātmanaḥ ॥

315. This Guru Gītā Sāstra is the secret of all scriptures, O Śive; to the great souled Sādhaka this should be revealed after completely examining him.

316

सत्कर्मपरिपाकाच्च चित्तशुद्धस्य धीमतः ।
साधकस्यैव वक्तव्या गुरुगीता प्रयत्नतः ॥

satkarmaparipākācca cittaśuddhasya dhīmataḥ ।
sādhakasyaiva vaktavyā gurugītā prayatnataḥ ॥

316. To the intelligent, to one possessed of purity of heart (citta-śuddhi), to one in whom all good actions are ripening (fructifying), only to that qualified Sādhaka, this Guru Gītā should be imparted even with great effort.

317

नास्तिकाय कृतघ्नाय दाम्भिकाय शठाय च ।
अभक्ताय विभक्ताय न वाच्येयꣳ कदाचन ॥

nāstikāya kṛtaghnāya dāmbhikāya śaṭhāya ca ।
abhaktāya vibhaktāya na vācyeyaṁ kadācana ॥

317. To the atheist, to the deceitful, to one who does evil to one’s well-wisher, to the cunning, to the hypocrite, to the undevoted, to one opposed to the Guru—this Guru Gītā should never be told.

318

स्त्रीलोलुपाय मूर्खाय कामोपहतचेतसे ।
निन्दकाय न वक्तव्या गुरुगीता स्वभावतः ॥

strīlolupāya mūrkhāya kāmopahatacetase ।
nindakāya na vaktavyā gurugītā svabhāvataḥ ॥

318. To the one who craves for the constant company of women, to the foolish, whose mind is conquered by lust and greed, to the criticizer, naturally this Guru Gītā should never be told.

319

सर्वपापप्रशमनꣳ सर्वोपद्रव-वारकम् ।
जन्ममृत्युहरꣳ देवि गीताशास्त्रमिदꣳ शिवे ॥

sarvapāpapraśamanaṁ sarvopadrava-vārakam ।
janmamṛtyuharaṁ devi gītāśāstramidaṁ śive ॥

319. O Devi, this Guru Gītā Śastra is the destroyer of all sins and is the remover of all troubles and obstacles. It is the dispeller of birth and death, O Śive.

320

सृउतिसारमिदꣳ देवि सर्वमुक्तꣳ समासतः ।
नान्यथा सद्गतिः पुꣳसाꣳ विना गुरुपदꣳ शिवे ॥

sṛutisāramidaṁ devi sarvamuktaṁ samāsataḥ ।
nānyathā sadgatiḥ puṁsāṁ vinā gurupadaṁ śive ॥

320. O Śive (Auspicious One), this is the essence of all Śrutis. In this everything has been said in a concise summary. There is no other way to attain the ultimate destination or liberation for people without the feet of the Guru, Gurupadam. Guru is a new possibility happening in your life Master is a new possibility happening in your life. Master is a new possibility happening in your life. He is a new language. He is a new energy. Sometime I have seen people talking to each other saying that, ‘Why do we need a Guru? Why do we need a Master?’ Yes, you don’t need a Master if you are just going to eat and die. You need a Master only when you want to achieve something extraordinary. The guy who doesn’t have eyes, who is born blind, can never understand what he is missing. How much ever people with eyes try to explain to him, the guy will never understand what he is missing. Small story: A born blind man was told by his friend that blind man’s new-born child is dead. The blind man could not understand, ‘How, how can my child die? How did it happen? Tell me.’ The friend said, ‘No, while they gave milk to the child, it got stuck in the throat and child died.’ This fellow asked, ‘What is milk?’ Blind man asked ‘what is milk?’ The friend said, ‘Oh, it is the white…..you don’t know what is milk? It will be white color.’ This guy asked, ‘What is white color? What is white?’ The friend says, ‘ehh, have you not seen the crane, the bird - crane? That is white color.’ He asked, ‘What is the crane bird?’ Friend could not explain further. He got thoroughly confused. He just kept that blind man’s hand like this and showed ‘see how it looks.’ and then the blind man was feeling his own hand ‘oh, yes, I understand’ ‘Like this only the crane will be.’ Then the blind man says, ‘Now I understand. Such big thing if you put it in the mouth of the child, it will die only!’ A born blind man can never understand what he is missing. I tell you, a man who never tasted Guru in the life will never understand what he is missing in the life. He is a new language in your being. He is a new consciousness in your being. He is new being in your life. Because Sun never dies, every new day is born. Because Master never loses the inspiration, every new possibility for the restarting is available for disciples. If the Sun dies, new day cannot happen. Because Sun can never die, continuously new, new, new days are happening. Because Master never loses the inspiration, he makes every day, again and again, inspiration to happen in your life. The Sun which does not die restarts your day. Master who never loses inspiration, restarts your inspiration. I tell you, Master is actually new language in your being. He is just; Understand, when a young boy falls in love, he experiences the dimension which he himself never seen in his life. When a girl falls in love, she experiences the dimension which she has never seen in her life. When a boy or girl falls in love, they experience a new dimension of their life which they never seen existed in them. Listen. I am explaining a very sensitive subject. Don’t create a scandal about it. Listen. If you don’t listen, you will get a scandal about it. Listen. Beloved is a being who awakens the dimensions of you which is unknown to you, to you. Your own dimension which you never realized you have it, your beloved can make you realize and experience that dimension which you did not even know exists in you, which you did not even know that you did not know that you did not know; that which you did not even know and you did not know that you did not know. Beloved is a person who makes you experience that which even you did not know you had it, you have it. Same way, Master is a person who makes you experience the new consciousness which even you did not know you had it. Beloved makes you experience the heart which you never know you had it. Master makes you experience the consciousness which you never know you had it. Master is a new possibility. Really, to a born blind man, we can’t explain what he is missing. Can you explain how the ocean will look? Can you explain how the hills will look? Can you explain how the Himalayas will be? Can you explain how the Kailash will be? Even if you have eyes, I cannot explain how the Kailash will be for you. You have to see it. You have to see it. You have to see it to see it. Even with my big, big eyes, I could not see it. Rolling this side and that side, even with my big, big eyes, I could not cover it or catch it. Listen. Catch it. Guru is the being who makes you experience your consciousness which even you never experienced you have it. He is a new breeze, new energy, new possibility, new reality, new power, new and clear, nuclear. Master goes on rekindling the inspiration in you, reawakening the possibilities in you, reaffirming the strength in you. Even if you give up on you, he does not give up on you. Sometimes, even if you give up on him, he does not give up on you. Not only if you give up on you he does not give up on you, even if you give up on him, he does not give up on you. The first monkey which started walking with two feet, showed the possibility to other monkeys. Same way, the human-being who has realized himself as divine being shows you the possibilities. He is much more close to you than you. He knows you more than you. He loves you more than you. He can sacrifice for you more than you. He is the new possibility. Because his ability to sacrifice is more, he can sacrifice more than you even for you. Sometime you become tired of sacrificing. So you give up on you. But he is not tired of sacrifices. He continues to sacrifice. He does not give up on you even if you demand more and more and more. He reminds you, reminds you, reminds you, till you remain and he remains. He reminds you till you remain. He reminds you till he remains. He is embodiment of Integrity. Even for one word he gave not long, long before, even in past births, he waits and honors those words. Embodiment of Authenticity - Continues to stretch himself in every possible way. Your great- grandfathers have seen Gurus in Kailash. Your grandfathers have seen them in Himalayas. Your fathers have seen them in ashrams. You are seeing them in your bed-room in two-way video-conferencing, because we go on stretching ourself to make ourself available to you. We go on stretch ourself to reach you. Gurus are embodiment of Responsibility. That is why you feel whenever you experience the presence of the Master, loads and loads of your Responsibilities are lifted up; because the loads and loads which you don’t even know, but which are sitting on you gets lifted up by his very Presence. He is the embodiment of Enriching. He is the inner space of Integrity. He is Authenticity of Authenticity. And he is the reason for Responsibility. And he is embodiment of Enriching. If you want to see how the inner space of the Integrity will look like, see an enlightened being’s inner space. If you want to see how the Authenticity will be authentic, see his body language. If you want to know what is the reason for Responsibility, see his being. If you want to see the embodiment of Enriching, see his living. He is a constant reminder for you about the new possibility. He is a constant reminder for you about the new possibility. Inner space of Integrity, I will expand on this one word. When you bring Integrity into your inner space in a uncompromised way, when you bring integrity with Integrity in your inner space, being in integrity with Integrity towards the inner space means, extraordinary silence. Any single word comes out is not in Integrity with your inner space, because your inner space is silence, embodiment of silence. If you are in Integrity with your inner space, you will be in pure silence. Any word rising means you are not in Integrity with your inner space. Internalize what I am saying. Contemplate. Your inner space is embodiment of silence. Any word rising means you are not in Integrity with your inner space. If you are in Integrity with your inner space, you will experience, you will experience unclutching. Unclutching is the space you will experience when you really integrate yourself, when you are in Integrity with your inner space. Same way Authenticity; what can be the best inner image? What is reality that only can be the best inner image. In your inner space, in reality, you are Ultimate, oneness. Only when you experience oneness as your inner image, you are authentic. Only when you express that same oneness as your outer image, you are authentic. Only when you express oneness as your idea about others and the life, you are authentic and nobody can expect more than oneness from you. So, being authentic to that oneness is Authenticity. The more and more you feel Responsible, more and more your knowledge and energy will expand. If you feel responsible for the Whole, you will have complete knowledge and energy. That is what I call Advaithic experience of oneness, Advaithic oneness. And Enriching - When you pour your being for Enriching, your whole selfishness will be lost. You will be nothing but Enriching. That is what I call Enlightenment. Integrity with Integrity, authenticity with Authenticity, responsibility of Responsibility and Enriching is the space of Enlightenment. Guru is the being who constantly reminds you about these truths and makes you experience this. Understand, Guru is the new possibility. Guru represents the real you. That is why sometime you feel more connected to the Guru than to you, because Guru is you minus all the dust you carry. That is why sometime you feel more connected to Guru than the connection you feel with you itself. He reminds you about your different possibilities. When you see a tall, hundred-storey building, you just know it is possible. Same way, when you see somebody floating on the water, you know it is possible. Same way, when you see the Guru, you know it is possible. Wow. He just reminds you about human possibility. He reminds you about human possibility.

