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1. Don't Miss Your Life!

Content: 2. Cure Restlessness with Silence

Content: 3. Know This!

Content: 4. Love Deeply to Heal

Content: 5. Create Your Soul

Content: 6. Worry is a Corrupted Thought Process

Content: 7. Is This Difficult?

Content: 8. Life Has a Purpose

Content: 9. Discontentment is a Lifestyle

Content: 10. Habits have no value

Content: 11. Relax into Enlightenment

Content: 12. Do you know your emotional level?

Content: 13. Truth is the ultimate Freedom

Content: 14. Understanding an Enlightened Master

Content: 15. Drop the Dead!

Content: 16. Is this LOVE?

Content: 17. Express Enlightenment

Content: 18. Life IS

Content: 19. Dismiss fears to enjoy life

Content: 20. Morality is customized!

Content: 21. Free Flow of Energy is Intelligence

Content: 22. Guilt is the Greatest sin

Content: 23. Awareness is the best penance

Content: 24. Do we live our life?

Content: 25. Going the other way

Content: 26. Eternity Lives in the Moment

Content: 27. Are you paralyzed?

Content: 28. Why Speed Slows us down

Content: 29. Signs of Divinity

Content: 30. Choose Happiness Today

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1. Don't Miss Your Life!

Content: A small story:

Content: Mullah Nasrudin was well known for his memory, really for the lack of it. He could never remember anything for any length of time. One day, he decided to do three things after he got home. So, he tied three knots in his kerchief as a reminder of the tasks.

Content: Back home, when he looked at the knots in the handkerchief, he remembered what he wanted to do. He tackled the first two of the tasks immediately. He could not recollect the third task. No matter how hard he tried, he could not remember what the third knot was for. He stayed awake the whole night trying to remember it. Early in the morning, he remembered what the third item in the list was: he had planned to get a good night's sleep!

Content: This is how we live our life. We are caught in the lifestyle, we miss our life.

Content: Understand the difference between lifestyle and life. Everything we see on the outside: material wealth, success in jobs, possessions, fame, prestige, pride, and friends are all a part of our lifestyle. Even our education system is geared to foster this lifestyle. We are taught to reach a potential, a goal. We work hard to reach it and keep it. Holding it and chasing the material wealth of the world and maintaining a standard of living is hard. All our energy is drained and spent or redirected towards lifestyle. We worry about outward appearances.

Content: We have forgotten that we have a deeper relationship with ourselves, our being, which is far more important. Lifestyle is all about getting a bigger and better bed, while life is about the quality of your sleep. In our pursuit of a larger bed we forget to increase the depth and quality of our sleep!

Content: Why do we bother so much about lifestyle? Because we know nothing about life! We give so much of importance to lifestyle to substitute what we lack for in life.

Content: Lifestyle is a poor substitute for life. We have become proficient in adopting lifestyle into all aspects of our life. Lifestyle is found in the spiritual life as well. In the spiritual world, lifestyle refers to rituals. If we are too engrossed in rituals, we miss the whole point of spirituality.

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Content: We must take time to meditate and connect with the being in us. This is the only way we will learn to live our life. Otherwise we are fooling ourselves by chasing lifestyle.

Content: 2. Cure Restlessness with Silence

Content: We are constantly flooded with information from many sources. Our senses and mind are constantly active fueling information to our brain.

Content: We see so many people. They can sit with others, with the TV, with the newspapers; but they can't sit by themselves. They can't spend a few minutes with themselves. This is spiritual restlessness. They can give appointment to everybody but not to themselves.

Content: Enlightened Masters bring in this awareness in many ways. They give long gaps between words they speak. The purpose behind it is actually to bring down our feeling of spiritual restlessness. People who are not spiritually interested, people who are not mature enough to listen to these great ideas, they can never sit and listen to spiritual discourses.

Content: This is because our mind needs stimulus continuously; it is constantly jumping from thought to thought. These thoughts are neither connected nor relevant. When we give a gap, it raises a feeling of boredom and our mind says halfway, 'let us get away.'

Content: The mind is wonderful organ, no doubt. But, it continuously asks, waits, anticipates, and expects the next word. Why are we so comfortable in front of the TV or in the cinema? It is because so much material is simply pushed inside our being. So much stuff, so many ideas are pumped inside our being in a short time.

Content: This leads to aggravation of restlessness. We are agitated, hyper, or deeply restless. Our habits reinforce this restlessness. When we watch TV or got o cinema, our restlessness is supported and increased. Yet, we end up feeling very comfortable.

Content: We reinforce this behavior in many ways. Why do we enjoy spicy food? In this case, we push too many sensations on our sense organs. Our sensations heighten, get excited, and push away the intellect. Our intellect is completely by passed or hijacked.

Content: It is the same with scratching the body. Some people are addicted to scratching. They feel comfortable and happy when they scratch. We make it a habit to flood our mind with sensations.

Content: Several of our habits, like scratching, eating spicy food, talking, watching TV, and movies are cultivated to keep flooding information or sensation into our system. It naturally creates a deep restlessness as a side effect. If we have this deep restlessness, we cannot sit still and listen to any ideas.

Content: Only in silence can we examine and unravel these sensations. Meditation brings in silence, a pause, in our habitual mental wanderings. Meditate everyday.

Content: 3. Know This!

Content: If we go deep, delve deeply into any subject in academics we can become enlightened. Albert Einstein became enlightened studying Physics. Ouspensky became enlightened studying logic and mathematics.

Content: Even if we do scientific research deeply to the very end, we can reach enlightenment. Nithyananda always says, 'If you are logically logical, you go beyond logic. That is enough.'

Content: Ouspensky met his master George Gurdjieff in a casual way. At that time, Ouspensky was a world famous mathematician and Gurdjieff was a simple man. Some energy in Gurdjieff prompted Ouspensky to go up to him and say, 'I feel that you know something that I do not know; can you teach me?'

Content: Gurdjieff replied, 'You are the author of the wonderful book Pentium Organ - what can I teach you?' Ouspensky maintained that Gurdjieff had something that he could teach him.

Content: Gurdjieff asked him to go to the next room and list all the things he knew and did not know so that he, Gurdjieff, could teach him the things he did not know. With pen in hand Ouspensky tried to make a list of the things he knew. He could not make the list no matter how long or how much he tried. He realized that all his knowledge was superficial and that he needed to search for a Master.

