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Chapter Number: 1

Chapter Name: What is feeling connection?

Chapter Number: 2

Chapter Name: Connecting to your highest possibility

Chapter Number: 3

Chapter Name: Joy of letting go

Chapter Number: 4

Chapter Name: Vitarka - feeling connection beyond logic

Chapter Number: 5

Chapter Name: Feeling connection is like a free download

Chapter Number: 6

Chapter Name: The last bliss is discipleship

Chapter Number: 7

Chapter Name: Vitarka is not blind faith

Chapter Number: 8

Chapter Name: Samprajnata Samadhi experience of Sri Ramakrishna

Chapter Number: 9

Chapter Name: How I experienced Samprajnata Samadhi

Chapter Number: 10

Chapter Name: TECHNIQUE: Experiencing Vitarka

Chapter Number: 1

Chapter Name: What is a relationship?

Chapter Number: 2

Chapter Name: Need for a living Master

Chapter Number: 3

Chapter Name: No organization can replace a living Master

Chapter Number: 4

Chapter Name: You choose your relationship with the Master

Chapter Number: 5

Chapter Name: Five ways to connect with the Master

Chapter Number: 6

Chapter Name: Levels of feeling-connection

Chapter Number: 7

Chapter Name: TECHNIQUE: Living like the Master

Chapter Number: 1

Chapter Name: Prayer and feeling connection

Chapter Number: 2

Chapter Name: TECHNIQUE: Tuning in to the Divine vibration

Chapter Number: 3

Chapter Name: Upanishad and feeling connection

Chapter Number: 4

Chapter Name: TECHNIQUE: Being in Upanishad constantly

Chapter Number: 5

Chapter Name: Initiation and feeling connection

Chapter Number: 6

Chapter Name: Healing and feeling connection

Chapter Number: 7

Chapter Name: Miracles and feeling connection

Chapter Number: 1

Chapter Name: Feeling connection destroys suffering

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Chapter Name: TECHNIQUE: Opening the Heart

Chapter Number: 3

Chapter Name: Feeling connection leads to unshakeable trust

Chapter Number: 4

Chapter Name: Feeling connection helps you at the moment of death

Chapter Number: 1

Chapter Name: Catching the Master

Chapter Number: 2

Chapter Name: Missing the Master

Chapter Number: 3

Chapter Name: Abusing the Master

Chapter Number: 4

Chapter Name: TECHNIQUE: Connect with the Existential Energy

Chapter Number: 1

Chapter Name: Does feeling connection carry over to the next birth?

Chapter Number: 2

Chapter Name: Can we have feeling connection with several deities and Gurus simultaneously?

Chapter Number: 3

Chapter Name: Can you throw more light on the four kinds of feeling connection described in the Vaishnava tradition?

Chapter Number: 4

Chapter Name: I used to do a lot of pooja and temple-hopping earlier, but after coming to you I have lost interest in all that. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Chapter Number: 5

Chapter Name: You mentioned about feeling-connection with God or Guru. What is the feeling-connection actually? Is it just continuously thinking of Guru?

Chapter Number: 6

Chapter Name: How does the feeling connection to something which is higher than me nullify the constant harassment I go through from my body and mind?

Chapter Number: 7

Chapter Name: Is there a way for us to progress faster in our spiritual practice?

Chapter Number: 8

Chapter Name: What is the path to experience intense feeling connection?

Chapter Number: 1

Chapter Name: TECHNIQUE: Connecting to Oneself

Chapter Number: 2

Chapter Name: TECHNIQUE: Connecting to Others

Chapter Number: 3

Chapter Name: TECHNIQUE: Connecting to Nature

Chapter Number: 4

Chapter Name: TECHNIQUE: Connecting to Life

Chapter Number: 5

Chapter Name: TECHNIQUE: Connecting to Existence

Chapter Name: Connecting to your highest possibility

Chapter Name: Joy of letting go

Chapter Number: 12

Chapter Name: A small story:

Chapter Name: The father of a young boy was training his little son to move a big stone.

Chapter Name: The boy tried his best, but he was not able to move it.

Chapter Name: The father said, 'You have not used all your potentiality. Use all your potential power.'

Chapter Name: The son was completely tired. He shouted at his father,' What are you talking about? You are saying I have not used all my potential power. I am tired. Are you not able to see?'

Chapter Name: The father said, 'Why, you could have asked me. I am also your power!'

Chapter Name: But sometimes, people carry a strong arrogance, 'I know many things, I have seen so many things, I know so many gurus, I know so many things.' Or they are stuck with some moral ideas.

Chapter Name: You see, you constantly project to people that you cannot be bent so easily. You take that as a pride. And now slowly, slowly, you start telling that to yourself and cheat yourself also.'

Chapter Name: So now, even if you want to bend, one part of you will tell you, 'You are not the guy to bend! Why are you bending?' This is like having a wife inside you, to oppose you at every step! Then live with that fellow, that's all! So just make this decision, 'I want to have it and it should happen.'

Chapter Name: Surrender, bhakti and all that - let it happen on its own. You don't ask for that. You ask only for friendliness and the deep feeling connection.

Chapter Name: Actually, when a person has vitarka, I see very clearly that there is a tunnel of energy between him and me, like a bridge. So when I bless him, 'Let the experience happen in you,' the energy flows into him just like a ball.

Chapter Name: Whenever a person with vitarka comes around me, it is such a joy. You see, in my whole leela, all of you enjoy, my shakti (power), and I enjoy your bhakti (devotion). That is the way the whole leela happens.

Chapter Number: 13

Chapter Name: Vitarka - feeling connection beyond logic

Chapter Name: Vitarka means feeling connected beyond your logic. It is 'just knowing'!

Chapter Name: Listen: knowing that something is the truth by your own experience is anubhooti.

Chapter Name: Knowing that something is the truth because somebody whom you really feel connected has experienced it is vitarka.

Chapter Name: When you have vitarka, all my experiences become your experiences, even before you go through the whole process. Having vitarka is almost like directly downloading all my products, and straightaway patenting them in your name! If you don't have vitarka, you need to pay for every product I patented it and buy it; you need to work for it. If you have vitarka, it is like a straight free download.

Chapter Name: When you have vitarka, all the experiences, all the components of jeevanmukti (living enlightenment) with which I am living, will straightaway become your life-changing or decision-making strategies, even if you have not yet experienced jeevanmukti.

Chapter Name: For example, I do not worry because I know that eternal time is in front

Chapter Name: of me. There is no stress. Even if I leave this body, I can take one more body if I want and come back and do my work. Eternity is there in front of me. This is my experience.

Chapter Name: When you have vitarka with me, just because it is my experience, you also know beyond doubt that it is the truth. And you can simply become stress-free.

Chapter Name: Feeling connection is like a free download

Chapter Name: I always tell people that by begging dollar by dollar, you will never become a billionaire. Have you seen anybody becoming a billionaire just by begging dollar by dollar? No. In the same way, there is nobody who achieved enlightenment by meditating every day! Begging one-one dollar is like meditating ten minutes every day. What will you achieve? Only through a Master's initiation will the enlightenment be achieved. Initiation is like having a billionaire uncle who dies and leaves everything to you in his will!

Chapter Name: How much time will it take for you to work, work, work and have all the experience and powers of enlightenment that I have? It will take too much of time..! Only then can you be stress-free. By that time you will be in your grave!

Chapter Name: That is why they say in the yoga sutras that twelve years of sadhana (spiritual practice) is needed for any experience. If you don't have vitarka, twelve years is needed.

Chapter Name: By teaching, teaching, teaching, by giving you technical knowledge and processes every day, I can initiate you into each component of jeevanmukti

Chapter Name: The last bliss is discipleship

Chapter Name: The last bliss, the ultimate bliss, the final bliss you experience, is that space of being a disciple. I tell you, enjoy it now itself! Don’t miss it. I can say it is the last bliss you can experience on the inner journey. After this, no more bliss! Even enlightenment is beyond bliss. There, the idea of bliss, joy, suffering - everything disappears. You get into a different spectrum.

Chapter Name: Enlightenment is not a boring spectrum, but there is no bliss in it as you perceive. Even when I get into samadhi, there is no bliss for me inside. But the way the energy expresses, you feel I am in bliss. But inside, the idea of even bliss does not exist.

Chapter Name: (living enlightenment)one by one. I can go on transmitting it, component by component. But by the time all the components are reproduced in you and imbibed by you, so much time gets wasted.