321

बहुजन्मकृतात्-पादयमर्थो न रोचते ।
जन्मबन्धनिवृत्यर्थ गुरुमेव भजेत्सदा ॥

bahujanmakṛtāt-pādayamartho na rocate ।
janmabandhanivṛtyartha gurumeva bhajetsadā ॥

321. Weighed down by the sinful acts of countless births, the real meaning of the Guru Gītā does not appeal to an aspirant. To free oneself from the shackles of repeated births and deaths, one should devote oneself to the Guru only, at all times.

322

अहमेव जगत् सर्वꣳ अहमेव परꣳ पदम् ।
एतज्ज्ञानꣳ यतो भूयात्तꣳ गुरुꣳ प्रणमाम्यहम् ॥

ahameva jagat sarvaṁ ahameva paraṁ padam ।
etajjñānaṁ yato bhūyāttaṁ guruṁ praṇamāmyaham ॥

322. ‘I am indeed all this world – aham eva jagat sarvam, I am indeed the Supreme Abode and goal – aham eva param padam’, from whom one gets this kind of knowledge, to that Guru, I always prostrate.

323

अलꣳ विकल्पैरहमेव केवलो मयि स्थितꣳ विश्वमिदꣳ चराचरम् ।
इदꣳ रहस्यꣳ मम येन दर्शितꣳ स वन्दनीयो गुरुरेव केवलम् ॥

alaṁ vikalpairahameva kevalo mayi sthitaṁ viśvamidaṁ carācaram ।
idaṁ rahasyaṁ mama yena darśitaṁ sa vandanīyo gurureva kevalam ॥

323. Enough of all these distractions. In reality I alone exist. In me the entire world of moving and unmoving rests. He who has revealed this secret to me really, that Guru alone is fit to be worshipped. yasyāntaṁ nādimadhyaṁ na hi karacaraṇaṁ nāmagotraṁ na sūtram | no jātirnaiva varṇo na bhavati puruṣo no

324

नपुꣳसꣳ न च स्त्री ॥

napuṁsaṁ na ca strī ॥

nākāraṁ no

325

विकारꣳ न हि जनिमरणꣳ नास्ति पुण्यꣳ न पापम् ।
नो’तत्त्वꣳ तत्त्वमेकꣳ सहजसमरसꣳ सद्गुरुꣳ तꣳ नामामि ॥

vikāraṁ na hi janimaraṇaṁ nāsti puṇyaṁ na pāpam ।
no’tattvaṁ tattvamekaṁ sahajasamarasaṁ sadguruṁ taṁ nāmāmi ॥

324-325. He who has neither end, middle nor beginning, who has neither hands, feet, name gotra or the thread nor even caste, order; who is neither a man, woman or a neuter (transgender); who has neither form, change nor even any birth, death, and no vice (puṇya) and virtue (puṇya); who is the only Tattva, who is naturally in the same space or feeling at all times, to that Sadguru I ever prostrate.

326

नित्याय सत्याय चिदात्मकाय नव्याय भव्याय परात्पराय ।
शुद्धाय बुद्धाय निरञ्जनाय नमो’स्य नित्यꣳ गुरुशेखराय ॥

nityāya satyāya cidātmakāya navyāya bhavyāya parātparāya ।
śuddhāya buddhāya nirañjanāya namo’sya nityaṁ guruśekharāya ॥

326. To the Eternal, to the Ever-True, to the Conscious Light and Knowledge, to the Ever-New, to the Majestic Favourable (bhavyāya), to the Greatest of the great (Pāratpara), to the Pure, to the Enlightened, to the Non-attached—may this prostration be eternally to that great Guru Śekhara, the crest jewel among Gurus.

327

सच्चिदानन्दरूपाय व्यापिने परमात्मने ।
नमः श्री गुरुनाथाय प्रकाशानन्दमूर्तये ॥

saccidānandarūpāya vyāpine paramātmane ।
namaḥ śrī gurunāthāya prakāśānandamūrtaye ॥

327. I surrender to the Śrī Gurunātha, who is the all-pervading Pāramātma, Supreme Self, whose form is Sat-Cit-Ānanda, Existence—Consciousness—Bliss, who is the living embodiment of all Light and Bliss, Prākāśānanda.

328

सत्यानन्दस्वरूपाय बोधैकसुखकारिणे ।
नमो वेदान्तवेद्याय गुरवे बुद्धिसाक्षिणे ॥

satyānandasvarūpāya bodhaikasukhakāriṇe ।
namo vedāntavedyāya gurave buddhisākṣiṇe ॥

328. I surrender to the Guru who is the witness of my Buddhi, intelligence; who is the knower of Vedānta, who is the form of Truth and Bliss, Satyānanda and who is the cause of Knowledge and Bliss (bodha, sukha).

329

नमस्ते नाथ भगवन् शिवाय गुरुरूपिणे ।
विद्यावतार-सꣳसिद्ध्यै स्वीकृतानेक-विग्रह् ॥

namaste nātha bhagavan śivāya gururūpiṇe ।
vidyāvatāra-saṁsiddhyai svīkṛtāneka-vigrah ॥

