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Power of meditation

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Youngest chancellor of the last decade

LIFE BLISS COURSES

Course guide book and workbook

Course - 1

11 Lessons

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HOPE AND SCOPE

Meditation has the power to transform you physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Let me explain what I mean by health in these three areas. 1. Physical health means digesting whatever you eat and having that food become part of your body. 2. Mental health means digesting all the ideas and problems that you encounter and forming a clear solution. It is living without conflict. 3. Spiritual health means receiving all the great teachings and energy, digesting them and living a liberated life. -Having all three is total health.

From the time immemorial human beings were doing research in the inner world and the outer world. Research and development in the outer world is outer science, continuously they are expanding their boundaries acquiring more and more comforts and developing lifestyle.

Same way a group of inner world scientists (enlightened beings) started doing research in the inner world developing meditation techniques, methods and sutras (formulae) to achieve the eternal bliss, Nithyananda (Nithya - eternal , bliss - ananda)

"Scientist creates formula to reproduce the understanding and truths of outer world, Enlightened masters (Paramahamsa) creates meditation techniques to reproduce the same understanding, same experience, same enlightenment, same bliss which happened in them"

Any technique, any method designed by them which raises your consciousness is meditation. If meditation has a role in direct progress of man's spiritual, physical, mental, emotional, social and economic planes then only that is spirituality

Science is just now getting glimpses of the tremendous power of meditation to completely change the entire body-mind structure itself.

Meditation gives a great hope and scope for better humanity to live its all dimensions.

PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA

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A small story:

A small story: One evening, a man was searching hard for something in the courtyard in his house. His wife asked him what it was. He replied that he had dropped a gold coin. His wife also joined in the search. Soon, others gathered and practically the whole neighborhood was searching for the lost coin. Suddenly one neighbor asked the man, 'Where exactly did you drop the coin? How come we still haven't found it?' The man replied, 'Oh, I lost the coin inside the house.' Everybody searching became angry and asked him, 'Then why are we searching here?' The man replied, 'The problem is I have no lights inside my house. So I started searching by the light of this streetlamp here!'

This is exactly what we do in our own lives. We are all experts in searching for answers in the wrong places. We search for bliss everywhere, in money, power, relationships, ideologies, but we don't move in the one obvious direction - inwards.

What is bliss?

What is bliss? In life everyone has experienced some moments of great happiness. But it has always been for a reason. It is a nice feeling but it has two disturbing qualities: the feeling doesn't last and it is the result of some cause or reason.

You are happy because you got a promotion; you are happy because you were cured of some disease; you are happy because you bought a new car.

The state of that happiness does not seem to remain forever. It is there temporarily, and when it changes or goes away, once again you feel pain. Only the happiness you experience for no reason at all,

which does not die for any reason, is real and permanent happiness. This is what is called bliss. Such happiness doesn't depend on anything outside of you.

The word 'ananda' itself means, 'that which cannot be reduced, which cannot be lost'.

Ananda does not translate into 'happiness'. You will be surprised to know, it simply means 'that which cannot be reduced or lost'. Bliss is that thing which does not reduce for any reason.

The Panchadasi1 says (11.13): 'All beings are born of bliss and live by it, pass on to It and are finally re-absorbed in it. Therefore there is no doubt that Brahman is Bliss'

Assignment 1

Assignment 1 Self work out For any one who wants a single solution for all of his problems is attaining bliss.That could be the first and last solution.

Everyone has experienced some moments of great happiness. Go back to your life,where great explotion of happiness has happened.Pendown those moments.

1 The Pancadasi is a post-Sankara Advaita Vedanta classic within the Vedanta literature, a fourteenth-century Advaita classic by Vidyaranya Swami, on the metaphysics of Vedanta

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Meditate on

Ananda does not translate into 'happiness'. You will be surprised to know, it simply means 'that which cannot be reduced or lost'. Bliss is that thing which does not reduce for any reason. Mediate few min on your very understanding about the word Ananda.