Chapter Name: For example, if you needed to personally reinvent everything you use in your life, can you imagine how it will be like? First you need to invent a light, then the switch, then the bed, then air-conditioning, then your car, then your house…and by that time you will be in your grave!

Chapter Name: Suppose you say, ‘No, I don’t believe in anybody, I don’t accept anybody, so I am not going to accept what anyone else has invented. I am going to reinvent each thing myself. I will not bow down to Edison by using the electric light which he discovered. I will reinvent it myself.’ What is going to happen? Edison is not going to lose anything; you will be losing! So vitarka is actually an intelligent game; it is not a foolish game.

Chapter Name: When you have vitarka, my experience becomes like your experience for you. Even without the direct experience of jeevanmukti, you can straightaway take thousands of amazing decisions that can be taken only with a jeevanmukta’s mental set-up. Straightaway you can start living, radiating, taking decisions from a liberated space. Vitarka helps you live enlightenment without your having to go through all the processes and struggle and reinvention.

Chapter Name: That is why so much there is so much emphasis on feeling-connection and guru krpa (grace of the guru) in our tradition. Even though a few people have exploited the tradition by sitting in the guru’s seat without becoming enlightened, the tradition itself cannot be rejected, because it has helped too many people.

Chapter Name: Vitarka is not blind faith

Chapter Name: One important thing to understand is that vitarka is not blind faith.

Chapter Name: It is not blind faith, but it is beyond logic. You just know that it is true, even without experiencing it. Whatever you always know was true, Master will express exactly that. That is vitarka.

Chapter Name: But there are some people who are very adamant and say, ‘I will earn and I will live. I will work, so tapas, get the experience, and only then I will enjoy it.’ Then go ahead! There are other people who say, ‘Who cares whose wealth it is; as long as it is around me, it is mine! Come on, let us start enjoying it!’ Then go ahead and enjoy it!

Chapter Name: So you should find out which category you belong to, and decide accordingly.

Chapter Name: Deciding based on intelligence, deciding based on the right understanding,

Chapter Number: 22

Chapter Name: Samprajnata Samadhi experience of Sri Ramakrishna

Chapter Name: Ramakrishna was deeply connected to the form of the goddess Kali, whom he related to as his mother. He had all kinds of experiences with the deity of Kali. He was living with that deity, with Devi; a very powerful feeling connection.

Chapter Name: He used to keep a small thread near her nose just to check whether she is really breathing, and he says she always used to breathe, and he always saw the thread moving with the air with her breathing.

Chapter Name: He experienced so many other things with that deity. I will share the story of how he put the conch shell bangle on the Kali deity.

Chapter Name: Someone made an offering of conch shell bangles for Kali in the Dakshineshwar temple, where Sri Ramakrishna was the priest. The deity had four hands, and they were able to slip the bangles onto three of her hands. In the fourth hand she held a large 'shira' (the severed head of a demon), so the bangles would not go past, without damaging

Chapter Name: the deity or the bangle. But when Sri Ramakrishna was alone with the deity, he managed to slip the bangle onto her fourth wrist! Everyone was surprised and asked 'How did it happen? How did you put it on without damaging either the bangle or the deity?'

Chapter Name: Sri Ramakrishna said so simply, 'Oh, I just requested her to drop the head for a moment, so she gave it in my hand and I put on the bangle for her. Then I told her to please hold the head again, and she held it, that's all!'

Chapter Name: This is the power of mind over matter! Sri Ramakrishna was connected to Kali that deeply. He was constantly living in samprajnata samadhi.

Chapter Number: 23

Chapter Name: How I experienced Samprajnata Samadhi

Chapter Name: I will tell you the story of how I experienced Samprajnata Samadhi.

Chapter Name: When I was a child, I heard a story about a child saint called Nambiandar Nambi. The child was a devotee of Lord Ganesha. Whenever he offered food to Ganesha, the deity would actually eat the food.

Chapter Name: When I heard this story, the first thought I had is tarka - when he can make Ganesha eat food, I can also make him eat food! That is tarka, logic.

Chapter Name: I also had a small Ganesha deity with which I used to play. So I tried to feed my Ganesha, but that fellow did not eat!

Chapter Name: So I started thinking about how I can make my Ganesha also eat food.

Chapter Name: In Indian villages, if kids do not eat properly, the elders usually threaten them by saying, 'If you don't eat your food, I will put you in the well.' In all Indian houses they have an open well. And that is the usual threatening method!

Chapter Name: TECHNIQUE: Experiencing Vitarka

Chapter Name: ABOUT THIS TECHNIQUE

Chapter Name: Vitarka is the sweetest and one of most beautiful ways to connect to the Divine. Unlike any other spiritual practice, here the path and the goal are both equally blissful. Losing yourself in the Divine is a joy in itself. It is its own reward.

Chapter Name: When you experience deep vitarka with someone, that person becomes your doorway to the Divine. When you lose yourself in the other, you are taking a leap out of yourself. You experience the joy of going beyond your boundary and merging into another.

Chapter Name: This technique is a simple but effective way to awaken the mood of vitarka in you.

Chapter Name: DURATION

Chapter Name: Not applicable

Chapter Name: INSTRUCTIONS

Chapter Name: Close your eyes and sit in a relaxed way.

Chapter Name: Bring to your mind any person who awakens devotion in you. It could be any person who has enriched your life, to whom you turn for spiritual clarity, who means a lot to you.

Chapter Name: It could be a family member, a friend, a teacher or Guru, or even your chosen deity.

Chapter Name: Remember him/her clearly. Recall how he/she has caused great transformation in you, in your life. Remember how much he/she added to your being.

Chapter Name: When you remember the person, the emotions of joy, reverence and devotion spontaneously arises in you.

Chapter Name: Allow this feeling to grow. Experience the connection with the person deeply.

Chapter Name: Deeply relax into his/her memory, into his/her being. Just disappear into his/her being, into the beautiful, loving intimate memories of him/her.

Chapter Name: Relax and merge into his being.

Chapter Number: 2

Chapter Name: Master disciple – the eternal relationship

Chapter Name: What is a relationship?

Chapter Name: A relationship is that which can reveal to you those dimensions in you that you don’t even know exist inside you.

Chapter Name: It gives you the experience and proves to you that you are also capable of loving someone or something. It shows that you can also love and you can also sacrifice to an amazing extent for the sake of someone.

Chapter Name: Relationships have the power to awaken your unknown dimensions.

Chapter Name: Your different relationships bring out the various dimensions in you. Your beloved brings out the power of love in you. Your friends bring out the feeling of friendship in you. Your children unleash the motherliness dimension in you. Your parents bring out the child dimension in you. Master is the person who awakens the unknown enlightenment dimension in you. Only the Master can bring out all the dimensions in you.

Chapter Name: A relationship with anyone or anything, no matter who or what, will lead you to the ultimate relationship with the Master. When you fall in love, whether it is with a man, woman or child, deity or Master, you will see dimensions of you that you never knew existed inside you. With the flowering of love, you become more responsible. You experience the very juice of life.

Chapter Name: Need for a living Master

Chapter Name: No organization can replace a living Master

Chapter Number: 1

Chapter Name: You choose your relationship with the Master

Chapter Name: When people ask me, 'Are you God?' I tell them, 'It depends on you!'

Chapter Name: It depends on you. I am constantly available, open. If you want to connect with me as a teacher, you can connect with me and carry the knowledge. If you want to connect with me as a Master, you can have initiation from me. Only the Master can initiate; the teacher can't initiate. The teacher can teach, but only the Master can initiate.

Chapter Name: If you connect with me as God or Divine, the Ultimate energy, you will carry the experience itself, not just the initiation. It depends on how much your inner space is made available for me, that's all.

Chapter Name: Let me tell you one thing clearly, I am not here to prove that I am God.

Chapter Name: I am here to prove that you are God. I am not here to prove my divinity.

Chapter Name: I am here to prove your divinity.

Chapter Name: If you relate just intellectually, you will carry the knowledge. If you relate with a little bit of emotion, a little bit of love, you will carry the initiation; it means that whatever I can't express through words also will go into you - the software will be transmitted. If you are able to connect with the Being, deeply, you don't need initiation; the very experience will be transmitted. It depends on each person and to what level he connects, to what level he experiences.

Chapter Number: 2

Chapter Name: Five ways to connect with the Master

Chapter Name: There are five attitudes with which to relate with the Master. Through each attitude, a different path unfolds, taking you closer to yourself.

Chapter Name: One path is the attitude of the mother towards her child, looking at the Master as your child. This is called vatsalya bhava which is how Yashoda, Krishna's foster mother, related with Him.