329. I bow down to You, O Nātha, O Bhagavan Śiva in Guru’s form. You accept and appear in many embodied forms for the fulfillment of your Vidyā Avatār, Pure Knowledge Incarnation. My Gurus Declared to the World I am an Incarnation The nurturing I received from my multiple Gurus, the kind of the energy, inspiration, nurturing. Every time I can see, I remember how they supported me, celebrated me, initiated me. I very clearly remember, Issaki Swamigal selling one of his property to put the seed money to build the first ashram for me in Pavazha Kundru, in Tiruvannamalai. Then Kuppammal going from house to house and begging literally for a few rupees to complete that building. The seed capital was given by Issaki Swamigal to Kuppammal, and then Kuppammal went from home to home and house to house, shop to shop and said that, “I have to build this building, complete this building for my Swami. Actually through fundraising, she made me popular to the whole village and city. Because when people wanted to give money, they naturally asked questions. When you asked money, they’ll asked questions. Then she said, “He is the incarnation and I have to build the first ashram for him. At any time he should not suffer without a place to stay till he starts building.” She has told the whole Tiruvannamalai I am an incarnation. And the whole Tiruvannamalai knows me. That is why when I went back to Tiruvannamalai, they did not have any problem in recognising and accepting me, celebrating me. Because Kuppammal has done her groundwork. She had a very, very good respect and she commanded very high respect. All of you need to know her own house, she gave it to Arunachala Temple. So, everyone knows she is not after money. The property which she received from her ancestors, family home, she wanted to give it in my name and I said I don’t want because I was a minor also. And then she said alright, I’ll give it to Arunachaleswarar name. And, she made a will that on my Jayanthi Day, every year, the temple should do the abhishekam and puja and archana. And, she always considers me as an incarnation of Kalabhairava so she made a trust that Kalabhairava every Ashtami, they should do puja to Kalabhairava. She also used to feel I am embodiment of Meenakshi Devi. So my birth, tithi was Ashtami. So on Navaratri Day, the Ashtami Tithi Day, the puja in the temple, Navaratri Utsavam - all that should be celebrated from this money. Like that she made a will and trust and donated the home to, her house to Arunachaleswarar Temple. Whole village knows that. Because of that, they had already a high respect for her and everyone knows she is not after money. And raised one rupee by one rupee by one rupee going to shop to shop, house to house and build that ashram. Still we have photographs of me, she and my grandmother, all of them sitting in front of that ashram building and that building was not complete, half complete. I can remember. It was not just spiritual nurturing, even the basic needs of external world she was attending. The whole Guru, all the Gurus were attending I should say, because I remember very clear Annamalai Swamigal gave money and Ramsuratkumar gave. He called some of his devotees and asked them to give money.

330

नवाय नवरूपाय परमार्थैकरूपिणे ।
सर्वाज्ञानतमो-भेदभानवे चिद्घनाय ते ॥

navāya navarūpāya paramārthaikarūpiṇe ।
sarvājñānatamo-bhedabhānave cidghanāya te ॥

330. To the ever-new and the form of New who appears (by His Maya) in various new, newer, and newest forms, but yet who remains the Only form of Parmārtha (Reality), to the mass/light of Pure Consciousness, to the Sun, the destroyer of all ignorance, be these prostrations.

331

स्वतन्त्राय दयाक्लृप्तविग्रहाय शिवात्मने ।
परतन्त्राय भक्तानाꣳ भव्यानाꣳ भव्यरूपिणे ॥

svatantrāya dayāklṛptavigrahāya śivātmane ।
paratantrāya bhaktānāṁ bhavyānāṁ bhavyarūpiṇe ॥

332

विवेकिनाꣳ विवेकाय विमर्शाय विमर्शिनाम् ।
प्रकाशिनाꣳ प्रकाशाय ज्ञानिनां ज्ञानरूपिणे ॥

vivekināṁ vivekāya vimarśāya vimarśinām ।
prakāśināṁ prakāśāya jñānināṃ jñānarūpiṇe ॥

333

पुरस्तात्पार्श्वयोः पृष्ठे नमस्कुर्यादुपर्यधः ।
सदा मच्चित्तरूपेण विधेहि भवदासनम् ॥

purastātpārśvayoḥ pṛṣṭhe namaskuryāduparyadhaḥ ।
sadā maccittarūpeṇa vidhehi bhavadāsanam ॥

331-333. To the independent, to the image fashioned out of mercy (daya), to the Śiva Consciousness (Śivātmane), to the refuge of the devotees, to Him who is dependent on His devotees, to the most beautiful form, to the discrimination of the discriminators or those endowed with discrimination (viveka), to Him who is the enquiry in the enquirers of Brahman, to the light of lights, to Him who is light to those who need light, to Him who is the Knowledge of the Self in the Knowers of the Self, may these prostrations be in front, in back, above and below. May You be pleased to take Your seat in my heart at all times. May You ever dwell in my heart.

334

श्रीगुरुꣳ परमानन्दꣳ वन्दे ह्यानन्दविग्रहम् ।
यस्य सन्निधिमात्रेण चिदानन्दाय ते मनः ॥

śrīguruṁ paramānandaṁ vande hyānandavigraham ।
yasya sannidhimātreṇa cidānandāya te manaḥ ॥

334. Prostrations to the Śri Guru who is Supreme Bliss, the form (vigrah) of Ānanda, in whose mere presence, the mind assumes the form of pure Consciousness and Bliss, Cidānanada.

335

नमो’स्तु गुरवे तुभ्यꣳ सहजानन्दरूपिणे ।
यस्य वागमृत हन्ति विषꣳ सꣳसार-सꣳज्ञकम् ॥

namo’stu gurave tubhyaṁ sahajānandarūpiṇe ।
yasya vāgamṛta hanti viṣaṁ saṁsāra-saṁjñakam ॥

335. I bow down (salute) to You, O Guru, the embodiment of natural bliss, and the nectar of whose speech (vāgamṛta) destroys the poison called Saṁsāra.

336

नानायुक्तोपदेशेन तारिता शिष्यमन्ततिः ।
तत्कृता-सारवेदेन गुरुचित्पदमच्युतम् ॥

nānāyuktopadeśena tāritā śiṣyamantatiḥ ।
tatkṛtā-sāravedena gurucitpadamacyutam ॥

336. By innumerable proper instructions all your children-disciples (with the continuous lineage) have been saved. By your Grace, the essence of the Vedic knowledge, you have bestowed on them the infallible space of Gurucitpadam, the Guru’s Consciousness.

337

अच्युताय नमस्तुभ्यꣳ गुरवे परमात्मने ।
सर्वतन्त्र-स्वतन्त्राय चिद्घनान्दमूर्तये ॥

acyutāya namastubhyaṁ gurave paramātmane ।
sarvatantra-svatantrāya cidghanāndamūrtaye ॥

337. O Guru, I surrender onto You, O Acyuta, the infallible One. You are Paramātman, the Supreme Consciousness. You are independently adept in all-scriptures. You are the embodied form of mass of Consciousness and Bliss (Cidghānanda).

338

नमो’च्युताय गुरवे विद्याविद्यास्वरूपिणे ।
शिष्यसन्मार्गपटवे कृपापीयुषसिन्धवे ॥

namo’cyutāya gurave vidyāvidyāsvarūpiṇe ।
śiṣyasanmārgapaṭave kṛpāpīyuṣasindhave ॥