Content: When we know that we do not know, we at least know that we do not know. When we don't know that we don't know, we don't even know that we don't know! When we don't know that we don't know, we don't search for a master. Only when we know that we don't know, we can start to know.

Content: An enlightened Master takes us beyond logic. An enlightened Master leads us beyond words and into experience. That is the reason we search for a Master or spiritual teachings. If a man does not have a quest for spiritual teachings, we can be sure that he does not even know that he does not know. That shows that he is in deep darkness without even knowing that he is in darkness. If we have had a glimpse of light at least once, then we will know that we are in darkness. If we have not had even this glimpse, we will not even know that we live in darkness.

Content: Only when we get a glimpse of light will we understand what type of darkness we are in. We will then start searching for a master or spiritual teachings. Be open to let the Master work on us.

Content: Love is a strange experience. The deeper we express our love the miraculous are its returns.

Content: When we express our love deeply, we find that the Universe or existence responds to us. It reciprocates our investment many times over- until our coffers are overflowing.

Content: Love not only makes keeps alive, it can also awaken a stone. With love we can give life and meaning to whole universe. If we think love is a sentiment, it is an extremely powerful and potent sentiment. Using this sentiment alone, it is possible to make the whole world come alive. Whatever we see, feel, experience, becomes a joyful thing. This is the state enlightened Masters live in.

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Content: A great saint named Sadasiva Brahmendra lived in Andhra Pradesh, India. An incident from his life shows the power of love. Sadasiva Brahmendra, lived in deep content and was happy just like a child. He even went around naked in his deep bliss. One day he was walking in deep ecstasy when the Nawab, the Muslim ruler of that territory, went riding by. The saint was in such deep ecstasy that he neither noticed nor paid respects to the Nawab. To punish the saint's insolence, the incensed Nawab cut off the saint's hand with his sword! Sadasiva Brahmendra continued to walk in deep ecstasy. He hardly noticed the absence of his hand.

Content: But one of his devotees started to weep, 'O Master! You have lost your hand! This is simply for not showing courtesy to the Nawab.' The saint was surprised at this. When he looked-indeed his hands were cut off! He asked the devotee to bring the severed hand. He then placed them where they should be. It became whole again. The devotee was dumbstruck when she saw this. She wondered about the miracle.

Content: 'The miracle,' the saint explained, 'is your love for Master. The Nawab's hatred destroyed my hand; your love healed it!'

Content: Ramana Maharishi, another Enlightened Master, used to say, 'It is the love of the devotees which keeps me in the body.'

Content: Every enlightened Master lives in his body just for the sake of the love of the devotees. Masters as such have no karma- they have nothing to achieve, nothing to gain.

Content: They don't have anything to enjoy. Then why should they be in the body? It is only for the love of the devotees.

Content: Love has a deep power of healing. When we love it heals us and the others around us.

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Content: 5. Create Your Soul!

Content: George Gurdjieff is an enlightened Master from the West. Once he declared, ‘All of you do not have a soul. It has to be created.’

Content: This will set us thinking. Is this man speaking the truth? What does he mean by these words? What is he suggesting and what is the lesson that we need to learn from him?

Content: The words of George Gurdjieff is not to be taken literally. He actually offers us a technique through the words. He is laying down the foundation that a person should have to call himself living. Do we live? If we say, yes- we breathe, we eat, we work, we have family, then we must be alive- we are totally wrong in this.

Content: We are not fully alive until we are aware. This is the key to transform our ordinary life into extraordinary miracle. We create a soul only through awareness. It is only when we start to live consciously that we create a soul. What does this mean to us?

Content: Even if we have a soul, unless we live consciously, we are neither living nor do we have a soul. Does it matter whether we have a soul or not, if we don’t live consciously? If we don’t use it, whether we have it or not, it doesn’t matter. The soul expresses itself, the self expresses itself, and the energy expresses itself only when we make conscious decisions.

Content: We express our soul when we start living consciously. Our conscious living should spill over to all areas of life. Conscious decision does not mean about our job, or about our marriage, about our lifestyle. It is not limited to the big decisions in life.

Content: Even when we make ordinary decisions like sitting in a chair, we should practice by sitting in it consciously. We need to feel the comfort of the chair consciously. Not only should we sit consciously, we should also listen to things happening around us. We should be aware and conscious of things happening around us. When we totally relax into our body, with in its boundaries, we are automatically conscious of many things within us, around us, and outside of us.

Content: Then we will see the outer thing or matter will not be enforced, the outer thing will not create its own waves in us. We can live in the world and create our soul. Breathe in awareness. Create soul, create consciousness in actions, thoughts, and speech.

Content: 6. Worry is a Corrupted Thought Process

Content: We often find our mind returning to a thought. This leads us to experience various, usually negative, scenarios through many routines of fear, pride, anger, jealousy, ego and even attitude.

Content: When we return to the same thought process again and again, and that thought is not of any use, it is called as a worry. Our inner chattering becomes corrupted they disturb our inner self. Over time, our inner self is disturbed by repeated agitation of the mind and worrying happens. If we take time to list our worries, we realize that it has nothing to do with who we truly are. It has everything to do with who we can be or want to be or show others how we can do or be in a certain way.

Content: In other words, our worries are about our lifestyle. If we are centered on our lifestyle, we will be constantly worrying. Let us say we own a car. Our worries might be, 'will that neighbor, who doesn't have a car as good as mine, scratch or damage the car in some way?' Or we might worry, 'this is an imported car, how will I get the spare parts here?' If we don't have a car we worry about it!

Content: We worry about having and not having! We worry when we get what we want, we worry if we don't get what we want. We continuously come up with something to worry about. Worry becomes a crutch, a companion, we cannot live without.

Content: If we worry in the office, it is called work; if we worry at home, we call it family issue; if we worry in the beach, it is called a vacation. The body may be in different locations, but the mind is focused on worry.

Content: Worries of the past generate regrets and guilt, or speculation about the future, generates uncertainties. The past is buried. It is history. The future is not under our control and all that is meaningful is the present moment. When a computer has a corrupted program, it cannot do the routines it needs to accomplish. Would we have such a program in our computer?

Content: Worries spring from the gap between our expectations and the reality of our capabilities. When we understand our true capabilities and are not constantly stretching ourselves to please others, we shall have no stress, no tension and no worries. Understand this and worries will cease to bother us. Stop worrying, start living today.

Content: 7. Is This Difficult?

Content: People think Enlightenment is difficult to attain. The opposite is true.

Content: Ramana Maharishi, an enlightened Master from South India, says this so beautifully: ‘So easy this atmavidya, so easy this enlightenment.’