Chapter Name: Another is the attitude of the child towards the mother. This is called matru bhava. This is how Ramakrishna related with goddess Kali, looking at the Master as mother.

Chapter Name: The third is the attitude of a friend, looking at the Master as your friend. This is called sakha bhava. This is how Kuchela and Arjuna related with Krishna.

Chapter Name: The next is the attitude of a servant. It is called dasa bhava. It refers to the Master-disciple relationship wherein the disciple feels like a faithful servant of the Master.

Chapter Name: This was how Hanuman related with Rama in the famous Indian epic Ramayana.

Chapter Name: The ultimate is the attitude of the beloved, which is beyond body and beyond gender. It is called madhura bhava. Let me be very clear: the attitude of a beloved is in no way connected to whether you are a male or female. It is beyond gender consciousness. It is just a feeling of intense connection.

Chapter Name: The last is the maha bhava. It is all the other five bhavs put together and something more! That is what the Master-disciple relationship is all

Chapter Name: Levels of feeling-connection

Chapter Name: TECHNIQUE: Living like the Master

Chapter Name: DURATION: Not applicable

Chapter Name: INSTRUCTIONS

Chapter Number: 3

Chapter Name: Dimensions of feeling connection

Chapter Name: Prayer and feeling connection

Chapter Name: Prayer is a powerful way of feeling connected to God or the Master. A sincere prayer has great benefits. When you are connected to the Master, the prayer establishes a direct bridge between you and the all-powerful, compassionate Existence in the form of the Master.

Chapter Name: Prayer can directly remove all the physical and mental impurities you carry inside you. It can simply dissolve all the sins you have been carrying. It is an integrated, focused direction of your energy towards the Ultimate energy.

Chapter Name: Can the power of prayer be proven scientifically? If you pray for someone, can that person be benefited? Research has been done especially over the last decade to answer some of these questions.

Chapter Name: Some of the findings are listed below:

Chapter Name: In a 1998 study, some selected practicing healers from a number of traditions including Buddhism, Christianity, Indian shamans etc. were supplied with the first names, blood counts and photographs of twenty patients with advanced AIDS. Every day for an hour per day, the healers concentrated their thoughts on the pictures of these patients, for ten weeks. There was another group of twenty other AIDS patients who were left without being thought about in this way. An important thing to be noted in this is that the patients had no idea that they were being prayed for.

Chapter Name: It was found that the patients who received this distance healing had fewer and less severe new illnesses, fewer doctor visits, fewer hospitalizations and in general were more positive than those who were not prayed for. This was to the extent of fifty percent to almost hundred percent better results than the group not prayed for.

Chapter Name: Similar experiments on mice also showed that the distance healing shrank tumors.

Chapter Name: Experiments have also shown that heart attack patients who don't even know that they have been prayed for recover much faster and better.

Chapter Name: In a similar study in Paris a group of sixty terminally ill patients in a hospital were prayed for while the patients themselves were unaware of this. Another group of sixty terminally ill patients were also monitored who did not receive anything other than the medications. The other groups of sixty patients were also receiving medications.

Chapter Name: It was found that the group that received the prayers lived an average of four months longer than those who did not. Not only that, five of the patients who were prayed for even recovered completely. On the other hand, in the other group of sixty patients who did not receive prayers, none of them got well.

Chapter Name: The power that prayer has on one's own self has also been found to be remarkable. Various top universities in the United States have studied these effects.

Chapter Name: Some of the benefits found include:

Chapter Name: Forty percent lower death rate from heart disease and cancer

Chapter Name: Up to fourteen times higher chances of survival after surgery for heart patients

Chapter Name: Lesser hospitalization time - as little as three weeks

Chapter Name: Some studies done include:

Chapter Name: A study in San Francisco in the eighties was done on about four hundred patients that showed that the group receiving healing prayer not only had fewer deaths, they also had lesser need for CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and mechanical ventilators as well as antibiotics.

Chapter Name: An interesting study was done in France to study the effect of thought on the growth of microorganisms. In the experiment, a group of people was asked to influence the growth of some destructive fungi just by their intention. The ambient conditions were tightly regulated and there were two groups of fungi, one that received attention and the other that did not. It was found that the growth in over 75% of the fungi which received the intention to not grow actually showed retardation in growth.

Chapter Name: TECHNIQUE: Tuning in to the Divine vibration

Chapter Name: You can connect to the Existential energy in any way, as long as you feel sincere and integrated in your devotion. A very easy, powerful and effective way is through the chanting of mantras or sacred syllables which have a deep meaning linguistically as well as vibrationally.

Chapter Name: Choose the mantra with which you feel most in tune.

Chapter Name: If you have a favorite deity, you can choose that name or mantra of that deity.

Chapter Name: If you have a Guru, connecting to the Existential energy becomes effortless, as the Guru is the living, moving form of the formless energy. He is your direct connection to the Divine.

Chapter Name: Whatever the mantra or prayer you choose, remember that it is only the means for you to connect. The Divine power is always available. You only have to choose the path that is easiest for you!

Chapter Name: ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

Chapter Name: Feeling connection to the Master, Guru or any enlightened being through prayer or mantra is a powerful technique that can lead you to the ultimate feeling connection and enlightenment.

Chapter Name: DURATION: Not applicable

Chapter Name: INSTRUCTIONS

Chapter Name: Make the whole being as an 'ear' for the mantra. Sit down and observe the whole being listening to the mantra. If you just repeat the mantra mentally, the mind repeats many things.

Chapter Number: When

Chapter Name: the whole being is made an ear for the mantra, you can feel the mantra coming from everywhere. This will happen naturally with practice. Then you don't need to put effort to chant the mantra.

Chapter Number: Finally

Chapter Name: even the mantra does not exist. You become the mantra - the essence of the mantra just becomes you. The mantra exists as an experience that just fills your whole being and it is no longer separate from you.

Chapter Number: The

Chapter Name: very vibration of the mantra changes the vibration and frequency of the being.

Chapter Number: The

Chapter Name: increase in intelligence also results in the increase in the power of cognition.

Chapter Number: Anything

Chapter Name: that you repeat continuously becomes a part of your very being. When you constantly chant the Guru Mantra, your very inner chatter gets replaced with the powerful mantra.

Chapter Number: So,

Chapter Name: instead of the unnecessary, random, meaningless thoughts that constantly arise in our inner space, the mantra repeats itself and purifies and energizes your inner space. The energy behind the action of speech, the vak, gets completely purified.

Chapter Number: When

Chapter Name: you repeat the mantra, be aware of the mantra itself and the gap between two chants. The awareness is very important in this technique. You start becoming more and more aware; more and more conscious in everything you do in your daily life.

Chapter Number: When

Chapter Name: you chant the mantra, witness it.

Chapter Number: Then

Chapter Name: it will become the center of your consciousness. Any thought that

Chapter Number: comes

Chapter Name: will be like mantra. It is just like in a water tank, if you keep a blue powder at the base, the arising bubbles will also be blue. Same way, as you continuously witness the mantra, you will become the mantra.

Chapter Number: You

Chapter Name: become more aware of the thoughts you think; so you can catch negative thoughts at their very source itself. Witnessing your thoughts and emotions thus becomes a much easier task and you fall into the natural state of meditation.

Chapter Number: Constantly

Chapter Name: chant the mantra; your awareness and mind will thus be on the mantra.

Chapter Number: The

Chapter Name: speed of chanting is not important; awareness is the key. As you continue chanting, the awareness will start staying more and more and the chant will become effortless and the pace will increase as well.

Chapter Number: This

Chapter Name: is a very powerful meditation technique that can still the mind and effortlessly allow only the thoughts that are needed for functioning. You become the Master of your mind rather than the mind being your Master.

Chapter Name: Upanishad and feeling connection

Chapter Number: People

Chapter Name: sometimes ask me, ‘Swamiji, why should you insist on the physical presence of the Master?’

Chapter Number: Listen:

Chapter Name: the Master is nothing but a ‘conscious ball’, breathing consciousness. Whenever you are in his breathing space or near him, your muscles are constantly getting programmed to live in the same space that He is living.

Chapter Number: Of

Chapter Name: course, you can listen to my words on an audio CD or a DVD. But

Chapter Name: THE BOOK OF FEELING CONNECTION

Chapter Name: Just open yourself with trust - the Master is there to hold you!