Conclusion

Truth 1:Each of us is searching for bliss, but we search in many different ways.However intellectual, however sophisticated may be the ways in which we express it, we are all seeking only bliss

Conclusion

Truth 2:Ninety-nine percent of us are not even aware that bliss is our true goal! We search everywhere in the outside world,0.00000001% we may or may not look in for bliss.

Conclusion

Truth3:Hard truth is bliss which is there within us, just waiting to be discovered.

Genesis of Meditation

"From the time immemorial human beings were doing research in the inner world and the outer world. Research and development in the outer world is outer science, continuously they are expanding their boundaries acquiring more and more comforts and developing lifestyle."

Genesis of Meditation

The picture is a depiction of the primordial mode of dissemination of wisdom of Light which happened in Vedic Bharat, the Land which is the beacon of spiritual light in the world, through the Guru-shishya parampara, or Guru-disciple tradition.

Genesis of Meditation

The initial revelation of pure knowledge happened in the consciousness of Rishis, the scientists and knowers of inner consciousness, through a means called Shruti, or the

FIGURE 1: PRIMORDIAL MODE OF DISSEMINATION OF WISDOM OF LIGHT

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spontaneous expression of language and divine formulae and techniques for the transmission of them in the minds of those sages. These spontaneous expressions of language and divine formulae and techniques which can transform the mind-body-being of any sincere seeker are called meditation; this is the genesis of meditation

More recently, in this present Yuga, there has gradually been a descent of powerful energies on the planet which have appeared as a pure result of cosmic law becoming manifest as a force of change. Like the manifestation of Avatars. An Avatar is a phenomenon which happens as a result of cosmic impulse to restore pure memory and experience of divinity, a phenomenon which spreads like a fragrance that wafts across the air and awakens those in its path to a glimpse of reality.

Presently there are such Avatars who walk amongst us on the planet, like Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Ramana Maharishi and Paramahamsa Nithyananda and many more hidden from our sights, like Mahavatar Babaji.

With Avatars, and especially with the so-called Poorna Avatars, who descend into human consciousness out of pure compassion for humanity, there arises the ability to produce at will, through pure intent and superconscious transfer of energy, the same experience of truth and bliss in those who are receptive and ready to be transformed.

"Scientist creates formula to reproduce the understanding and truths of outer world, Paramahamsa creates meditation techniques to reproduce the same understanding, same experience, same enlightenment, same bliss which happened in them"

Learning and intelligence

A Master is one who talks out of his experience of the ultimate truth. He talks with the ultimate authority because he has had the ultimate

experience. We are all generally under the impression that only with age and experience, maturity happens and one can flower.

Masters are living examples to show that you don't need time to mature and flower. Let me explain this further to you:

When you were a child, you were very much attached to your toys, were you not? If someone took a toy away from you, how would you have reacted? You would have screamed and cried as if your whole life depended upon it, right?

But now that you have grown up, if someone takes a toy away, does it matter to you? Will you feel upset? No! You are no longer attached

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We can relate to the macrocosm, the Whole, the Divine, through any or all of these five elements. The microcosm can experience the macrocosm by relating with these five elements that pervade both. Relating to the macrocosm through the earth element is worshipping through idols or deities. Deities are made of the earth element, such as clay, brass, copper, etc.

So worshipping through them is worshipping through the earth element. Relating through the water element is offering abhishekas, holy baths to deities, or bathing ourselves in holy rivers. Relating through the fire element is performing homas, fire rituals. Relating through the air element is chanting mantras, divine chants. Relating through the space element is meditation. Through these five ways, we can relate to the macrocosm.

Out of the five elements, space is the only element that can reflect consciousness. The four grosser elements, earth, water, fire and air, cannot relate with or cannot reflect consciousness. And the way to relate with space energy is meditation.

We can relate to the macrocosm, the Whole, the Divine, through any or all of these five elements. The microcosm can experience the macrocosm by relating with these five elements that pervade both.

Pen down your earlier experiences with five elements in different stages of your life(This tells how much expanssion you have with life)

Conclusion

Out of the five elements, space is the only element that can reflect consciousness. The four grosser elements, earth, water, fire and air, cannot relate with or cannot reflect consciousness. Only space can reflect consciousness. And the way to relate with space energy is meditation.