Content: His followers ask him how could he say that it was easy. It seemed so hard, difficult and perplexing.

Content: Ramana Maharishi replied, ‘To achieve success in this outer world, to have a good lifestyle, we need to work very hard. We need to please so many people. But to achieve in the inner world, we only have to relax and be quiet. That is all and that is enough. All that you need to do is to just be.’

Content: If it is so simple, we will think, how can we go about doing it. Simply by being aware of everything that is happening outside us, inside us and around us. We don’t have to form opinions, have solutions, smart come backs or anything. We simply have to watch, become an observer of the drama of human life.

Content: It is easier than we think. We just need to change the programming in our mind! Instead of always saying it is very difficult, let us start saying it is easy. Understand! We are the creators of the concept and the word ' difficult' lives in our minds. In the beginning our mind will not accept that it is easy. It will resist. But if we persist and repeat it over and over again, telling ourself that it is easy, we will find that we have become more positive in our outlook.

Content: Does that look difficult? Think about the things we have trained our minds to achieve. We have been trained to achieve so many difficult things that we have forgotten the simple things. We are all born in the state of Ananda or bliss. Till the age of seven, we are in a blissful state. We allow ourselves to forget this state.

Content: Let us reclaim this state. It is still within us. Let us look deep into ourself. Can we say that we are so poor, so impoverished that we have no good words for ourself? Surely, we can address our own mind, our being, with good words. Certainly we can speak kindly to ourselves. Of course, we can!

Content: We can make this our path. This is the simplest way for all of us who have spent our life chasing everything in the outer world. This inner bliss is bottomless. Let us, each one of us, seek it.

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Content: 8. Life has Purpose

Content: What is the meaning of the word Life?

Content: It has many meanings to many people. To the Eastern mystics, life has a goal.

Content: They tell us that we are all born to achieve a goal. Any number of Masters from Buddha

Content: to Krishna, from Mahavir to Nagarjuna, Sankara to Kabir, and Tulasidas have all

Content: emphasized that life has some goal.

Content: The Western philosophers always contradict this. According to them life has no

Content: goal. These philosophers are masters who have analyzed the intellect. They have studied

Content: logic, and said, 'life has no goal.'

Content: Naturally there is enough confusion in the minds of people today. We want to

Content: know for sure if life has a goal or not. Once a disciple asked Nithyananda, 'Master, does

Content: life really have a goal? Which is the truth?'

Content: Nithyananda said, "Life has no goal. Life is filled only with purpose."

Content: Be clear! Goal and purpose are not the same. They each serve different things.

Content: Goal is the process, a journey to reach some place or to get something. When we are

Content: focused on the goal, life is a road. When we are trying to reach something, we are

Content: focused on the goal. So, our life itself becomes the road, the path that is a goal in itself.

Content: When life is filled with purpose, we travel through life to reach something. When

Content: our life holds the promise of purpose, our entire life becomes a means to fulfill the

Content: purpose. Unlike with a goal, when our life is filled with purpose our life does not need to

Content: find and fill anything from outside of us. We can only enrich and contribute to the world

Content: around us when we lead a purpose filled life.

Content: If we are only focused on the goal, we spend our life on a road, traveling towards

Content: it. By turning our focus inwards, we discover the purpose of our life. When we live in the

Content: purpose of life, we will travel through life, celebrating life. We will not ignore any aspect

Content: of life. We will not judge any aspect of life. We will celebrate everything that makes our

Content: life.

Content: Only by self- inquiry, traveling inwards can we discover the purpose of life.

Content: What is life? Life is an eternal celebration! That is what life is.

Content: 9. Discontentment is a Lifestyle

Content: In developed countries, we see people who have achieved whatever there is to achieve in their lifestyle.

Content: The cost of this success, to showcase success in the society, is rather high. We are no different from Faustus. He sold his soul to the devil to attain wealth and comfort. We sell our eyes to buy a painting, our tongue to buy food, our legs to pay for the dance class!

Content: Be clear! Everything we attain in the outer world is lifestyle. Lifestyle is achieved but the core of life is not. If we follow that lifestyle our life becomes a rat race. If we win the rat race, we are still a rat!

Content: To bolster our ego, we continuously run from one thing to another. In the end, we feel foolish. As long as we are hot in the pursuit of something, we forget everything else around us. Once we have attained it, our desire for it has disappeared. Imagine that we want a car and totally focused on it.

Content: Once get it, we realize that it was no big deal after all. Quite frequently we find that we have paid too much for the desire, too much of time and energy. As long as we run behind lifestyle, we feel pressured, stressed. We have no time to rest and enjoy our life. This leads to deep discontentment. Discontentment is a result of our lifestyle.

Content: The Mahabharata (a Sanskrit epic) has a beautiful story about a king called Yayati. The king enjoyed all types of pleasures for one hundred years. When death was at his door, Yayati pleaded with death for an extension of one hundred years more. Death agreed to do so, provided one of his sons died in his place. One son agreed and Yayati got hundred years of life. But, at the end of another 100 years, Yayati wanted another hundred years of life. Yayati got his wish when one more son agreed to die in his place.

Content: This cycle happened ten more times. Yayati was still dissatisfied when death came for him.

Content: Yama, God of death said: 'Yayati, you are adding oil to put out a fire! Can you quench your desires by adding more sensory pleasures? Can you quench discontentment by adding more to your lifestyle?' At that moment Yayati got the first glimpse of enlightenment or Satori.

Content: Fulfillment lies not in the quantity or number of years , but in quality of life. Let us not add more years to our life. Instead add life to our years!

Content: 10. Habits have no Value!

Content: We have learned from our childhood to develop good habits. Nithyananda says habits have no value.

Content: Habits have no power over our consciousness. If we decide to be conscious of every thing we do and think of what goes into the habit, we realize that the habit is a crutch. It is just an expression of our conscious choices that have made the habit deeply ingrained in our system. When we decide, our choices can be changed. That is what they usually say that a man decides to become enlightened.

Content: Nithyananda uses other words, He says, man chooses to become enlightened.

Content: A small story:

Content: Many people come and tell Nithyananda, 'Master, I know smoking is a bad habit but I am not able to stop because it is a deep habit.'

Content: One man told Nithyananda, 'Master, last week I read a book of all the bad things that happen to us when we smoke. Not only first hand smoking, the disturbance and injury caused by second hand smoking. I read a big book about that, then I stopped.'