Chapter Name: His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Chapter Number: 56

Chapter Name: TECHNIQUE: Being in Upanishad constantly

Chapter Name: I can give you a simple technique to again and again bring yourself back to that space of restful awareness, even when you are not in my physical presence:

Chapter Name: Every night, just before sleeping, watch or listen to any of my discourses for at least ten minutes. Listen with a deep restful awareness, in a relaxed way, and just fall asleep. You will see - the whole night, you are not experiencing the ordinary sleep. You are in Upanishad. The whole night you will be in Upanishad, in the highly elevated state of consciousness. And the next day, you will just feel my presence as a subtle experience, like a fragrance, every moment of the day.

Chapter Number: 57

Chapter Name: Initiation and feeling connection

Chapter Name: Question: Do you initiate only the people who are sitting live with you directly watching the satsang or people like us who can't watch directly, who watch only through the YouTube, the recorded discourse later on. Do you initiate us also who watch the discourses later on through the YouTube through the recording?

Chapter Name: Please understand, initiation happens whenever you melt down with the deep trust and feeling-connection with the Master. When you melt down with a trust and deep connection, you are sitting live with me. You are coming alive with me, I am coming alive with you.

Chapter Name: When your kundalini is awakened and the feeling connection happens between you and the Master, the distance between you and Him disappears. I am sitting here. People are sitting around the world, thousands of miles away. See the effect of the presence; feeling connection. Hand moves here the vibration starts in San Jose. How many miles away? And it is not that it is happening because we have modern-day technology, No! It can happen just by the remembrance. It's possible.

Chapter Name: I am making an important statement here: whenever a sincere seeker, a sincere disciple, sits with a deep melting relaxed mood with a Master, not only Master comes alive with the disciple, disciple also comes alive with the Master. Please understand, not only disciple feels fulfilled, Master also feels fulfilled. The differences of sannyasi, disciple, devotee and all do not really exist; it is just based on your ability to feel connected and experience these truths and radiate them in your life; nothing else.

Chapter Name: When a sincere seeker melts down in the deep trust and relaxes, the transmission of the lamp happens automatically, whether you are sitting physically with me in this hall, or watching me live via two-way conferencing, or sitting with me in the webinar, or watching this talk many years later on YouTube! It does not matter. If you are sitting with a deep trust and a relaxed mood, understand, I am alive with you, you are alive with me.

Chapter Name: When a sincere seeker sits around me, not only he is fulfilled, I am also fulfilled; my mission is also getting fulfilled. When you sit around me, I don't expect you to do puja or meditate or do any rituals. If you just sit around me, not only you are feeling the fulfillment, I am also feeling the fulfillment. I am also happy. A sincere seeker deeply fulfills a Master.

Chapter Name: When a sincere seeker sits with the Master, thousands of things happen in their system. Upanishad completely awakens your inner being, the inner

Chapter Number: 4

Chapter Name: Healing and feeling connection

Chapter Number: 60

Chapter Name: Miracles and feeling connection

Chapter Number: 61

Chapter Name: In front of the other stunned disciples, he just started walking on the river to reach the Master as fast as possible!

Chapter Name: Then the river thought, 'Oh, God! Now I have to protect him! When somebody has such a deep space of trust with the whole Cosmos - the Master is the representation of the whole Cosmos - I can't allow him to suffer! I can't let him down!'

Chapter Name: So, the river just created lotus flowers to hold up his feet, wherever he put his feet!

Chapter Name: Please understand: lotuses can never bloom in a river, because they cannot grow in flowing water. They can only grow in stagnant water. But here, lotuses started springing up in the river just to help the disciple cross safely to the other side!

Chapter Name: Normally, people are anxious when they are crossing a river.

Chapter Name: For the first time, a river was anxious when a person was crossing, because she has to reach him safely to the other side!

Chapter Name: Because his feet were held up by the lotuses, the disciple came to be known as 'Padmapada' (Lotus-Feet).

Chapter Name: With this incident, Shankara demonstrated to all his disciples the need for the loving space and feeling-connection which are essential for the transmission of the Advaitic truth.

Chapter Name: Understand: your birth itself has happened because you denied the truth of Advaita!

Chapter Name: A pattern so deep that it made you assume this human body and broken mind cannot be transcended unless you trust somebody more than your

Chapter Name: human body and broken mind.

Chapter Name: So the Master makes himself available for you to experience the completion of the Love Circle. He makes it possible for you to experience the completion of the Love Circle.

Chapter Name: Constantly reminding you of the context of Advaita is the constitution of the Master's space.

Chapter Name: Please understand, whatever he does, he is constantly reminding you of the context of Advaita, constantly reminding you to stand in the space of Advaita, cosmic non-duality.

Chapter Name: 62

Chapter Name: 63

Chapter Number: 4

Chapter Name: Deeper Truth of Feeling Connection

Chapter Name: Feeling connection destroys suffering

Chapter Name: I will share some of the sacred sentiments from great devotees like Kabir and define the experience of feeling connection and bhakti (devotion).

Chapter Name: Kabir very beautifully describes bhakti:

Chapter Name: Bhakti winds in a delicate way.

Chapter Name: On this path there is no asking and no not asking.

Chapter Name: The ego simply disappears the moment you touch Him.

Chapter Name: The joy of looking for Him is so immense

Chapter Name: that you just dive in and coast around like a fish in water.

Chapter Name: If anyone needs a head, the lover leaps up to offer his.

Chapter Name: Yesterday one of our Ma Rishis was asking, 'What is the difference between vayakulata (longing or yearning for the Divine) and suffering on the path.'

Chapter Name: Kabir gives an answer to this question.

Chapter Name: Yesterday I was explaining that the base of bhakti is non-suffering. Please understand, in yearning, vyakulata, you will never have hatred towards the Master or God. In suffering, you will have demands, and when those demands are not met, you will have a deep hatred and pain. You can't forgive him.

Chapter Name: Not only that, even if he meets your demands, you will feel, 'Oh I am bound by him. I have to be independent of him!' You will have hatred towards him.

Chapter Name: I have seen some people - if I don't meet their needs they will have hatred for me, but if I say, alright I will do what you want, they cannot accept it. They want to be independent of me, and again they have hatred for me.

Chapter Name: Understand the difference between the non-suffering and vyakulata. With vyakulata, you will always melt yourself. With suffering, you will try to melt the other person, try to change the other person. So non-suffering is different, vyakulata is different.

Chapter Name: In vyakulata, there will never be any hatred, only yearning. But in suffering, you will start hating the other person. You will start abusing and blaming the other person. So understanding difference between suffering and vyakulata is very important.

Chapter Name: Next Kabir very clearly says, 'There is no asking and no not asking.'

Chapter Name: In vyakulata, you do not ask - and it is not that you never ask either. You don't ask, but it does not mean that you don't accept when it is showered on you. It is such a deep humbleness and passiveness; a deep patience.

Chapter Number: 66

Chapter Name: With suffering you ask, and even if He fulfills, you are not fulfilled. I have seen arrogant people; they don’t even want to receive when I give. They feel, ‘No, it is not necessary; you are giving because I begged; I don’t want to take that.’ Fools!

Chapter Name: Suffering is always based on arrogance, and vyakulata is based on humbleness.

Chapter Name: With vyakulata you don’t feel that He is human; you don’t feel that He is equal to you. But with suffering, you start feeling that He is equal to you. That is why I always tell people, ‘If you are suffering, it means that you don’t have love for me. You try to bring me to your level.’

Chapter Name: In suffering, because of your arrogance, you try to think that you are equal to Him, and you bring Him down to your level. In vyakulata, you always know that He is the ultimate, and you only try to disappear into Him, you only try to dissolve into the Master or God.

Chapter Name: The ego simply disappears the moment you touch Him.

Chapter Name: The joy of looking for Him is so immense

Chapter Name: that you just dive in and coast around like a fish in water.

Chapter Name: When you are in the ecstasy, you always feel like touching the Guru’s feet, offering yourself at His feet. There is no logical reason for why Guru puja is done, or why people touch the Guru’s feet. It is an emotional feeling connection. For some people it looks like, ‘Why should I do it?’ For some people it is life; they can’t live without it!

Chapter Name: I know that for millions of my disciples, sitting with me every morning during the pada puja or satsang is much more important than eating

Chapter Number: TV. So don't just close your eyelids - close your eyes!

Chapter Name: There is a good way to do this: just imagine that your eyeballs have turned to stone! The movement of our eyes is very closely related to the movement of thoughts in our mind. That is why you are asked to arrest the movement of your eyeballs.

Chapter Name: Just harden your eyeballs with mental pressure; the images in your mind will die. Your thoughts will also stop, or become slow. Don't be too worried about keeping them arrested. Just proceed with the meditation.