Assignment 3

Self work out

When Man is at ease or is in tune with these 5 elements, he is all right. When he is not at ease with them, he is dis-eased. All the meditation techniques that Enlightened Masters have designed over the years are aimed at tuning man to these 5 elements.

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4.1 Definition of Meditation

Any technique, any method which raises your consciousness is meditation

Technique to raise consciousness

Any technique, any method which raises your consciousness is meditation. Meditation can even be a simple breathing technique. It can be a simple repetition of a word or simply sitting. In the Zen tradition, just sitting is meditation. You may think this is the easiest thing to do but in fact, just sitting is the most difficult meditation. Anything can become meditation if it raises your consciousness.

4.2 Definition of Meditation

Meditation is just being blissful in the moment

Intensely blissful in the present

Meditation is just being blissful in the moment. When you are at complete peace in the present moment, you are already in a state of meditation. Recall any moment in your life when you have experienced extreme beauty: the sun rising suddenly from behind a mountain, or the first time you heard a lovely piece of music. Suddenly you became totally still, wordless. In the presence of that beauty you became spellbound, you couldn't think any more. You were just silent, relaxed, in thoughtless awareness. You were completely dissolved in that beauty. That moment was meditation!

After a few moments your inner chatter started again. Your mind said, 'What a beautiful sunrise!' The moment the words appeared, you were out of meditation! You can either think or meditate. You can never do both. Meditation is just being. It is experiencing the present moment without resistance.

4.3 Other definitions and meanings

Meditation is choiceless awareness - Jiddu Krishnamurthi

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. -Voltaire (French author & philosopher)

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The second monkey cried, 'As promised, I have been adding fertilizer and making the soil rich.'

The third monkey said, 'As promised, I have been guarding the seed very carefully. Not only that, I have been taking the seed out every single day to check whether it has sprouted or not!'

If you are greedy for instant results, you actually prevent the process from settling down in your system. You yourself block the whole process. The fifth thing is, enjoy solitude. Give yourself a chance to experience your inner environment. When meditation becomes a part of you, bliss will flower naturally.

Truth 3:By undedrstanding truth one,if you can apply truth two you can experience any moment as meditation.

Assignment 5

Self work out

Assignment 5

You can experiment to see which technique works best for you. Second, when you keep trying one meditation after another, the very effort of doing all the different meditations will eventually make your mind drop into restfulness, into the ocean of bliss!(Pen down what is meditation according to you)

Conclusion

Truth 1:If you are greedy for instant results, you actually prevent the process from settling down in your system. You yourself block the whole process.

Conclusion

Truth 2:There is a beautiful term in the Zen tradition to describe the attitude - the beginner's mind. It means looking at every single thing in life as new, so everything in life excites you.

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is to be aware of the situation, to alter your answers according to the demands of the moment.

Intuition - Intuition is when the decision simply happens as a revelation! It happens from the energy of your being, not from the space of the mind.

Meditation puts you in direct touch with the Divine energy that lies latent within you, within every individual. With meditation, you go beyond the mind, into the being. In the being no rules exist. You become free to explore your full potential. That's why with meditation you will suddenly find yourself at ease with your surroundings, easily able to cope with new situations. You rediscover your spontaneity.

'Meditation is also a proven way to improve concentration and memory power'

Self-healing thoughts

You may have a medically fit body. That does not mean you are completely healthy. Of course, I can say from my experience of having seen millions of people, ninety-nine percent of those who do not have the 'self-healing clarity' in their system are never able to maintain even physical health.

When I say 'self-healing clarity', I mean the clarity and understanding to bring yourself out of depression whenever it tries to grip your consciousness.

Just a year ago, I did a small research study. I selected one group of people who had been through some meditation programs and had done some spiritual study. I asked them to write for just twenty minutes whatever came into their mind without editing. Then I also asked another group of people who had never been exposed to spirituality to also write down whatever came into their minds without editing for the same twenty minutes.