Content: Nithyananda asked him, 'Oh, that is good, so you have stopped smoking?'

Content: 'No, no, Master, I have stopped reading that kind of books!

Content: Understand! Many times we consciously understand that something is wrong. But we continue to work on it like helpless beings. We say, we are unable to stop it because of the habit. It is as if the habit is deciding for us from this point forward. Eventually it becomes a habit we are unable to stop. That is why Nithyananda says, habits have no value. Habits have no power over our consciousness. When we decide consciously, our choices or habits can be changed.

Content: A Small story:

Content: Buddha become enlightened on his birthday. Buddha Purnima was the day on which he was born and the day on which he became enlightened, of course years later.

Content: Once a disciple asked Buddha a question, 'Buddha, how did you become enlightened on your birthday? How did it happen?'

Content: Buddha said, 'When I say I have become enlightened don't think something has happened to me. I decided to live out my enlightenment. That is all. It is just a

Content: conscious decision. So when I decide, I can truly decide, Oh! It is my birthday, it’s a good day, let me live out my enlightenment.’

Content: Drop the clutches of habits. Live consciously that alone is enough to put us on the path of enlightenment.

Content: 11.Relax into Enlightenment

Content: A small story:

Content: Just the other day, one of my close, inner circle of devotees asked me, 'Master,

Content: how is it possible for you to be in joy all the time? You are so casual, innocent, and

Content: playful all the time. Yet, any word you utter simply becomes true. How can so much

Content: intuition and intelligence happen continuously?'

Content: Before coming to the discourse I was playing chess with the host's daughter. It

Content: was time to leave and we had not finished the game. I told her I would come back and

Content: play. 'How you can be so playful, so joyful? Your words are so clearly coming to

Content: reality!' asked one of inner circle of devotees.

Content: Understand! we are unable to experience that intuition, intelligence and joy

Content: because we are not able to fall into the present moment. We are always pulled by past or

Content: future. We either worry about the past or worry about the future. Something or the other

Content: is continuously going on in the mind.

Content: The first step to fall into present is simple. Accept all the events and situations of

Content: the outer world; accept the doubts and dramas of the inner world. Simply accept whatever

Content: problems we have in the outer world and whatever problems we have in the inner world.

Content: As long as we don't accept, it remains a problem. The moment we accept, it becomes a

Content: part of the solution.

Content: From the moment we accept, just try this small experiment. Just try it.

Content: Totally relax just for 3 days- not a day more or less- just for 3 days. Both in the

Content: inner world, or outer world, simply accept everything that happens . Accept everything

Content: we experience. If your life so far has been satisfactory, will we lose all your wealth in 3

Content: days? Surely not!

Content: Why don't we give a trail? Just 3 days, with deep sincerity, let us be utterly

Content: truthful; give it our 100% effort. Stop wandering from past to future in mind, ignoring

Content: present altogether. Drop everything we hold on to and accept everything that comes by.

Content: If we are not able to accept something 100%, accept 'I am not able to accept 100%. What

Content: can be done?' Even this acceptance will make us drop from the rut of being pulled

Content: between past and future.

Content: If we accept, anything, then we will simply fall into the present moment. When we fall into present moment, the time is our servant. Bliss our true nature will express itself.

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Content: 12. Do you know your emotional level?

Content: Five thousand years ago Patanjali, the Sage who composed the work on Yoga, said that there were only seven major emotions by which we relate to the world.

Content: These emotions are played and replayed to us over and over again reinforcing it in our mind.

Content: This ancient finding continues to operate today. In a major study about Hollywood movies, published as a book, an author reaches the same conclusion.

Content: The author conducted a research study and found that all Hollywood movie stories could be classified into seven categories.

Content: Each of these categories corresponds with seven major emotions identified by Patanjali.

Content: All stories are only adaptations or variations of these seven emotional scripts.

Content: Ananda Spurana Program, conducted by Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam, a meditation course in Ananda system, addresses the seven emotions and relates them to the seven chakras or energy centers in our body.

Content: According to Patanjali, the first emotion that we lead our life is based on sex.

Content: That is the space or plane from which we are born. At this plane, our lifestyle is filled with imagination and fantasy.

Content: The second emotion we lead our life with is fear. Our whole lifestyle is based on fear.

Content: We are continuously afraid of something or other.

Content: The third emotion with which we spend our entire life is that of worry.

Content: People think that they don't have any worries. But if we have constant inner chattering, if our thoughts are faster than light, then, we are corrupted by inner chattering.

Content: When our inner chattering or thoughts are corrupted, they disturb our inner self, then worry is born.

Content: These are basic emotions that guide our life.

Content: If we climb up one more rung in the ladder of self knowledge, we enter the next emotional level.

Content: It is very subtle- we begin to seek attention from others. Now our problems become more complex.

Content: If we are living in the fifth emotion level, we will be comparing yourself with others. We live our life based not on our own basic needs and requirements, but in jealous comparison with what our friends, neighbors and colleagues have.

Content: The sixth plane is ego or high self esteem. That means imagining ourselves to be more than what we are.

Content: Discontentment is the seventh plane. If we have never taken time to ask ourselves what we need, then we will experience discontentment.

Content: Simply put, these emotions reflect in our lifestyle and choices. Look inwards. It will help us add life to our years!

Content: 13. Truth is the ultimate freedom

Content: In our daily life, we have several methods to deal with our ego and pressures of the society. One of them is to lie.

Content: We readily lie to our friends and family about many things. We might lie to a friend once, twice, or thrice. All right, we can do it about ten times. But one day, when our friend calls us, we can’t repeat the same performance.

Content: Speaking lies, putting on a face for the public has one great drawback. When we speak the truth, if are truthful, we don’t need anything. We don’t need to convince anyone, we don’t need to remember many things, or repeat what we have said.

Content: Nithyananda assures you, from deepest experience and conviction, if we speak the truth there is nothing but freedom. Big freedom, the ultimate freedom. When we speak the truth, we don’t have to remember what we have spoken. We can always be fresh, updated, because the data will always be the same.

Content: Otherwise we will have to be continuously finding arguments. But when we find arguments, we do not know the mistakes we make.

Content: Speaking truth will allow us to sleep well. It removes day dreams and night mares. Living in truth takes us beyond day or night dreaming. It helps to anchor our self to living in the present moment.

Content: We think we also live in the present moment. From our experience, we are speaking about it from another point of view. What Nithyananda says is to not to connect with events of the past, or build on hopes, dreams, and future. Just live in the moment. Treat each moment as new, as fresh, as a gift, as precious, and as a miracle.