Chapter Name: Now, with your mouth closed, start humming.

Chapter Name: Just create the vibration Mmmm.

Chapter Name: Don't chant any other mantra, don't chant Om or Hoom.

Chapter Name: Imagine your body as an empty vessel. If you put your mouth to it and hum, what sound do you hear? Create that same vibration inside yourself.

Chapter Name: Hum as loudly as possible, as deeply as possible, as lengthily as possible. Put your whole effort into your humming. The sound has to come from your naabhi kamala - from your loins.

Chapter Name: Don't attempt any kind of breath control. Your breathing will automatically take care of itself.

Chapter Name: Just continue humming in an intense yet relaxed manner.

Chapter Name: Let your whole body be filled with the vibration of the humming.

Chapter Name: Become the humming!

Chapter Name: Whatever thoughts arise, throw them also into the humming. Gradually, they will disappear.

Chapter Name: After some time, you will feel that the humming continues without your effort and that you have become simply a listener to it!

Chapter Name: You enter the state of ajapa - where you don't even have to do the japa (chanting), the japa happens on its own. You don't have to repeat the mantra; the mantra will repeat you.

Chapter Name: Do this for twenty minutes.

Chapter Number: Step 2 (10 minutes)

Chapter Name: Instantly stop your humming.

Chapter Name: A great silence floods your Being.

Chapter Name: For a moment, time stands still.

Chapter Name: Witness this silence. Experience the tremendous calm in and around you.

Chapter Name: During this time, the energy created by the humming enters all the corners of your Being and cleanses it deeply. It establishes you in the awareness of the present moment. This awareness is all that is needed to dissolve the negativities, bring clarity and enable you to experience your true potential.

Chapter Name: After a short while, thoughts will slowly start entering into this silence. Don't stop them; don't enter into them. Simply witness these thoughts. Remain silent and blissful.

Chapter Name: Become a centre of awareness. Remain centered in the anahata chakra. You will feel completely centered, calm.

Chapter Name: Do this for ten minutes.

Chapter Name: Repeat for 21 days.

Chapter Name: Feeling connection leads to unshakeable trust

Chapter Name: A small story:

Chapter Name: An enlightened Master was training a small boy to be his successor.

Chapter Name: This little boy had a very deep, loving connection with the Master, but he was a very naughty boy. He would try to behave in the same way as the Master. He would try to imitate and make fun of the Master, standing behind him.

Chapter Name: The Master had a habit of always holding his thumb up whenever he wanted to emphasize a particular point. This boy would stand behind the Master and do the same thing!

Chapter Number: 72

Chapter Number: 74

Chapter Name: Feeling connection helps you at the moment of death

Chapter Number: 75

Chapter Name: Feeling connection helps you at the moment of death

Chapter Number: 5

Chapter Name: Never lose THE FEELING CONNECTION

Chapter Name: Catching the Master

Chapter Name: In English there is a proverb, ‘If you lose your wealth, nothing is lost; if you lose your health, something is lost; if you lose your character, everything is lost.’

Chapter Name: I think, even if you lose your character, nothing is lost. Only if you lose the connection with the Master, everything is lost! That is such a deep thing; the ultimate blessing. The ultimate thing a man can have is feeling connected to a living Master. Never miss it, if at all you got it.

Chapter Name: If you feel that constant feeling connection has happened in you, do not miss it at any cost. Anything can be sacrificed to have that feeling connection with the Master, but that feeling connection should not be sacrificed for any reason. Throw away any idea which comes in between you and Him. Anything can be lost, but not this feeling connection.

Chapter Name: Actually I am an uncompromising Master. People who live around me know that nothing can bend me. I will not compromise or slow down or dilute my training. But there is one spot where you can bend me - that is, when I feel that the feeling connection which the disciple has for me may be lost. Otherwise, nothing else can bend me.

Chapter Name: If you want to bend the Master, this is the only way you can bend him. This is the only point where you can blackmail him. If you send a signal, ‘I think I am going to lose the connection with you’, then they come down

Chapter Name: When you are given a choice to create a life of your own, you will simply reproduce my life. You may or may not wear this sannyas cloth, that is different. But the best inner space you have seen is mine, and you know it. So naturally you are going to choose this inner space for your next birth. So you will land as a jeevanmukta in the next body, that’s all!

Chapter Name: Missing the Master

Chapter Number: 84

Chapter Name: Abusing the Master

Chapter Name: Sometimes, people have enmity against the Master, and try to abuse the Master out of ignorance.

Chapter Name: But even when they do that, I tell you very clearly, many molecules in their own system will not accept it, will not tolerate what they are doing - because their very molecules carry the sacred, great, amazing, joyful, intense memory of the times and experience they had around the Master. The sweetness still remains fresh and alive inside.

Chapter Name: But out of ignorance or arrogance or some other vested interest, they go on suppressing those beautiful great memories. Just to suppress the voice of their organs, the voice of their molecules, they raise their voice louder and louder and abuse the Master. They just want to avoid that part, suppress it, put it in unconscious - but unfortunately for them, no voice is unheard or suppressed by their own consciousness!

Chapter Name: The suppressed voice and the suppressed truth, the suppressed experiences, naturally do not die, and those molecules which are suppressed, those organs whose voices are not heard, they naturally protest, and start a non-cooperation movement within the person themselves. This is what becomes physical and mental diseases.

Chapter Name: Don't lose the feeling connection with the Master - it is too precious. It is like a small lamp kept in your heart; don't allow the cyclone of ignorance, or arrogance, or negativity and sensationalism, to put out your connection. Keep it alive; it is the ultimate gift!

Chapter Name: I tell you two things: if you have not lost the feeling connection with the Master, don't allow the people who abuse the Master around you; do not entertain them in any way. Always retain the connection with the Master; it is a too precious a gift to lose.

Chapter Name: Even if for some reason, some vested interest, or just out of unconsciousness, you have lost the feeling connection with the Master, please don't do the same thing to others; don't go around and disturb others' vitarka. It is the worst sin. The more you try to abuse the Master, the more your own organs and molecules will resist and take revenge on you. That is what I call incurring karma by yourself.

Chapter Name: No Master curses even their abusers, but people who continuously abuse the Master will finally not just have even an ordinary death. They will fall into the worst unconsciousness; into the lower levels of Existence. This is too big of a punishment.

Chapter Name: So protect yourself. If you have lost your vitarka, at least don't disturb others' feeling connection, others' vitarka. If you keep quiet, at least the possibility to reclaim the feeling connection exists. So work only on reclaim it, work only on reclaiming your feeling connection with the Master.

Chapter Number: 85

Chapter Number: 86

Chapter Name: Feeling-connection with the Master is the ultimate gift!

Chapter Number: 88

Chapter Name: TECHNIQUE: Connect With the Existential Energy

Chapter Name: Below is a powerful meditation technique to be in constant feeling connection with the Master.

Chapter Name: ABOUT THIS TECHNIQUE

Chapter Name: Here we use the moment to reconnect to our own deepest being, and to rediscover the deep connection between the whole of Existence or the Master and ourselves.

Chapter Name: This technique will appeal more to emotional people. It is to be done with a feeling of deep devotion. Any person for whom you feel a deep devotion can become a bridge for you to touch the Divine.

Chapter Name: Understand, when we connect to the Existential energy though awareness, we experience universal Consciousness. When we connect to the same energy through bhakti (devotion), we experience God within and without.

Chapter Name: INSTRUCTIONS

Chapter Name: You may feel deep devotion to someone; you may feel deeply connected to someone in your life like God, Master, parent, friend, teacher, a leader who inspired you, a person who contributed something memorable to your life. You can remember more than one person as well, even two or three people who mean a lot to you like your lovely mother, your radiant Master, your favorite God or your beloved friend.

Chapter Name: Step 1

Chapter Name: Close your eyes and sit in a relaxed way with your spine erect.

Chapter Number: 89

Chapter Name: Remember any person who creates a deep devotional feeling in you. Remember any person to whom you feel deeply connected, who is an inspiration for you, to whom you turn whenever you want to spiritually rejuvenate yourself.

Chapter Name: It could be your parents, your teacher, your Guru or your favorite Deity - anyone.

Chapter Name: Remember the transformation they have created in your life. Feel deeply connected to them with your whole being. Allow your whole being to melt with devotion.

Chapter Name: In this mood of deep devotion, become aware of the gaps between the incoming breath and the outgoing breath. Between every incoming and outgoing breath, experience the Divine shining through.