The results of my study were shocking. In the case of those people who were not exposed to spirituality, if they had written one hundred thoughts, more than eighty of them were directing them more and more towards depression. Only twenty thoughts were self-healing or bringing them out of depression. But in the case of those who were exposed to spirituality and meditation, I saw that more than sixty percent of their thoughts were self-healing! Only forty percent were taking them towards depression. This is the impact of meditation! It keeps you healthy holistically.

Knowledge-weapons to combat depression

The knowledge of the Truth is what I call 'knowledge-weapons' or shaastra-shastras.

Shaastra-shastras.

Shaastra means Truth, knowledge; shastra means weapons. Knowledge-weapons are the weapons of Truth that can destroy the depression of your being. Whenever depression or suffering attacks you, suffering attacks you, your mind brings different scenes in front of you. In those moments, these shaastra-shastras, knowledge-weapons, can be so powerful, that you simply come out of the depression.

They are thoughts that help you to raise yourself out of the suffering. So never feel that the Truth is too much to take in. Try to digest, assimilate and keep it in a corner inside you. Store it as knowledge-weapons inside you. The more knowledge-weapons you have, the more depression will be afraid of you! If you have a huge army, naturally the enemy country will be afraid of attacking you. Just by seeing your pile of weapons, the other country will think twice before attacking you.

In the same way, the more you accumulate the self-healing thoughts, the knowledge-weapons, inside your being, the more depression will

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c. Freedom

With meditation, you can live your life in a much better way, with greater clarity and greater intensity. You will be more aware, more creative. Yet internally, you will experience a deep and undisturbed silence. You will no longer be doing, you will only be watching the doer. This is the whole secret of meditation - to become the watcher, to become the witness of your own actions and emotions.

c. Freedom

As you start witnessing your own actions, you will realize that there is someone inside you who does not change, who does not get angry or feel sad, who does not care about money or security or fame. That is the real you! The real you can never be touched. The rest is just a personality you have formed around yourself.

c. Freedom

Once you become aware that the real you is not the one who acts, that the real you is not the one who feels angry or hurt or depressed, then you experience a tremendous sense of freedom. This will happen through meditation. This is real freedom. All our life we are searching for freedom.

c. Freedom

Whether we realize it or not, every single one of us is searching for freedom. We think our freedom is dependent on others. Now you know, the other person is in no way connected to your freedom. What we search for in our ordinary lives is either 'freedom for' or 'freedom from'. Freedom for doing, having and being all that we wish, freedom to live as we imagine we want to live.

c. Freedom

Freedom from all the things that we hate - disease, worry, anger, stress, low self-esteem, pain and so forth. We are caught between the greed for something good and the fear of something bad. Our whole life is controlled by these two ropes of greed and fear. But when these two ropes of greed and fear control us, we forget the real freedom that we are craving for.

A few weeks back a casual visitor, an artist, was speaking to me. He was telling me why he hated meditation. He said, 'I hate all these rules and discipline. I like to be free to lead my life the way I want. I get up at ten o'clock, first thing I have my coffee, and then I go for a swim whenever I feel like it...' He described his whole day to me. Then I asked him, 'What if someone woke you up at six o'clock? Or what if your coffee didn't arrive at your bedside one morning?' 'Oh, that would make me really mad!' he said, and laughed. 'And what if it was raining and you missed your swim?' I asked. 'Yes, that would be a bad thing. If I can't go for my swim, I feel really bad the whole day.' Then I asked him, 'If your freedom is dependent on so many conditions, are you really free?'

He was shocked! To be really free is to be free no matter what. That's what I call real freedom, not 'freedom for' or 'freedom from'. Real freedom comes out of living completely in the present moment. Freedom that doesn't depend on any external circumstances is the only true freedom. This is the freedom that you will experience with meditation.

d. Love and joy for no reason

You will be amazed to find how much love rises and floods your being when you enter into meditation. Through meditation, you will experience a dimension of your being communicating with you, that you haven't touched before. When you experience lasting joy that no external circumstance can alter, it means that you are moving deeply inwards. You will want to share this joy with everyone you meet.

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When this joy overflows from you and touches the other person, it is called love.