338. O Guru, I surrender onto You, O Acyuta, the infallible One. You are the personification of wisdom (vidyā) and unwisdom or ignorance (avidyā). You are clever in putting your disciples on the right path. You are ocean of nectar and grace. Guru’s “Love you” I also have one thing to share, where I did not listen to my Guru’s love. I wanted to share this. I want whole world to know and I want this on record where I messed it. Once Kuppammal, my Guru, was insisting that she hands over that Guru Parampara, Guru Sampradaya property to me. Legally she wants to transfer. She had one house, where I had enlightenment experience.See in those days, taking photograph, making paperwork and all is not an easy job, normal lifestyle. Especially a village like Tiruvannamalai, the whole village had only one photographer. And you have to fix a date with him only then you can fix up marriage. In Tiruvannamalai, I have seen people will first fix the date with the photographer, only then they will fix the date for their marriage, because those days only one photographer. She will go to that photographer’s house and fix the date, time and get them, and make me sit, and take the photograph. And all these dry irresponsible Vedantic ideas I had, because I didn’t want to take the responsibility. See, when she made me sit for the photography, that photographer will always insist on light. So naturally in the sun I will be sweating and vibhuti will melt. She will run and get the vibhuti and apply and then make that photographer take the photo. It’ll look like a fake, I use to think, “Eh, photo should be as I am. Why is she doing all this makeup and taking photograph?” I never understood her, her love and her strategy for my future, and the glory of this whole Sanatana Hindu Dharma. I was so silly with that so-called factual, which is too cheap. If she has not ran, and took all those pictures, Sanatana Dharma would have missed something too important! Those photographs are the legitimate evidences she recorded and created, which is, I cannot equate any value for all those things they have done, in spite of my stupid interference with their strategy. Silly interference. I’ll tell, “Eh! What is there, Pati? As I am there, let the photo be taken.” She’ll say, “No, no, wait, wait,” and she will put the vibhuti. She will tell the photographer, “Now take.” And because you can see the photograph she took of me in the Pavazha Kundru, that Guru Sampradaya place, the Guru gati. In first photograph you will see actually, I will be closing my eyes because the sun was too much. She insisted I keep my eyes open. But I was not, I said, “What is there? Close eyes or open eyes take the photograph, it’s okay.” Then she ran and brought an umbrella and held the umbrella and made sure the sun was not hurting me and I am okay for the sun and then make my eyes open and took another picture. I cannot imagine the love and the strategy. You see, she has nothing to gain. But to keep that parampara, tradition alive. Actually spiritually whatever she has to give me, she has given. It is not just spiritual alone, even socially she wanted to keep that legitimacy of continuity, sampradaya. In any normal home, paper, pen and all will not be there. I still remember forty paisa refill pen. She went and bought from the shop and got the paper from the local shop, and then made the letter she wrote as an initiation letter for me - putting the whole thing in documentation. And how much I resisted when she wanted to legally transfer that property to me!,tThe show I put up. Oh God! Because in those days, ten rupee you have to pay for electricity, standard money for the EB card, and another few rupee for the water supply. Totally per month I may have to spend thirty rupee to keep both the properties alive. She had three properties. Understand, she went house to house and begged and built that property for me. And then her house where she lived. And she wanted to buy the next house where my Parama Guru, Isakki Swamigal was living. She was actually living next to my Parama Guru, and serving him, taking care of him. She collected enough money to buy that house and transfer it to my name. She wanted to put all three properties in my name. Totally I may have to spend thirty rupee per month to maintain all that three property which was a too big responsibility for my irresponsible mind. I said, “No, no, no, no, no! She cried, I tell you, she cried. She said, “You don’t know.” She said in Tamil, “lakshoba laksham per vanthu darisanam pannitu pora edam shethram panrathuku maatendriyedaa (லே ாப ல ம் ேபர் வந் ேசத் ரத்த பண்றத் க் தரிசனம் பண்ணிட் மாட்ேடன் ேபாற இடம் . ேயடா).” She was telling, “lakhs and lakhs of people are going to come here and have darshan in the future, the kshetra you are not allowing to happen.” I was, “Eh, spiritually what you have give, you have given me. Let me be factual.” Always irresponsibility tries to show this world as the reality, and this fact is the truth. See, when I resisted my Guru putting vibhuti for me, I did not want to take the responsibility of waiting and posing till the vibhuti is put, but I used, “Ah! Let us be truthful as it is! Let us be factual! Let’s be factually correct!” But that was not the truth. I didn’t want to take the responsibility. I didn’t want to follow the strategy of my Guru. I wanted to follow only what I am convinced. Finally, she did not bother about me, she brought the registrar. Those days getting registrar and all is a big job. She brought everyone and made everyone arrange and got me. And my parents, because I was a minor, my parents have to sign on behalf of me. And I just put my foot down and said, “No!” The worst stupid thing I have done in my life is that day what I did. I want this to be on record. My father said, “Thirty rupee is nothing. I will take care.” I said, “No, no, no, I wanted to travel all over, all around India all the kshetras, because my Guru has told me to travel all the twelve Jyotirlinga. That time what, who will take care?” Actually my father was ready, my grandfather would have taken care, and, just I did not want to take the responsibility. When I travel, I did not want this on my backside of my mind as a responsibility, commitment. Most stupid. She told me, “Eh...” For any enlightenment ecosystem, samsthana saṃsthāna) - kingdom, in Hindu tradition whether it is a kingdom or monastery or aadheenam or mutt - all are just enlightenment ecosystem. The continuity of the puja, kriya, yoga, goshala, bodybuilding, that shastra abhyasa matters. The ritualistic continuity matters. She was insistence that the legal legitimate continuity is maintained. I said, “What is there? You have given me everything. I am going to maintain it. I am going to be truthful to the reality, world.” I was factually right, but, truthfully wrong. I was not integrated to the Cosmic strategy of my Guru. Because I didn’t want to take the responsibility, I was arguing with her, “Ah! I can’t even hold now. I am a minor. And why should all these be done?” And I tell you, if I would have listen to my Guru that day and accepted that legal transfer in my name - sangha would have grown thousand times more. I would’ve done to Hinduism thousand times more. The legitimate continuity she was telling me, “Eeh… you don’t know, you are going to revive thousands of mutts, ashrams, smasthanas, kingdoms where continuity is broken. This legitimacy from here only you will light the lamp of continuity.” In Hindu tradition, even one day puja is broken, it is not respected anymore. Fortunately, I did not break the puja. I maintained all the continuity, but for society what I need to show - the legitimate paperwork was missing. Finally she wrote because she called all the registrar, everyone. She wrote off all the property to Tiruvannamalai Temple. Still now, even now all the property belongs to Arunachaleswarar Temple. Her home she wanted to give it to Arunachaleswarar Temple., Sstill it is there in Arunachaleswarar Temple name. See even now spiritually I have not broken the continuity, but we are not able to expand because the property is not in my name. They are only able to do puja! I missed her strategy with my small visions, small ideas. Her strategy, if I follow, I would have done ten thousand times more good to Hinduism, Sanatana Hindu Dharma for the Cosmic good. Whenever I listen to Guru’s strategies, I won the game. I strategize for Gurus, I did the best to the world. I want this on record, if I would have listened to her words, and allowed that legal transfer to happen to my name, I would have done ten thousand times more good to Sanatana Hindu Dharma. She cried and I wanted this on record. I also sat and cried with her! I could not handle she crying, I cried. But, I did not listen. Finally, she only made the initiation document in my name, and told the local government offices, who all listen to her, to change that deed memo in my name for which my signature is not required. But for registration of the property my signature is required, she was not able to do that. She was not able to buy the property my Parama Guru - Isakki Swamigal, her Guru was staying, transfer it to my name. Because that seller was ready. Money was ready. She was ready. Registrar was ready. My parents were ready. I did not listen to her strategy. I tell you, just go with the strategies of the Master, you will do best to you and to the world. That is integrity to the Cosmos, Paramashiva. Your ideas of facts, factually right-wrong, truth, everything is too small. I just did not take the simple risk of ready to go with my Guru’s words. I did not want the accusation. People may accuse that I am behind the property or my, I am behind my Guru, because I wanted to get the property from Guru. All these stupid thoughts, stupid