Chapter Name: Remaining in this mood of devotion, turn your attention within. From the Divine outside, turn inwards to the Divine within.

Chapter Name: Understand, you are the very divinity that you wish to experience!

Chapter Name: When you experience God, what you are experiencing is your own true nature.

Chapter Name: This one understanding can transform all your base emotions into pure love. With the flowering of devotion, you experience the Divine in yourself and in all.

Chapter Number: 90

Chapter Name: Q & A on Feeling Connection

Chapter Name: Q: Swamiji, I have two questions related to feeling-connection: 1. Does feeling-connection carry over to the next birth? 2. Can we have feeling connection with several deities and Gurus simultaneously?

Chapter Name:

1. Feeling-connection as an attitude or quality can be carried from one birth to the next birth.

Chapter Name: 2 Not really. As they say, the lady of the house takes care of everybody with love, but she knows who her husband is! In the same way, a devotee may respect all Gurus and deities, but the feeling-connection will be only towards your Master who takes you to enlightenment, who raises you to enlightenment.

Chapter Name: In Nithyananda Sampradaya, you are expected to respect all the Masters and Gurus. Our devotees have no right to disrespect or criticize any tradition or spiritual order.

Chapter Name: As Sri Krishna says, ‘Every path or form leads to Me.’

Chapter Name: So the feeling-connection will be there for only one being, but you will see everybody as the embodiment of that being.

Chapter Name: Q: Swamiji, can you throw more light on the four kinds of feeling connection described in the Vaishnava tradition?

Chapter Name: In Mundaka Upanishad, there is a story.

Chapter Number: 91

Chapter Name: There is a huge tall tree with many high and low branches and fruits.

Chapter Name: On the tallest branch, a golden bird is sitting, unclutched from everything, in bliss. On a lower branch, there is a small bird which jumps here and there eating the fruits. When it eats a bitter fruit, it feels bad, and looks up at the golden bird sitting in samadhi, in ecstasy, and it feels, ‘Why should I also not be like that, out of all this Maya?’ But unfortunately, when this same bird eats tasty fruits, it even forgets that it is caught in Maya!

Chapter Name: After a long time of jumping here and there, suddenly it eats a really bitter fruits, it has a really strong bitter experience, and it just decides - no more eating fruits! It just shuts its mouth and travels towards the bigger bird.

Chapter Name: When it goes near the bigger bird, nearer and nearer, suddenly it realizes that it is losing its individuality. It feels that it is just an extension of that bird.

Chapter Name: Actually, when you are really deeply in love with somebody, when you touch that body you won’t feel it as two separate bodies. You just know that it is your very own extension.

Chapter Name: After a few minutes, as the bird moves closer, it feels that it is not even an extension; it is just the shadow of the big bird! It was only illusion that it was a separate individual.

Chapter Name: After a few seconds, as it goes closer, it realizes that there is not even a shadow - only the golden bird exists - and that is itself!

Chapter Name: Those are the different levels of feeling-connection.

Chapter Number: 94

Chapter Name: understand that you have feeling-connection. Please understand: there is no other definition for feeling-connection. Whatever you may be doing, just it is there! The 'best moment' that you wait for the whole day is the next satsang. You all usually run your life waiting for some 'best moments', which you expect may come next day or next week or next month. For some people, the best moment is on the last day of the month, when they receive their salary! For people who have left their family and homeland to work in another country, the best moment is the time when they go back home to see their families. Whatever it is, life moves only for the best moments. In our sangha, there are thousands of people who feel their next best moment of the day is the next satsang! Even if they are in another country, they keep waiting, switching on Nithyananda TV, even though they know it is too early for satsang! If you feel the next best moment of your life is the next satsang, there is a feeling-connection. See, I can only describe certain moods, emotions and feelings, the symptoms of feeling-connection. Feeling-connection itself cannot be described. These are all symptoms of feeling-connection - if your heart rate goes up the moment you are logging onto the internet, if your pulse goes up the moment you try to call me on Dial the Avatar, or if you have done e-pada puja and waiting for my call - these are some of the symptoms which you can understand easily. When you have feeling-connection, you will just feel that the whole purpose of life is that God or Guru has chosen you! The utility of your very existence will look like that. I tell you, our whole sangha has only two categories of people - one, who

Chapter Number: 95

Chapter Name: are living with me; two, who want to live with me and are unable to live with me! First, those who already cleared all the obstacles and are here. Second, those who are still clearing them, and are yet to be here. That's all. I know the power of the cementing bond my disciples enjoy in their heart, with me and with the sangha. So understand, feeling-connection is not just thinking. It is something beyond thinking. Your whole heart will be just flowing in that direction without any effort. You just know that the Divine is part of you, and you are part of Him. Q: How does the feeling connection to something which is higher than me nullify the constant harassment I go through from my body and mind? After all, physical pain is so solid; it constantly reminds itself to me. It is so strong. How do I unclutch from it? Understand, there are problems that may not be solved by unclutching, but will be solved by feeling connection. That is why I always warn you, you should be very careful about the people with whom you feel connected! If you are friendly with a person who is depressed, I tell you, knowingly or unknowingly, that person will vomit that depression on you. If somebody is depressed, boycott that person. I am giving you as a spiritual instruction. Don't ever think that you will shower your love and compassion on that person and bring him out of depression! Try it; you will only become dirty and come back. You are not that strong. If you are that strong, then you don't even need to talk to the person; your presence will get that person out of depression.

Chapter Number: Q:

Chapter Name: My dear Swamiji, I really want to experience intense feeling-connection with you! What is the path for that?

Chapter Name: When you have the intense desire, there is really no need to look for a path! The very need and urge for the goal suddenly opens up a path for you.

Chapter Name: Actually, when you are possessed by the goal, whatever you do will become the path.

Chapter Number: 6

Chapter Name: Meditation for Feeling Connection

Chapter Name: TECHNIQUE: Connecting to Others

Chapter Name: Below is a powerful meditation technique to be in constant feeling connection with others.

Chapter Name: ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

Chapter Name: Before we can connect to the whole world, let us first connect honestly to one person!

Chapter Name: If we look deeply, we find that we are unable to be authentic even in our most intimate relationships.

Chapter Name: In the first few interactions with a person, we create an idea or image about the other person. From then onwards we relate with our idea of that person, rather than with the real person! Similarly, the other person creates an idea about us, and relates only with that idea.

Chapter Name: In this meditation, we try to contact the other person as he or she is, and reveal ourselves as we are - spontaneously, without readymade ideas, without deceit.

Chapter Name: Obviously, such an interaction can never happen in words! The moment we start using words, we have stepped into the world of concepts. Instead, we use the direct language of silence to connect with the other person.

Chapter Name: When you connect with words, it is called communication.When you connect in silence, it is communion.

Chapter Name: When you enter into real communion with another, a beautiful thing happens.

Chapter Name: Before your very eyes, the face of the person falls away and the personality of that person falls away.

Chapter Name: Without words, the identity built on concepts can no longer stand!

Chapter Name: In its place, the Divine essence that is hidden within each of us stands revealed at last.

Chapter Name: DURATION: 21 minutes.

Chapter Name: INSTRUCTIONS

Chapter Name: Step 1

Chapter Name: This is a meditation to be done in pairs.

Chapter Name: Choose a partner of the same gender.

Chapter Name: Choose someone you don't know too well - or you will already have a readymade idea of the person!

Chapter Name: Choose a fairly private space for your meditation.

Chapter Name: Sit in a comfortable way, facing each other, preferably on the floor.

Chapter Name: Step 2

Chapter Name: Sit for a few moments with your eyes closed.

Chapter Name: Feel deeply that you are going to reveal yourself to the other, just as you are.

Chapter Name: You are just tired of all the games you have to play with others.

Chapter Number: 3

Chapter Name: Step 3

Chapter Name: Open your eyes.

Chapter Name: Smile at your partner.

Chapter Name: Now put out both your hands and take his/her hands in your own.

Chapter Name: Just sit silently for a while, experiencing you both flowing towards each other.

Chapter Name: Then look deeply into each other's eyes.

Chapter Name: Just look.

Chapter Name: Don't have any idea what you should see there.

Chapter Name: Don't imagine you or the other to be loving or connected or any such thing.

Chapter Name: Just get all the ideas out of your head and be still.

Chapter Name: Look silently into the pools of the other's eyes.

Chapter Name: Just try to enter into the depth of the other person, not knowing what you might find.

Chapter Name: This one time, you are going to be totally open, totally vulnerable to the other.

Chapter Name: You are just going to be like a child.