Just like freedom, this love will be different from any love you have ever experienced before. All your life, you have loved and been loved for a reason. Even in your most intimate relationships, even between husband and wife, between parents and children, there are hidden reasons for loving. All our love is tainted by jealousy, possessiveness and expectations. With meditation, for the first time, you will understand what it means to love for no reason. For the first time you will not be giving something in order to receive. You will give love simply because you have so much to give! You will shower love upon the world in the same way that a rain cloud showers upon the earth or a flower spontaneously spreads its fragrance all around. You will love because you are so full and overflowing!

'You will be amazed to find how much love rises and floods your being when you enter into meditation'

e. Work as play

Most of us feel that life today has become so competitive and stressful that we have no time to do anything that we want to do.

6.3

Holistic Health

6.3

Meditation results in holistic health. It gives good health on the physical, mental and emotional levels. Specific health benefits reported by some who meditate are:

6.3

The stabilization of high or low blood pressure, blood sugar, body heat and heartbeat.

6.3

The balancing of mind/body rhythms.

6.3

Reduction of muscle tension, stronger bones, immunity from disease.
Cleansing - quicker elimination of toxins and body waste.
Overcoming insomnia and improved quality of sleep. Enhanced energy, increased work capacity.
Longer life span - improved body metabolism and body cells with a longer life span.
Secretion of healthy body chemicals - increased secretion of natural antidepressants, enhanced secretion of endorphins, the body's 'happy chemicals'.
Relationships - Meditation inherently puts you in tune with yourself and others. The direct result of this is deeper, more meaningful interpersonal relationships with family, friends and with everyone you encounter in your daily life.
Intelligence - To work efficiently, one needs intelligence. Meditation ignites your innate intelligence making you more aware and sharp. The natural result of this is improved, efficient and effortless performance in whatever you do.
Creativity - Each of us holds within us an undiscovered treasure of talent and potential. Meditation reveals and helps you realize your inner talents and latent creativity.
Authenticity - Meditation allows you to touch base with the real you, and makes you realize your uniqueness. Self-confidence then becomes a natural byproduct.
Balance - Most of us live life as a roller-coaster ride, held in the sway of emotions like worry, jealousy, discontentment, fear, anger, guilt, etc. over which we have no control.

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With meditation, for the first time, you will understand what it means to love for no reason. For the first time you will not be giving something in order to receive. You will give love simply because you have so much to give! You will shower love upon the world in the same way that a rain cloud showers upon the earth or a flower spontaneously spreads its fragrance all around. You will love because you are so full and overflowing!

Start witnessing your actions.Pen down your experiences

With meditation, you can live your life in a much better way, with greater clarity and greater intensity.

Conclusion

Meditation has the power to transform you physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Let me explain what I mean by health in these four areas.

1.Physical health means digesting whatever you eat and having that food become part of your body.

2.Mental health means digesting all the ideas and problems that you encounter and forming a clear solution. It is living without conflict.

3.Spiritual health means receiving all the great teachings and energy, digesting them and living a liberated life. Having all three is total health

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Lesson-9

When to do Meditation?

When to do meditation? This is always a controversial question! All the youngsters think, 'I can do this in my old age after I have lived my life fully and I don't have anything else to do.' All the elderly people think, 'I should have done this in my young age when I was fresh and energetic.' So the question is not just how long to meditate everyday, but also when to make the decision to include a meditation practice in your routine.

Meditation is just like reading an owner's manual before you start driving the car. The person who does not read the owner's manual before driving the car will naturally meet with accidents. In the same way, meditation is like the owner's manual for your body and for your life. The person who has not started meditation before entering into life will end up with suffering and depression at one point or the other. Please understand, meditation is the basic need for every life. It is not an option. It is a very basic need.

After the age of seven, you need meditation, because until then, as a child you are by nature in a meditative state. It is only after seven that you start getting conditioned by society and drop out of your true nature. To really understand and enter into meditation, one important thing needs to happen in you - psychological revolution.

Conclusion

In the beginning you have to practice meditation in life. You have to consciously introduce meditation into your lifestyle. Choose a technique, practice for half an hour or one hour a day. See how you feel. If you enjoy a technique, stick to it for at least ten days without expecting results. If a technique has touched you, there is no way it cannot transform you in some way.