Content: Nithyananda speaks of the same concept, being in the present, with different, different connotations. Different, it is very different, from our imagination. It has different titles and different, different meanings.

Content: Ramana Maharishi used to say: A hungry dog gnawing at a bone starts bleeding in mouth. It then starts enjoying the taste of its own blood thinking that it comes from the bone. That is how humans react to desires.

Content: Just like that dog gnawing at a bone, we start thinking that the pleasure has come from the outer comforts or outer objects. Give up that one feeling. Stop making that connection. We will be on the path to self-discovery.

Content: Don't resist. Be truthful, live in the present. There is no other formula for bliss, Nithyanandam.

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Content: An enlightened Master is in ecstasy. He is always in bliss and joy. It takes nothing for the Master to let go of the body. He is merely holding on to his body like we hold handkerchief- with our fingertips.

Content: It is a delicate hold. An enlightened Master has no feeling of his physical body. He is not bound by the physical boundaries we have. He is beyond the body. To remind Himself of the body, to hold on to it for serving people, and to shower His compassion, he often does things contrary to His advice.

Content: Consider these examples. Vivekananda, an enlightened master, did drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes. We do not know or understand that the enlightened masters have to create some desire to keep themselves in their body. When they are at the peak of ecstasy, they expand and lose their boundaries. At such times, desires will help them come back to their bodies.

Content: Vivekananda had to smoke or drink to be within the confines of his body. It is very difficult for him otherwise, because of the tremendous ecstasy he experienced. Who would like to fore go that unimaginable ecstasy and come back to the body? It is their sheer compassion, which makes them do so. They have a mission to complete on this planet Earth. Their presence is required for the good of mankind.

Content: Instead of keeping Vivekananda as an inspiration for enlightenment, some people inculcate his habits of smoking and drinking. They do not realize why he was doing it; they take it as a license to do the same things. They pick up smoking and drinking and drop enlightenment. They forget that he did it after enlightenment.

Content: Ramakrishna, another great enlightened master, had a desire for jalebis (an Indian sweet). When he was in an expansive mood, he used to ask for this particular sweet. People around him used to wonder why he was taking so many jalebis at certain times. They found it very amusing, as it did not go with the conventional image of an enlightened master. Never did they realize that he was doing it not out of greed but out of compassion. He had to be in his body to serve humanity; he had to live to accomplish what he had come for.

Content: That is why Nithyananda says physical activities are in no way related to enlightenment. An enlightened man can never fake his feelings. He can only be natural. But, an ordinary man can fake anything, even his naturalness.

Content: The past is dead! Not only is it dead, it is also a dead weight upon our being.

Content: Living in the past is like living with the dead. Do we live with dead bodies in our home? Not only will it occupy space, it will also begin to rot and becomes a health hazard.

Content: Here is another example. Do we plan a journey based on last years train timetable? If we use last years train time table this year, where do we end up? Be clear! Older the time table, the less is its benefit for our journey now.

Content: It is not different when it comes to our mind. Our mind is either living in the past or in the future. It never really lives in the present, in the moment. This is the root cause for all our frustrations, tensions and worry.

Content: We foster the dead in our life and drive away the living! Understand this! If we practice something, anything, without the necessary insight and understanding, we are following dead rules. When we have the understanding, any rule will become a tool, a technique to lead a happy life. How many of us can say this is true in our lives?

Content: Another way we invite death in our life is to live in guilt. Guilt kills intelligence. Guilt is the greatest sin a human being can commit to himself. All other sins will punish us only after our death. Guilt will punish us when we are alive. Guilt will kill us when we are still alive. We will be walking, talking, breathing, but inside we are dead. We will be living dead, when guilt takes over our life.

Content: Guilt takes us back into our past. It hurts us over and over again for an incident that has no role in our present life.

Content: Meditate on breathing to break free of this guilt. Meditate with concentration on breathe, not the thoughts. Focus completely on the breathing. Feel the nostrils flare, feel the lungs fill with air. Feel the breathing stop, pause. Feel that silence. In that brief instant, we have entered a no-thought zone. We are in Samadhi or deep meditation. When this silence gradually blossoms, it leads to enlightenment. Watch for breathe during exhaling. Repeat this cycle.

Content: This simple meditation technique can be practiced everywhere. When we concentrate on our breathing, we are actually breaking away from the past. We live in the present, in the moment. That moment has tremendous potentialities and opportunities. Live it!

Content: 16. Is this love?

Content: Everyone, from a teenager to a senior citizen, asks this question although the contexts are different.

Content: The meaning of the word Love is contaminated, corrupted, and loaded with many different meanings, interpretations, and commentaries. Our normal feelings of love are at its best filled with possessiveness, anger and jealousy. This kind of love, although not the best, does a lot of good to our mind.

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Content: The other day Nithyananda was reading a survey report in a magazine. The title said, 'Live Forever.' It gave eleven techniques, important instructions to extend our life, by at least 20 years, supported by standard statistics and survey reports. All the eleven were related to love! The article said even caring for a pet animal releases a hormone which allows us to live at ease with our body. If caring for our pet animal does so much, surely caring for our husband or for our wife will do a lot more!

Content: Another fact mentioned in the survey is that single or widowers died early. The survey showed how life is extended, how there is a low chance of cancer and depression if we are caring for or being cared for by somebody. Even this ordinary love, simple infatuation, can do miracles for our body and mind. It gives you a deep feeling of healing, of well being.

Content: Let us not underestimate the effect of this love. This love, say that we care for a pet, or play with children, helps us to avoid heart attacks or postpone any fatal diseases. Any mental restlessness can be just healed by love. Pets help us release tension. They do not talk back to us. They just listen and express love. Their energy heals us.

Content: Four feelings: Love, intelligence, energy and bliss, are four sides of the same pillar. When we express a feeling through our head, it is intelligence. When we express through our heart, it is love. When we express through our being, it is energy. When our being just relaxes without knowing why, without any reason, it is bliss. All the four are the same phenomena, expressed by four different names.

Content: So, whenever we express love, we express energy also. Love is concentrated, caring energy. Naturally, whenever we express love we become a channel for energy. When we are a channel for energy, we not only help but we are also helped.

Content: Love has a deep power of healing. Let us remember that in all our interactions today.

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Content: People ask Nithyananda, 'Master give us an easy way for enlightenment.'