Chapter Name: You have no idea what the other person is like. But whatever he/she may be like, you welcome them totally, exactly as they are.

Chapter Number: 4

Chapter Name: Step 4

Chapter Name: When you have fully experienced this silent communion, release the other gently and close your eyes.

Chapter Name: Spend a few moments with yourself.

Chapter Name: Then get up silently and leave.

Chapter Name: Don't speak to your partner, or to anyone.

Chapter Name: Be clueless; just enter into the other through his/her eyes.

Chapter Name: Don't let your eyes move anywhere else. Simply dissolve in the depths of the other.

Chapter Name: Slowly, slowly, you will find that the identity of the person melts before your gaze.

Chapter Name: There is no longer a man, a woman, a stranger or a friend!

Chapter Name: In the other's eyes, you catch a glimpse of something you know so intimately; of some essence that belongs everywhere and nowhere.

Chapter Name: You wonder, are you looking at another, or at yourself?

Chapter Name: Or is there no difference at all between the two?

Chapter Name: If the tears flow, let them flow.

Chapter Name: If laughter bubbles up, let it.

Chapter Name: If you want to hug the other, do it!

Chapter Name: But don't speak a word.

Chapter Name: TECHNIQUE: Connecting to Nature

Chapter Name: ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

Chapter Number: 110

Chapter Name: Earth Meditation

Chapter Name: DURATION: 21 minutes.

Chapter Name: INSTRUCTIONS

Chapter Name: Sit comfortably with your eyes closed.

Chapter Name: Visualize a beautiful natural landscape, say a forest, a mountain or a valley.

Chapter Name: Visualize yourself as part of this scene, standing in this place.

Chapter Name: Now, slowly, visualize your body crumbling gently to the earth.

Chapter Name: You are becoming the earth!

Chapter Name: You have become the earth, the soil.

Chapter Name: Feel the cool, dark depths of yourself.

Chapter Name: The earth is a very hidden and secret!

Chapter Name: Enjoy the cool rain seeping into your depths.

Chapter Name: Enjoy the fragrance of wet earth, of yourself.

Chapter Name: Can you feel the stirring of life inside you?

Chapter Name: Feel very clearly that plants are growing on you, their roots growing deep into you.

Chapter Name: Can you feel their movements inside yourself?

Chapter Name: They are swaying in the breeze, but they are safely rooted in you.

Chapter Name: You are solid and unmoving, the protector, the giver of life.

Chapter Name: You are Mother Earth.

Chapter Name: Remain with this experience for a while.

Chapter Name: Slowly, return to yourself.

Chapter Name: Spend a few moments with your eyes closed, visualizing your own form again.

Chapter Name: When you feel comfortable inside your own body, relax and open your eyes.

Chapter Number: 111

Chapter Number: 112

Chapter Name: Water Meditation

Chapter Name: DURATION: 21 minutes.

Chapter Name: INSTRUCTIONS

Chapter Name: Sit in a silent place with your eyes closed.

Chapter Name: Imagine the soft sounds of running water near you.

Chapter Name: You can hear the gurgling of a stream, a river.

Chapter Name: You are merging into this sound.

Chapter Name: Your body is slowly, slowly dissolving in the river.

Chapter Name: You have become the river!

Chapter Name: Experience yourself as flowing water.

Chapter Name: Feel the sheer joy of being fluid!

Chapter Name: Feel your own coolness, your wetness, your softness.

Chapter Name: You are taking a new shape at every bend.

Chapter Name: Can you feel the blue sky, the clouds reflected in you?

Chapter Name: There is a yellow leaf floating on you! You are playing with it.

Chapter Name: You don't know where you are flowing, but you are flowing.

Chapter Name: Nothing can hurt you, because you never resist.

Chapter Name: Just flow with this experience for a while.

Chapter Name: Slowly, return to yourself.

Chapter Name: Spend a few moments with your eyes closed, visualizing your own form again.

Chapter Name: When you feel comfortable inside your own body, relax and open your eyes.

Chapter Number: 113

Chapter Name: Fire Meditation

Chapter Name: DURATION: 21 minutes.

Chapter Name: INSTRUCTIONS

Chapter Name: Visualize a small flame, the size of your palm, burning brightly in your heart region.

Chapter Name: As you visualize, the flame is growing larger. It is spreading inside your body.

Chapter Name: The flames are engulfing your limbs from within.

Chapter Name: You don't feel the heat or any pain, because your body has become insubstantial.

Chapter Name: Now there is no body, only the flames.

Chapter Name: You are becoming a flame!

Chapter Name: You have become a giant fire, with bright orange flames.

Chapter Name: You have a hundred dancing limbs and tongues!

Chapter Name: Your tongues of flame are licking the air.

Chapter Number: 114

Chapter Name: Air Meditation

Chapter Name: DURATION: 21 minutes.

Chapter Name: INSTRUCTIONS

Chapter Name: Sit cross-legged on the floor with your eyes closed.

Chapter Name: Sway your body gently from side to side, like a flower in the breeze.

Chapter Name: Feel the movement of the breeze rippling through you.

Chapter Name: Can you hear your own hissing sounds?

Chapter Name: See the golden glow spreading all around.

Chapter Name: Feel the warmth radiating from you.

Chapter Name: You have the power to give light and warmth, to sustain life.

Chapter Name: You also have the power to burn and destroy.

Chapter Name: Enjoy the movement, the energy, and the power of your dance!

Chapter Name: Stay with this experience for a while.

Chapter Name: Slowly, return to yourself.

Chapter Name: Spend a few moments with your eyes closed, visualizing your own form again.

Chapter Name: When you feel comfortable inside your own body, relax and open your eyes.

Chapter Number: 115

Chapter Name: Your body has become as light as a feather; it is being carried by the breeze. Your body is dissolving like fragrance into the breeze.

Chapter Name: You cannot feel your body anymore!

Chapter Name: You have become the breeze.

Chapter Name: Feel your own lightness, your playfulness.

Chapter Name: Listen to the swooshing sound you are making in the open spaces.

Chapter Name: Enjoy the subtle fragrances you are carrying in your heart.

Chapter Name: You are just diving and swooping and playing with yourself.

Chapter Name: See, a feather!

Chapter Name: You pick it up and carry it swirling on your tide.

Chapter Name: You have no form, so you can go anywhere, spread anyhow.

Chapter Name: You have no direction!

Chapter Name: You are free.

Chapter Name: Enjoy your play for a while.

Chapter Name: Slowly, return to yourself.

Chapter Name: Spend a few moments with your eyes closed, visualizing your own form again.

Chapter Name: When you feel comfortable inside your own body, relax and open your eyes.

Chapter Name: Space Meditation

Chapter Name: DURATION: 21 minutes.

Chapter Name: INSTRUCTIONS

Chapter Name: Choose a silent place for your meditation.

Chapter Name: Close your eyes and remain perfectly still for a while.

Chapter Name: Now bring both your palms to your head and close your ears gently.

Chapter Name: Can you hear the echo of space inside you?

Chapter Name: That echo is resonating inside your whole body.

Chapter Name: Your body has become empty. There is only space inside.

Chapter Name: Your body's boundary is slowly evaporating.

Chapter Name: The space inside and space outside are merging...

Chapter Name: You have become space!

Chapter Name: You have become space, pure and expansive.

Chapter Name: Feel your utter formlessness, your stillness.

Chapter Name: You are in all directions, infinite!

Chapter Name: You are subtle, invisible, and untouchable.

Chapter Name: You are everywhere and nowhere.

Chapter Name: Who can experience you?

Chapter Name: Enjoy the majesty of your own aloneness.

Chapter Name: Remain still, in this silence, for a while.

Chapter Name: Slowly, return to yourself.

Chapter Name: Spend a few moments with your eyes closed, visualizing your own form again.

Chapter Name: When you feel comfortable inside your own body, relax and open your eyes.

Chapter Name: TECHNIQUE: Connecting to Life

Chapter Name: Below is a powerful meditation to feel connected with life:

Chapter Name: ABOUT THIS TECHNIQUE

Chapter Name: An unspeakably beautiful meditation; it is more like a prayer than meditation!

Chapter Name: This meditation is a direct way of feeling connected with the energy of all of Existence. It takes you to the threshold of the state of turiya, where you are in a state of total awareness but without thoughts.

Chapter Name: This mediation is best practiced at night, just before you go to sleep. If you do it during the day, be sure to rest for fifteen minutes afterwards to assimilate the energy, or you will be in a state of intoxication for hours afterwards!