What do I mean by psychological revolution? It means a clear understanding about the self, world and god. As of now, the understanding that you are carrying about life is not complete. That is why you are not able to experience a peaceful, relaxed feeling in your system. When I say the words 'psychological revolution', I mean having a clear understanding about the self, world and

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god. It is having a clear understanding about the source of the self, the source of the world and the source of god.

The understanding that is able to give you a completely restful feeling, through which you are able to solve all your problems, through which you are able to find your own life solutions, is called psychological revolution.

Only a person who has gone through this psychological revolution can meditate. Until then, any technique that you try will seem to fail at some point in time. People come and tell me, 'The moment I close my eyes, I get more thoughts than when I did not meditate. If I am in action, doing something, I have fewer thoughts. The moment I close my eyes and try to meditate, I have more thoughts.' This means that the psychological revolution has not happened.

The dream state constantly penetrating the waking state and deep sleep state is what leads to more and more misunderstanding, more and more dullness, more and more lethargy.

This is what we call traveling towards suffering. It is the vicious cycle of lack of clarity leading to lack of meditation and vice versa. If the turiya or blissful state penetrates the waking and deep sleep states, then we are moving towards fulfillment. This is the virtuous circle where clarity leads to meditation and meditation leads to clarity. If you straightaway close your eyes and start meditating, you may have an increased number of thoughts.

So in the initial level, I always give a technique which is not directly a meditation, but is more a contemplation. When you work with this technique, it won't lead you directly to a thoughtless state. It will lead you towards more and more clarity. It will lead to the psychological revolution.

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Assignment 9

The psychological revolution will develop an intense inner space where you can analyze your understanding, consider your decisions and rethink again and again your desires, fears, worries and all that you consider as the basis of your life. Actually, many times we do not even know what our desires are.

Assignment 9

'With psychological revolution, even ritual becomes meditation. Without psychological revolution, even meditation will become a ritual'

Assignment 9

'The psychological revolution will develop an intense inner space'

Assignment 9

A small story: Three old ladies were sitting and bragging about their sons. One of them was saying, 'You don't know about my son. He loves me so much, he personally took me to a travel agent and made the best possible arrangements for a twenty-day vacation for me.' The second lady said, 'You don't know what my son did. He not only took me to the travel agent but also arranged for a private light. He arranged everything for a month-long vacation for me!' The third lady said, 'This is absolutely nothing compared to what my son does for me. He goes to the costliest psychiatrist and all he talks about is me!'

Assignment 9

Many times, what you think is life or what you brag about as a great life, may not be adding to your life in any way. So in the initial level, taking up a technique that can awaken you, that can help the psychological revolution in you, is the best way to start.

Assignment 9

Start meditating here and now. Neither age nor time can be the reason to postpone meditation. The next question people ask is whether they should meditate in the morning or in the evening. My answer is that the goal is not to make meditation a quantity of life, but rather a quality of life.

Assignment 9

Do meditation. Pen down your status.

Conclusion

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to practice the whole day or at any particular time. Just the very remembrance of these truths will put you in the elevated state.

This is the third type of meditation. Examples of this are the beautiful Zen koans7. They are profound truths written in a concise way. Just the very remembrance of them will transport you to the zone of Truth! There is a very beautiful story in the Upanishad where a disciple comes to the master and asks for a technique or a method for enlightenment. The master just says, ‘Tat tvam asi, Tat tvam asi, Tat tvam asi’ - ‘Thou art that, Thou art that, Thou art that’, ‘You are the Truth,’ and the story says, the disciple became enlightened! It seems like a very strange story.

The master just repeats a few words and the disciple is suddenly enlightened. How is it possible? It seems unbelievable! Actually it is not so. If we have done the first two types of techniques, the technique that needs to be done the whole day and the technique that needs to be done at a particular time, then the very maturity that happens out of that practice will cause you to experience the Truth the moment you hear it from the master!

‘The very maturity that happens out of the practice will cause you to experience the Truth the moment you hear it from the master!’