Content: There is a simple and practical way. Don't doubt it before we practice it. Usually,

Content: it is our habit to doubt anything new instantly. Let us not doubt this method until we

Content: practice it.

Content: First understand what the state called Enlightenment is. It means being in eternal

Content: bliss. It means our bliss cannot be disturbed by the events of the outer world. It also

Content: means that we get the intelligence to leave outside what is in the outer world. An

Content: enlightened person doesn't bring anything that happens in the outer world to the inner

Content: world. Leave everything that happens in the outside right there.

Content: We all know that the outer world is crazy. It keeps changing not once, not twice,

Content: but at the same rate as we blink. The outer world is always changing. Yet all our tasks are

Content: based on this outer world. Treat our tasks in the outer world as housekeeping. It is

Content: housekeeping in our dream. What happens to a dream when we wake up? It simply

Content: disappears.

Content: When Nithyananda says housekeeping in the dream, Nithyananda isn't saying

Content: don't do housekeeping. Do it. But understand the chore and do it in such a way that it will

Content: not perturb us. Simply understand that the whole life is a dream. That idea alone, when

Content: followed with depth, is enough to provide us the experience of enlightenment.

Content: Feel and tell yourself, 'I am doing my housekeeping because I enjoy it.' Over.

Content: Nithyananda explains it with another example. We play with toys. Let us say that

Content: we threw away all the toys when we turned 10. Just because we threw away toys, are we

Content: not giving toys to kids now? Do we tell them, 'No! I played with toys and threw them

Content: away. Don't play.' No, we don't say that.

Content: We say, let kids play as long as they want, until he matures. This is exactly what

Content: Nithyananda is saying. The moment we accept and understand, 'Let me play the

Content: housekeeping, in the dreams, until I understand,' that very acceptance will lead us to

Content: enlightenment.

Content: What if we are unable to accept? If we are unable to accept, accepting that we are

Content: unable to accept is enough to get us out of the rut of past and future. We are pulled

Content: towards the past or future because we don't understand what IS!

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Content: Completely express whatever state we are in. We are experiencing enlightenment!

Content: To live fully understand the statement: Life is an eternal celebration.

Content: When we decide to live consciously, our life begins and we start living. Life happens to us when we decide. So start living life, we should first see that life happens to us. Till then, we do not know the meaning of life, we do not know the word 'life'.

Content: The word 'is' has profound meaning. Most religions and all philosophies have this idea of a golden past. In Hinduism they call it satya yuga. In Christianity, they call it the garden of Eden, in Buddhism, they call it the yuga of dhamma. In every religion, in every sect, in every culture, have an idea that there was a time when life was an eternal celebration. There was a time when everything was perfect - as it should have been.

Content: Every religion, every cult has an idea that many, many years ago things were perfect.

Content: Understand! The idea of satya yuga, the idea of garden of Adam and Eve, the idea of dhamma yuga, is only our idea.

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Content: While excavating some ruins in the desert where ancient Mesopotamian civilization flourished, archaeologists found a 6000-year old stone inscription. When the archaeologists deciphered it they were both surprised and shocked. The message in the stone tablet read like an editorial in a modern daily newspaper! The inscription said, 'once upon a time, people used to be moral, disciplined. Now, no son listens to his father, the wife disobeys her husband, husbands are unfaithful to their wives, this is a time when all morals are lost. It is time to revive all morals.'

Content: Another 5000-year old Hindu epic, Bhagavatam, says the same thing in a different way. Bhagavatam says that, 'Kali, the evil spirit, has entered the world. Now, a father tries to misbehave with his daughter, a mother tries to have a relationship with her son.'

Content: Be clear! There was never a time when life was heaven or perfect. By living in NOW we can make life a celebration. Life was always as it is now. But we have a feeling that life was a celebration, then. When people reminisce they always say, 'we had a golden childhood.' At that time, did they feel that? No!

Content: Life never 'was' an eternal celebration. Life will never be an eternal celebration. Life 'is' an eternal celebration. Be in the moment and make it happen!

Content: 19. Dismiss fears to enjoy life

Content: Do we work when we are at work?

Content: Actually we do not! When we are at work, we wonder what we are missing at

Content: home. If we are at home, we think, 'I wonder what is happening at work.' However,

Content: when we take a vacation, we sit on the beach thinking about what might be happening at

Content: both home and work!

Content: When we worry at office, we call it work. When we worry at home, we call it

Content: decisions. When we worry at beach, we call it vacation. Be Aware! We are in constant

Content: fear of missing something and being left out of something.

Content: This fear, that we are missing out on something, is the root cause for our all our

Content: fears. All our fears have their root in fear of death. If we examine it closely, we realize

Content: that it is not that we actually fear death. What we fear or we are afraid of missing is what

Content: we think we will actually be missing. We live in the constant fear that we have not done

Content: everything we wanted to do with our life time or now. We fear that we did not live our

Content: life to the fullest extent. We even fear that we have not lived our life. Our fear of death is

Content: actually the fear which says, 'I have not lived my life. I am not ready to die.'

Content: Understand! This fear, this voice telling us that we are not ready for death, is not

Content: the only one in our mind or head. We have several other voices running in our head. Our

Content: being is the sum total of all these voices. We are not sensitive enough to grasp that.

Content: We have the voice of our mother, father, teacher, neighbor, professor, movie idols

Content: directing us every minute.

Content: Be clear! All these voices are just noise!

Content: If there was only one voice inside us we wouldn't have any problem. Our mind

Content: will move like a river. We will flow like a river. We will be free like the water in the

Content: river.

Content: Understand this beautiful concept. Our mind is almost like a river. Fear, worry,

Content: and guilt are the rocks that block the flow and create a whirlpool. They create an energy

Content: block. Just like a blood clot, it creates an energy block in our being.

Content: We will miss more in our life when we are not in our life. Flow with the present

Content: and enjoy whatever we are doing. Fears will melt away!

Content: 20. Morality is customized!

Content: Are you confused with the rules for leading a good life? Look deeper for clarity.

Content: On the outside every religion seems to be saying different things. For Hindus vegetarianism is right; for Christians non vegetarian food is no taboo. A Hindu can marry only once; but in Islam you can marry four times. A Hindu can't drink alcohol and liquor; but in Christianity, Jesus himself consumed wine.