ideas. Whatever false accusation I was trying to avoid, that same thing is following me till now. Everyone was putting the false accusation I am putting behind the property. I could have done that job properly there and then. When I decided not to be afraid of false accusations and stand with integrity to my Master, my Guru - I have done all the best things to the world. Whenever I was selfish, to avoid the false accusations and the fear of false accusations, neither I did good to the world, nor I escaped from the false accusations. Whenever I decided not to be bothered about the false accusations, and went with my Master’s words and strategized for my Master’s words, my Guruvak, when I strategize for it, for my Guru bhakti and Guru’s words - I always good best to the world and best to myself and best to my Guru and everything came out best. And I experienced the best version, best version of the love of the Cosmos. Of course, I listen to my Guru’s words and did not break the spiritual continuity. But, I could have had a legitimate social continuity documentation to show to the world, because society needs all that. When I wanted to revive this Sanatana Hindu Dharma, I have to work with society! See, strategizing to the level where you understand is the ultimate love of Paramashiva. It’s not that if the vibhuti was not on my face, people are not going to accept me, or people are not going to accept me as an incarnation. But, she want to strategize and applying vibhuti in my face, even a common man understands I am an incarnation. That is her compassion. When Masters come down to your level, you start thinking that they have their vested interest. No. They are coming down to your level is ultimate pure love statement. Love statement. Love statement. She got and penned down. Didn’t have money to buy a full pen, just the refill which is use inside the pen. She bought that and got the paper and wrote. It’s literally… even though I resisted, she did not miss her responsibility. She finally legitimately recorded the continuity of the history. The continuity she has recorded. You can see this. This is actually the paper she wrote with her own hand. Because I was not ready for the legal registration, she made this paper. And made sure my mother safeguards all these things. She was, she inspired my mother to protect all these things. All these photograph she took, she will make me sit exactly the where, the place where, from the Isakki Swami used to sit, and she will sit and take the photograph and she will make me sit and take the photograph. I used to wonder way all these drama and nautanki, nataka (drama). Now I know. Her dedication for Sanatana Hindu Dharma, the whole integrity to Cosmos and this Guru Parampara and Hinduism, and, the whole Hinduism is nothing but the ultimate love statement given to the Universe by Paramashiva, understand. If I say, “love you.” How you feel? Paramashiva’s “love you” to all of us is Sanatana Hindu Dharma. My Guru’s integrity to Sanatana Hindu Dharma, that made her do all these drama of taking my pictures, taking legal documentation, this strategy, trying to establish the continuity. Because, you have to talk to the world in the language they understand. Her dedication. Oh God! In both places, the Arunagiri, in Adi Arunagiri, Sarvajna Peetha in Pancha Mukhum, and, in main kingdom of Arunachala; in both places where her Guru - Isakki Swamigal used to sit, she will sit and take photograph. And then she will make me sit and take photograph. She will say, “That is the systematic handing over of the peetha. All this used to look like a big drama in those day for me. Not as if flowing with that spontaneous reality. Only now I know, how much dedication she had for Sanatana Hindu Dharma which is a love statement given to Paramashiva, given by Paramashiva to the world. If I tell you, if I tell, “I love you,” how excited, joyful you feel. Same way, when Paramashiva says to the world “I love you,” that is Sanatana Hindu Dharma. Sanatana Hindu Dharma is a love statement Paramashiva made to the world. And if you are integrated to Sanatana Hindu Dharma, you are integrated to Paramashiva’s statement to the Universe. How much she struggled that I should revive this Sanatana Hindu Dharma, and continue. She was telling, “There will be thousands of mutts, ashrams, monasteries, veda patasalas, temples, kingdoms you will be reviving. In all those places continuity would have been broken many times. But if I establish one legitimate continuity with you, for you, from this lamp you can light and show the continuity.” Then I said, “Okay, I will not disturb and break the rituals. I maintain all the spiritual commitments and I’ll maintain everything spiritually.” Yes, I maintained. But if I would have listened to her and allow that legitimate paper also, now it could have become a kshetra, it could have expanded. I would have done thousand times more good to Sanatana Hindu Dharma, than what I am doing now. You can see the Brahma's, the Isakki Swamigal sitting on the same peetham. Kuppammal sitting on the same peetham and me sitting on the same peetham. All these may look very easy now, in those days it was not that easy. Getting a photographer, kavi, rudraksha, organising, kamandalu. And especially making me walk with her. On the way, half way, I’ll run away. “No, no, I am not coming today.” What all I have done, all the nautanki. For all these drama which I am narrating now, the photographer is witness because he’s still alive. He’s still alive. He is witness for all these drama I used to do. Guru’s strategy for you is the statement he makes you love you. His strategy for you is the statement he makes to you - love you. He will be integrated to you, and to Paramashiva’s love statement to the world - Sanatana Hindu Dharma. If you just follow his strategy, you complete that love circle! And love becomes love, becomes love, becomes love. When he says, “love you,” you say, “I love you,” and then I and you disappear into love, just Oneness - the pure Paramashiva’s source material love alone remains. Whoever says back to the Master, “I love you,” by listening and living Master’s strategy reaches the pure love of Paramashiva. There are photographs where on that same peetha Isakki Swami used to be sitting and then she will, she sat and took photograph and she put me and made the photograph happen. And same way in the place where the experience, three sixty degree experience Oneness, Cosmic Oneness happened. Same way, she’ll sit and take photograph and she put me and took picture. Taking photograph is not a regular usual thing in those days. It used to be very luxury, and, not like a accepted regular thing. It is like as if something is wrong! Always the middle class people think all the luxurious, rich things are wrong. Photograph used to be very rich and luxurious thing in those day. There is another one cave and Arunagiri Yogishwara’s Ananda Cave in Arunachala Hill. She sent me forcibly to that place. She was not able to walk in those days to come there and she sent me forcibly, and, made me sit there and take picture. Still remember we have it. When she organised my photographs, she could not get the deities. She missed it in all the mess I created, drama I created. She missed the deity. So she got the photographer once more and put the deities and the books next to me and take, took picture. She said, “All these shows the continuity, which is too important for revival of Sanatana Hindu Dharma.” And I said, “If I continue the rituals, that’s enough. Why should I showcase?” Because I didn’t want to take the responsibility, I used all stupid arguments to her. Now I know the importance. If I have to work with the human beings, I have to talk to human beings in the language they understand. I need proof, evidence. I have to establish credibility. With all my tantrum and under, un-understanding, but finally she succeeded. She made it. She made whatever is needed, which is one sided, which does not need my cooperation, she made everything and kept it. And protected it by giving it to my mother. That is why I want to tell you, my mother is a Sangha Mata. She kept the continuity of the sangha alive. My strategy for you is a statement I make to you - love you. You living my strategy for you is a statement you make to me - I love you. And, we both living this Oneness, loving each other, and, living the strategies, is the statement we make to Paramashiva - love you. When I strategize for you, I tell you, “love you.” When you start living it, you tell me, “love you.” When we both are living it together, we both make statement to Paramashiva - we love you. The best things to the world happens. You can see this (projected on the screen Arunachala Sampradaya photo). She did all these! Just to show the continuity. And through all these photograph, she has done so much good to the world! I tell you, even without these photographs, through my powers and spiritual knowledge and energy, I would have established and revive Sanatana Hindu Dharma, that is different. But these photographs are doing thousand times better work, better job, because, she is speaking to the world in the language world understands. Being a village women, what a strategic action she did. With all these documentation and photograph, she brought legitimacy, made my work easy, and done more good to Sanatana Hindu Dharma and humanity. If I would have listened to her and allowed that legal registration also happen, I would have done thousand times more good to the Sanatana Hindu Dharma and whole humanity. Guru’s words for you is the statement he makes to you - love you. When you live His words, you make a statement to Him - love you. When you both, when we both live happily, we make a statement to Paramashiva - love you.