Assignment 10

Self work out

Assignment 10

There is a very beautiful story in the Upanishad where a disciple comes to the master and asks for a technique or a method for enlightenment. The master just says, ‘Tat tvam asi, Tat tvam asi, Tat tvam asi’ - ‘Thou art that, Thou art that, Thou art that’, ‘You are the Truth,’ and the story says, the disciple became enlightened!

Conclusion

The first is bringing the truth or awareness into your life. This mediation is supposed to be done all twenty-four hours a day.

Conclusion

It is not a part of your routine

Conclusion

It should become the very quality of your routine. You may be doing anything like writing, reading, cooking, discussing, but this thread of meditation should be happening simultaneously, like an undercurrent.

7 Koans - Riddles given as techniques in Zen to aid Self Realization.

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Lesson-11

COMMON FEARS ABOUT MEDITATION

Many people think meditation involves blindly believing in something. People fear this. They come and tell me, 'I am afraid that I might get too attached to meditation.' Understand, meditation itself is nothing but removing your attachment! So you can't get too attached to it.

People are also afraid that their desires, fears and whatever else they think of as their life will be taken away from them if they start meditating.

In a way this is true!

Once you start meditating, whatever you thought of as your life until then, will no longer be important to you!

The real truths will start revealing themselves to you.

All the illusions you were holding until then will start leaving you.

All the time you are trying to protect yourself from the basic truths only because you are afraid of losing your illusions about life. The concept or the idea that you are a solid being, which is the root cause of all your fears, will simply be shaken by meditation.

All that you thought you were, all your desires, all your fears, all your worries will be shaken and you will start going through a big change.

This is what is called the psychological revolution. You will have practically a new birth! It is like changing the inner software of your computer. Your hardware may be the same, but your inner software will go through a big change.

Meditation is all about changing the inner software. Your body, your hardware, may be the same, your material surroundings may be same, the persons with whom you are living may be same, but your being will be totally different.

Assignment 11

Self work out

All that you thought you were, all your desires, all your fears, all your worries will be shaken and you will start going through a big change.

Pen down your experiences, where you tried to protect yourself..

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When you find the deeper truths about you,you gain courage and confidence.

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Conclusion

Self exam:

Write answer for the following questions on your 'My book'

Self exam:

What do you understand by bliss please explain.

Self exam:

Give the definition of meditation and brief about three kinds of meditation?

Self exam:

Give the holistic health benefits of meditation?

Self exam:

What is mean by psychological revolution?

Self exam:

What are the common fears about meditation?

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APPENDIX

About Nithyananda Mission

The world is awakening to a new consciousness, where distinctions like material life and spiritual life, inner growth and outer growth, are rapidly breaking down. The new age individual is striving to build a harmonious world where material success complements spiritual growth, where ancient wisdom and modern scientific insights blend seamlessly to create a richer and more fulfilling life for all.

About Nithyananda Mission

Carrying these revolutionary truths to the global community is the effort of Nithyananda Mission. Nithyananda Mission is a worldwide movement which is committed to bringing about a true awakening for all beings on our planet, irrespective of race, gender or nationality. Reinterpreting ancient Vedic wisdom in the light of modern living, the Mission creates opportunities for the powerful transformation of the individual and the community.

Programs and Workshops

Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam offers specialized meditation programs worldwide, to benefit millions of people at the levels of body, mind and spirit. A few of them are listed below:

INNER AWAKENING

A unique and intense 21-day meditation program aimed at realizing one's full potential in all aspects of life. Some amongst its many highlights are:

INNER AWAKENING

Nithya Yoga to create a yogic body,

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A diverse mix of meditation techniques to cleanse and energize one's mind and soul (including past life regression),

INNER AWAKENING

Powerful energy darshans,

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Enlightening campfire sessions,

INNER AWAKENING

Intense Kundalini Awakening sessions where participants experience physical levitation.

INNER AWAKENING

Scientifically proven to increase the mitochondrial cell energy by over 1300%, this program also offers various health benefits like blood sugar and blood pressure regulation, weight balancing and relief from insomnia to name a few.

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