Content: In South India, fish is considered as non vegetarian food. In Bengal, they call it Gangaphal (fruit from the Ganga). Bengali brahmins (priestly class) eat fish. There is no Bengali house which doesn't have a small pond in front of their house. They grow fish. They eat fresh fish. The enlightened master Ramakrishna used to eat fish. Bengali brahmins eat fish every day and fish is considered as vegetarian food. For Bengalis, fish, sweet, and tobacco are the basic requirements. Ramakrishna used to smoke. Vivekananda used to smoke. They were enlightened masters, without a doubt.

Content: There are so many rules, so many regulations in different places, different situations and different societies. As we look deeper, we begin to realize that our understanding about what is right and what is wrong isn't always the same.

Content: Yet, our guilt begins with our understanding of what is right and what is wrong. Let us analyze, what is the scale to measure right or wrong?

Content: We measure it based on local customs and traditions. A custom, during the course of several years, becomes solidified into a moral code, or morality.

Content: If we read the ancient scriptures, epics of India, such as Mahabharata, Princess Draupadi was married to five men! Today she would be behind bars! Kunti was married to five men! Kunti's sons, all five of them, were born of different men! Draupadi lived with five men! Neither Kunti nor Draupadi were considered immoral in their times or place.

Content: Let us open our eyes to explore, observe, and appreciate the plurality around us. There are so many kinds of life systems, so many different customs around the world. Each of these has led to so many different kinds of morality; so many different kinds of life structure and so may different kinds of thinking systems.

Content: At different times special rules were prescribed by leaders. What is morality in

Content: one society is immorality in another. In some society some thing is right and in some other society the same thing is wrong.

Content: Life is full of contradictions. Nithyananda says, Don’t let them rule you.

Content: 21. Free Flow of Energy is Intelligence

Content: Our being is like a river.

Content: Our mind is like a stream, a river. Any guilt we have is like a rock. It blocks the flow and creates a whirlpool. Guilt blocks the energy flow. Any guilt we carry blocks the energy flow. It is like a blood clot.

Content: Guilt not only creates energy clot that blocks the flow of energy, it also kills our intelligence. It creates a rocky river which cannot be navigated. As long as we flow like a river, without blocks, we will express extraordinary intelligence in our life.

Content: We will not only express intelligence we will also express different kind of intelligence. The source of our intelligence is from bliss. The bliss is an inexhaustible source of energy.

Content: The moment we create guilt we create an energy clot inside our mind. Understand one thing. Guilt is the root for many of our problems. It is rooted in our fear of death.

Content: When we think that we haven’t achieved anything we want to, we develop fear for death. Guilt is the root of greed. We think that we might be able to wipe out the guilt by acquiring new things or winning social acclaim. Yet, because we obtain something with guilt at the root we can’t enjoy anything we acquire.

Content: We can watch and understand the circuit of our mind or thoughts. We develop and create guilt or hurt when we can't achieve something. To this guilt, add a generous amount of fear of death hiding in our mind. Now, cover this guilt and fear with a shroud of greed. We are left with constant restlessness and the feeling that our life is not flowing. It feels stagnant.

Content: Release these blocks and allow the being to flow smoothly. Let the intelligence express itself. Let us experience the inexhaustible bliss. Every one of us can do it if we know how.

Content: How to get there? We have to let go of the guilt and remove the energy blocks in our being. Let us release our being so that it can flow.

Content: Second, we need to live in the moment. Explore and experience every moment completely. Accept everything the moment brings. We will be constantly surprised at the depth of every minute. We will be amazed at the riches every moment can offer. We will

Content: experience bliss if we constantly live in the moment. Our greed automatically melts away when we surrender to each moment.

Content: Our intelligence will flower and our being will flow like a river.

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Content: A great sage lived in a deep forest. One night he had an unexpected guest. A young man knocked at his door.

Content: He asked the sage, 'Can I stay here tonight? I will leave this place.'

Content: Sage said, 'You are welcome.'

Content: Next day morning, the sage inquired, 'Who are you? Where are you from?'

Content: The lad said, 'I am a thief. Last night, I robbed the King's palace and escaped. I hid in your hut. Thank you for taking care of me. I am leaving. Please bless me.' He left.

Content: The sage was disturbed, 'What a big sin I have committed by giving shelter and food to a thief!' He started to weep. He wanted to find a way to wash away his sin.

Content: He started to pray, 'Oh God, please forgive me. How to remove the sin? I gave shelter and food to a thief for one full night. Please forgive me.' He wept and wailed.

Content: Suddenly he heard a voice from the skies. The voice was also weeping. He was surprised. He asked, 'Who is weeping?'

Content: From above he heard the voice reply, 'I am God. I am weeping.'

Content: Sage asked, 'Why are you weeping?'

Content: God replied, 'You have given shelter to the thief for one day. You think that is a big sin. I am giving food and shelter for him everyday and for many others like him. Where will I go and wash my sin? That is why I am weeping.'

Content: There is a beautiful lesson to be understood from this story. The sage had a concept that he is holier than the thief. He had more ego than the real feeling of compassion. It was his ego that was corrected by God's message.

Content: Everything artificial is created by these types of sages. All our guilt, all our rigid rules, all our codes of morality, all our ideas of right and wrong, are created by sages, by people who think that they are holier than others. These people think that they are holier than others, they are purer than others or they are greater than the 'ordinary' folks. They created the rules which can create the guilt in us.

Content: Nithyananda says, guilt is the greatest sin that we humans can commit.

Content: We will punished after our death for all our sins. Guilt will punish us when we are

Content: alive. Understand the root of our guilt to regain our life and live in freedom.

Content: 23. Awareness is the best penance

Content: When we see a realized Master in saffron robes, we wonder if they will say anything practical.

Content: A realized Master does not live the same lifestyle as the masses, but the Master is completely aware of all problems they face.

Content: So the Master says, 'It is not necessary for people to do extensive periods of tapas (penance) in their search for enlightenment.'

Content: Immediately our mind is swarmed with doubts and thoughts. How is it possible for a common man, practical people?

Content: Analyze this. When a realized Master says, 'Go and do some extensive tapas for a long time,' we shoot it down, 'Master that is impractical!'

Content: So, the realized Master says, 'Alright, don't practice extensive tapas.'

Content: We ask, 'Can you explain it in a practical manner?'

Content: Be clear! This understanding of can lead us to express enlightenment. Listening with the right attitude and deep acceptance of what was said can lead us to express our innate nature. Bliss, enlightenment is our true nature.

Content: According to Nithyananda, enlightenment is being in eternal bliss. Our bliss can never be disturbed by anything that is happening in the outer world. Our outer world can never enter the inner world when we are in an enlightened state. Living in this pure inner joy is enlightenment. Realize that our outer world is outer world. It has no place inside.