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ओमच्युताय गुरवे शिष्यसꣳसारसेतवे ।
भक्तकार्यैकसिꣳहाय नमस्ते चित्सुखात्मने ॥

omacyutāya gurave śiṣyasaṁsārasetave ।
bhaktakāryaikasiṁhāya namaste citsukhātmane ॥

339. To the unfailing Guru, Acyuta, the protective bridge who helps the disciple in crossing the ocean of saṁsāra, the lion-like fulfiller of the devotees’ works, I surrender to that Citsukhātma, the overflowing joy of Self in inner-space. Guru makes disciple feel guided and protected with no words even exchanged The grace of Ramsuratkumar. I tell you... The way he will sit, and the way he will be... and the grace he radiated, brought tremendous assurance and trust about that whole science he is radiating. I tell you... It’s not that, all the time Ramsuratkumar was talking to me. Many times I will sit in one corner. Sometimes even... hundred feet away from him, and watching his activities, his behaviour, what he is doing. There were many times, not even one word will transpire between me and him, just a glance. I’ll go and sit, watch whatever he is doing and come back. Sometimes even once a week, just one smile. But, there was such tremendous reassurance,... feeling guided, feeling protected.

340

गुरुनामसमꣳ दैवꣳ न पिता न च बान्धवाः ।
गुरुनामसमः स्वामी नेदृअशꣳ परमꣳ पदम् ॥

gurunāmasamaṁ daivaṁ na pitā na ca bāndhavāḥ ।
gurunāmasamaḥ svāmī nedṛaśaṁ paramaṁ padam ॥

340. There is no God, no father, not even any relative to equal the Guru-Nāma, the name of the Master. There is no Lord to equal Guru-Nāma. There is no state to equal this Ultimate State, Param Pada of Guru. Living with the Master Living with master is just living with a dynamic diamond. When a dynamic diamond is made to work on any stone, other than the diamond part in the stone, will be completely removed. See, the quality of diamond is, when it is dynamic and made to work on any object, all other particles in that object, except its very strength diamond, it will all be removed. That’s the way the diamonds are polished. Only the diamonds are used to polish the diamond. Its like, any stone has some component of diamond in it and some component of ordinary carbon in it. When the moving dynamic diamond is made to work on that object, all other particles except the diamond component, carbon or anything, is burnt away. Same way when you live with the master, everything other than the master component in you, everything other than the cosmos in you, everything other than the enlightenment in you is burnt away. This is the greatest fortunate thing and an unfortunate thing. If you identify yourself with enlightenment, the highest reality, this is the most fortunate thing. You don’t need to do anything, just be around, hang around, that’s all. Enlightenment simply happens. But if you identify yourself with that perishing components, the carbon component or the non diamond component, this is the most torturous suffering. Very beautifully, George Gurdjeif, one of the greatest revolutionary master of modern days, says “Oonly if you associate yourself with me, be around me, but If you think you are separate, I am separate, then this is not the place for you because constantly you will feel threatened by me. If you are blissful around the master, be very clear you are enlightened”. As long as you think you are a separate entity, other than your higher reality, he will be driving you crazy; constantly shaking the very roots on which you build your foundation. But fortunately if you identify with him, with your higher reality, this is the most fortunate things can happen on the planet earth because, because without any effort the ultimate will just happen in you. Nothing needs to be done, just hanging around, but you will see his simple movements, his simple words, his just look, will be shaking the very foundation on which you are building you or the false you. Anything you do he will be constantly on his job, how he will create situations; how he will create people; how he will create happenings around you; you do not know you can’t imagine. Just the person who is walking next to you will exactly hit you where you are holding you. Don’t think he is hitting you; I am hitting you. When you are around the master, please understand, when you live around the master including a mosquito, bites you after taking permission from me about the time, the intensity of the bite and the place where you are needed to be bitten. I am very clearly telling you please understand if you are inside his sangha, you are under a controlled condition where your ego is constantly operated. Whatever is not you, but you hold on to it as you, is removed from you. I can say living around the master without resisting is living enlightenment process.; The definition of living enlightenment process. All you need is whatever you think as your intellect, your efficiency, your energy; just cooperate with that; that’s all. If he asks you to sit and unclutch, how much you can, just do that, nothing more. See, if you fall into unconsciousness, means if your mind drifts away somewhere or if you fall asleep it’s not under your control; then don’t worry about it; don’t have guilt. But as long as you are aware, as long as you have back bone to sit, as long as you have awareness to unclutch, do it. That’s all, nothing more. If he asks you to chant the mahamantra, as long as your energy is there in the throat, as long as you can hum, do it; that’s all nothing more. See when you feel you can’t do anymore, just your body falls, either falling asleep or your mind has drifted away somewhere, then nothing can be done. It’s not under your control. So you are not asked to do things which is beyond your control. Just do things which are under your control, that’s enough. Beyond your control is not under your control. It is under His control. Whether it is handling your anger, handling your hunger, handling your fear, handling your greed or handling your life, anything, as much as you can…… with the clear intention of as much as you can…. that’s all; nothing else nothing more. As long as you identify yourself with the higher reality, living around the master is the ultimate celebration and liberation. But when you identify yourself with the lower realities other than the master, the big problem is the intellect starts developing very logical principles to go against the master. I tell you; if you identify yourself with the higher reality and intensity to experience higher reality, I tell you being around the Master, living with the Master is the most fortunate thing on the planet earth because Master is the ultimate happening on the planet Earth. People were again and again asking me, actually pressurizing me “All the people who abused you should be taught a lesson Swamiji, they should all learn a lesson. They should suffer. They should understand the wrong things they are doing or they have done.” I tell them relax!! Cosmos is too intelligent and still cosmos is alive and on job. God has not retired and he is on duty. I can say how in the swimming pools they put ‘no life guard on duty’ I can say still life guard is on duty in planet earth, continuously available. Only thing, the time you understand, time he understands has little difference. See for me there is so much of time, life after life after life, giving lessons; cosmos does not need to be in a hurry. See for you, you understand time as only hundred years; one life span, but for the cosmos time is too big and we have lot of time. Let us attend the first things first, means giving living enlightenment to people first. See two thing, one, for human beings, time is…. you look at the time as only hundred years. Second, taking revenge is one of the first priorities in your life; that is the way the mental set up is. But with the cosmos two thing, one, taking revenge is not first priority, it is last priority, when you really don’t have any time, not even revenge, just let them understand what they have done, even that is a last priority when you really don't have anything to do, when you are just cleaning your teeth with the toothpick “ok, let them also understand what they have done”. That’s a last priority. Second thing: I have too much time in front of me. I simply know I am going to exist forever and ever and ever and even if these fellows disappear somewhere and appear somewhere it’s all in my territory; understand, it’s all in the territory of the cosmos. There is nothing need to be afraid, relax just relax and neither you need to have vengeance nor you need to think they will never learn a lesson. Cosmos is still on duty performing perfectly and doing what needs to be done clearly and he is really interested in making people understand, giving lessons. It is happening. So, otherwise all of you guys know that I am a very practical guy.; I am very practical.; I don’t practice or promote anything impractical. If I am just keeping quiet, relaxed way, if I am just going on promoting, telling all of you to keep quiet and be in ahimsa, non violence and compassion, understand, that’s a most powerful, effective method. The life, ordinary mind knows, is too small and I really do have some strong and higher understandings about life, even though the people who cherish enmity towards me cannot believe; cannot trust; cannot tolerate; cannot digest; they just burn when I say I am enlightened. So I really decided to change my words. I just want to be compassionate towards them; don’t want to irritate them. So I decided, from now onwards, I will tell the truth directly….. I am an incarnation!!!! Understand, the cosmos is intelligent, still on duty and still it is doing its job. All you need to do is just do not have the pressure of vengeance inside your system. I am telling you really just do not have the pressure of vengeance inside your system. See, everybody has the right to say that they are great but nobody has right to say, he is not great or he is bad; understand this is the basic law of the cosmos. So you have right to preach your greatness if you believe; you can believe it strongly and you have right to preach the whole world your greatness. No problem. Cosmos actually helps you, supports you, makes you experience it and fulfills you but you have no right to tell, somebody is bad or somebody is low, somebody is wrong. So I tell you just hold on to this one principle, nothing else is required, even inside, secret heart, the deep heart do not carry any vengeance, any anger, just relax, you will see the fun., y=You will see the fun. After all I am going to be here forever and ever and naturally all you guys who are feeling connected with me, you guys are also going to be with me forever and ever. So let’s all sit in Akshardham, means that non perishable space and watch the whole fun. See, many people come and tell me having a deep guilt inside, “Swamiji I am able to unclutch only ten minutes, then by that time my mind wanders away and I fall asleep.” I tell them “That mind wandering away or you falling asleep, are you able to control?” They say “No, we are not able to control”.” Then forget about it. It’s not your mistake. Don’t have any guilt, don’t carry any suffering.” You see as long as you have awareness about your backbone, sit straight, as long as you have awareness about you unclutch. When that is missing it is not even under your control then, don’t bother. So just two things - deep sympathy for everything around you, including the poor master and simple honest intention to do whatever you can that’s all; nothing more. So do not have guilt that you need to do something beyond what you can. See it is masters responsibility to make the whole technique as doable and the whole process as working and making it happen in your life and in your standard wherever, whatever, whichever level you are at, it’s my job, it’s not your job. Your job is only putting as much as you can, that’s all and nothing else. So living with the master is the ultimate fortune, blessing and fun. When you identify yourself with the higher reality with Himself, but when you identify yourself with your lower realities with your lower forms of existence and feeling the anger towards the master, naturally that is the worst suffering, suffocation. Because, this example if you understand, if you put a gold coin into mercury, the gold will just melt. If you look from the angle of mercury, mercury is expanding; fun for mercury. If you look from the angle of gold coin, it is just getting dissolved, suffering, suffocation for the gold coin. Do you want to become the gold metal, you want to associate yourself with the metal or with mercury? See till you come in touch with the mercury. If you associate yourself as gold it’s ok, but the moment you are touched by the mercury just jump to mercury because that is going to be there forever and ever and ever; not gold. It may be worthy in the outer world, worthy in the market but it’s not going to be eternal. So just jump to the mercury, feel connected with the higher reality; Master, is going to exist forever and ever. There is only one thing in the planet earth which starts but never ends that is living with the Master. It only starts never ends, because even after enlightenment you are going to be just with the Master or be the Master. I welcome you all for this eternal existence Nithya Ananda Loka. See this Nithyanandapuri is the dwaara gateway for the Nithyananda Loka; the existence of the ultimate. Whoever enters, experiences that highest form of existence, highest Loka.