Chapter Number: DURATION: Not applicable

Chapter Name: INSTRUCTIONS

Chapter Number: Choose a cool, dark room with enough ventilation. If you choose, you can practice in a private space outdoors.

Chapter Number: Kneel on the ground. Don't sit on your haunches. Use a mat if it helps you feel more comfortable.

Chapter Number: Raise yourself up on your knees, and raise both your arms towards the sky. Turn your face skyward and wait.

Chapter Number: If you wish, you can visualize the blissful face of your Master or your favorite Deity - whatever helps you connect instantly with the Divine energy. (Just as a miser is at the peak of his energy when counting money, or a lover is at the peak of his energy when he is with his beloved, so also a Master is at the peak of his energy when laughing or smiling. Just remember His blissful face and allow the energy to flow through you).

Chapter Number: In a moment, you will feel the energy of Existence pouring into you.

Chapter Number: Be unresisting. Let the energy enter into you.

Chapter Number: You will feel a tingling sensation, then a trembling in your arms; then slowly your whole body will begin to tremble and sway with the energy, like a leaf dancing in the breeze.

Chapter Number: Allow the movements.

Chapter Number: As you drink in the energy, you become the point where male and female energies melt and merge; the point where earth and heaven meet. You begin to feel as if you are floating, as if your body is no more.

Chapter Number: Allow any feeling. Just drop yourself completely! There is no 'you'. You have simply dissolved into Existence. Bend down, and kiss the earth, or at least let your forehead touch the ground. You become a medium or a passage for the divine energy.

Chapter Number: Stretch out your arms and place your hands, palms downward, on the earth. Give all your love to the earth. Feel it flow out from your lips and your palms. Offer your energy to Mother Earth in a mood of total surrender. If you wish, you may visualize the feet of the Master when in this posture.

Chapter Number: Simply become an instrument carrying the divine energy into the earth.

Chapter Number: This meditation tremendously improves energy circulation in the body.

Chapter Number: All troubles related to the backbone will simply vanish by doing this meditation, as the maximum energy goes to the muladhara chakra at the base of the spine.

Chapter Number: Repeat this cycle seven times.

Chapter Number: Each time, each of the seven major chakras is energized.

Chapter Number: If you repeat it more than seven times, you may feel over-energized and restless.

Chapter Number: When you have finished your prayer, go to sleep in that prayerful state. Fall into the energy and sleep in it. When you wake up, you will feel refreshed and revitalized.

Chapter Number: As you practice this technique, a beautiful and live connection is created between Existence and you. You experience causeless joy, and each day will become a celebration!

Chapter Number: 120

Chapter Name: Courage is nothing but the ability to put yourself on the right track!

Chapter Name: His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Chapter Name: Feel the presence of the persons sitting around you, and feel alive inside each of them, on the same way as you feel in your own body.

Chapter Name: Take a few moments to experience clearly that you are alive in each and every person.

Chapter Name: Now expand your awareness in a relaxed way.

Chapter Name: Feel that you are intensely alive in everything - the furniture in the room, the walls, the floor, the flowers in the garden outside, even the sky.

Chapter Name: Carry this experience with you continuously.

Chapter Name: Repeat this technique for 21 days.

Chapter Name: You will see a great transformation in your power to live with constant feeling-connection.

Chapter Number: 126

Chapter Name: 11 Years of NITHYANANDA MISSION 2003-2014

Chapter Number: 127

Chapter Name: 11 Years of NITHYANANDA MISSION 2003-2014

Chapter Name: TAKING Vedic Hindu Tradition INTO HOMES ACROSS THE WORLD

Chapter Name: Protecting, preserving and promoting Vedic Hindu tradition through Vedic Temples in India, USA, Canada, Malaysia and other countries

Chapter Name: Inspiring families to live the Vedic tradition through over 400 Paduka Mandirs housing 3720 energized deities where daily worship is performed in the authentic Vedic tradition

Chapter Name: Thousands of people worldwide simultaneously perform Vedic rituals during the daily morning satsang, creating powerful positive vibrations

Chapter Name: Reviving India's pilgrimage culture by regularly leading yatra's to spiritual energy fields like Kailash-Manasarovar, Char-Dham, Varanasi, Bodh Gaya, Angkor Wat, Kumbh Mela, etc.

Chapter Name: Nityananda Sacred Arts to promote, support and preserve ancient temple arts and sculpture as the largest producer of metal, wood and stone deities in India

Chapter Name: www.nithyananda.org www.nithyananda.tv

Chapter Name: INSPIRING A GLOBAL Vedic Renaissance

Chapter Name: Daily morning live satsang by Paramahamsa Nityananda viewed online in over 40 countries through two-way video conferencing and Nithyananda TV.

Chapter Name: Daily spiritual talks by Paramahamsa Nityananda viewed on various TV channels

Chapter Name: Over 20 different types of meditation programs at various levels offered in corporates, schools, prisons, etc.

Chapter Name: Nithya Yoga & Nithya Kriya - authentic yogic solutions for 108 physical & mental disorders

Chapter Name: Scientific & safe initiation into mystical yogic sciences like kundalini awakening, levitation, hunger-free Samyama etc.

Chapter Name: The Nityananda Sannyas Order for spreading and continuing the sannyas parampara (tradition)

Chapter Name: Nityananda Gurukuls and eN-Vidyalayas offering holistic traditional and modern education in a healthy environment

Chapter Name: Inspiring the youth to be the ambassadors of Vedic tradition by enriching them through scripture study, rituals and kriyas

Chapter Name: www.nithyananda.org www.nithyananda.tv

Chapter Number: 130

Chapter Name: Reaching Out to Serve the World

Chapter Name: ANNADAAN: FREE FOOD FOR ALL

Chapter Name: More than 10,000 free meals served each day in Nithyananda ashrams and centers worldwide.

Chapter Name: Nutritious vegetarian meals cooked using authentic sattvic methods in a hygienic environment

Chapter Name: Chanting of vedic mantras or keerthans while cooking infuse high energy vibrations into the food.

Chapter Name: Free meal schemes are also offered in schools, prisons and temples.

Chapter Name: FREE MEDICAL SERVICES : HEALTH WITH CARE

Chapter Name: Fortnightly and monthly multispecialty medical camps offering all services

Chapter Name: Weekly mobile medical services including free consultation and medicines in rural areas

Chapter Name: A 100% free dialysis clinic with 47 dialysis machines catering to 250 patients per day in the pipeline planned for the needy

Chapter Name: Free 100-bed hospital with all amenities

Chapter Name: DISASTER RELIEF : HELPING TO HEAL

Chapter Name: Emergency relief to victims of natural calamities such as tsunami, earthquake, floods etc.

Chapter Name: Distribution of free relief through various relief measures by offering clothes, food, water and most importantly, psychological support and trauma counselling.

Chapter Name: nithyananda.org nithyananda.tv

Chapter Number: 131

Chapter Name: Scientific Research on Mystical Yogic Sciences

Chapter Name: PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA WORKS WITH DOCTORS & RESEARCHERS to understand and revive yogic sciences like

Chapter Name: kundalini awakening, levitation, teleportation, materialization, living on prana, etc.

Chapter Name: KUNDALINI AWAKENING & LEVITATION

Chapter Name: Awakening and activating the highest potential energy hidden in the body

Chapter Name: Safe and natural kundalini awakening for more than 100,000 people through personal initiation

Chapter Name: Leads to recovery from chronic illnesses and improves health

Chapter Name: Boosts memory, intelligence, decision-making, creativity

Chapter Name: Rapid dissolving of karmas and intense spiritual growth

Chapter Name: TELEPORTATION & MATERIALIZATION

Chapter Name: Yogic science of inter-converting energy and matter — impossible to duplicate in modern science

Chapter Name: Vibhooti, kumkum, honey etc. materializing on sacred objects and deities worldwide by a blessing from Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Chapter Name: People worldwide are experiencing these miracles from thousands of miles away

Chapter Name: Materialized objects have strong positive vibrations and healing properties

Chapter Name: LIVING WITHOUT EATING - NIRAAHAARA SAMMYAMA

Chapter Name: Hundreds worldwide are successfully living without food since August 2012!!

Chapter Name: Personal initiation by Paramahamsa Nithyananda into hunger-free samyama

Chapter Name: Awakens the body’s ability to live on prana like trees and plants

Chapter Name: Breaks deep-rooted food patterns without the need for fasting

Chapter Name: An effortless weight loss technique & powerful spiritual practice

Chapter Name: www.nithyananda.org www.nithyananda.tv