341

एकाक्षर-प्रदातारꣳ यो गुरुꣳ नैव मन्यते ।
श्वानयोनिशतꣳ गत्वा चान्डालेष्वपि जायते ॥

ekākṣara-pradātāraṁ yo guruṁ naiva manyate ।
śvānayoniśataṁ gatvā cānḍāleṣvapi jāyate ॥

341. He who does not honor the Guru, the giver of the mono-syllable, ekākṣara, such a man having gone to take a hundred births in detestable species like that of a dog, is ultimately born in the species of a dog-eater (chānḍāla).

342

गुरुत्यागाद्-भवेन्मृत्युर्-मन्त्र-त्यागाद्दरिद्रता ।
गुरुमन्त्र-परित्यागी रौरवꣳ नरकꣳ व्रजेत् ॥

gurutyāgād-bhavenmṛtyur-mantra-tyāgāddaridratā ।
gurumantra-parityāgī rauravaṁ narakaṁ vrajet ॥

342. By abandoning one’s Guru, one goes to death, by abandoning the Mantra, one endures poverty. The abandoner of Guru-Mantra goes to the hell known as Raurava.

343

शिवक्रोधाद्-गुरुस्त्राता गुरुक्रोधाच्छिवो न हि ।
तस्मात्सर्व-प्रयत्नेन गुरोराज्ञा न लन्घयेत् ॥

śivakrodhād-gurustrātā gurukrodhācchivo na hi ।
tasmātsarva-prayatnena gurorājñā na langhayet ॥

343. From the anger of Śiva, Guru is able to save you. But even Śiva cannot save you from the anger of Guru. Therefore, one should by all means and efforts not disobey the orders of Guru, Guruājñā.

344

सꣳसारसागर-समुद्धरणैकमन्त्रꣳ ब्रह्मादिदेव-मुनिपूजित-सिद्धमन्त्रꣳ ।
दारिद्र्य-दुःख-भवरोगविनाश-मन्त्रꣳ वन्दे महाभयहरꣳ गुरुराजमन्त्रꣳ ॥

saṁsārasāgara-samuddharaṇaikamantraṁ brahmādideva-munipūjita-siddhamantraṁ ।
dāridrya-duḥkha-bhavarogavināśa-mantraṁ vande mahābhayaharaṁ gururājamantraṁ ॥

344. The one Mantra that takes you out of the ocean of saṁsāra, the Siddha Mantra that is worshipped by Brahma, all other Devas, and the perfected Sages, the Mantra that destroys poverty, suffering and the disease of material existence - I worship that great Gururāja Mantra, the king of Mantra, which dispels the great fear.

345

सप्तकोटि-महामन्त्राश्-चित्तविभ्रम्शकारकाः ।
एक् एव महामन्त्रो गुरुरित्यक्षरद्वयम् ॥

saptakoṭi-mahāmantrāś-cittavibhramśakārakāḥ ।
ek eva mahāmantro gururityakṣaradvayam ॥

345. The seven crores of Mahāmantras cause mere restlessness, bewilderment in your inner-space. There is only one Mahāmantra, ‘Guru’, comprising of the two syllables—‘Gu’ ‘Ru’.

346

एवमुक्त्वा महादेवः पार्वतीम् पुनर्ब्रबीत् ।
इदमेव परꣳ तत्त्वꣳ श्रुणु Dएवि सुखावहꣳ ॥

evamuktvā mahādevaḥ pārvatīm punarbrabīt ।
idameva paraṁ tattvaṁ śruṇu Devi sukhāvahaṁ ॥

346. Having said this, Mahādeva addressing Pārvatī again said these words; this is certainly the one Supreme Tattva, O Devi, listen to this; it will carry all happiness to you.

347

गुरुतत्त्वमिदꣳ देवि सर्वमुक्तꣳ समासतः ।
रहस्यमिदम्-अव्यक्तन्न वदेद्यस्य कस्यचित् ॥

gurutattvamidaṁ devi sarvamuktaṁ samāsataḥ ।
rahasyamidam-avyaktanna vadedyasya kasyacit ॥

347. Thus the entire Guru Tattva, the Truth of Guru, O Devi, has been transmitted to you in a summary. This is the great unexpressed, unmanifest secret. Therefore, this should not be given to anyone.

348

न मृषा स्यादियꣳ देवि मदुक्तिः सत्यरूपिणी ।
गुरुगीतासमꣳ स्तोत्रꣳ नास्ति नास्ति महीतले ॥

na mṛṣā syādiyaṁ devi maduktiḥ satyarūpiṇī ।
gurugītāsamaṁ stotraṁ nāsti nāsti mahītale ॥

348. O Devi, this shall never become untrue. Whatever is said by Me is the very form of Truth itself (Satyarupiṇī). Like the Guru Gītā, there is no stotra in this whole world; there is none, there is none.

349

गुरुगीतामिमाꣳ देवि भवदुःख-विनाशिनीम् ।
गुरुदीक्षाविहीनस्य पुरतो न पठेत् क्वचित् ॥

gurugītāmimāṁ devi bhavaduḥkha-vināśinīm ।
gurudīkṣāvihīnasya purato na paṭhet kvacit ॥

349. This Guru Gītā, O Devī, is the destroyer of sufferings of Existence. To one without Guru Dīkṣā, initiation from Guru, this should never be read out or studied. Initiation Whenever a Master transmits the experience which has His bio-memory, into another body to become his/her own bio-memory, the process is called initiation. This process could lead to a physiological mutation or conscious ecstasy or simple awareness experience or a deep restful awareness. Now whatever I describe, each layer is one category; a Master can transmit the physiological experience, physiological mutation, or an experience. When I was in prison one day I was reading Swami Swatmarama’s Hatha Yoga Pradipika. There is a very beautiful translation by Swami Satyananda Sarswati. I have read so many translations but nothing like Swami Satyananda Saraswati’s; he has done so much of seva to this Hatha Yoga tradition. I really suggest all our devotees to use Swami Satyanandaji’s translation and his commentary. Bihar school of yoga has done a great service in preserving and protecting our yogic and vedantic sciences. I was reading a certain process which works on breathing and directly expands your muscles. I was just very playfully playing with that technique, just scanning it as it is described/prescribed in the sutra. I just tried to play with my breathing. I could see immediately changes in my chakras, the vibrational changes and immediately the muscles started bulging, expanding. I was really surprised that Hatha Yoga is so powerful. Maybe the whole thing happened within two and a half seconds and within two -three minutes I could see physically the muscles change. Understand, so simple breathing can create particular vibration in your chakras and that can create certain changes in your muscles. When a person lifts 10 kg weight in the hand or when he works out ten times what the breathing changes, and the changes in the different chakras I was able to clearly observe. Then I decided to reverse the process, create that vibration in the chakras without lifting the weight, I could see very clearly that with the same vibrations created in the chakra, the same breathing change happens and the same muscles are getting built. So now we know the formula to shape your body without working out. We know the secret of a lazy man's technique to build body, to build mass, to build muscles. I was really surprised. Then I started working deeply on it developing a kind of a formula. You see when a person starts working out, lifting weights, the first thing happens is a certain unit of muladhara is awakened, the desire to build the body. Anything physical is sexual. Please understand, anything physical starts from sex, because body is built on sex. Second step, I saw the worry, manipuraka gets activated and third the anahata vibrations happen. Then fourth, the thing that happens is the fear, the muscles start getting the fear of losing their shape or the old muscles. See when you build muscles, the old muscles get the fear that they will lose their shape, they are losing their individual identity, it is disappearing. Then comes jealousy, “I should be like that body. That jealousy acts as a life pattern in making the old muscles to inspire and to become new muscles so that death is tolerated; the death is accepted; because the new muscles are inspired by the jealousy, by comparison. I could see very clearly the pattern, and I thought, can this pattern be transmitted? I discovered two processes, two methods. One, making a disciple to sit and creating certain vibrations, certain mantras, to create the same chakra vibrations in that person; that’s one process. Second, just by the touch, telling the disciple to be in a restful awareness and just by the touch, the formula, I am able to transmit that formula. So just by the touch if the formula is transmitted, that is called initiation. Please understand, when a disciple sits in an unclutched way or in a receptive mood, any experience transmitted from one biomemory to another biomemory without any effort from the disciple’s side is called initiation. If the same thing is transmitted with little effort from the disciple and little effort from the Master it is called process. When the same thing is transmitted, more effort from the disciple and less effort from the Master, it is called meditation technique. If the whole thing is transmitted only by a disciple’s efficiency and the disciple’s work, the Master gives only instruction, it is called teaching. Teaching, technique, process, initiation, at different levels Master works with disciples. In initiation there are so many things, one - awakening the non mechanical parts of your brain. See when you come with a certain understanding, when you land on certain understanding, suddenly some parts of your brain which were not available to you, which were not working, will be awakened. I tell you, simple intellectual understanding that you are the cosmos, not experience, simple intellectual understanding, you are the cosmos, awakens immediately certain parts of non mechanical parts of the brain in you. Certain parts of your brain which is non mechanical is awakened immediately just by the simple intellectual understanding; nothing more. You will be really surprised, now I am actually working to do scientific research on how a simple understanding can awaken the non mechanical parts of the brain, then meditation, then process, the initiation. There are so many levels. Even simple intellectual understanding if it is transmitted, it awakens certain parts of non mechanical parts of your brain, ecstasy, the devotion, the love. You don’t need to do anything, just if you see the love and the devotion, ecstasy, in the masters eyes, it will just be caught by your heart. That is why, around the world people crave so much for this emotional expression visually being presented. Why do you think so much of craving for this reality shows, this cinema, this TV? Why do you think when you see a kind of an emotional experience in the eyes of people, your emotion just picks it up. It just starts enjoying itself. So when you see something in the master’s eyes, it is the highest pure expression, simply your heart catches it. Some people were asking “Swamiji, why did you make a gold coated throne for pujari, for a priest, in your temple?” I tell them the love and devotion with which the priest looks at the deity will be caught automatically, spontaneously by a devotee. So the job of the priest is not physical job, it is a conscious decision. He is respected because he takes the conscious decision of radiating love and devotion, respect to the deity as god, continuously. So when he looks at the deity, the very eyes should radiate love, the very being should radiate devotion, so that the devotees who are onlookers, who are first timers, who are new, catches that love, catches that devotion, catches that ecstasy. This is what I call initiation into Bhakti. Transmitting knowledge, ideas, and awakening the non mechanical parts of your brain is initiation into Shravana; into the truths. Transmitting the joy and ecstasy from the eyes, into an onlooker, an ordinary devotee, is initiation into Bhakti. Same way transmitting the strong formulas through vibration or through the presence, into the disciple and making him experience the deep restful awareness is Dhyaana, initiation into meditation or process, and initiating a disciple just by transmitting the bio memory and putting the disciple into that experience is Jeevan Mukti Deeksha. That’s the word I can use…. Jeevan Mukti Deeksha. So, there are various levels of initiation; various ways of initiation. I can tell you one thing, if you just be passive even an ordinary bamboo, an ordinary hill, an ordinary river, can become a guru, they can initiate you. I myself first was initiated by Arunachala hill. Of course I can’t say that hill is an ordinary hill. If you have received initiation, then it becomes a guru. You can never conceive it as an ordinary hill. Maybe for a normal man it is an ordinary hill. I tell you when you are passive Ganga can initiate you. I have known hundreds of sadhus who have been initiated directly by Ganga Maata, river Ganges. I myself had an initiation from Arunachala hill. I had a deep process with Ganga Maata. I used to sit with her, sunrise to sunset just watching things floating on her. Maybe in ten - fifteen days, I realized whatever change happening in my inner space is also just like things floating on me, like how things are floating in Ganga Maata. Nothing touches Ganga, so nothing touches me. I can say this is a process I had with Ganga. It became a realization, just like how when things float on Ganga you don’t worry. See, like this rainy season, so many things will be floating in the Ganga including human bodies. If you sit in Calcutta on the bank of the Ganges, you will see animals, human bodies, plants, trees, huge trees which are sometimes like a 50- 60 feet length, huge trees with the whole root they will be brought by Ganges and it will be floating. So, so many things will be floating. I will just see; sit and watch. In few days I realized; just like how things are flowing in Ganges and never Ganges is affected, same way I saw that sleeping, waking, dream state, seeing, visualizing, all the triputi bedha, all the different distractions, different changes in my inner space are just flowing and nothing is touching me, nothing is touching me….. untouched. So understand being passive even the river, hill, simple plants, trees can initiate you. I have seen hundreds of people initiated by our Kalpataru banyan tree. Our Kalpataru is a living tree. All you need is just being passive, simply he can initiate you. I can’t even say he, I can’t say he or she because there are two enlightened masters body buried below. This tree has grown out of two enlightened master’s body, one is a male body and another one is a female body. So, Kalpataru can just straight away initiate you and I have seen Zen master, one Zen master who was initiated by a bamboo. He was sitting under a bamboo grove and he was so passive, the bamboo initiated him and he became enlightened. So, transmission of enlightenment without anything, just by the transmission of bio memory is initiation.

350

रहस्यमत्यन्त-रहस्यमेतन्न पापिना लभ्यमिदꣳ महेश्वरि अनेकजन्मार्जितपुण्यपाकाद्-गुरोस्तु तत्त्वꣳ लभते मनुष्यः ॥

rahasyamatyanta-rahasyametanna pāpinā labhyamidaṁ maheśvari anekajanmārjitapuṇyapākād-gurostu tattvaṁ labhate manuṣyaḥ ॥

350. This is the extreme secret. This greatest secret of all secrets should not be given out to a sinner, O Maheśvari. Only by the ripening of the virtuous acts (puṇya) gained in many, many births that a human becomes eligible to be enriched with this Guru Tattva, the Truth of Guru.

351

यस्य प्रसादाद्-अहमेव सर्वꣳ मय्येव सर्वꣳ परिकल्पितꣳ च इत्थꣳ विजानामि सदात्मरूपꣳ तस्याꣳघ्रिपद्मꣳ प्रणतो’स्मि नित्यꣳ ॥

yasya prasādād-ahameva sarvaṁ mayyeva sarvaṁ parikalpitaṁ ca itthaṁ vijānāmi sadātmarūpaṁ tasyāṁghripadmaṁ praṇato’smi nityaṁ ॥

351. By whose Grace (prasād) I realize now that ‘I am everything—aham eva sarvaṁ’ and ‘In me everything is imagined and created—mayi eva sarvaṁ parikalpitaṁ’, thus by whose Grace I am able to fully know Sadātmarūpa form of true Self, to His lotus feet, I always offer my worship. ajñānatimirāndhasya viṣayākrāntacetasaḥ | jñānaprabhāpradānena prasādaṁ kuru me prabho

352. On me, who is blinded by the darkness of ignorance (ajñana), whose mind is captured by the sense pleasures, O Prabhu, shower Your Grace (prasād) by bestowing Jñānaprabhā, the light of knowledge.

352

इति श्रीगुरुगीतायाꣳ तृतीयो’ध्यायः ।
इति श्रीस्कन्दपुराणे उत्तरखण्डे ईश्वरपार्वती सꣳवादे गुरुगीता समाप्त ॥

iti śrīgurugītāyāṁ tṛtīyo’dhyāyaḥ ।
iti śrīskandapurāṇe uttarakhaṇḍe īśvarapārvatī saṁvāde gurugītā samāpta ॥

Thus ends the third chapter of the Śrī Guru Gītā. Thus ends the Śrī Guru Gītā being īśvarapārvatī Saṁvāda, the sacred words between Uma-Maheśvara (Pārvati-Śiva), in the Uttarkhaṇḍa, later section of the Skanda Purāṇa.