Content: Our inner world is inside and it has no place outside. Whatever we do in the outer world is just housekeeping. It is like a dream in which we do housekeeping chores.

Content: Imagine all our chores in the outer world as a dream. What happens when we wake up?

Content: The chores, housekeeping, the world all disappear.

Content: Again we will ask, 'Master, how is it possible?'

Content: Be clear! When a realized Master says, 'Housekeeping is a dream,' we wonder what it means. The Master is actually saying something different, simple and profound.

Content: The Master is saying, 'By all means, do your housekeeping chores in the outer world. Bring awareness into the housekeeping. Do it in such a way that you will not be perturbed by the many aspects of housekeeping. Just understand that all the housekeeping you do is nothing but a chore in the dream!'

Content: Work on this idea. Use this idea with a clear understanding of what it means. Our entire life will seem like a housekeeping dream. This is a sure path to express our enlightenment.

Content: This is a practical path without having to do extensive periods of tapas. Try it.

Content: 24. Do we Live OUR Life?

Content: We are conditioned by people around us. We attach important to superficial, material things. No matter how rich and famous people we are, we seem to be incapable of escaping it.

Content: A small story from Einstein's life explains this well. On his deathbed, Einstein was asked by a colleague what he would like to be born as, in his next birth. Towards the end of his life Einstein had become more of a mystic than a scientist. He had started believing in rebirth even though he was of Jewish faith.

Content: To his colleague's question, he responded, 'I would like to be reborn as a plumber.' The colleague was surprised. Einstein told him that whatever there was to achieve in the outer world, money, name, fame, and respect, all these he had achieved. He had however missed his life. In his younger days he had wanted to be a plumber, but somehow he became a scientist. He had reached the top, but felt like dissatisfied now.

Content: Einstein said, 'I discovered the greatest truth of the century but my life has become a lie!' As a plumber, he would not have received any recognition, he would not have achieved the lifestyle but he would have achieved the deep core of life itself.

Content: Life gives us a deep satisfaction and fulfillment only when we do not bother about lifestyle.

Content: Lifestyle is related to our conditioning. If we go by models or actors we see in movies and TV, then wearing jeans like them becomes our lifestyle too. If we are shown that something else is the style, we will go for that instead.

Content: Understand! Lifestyle is a condition given to us by society. Lifestyle is societal but life is natural. Lifestyle is superficial, only skin deep, but life is the core of our being. If we keep in touch with our being, even our lifestyle will become more satisfying, we will be happy. But we always run behind lifestyle thinking that it will give us happiness.

Content: Problems in life can never be set right by changing our lifestyle.

Content: We wonder what is wrong with lifestyle, let us also be very clear that it is a rat race. The demands of the society are endless and crazy. It doesn't allow us to rest for a few minutes or take a break. It is a thankless master.

Content: Break away from this by looking inwards. We can bring complete awareness into our thoughts through meditation. Awareness is mediation. Let us lead our life not a lifestyle.

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Content: Do we have the vision of being an important person in the society?

Content: Let us look at what we think are necessary to achieve that status. In the society,

Content: we weigh ourselves in importance based on our material wealth. We can achieve high

Content: status if we have our own property, not one house, but several houses. Then, we want to

Content: have a fleet of cars. It is better if these cars are imported. Then the most important thing

Content: is the size of our bank balance. It should be 6 or 7 figure to be impressive. All these will

Content: make people gasp and stop them in their tracks. We will have become a notable person in

Content: the society.

Content: Understand what we have achieved here. We have increased our value by the

Content: things we possess. We have allowed ourselves to be weighed by the things that surround

Content: us. Our importance has grown because we have accumulated matter. Our importance is

Content: nothing but our wealth. Minus this wealth. Where do we stand?

Content: So, the energy in our life is only material. Although energy is living the matter,

Content: energy is independent of matter. Matter is active because of the energy in it. Material or

Content: matter is living the energy. It is not the other way around.

Content: How to get out of this? Enlightened Masters have shown us a way out of this. If

Content: we visit Ramana Ashram, we find that people worship old coconut shells, a staff and a

Content: small piece of furniture. These objects have been used by the Enlightened Master. The

Content: material itself held no value to the Master, but He added value to the materials by using

Content: them. They have been touched by the energy that added value to the matter.

Content: By living consciously the Masters add value to things. Energy guided their lives.

Content: Conscious decision guided their lives. When we decide to live, when we consciously

Content: decide to live, life starts happening to us. Conscious decision is not only for our job,

Content: marriage, or lifestyle. Don't limit it to big decisions.

Content: We can do it even when we decide to sit on a chair. We can feel the comfort of

Content: the chair consciously. Not only should we sit consciously, we should also listen and see

Content: things happening around us, consciously. Then, the effect and affect of outer thing or

Content: matter will not be enforced upon us. The outer events will not create a surge in us.

Content: By cultivating this energy will make us richer than our imagination.

Content: 26. Eternity Lives in the Moment

Content: We are busy chasing things in our life. We are totally focused on goals, on achievements, on other things surrounding the goal. We forget the purpose of our goal.

Content: Life is not a goal. Achieving lifestyle is a goal. Understand the difference between the two. When we chase a lifestyle we are following the norms laid by the society. We are trying to please someone else. Our decisions are influenced by comparison with others. We are constantly trying to better the other person in terms of finding a way to stay in the lead.

Content: We also live in the fear that our position will be toppled any minute. We fight and squabble over little things. We are living in a rat race. Our life at this point has no satisfaction. We have no idea what peace is and we have never experienced it.

Content: Even when we have so much we are dissatisfied with our life. We have lived our years but not added life to it. At the best we have lived our life superficially. Great Masters like Sankara, Vivekananda, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and others show us how to experience life. One more thing about the realized Masters- they all left their body at an young age: Sankara at 32, Vivekananda at 39, Ramakrishna at 50 and Yogananda. They had such deep satisfaction because they experienced life fully.

Content: They experienced every moment with profound satisfaction. They focused on the moment yet lived in eternity. The fundamental difference between the way the Masters lead their life and we live through ours is simple, but deep. If we are centered on lifestyle we might add more more years to our life. We still need outside energy, attention, to carry on with our life. But if we are oriented on life we will continuously radiate energy. This energy radiates from within us.

Content: Science offers no solid proof for this. It only has to be experienced. Like all great truths this one too is beyond logic. We cannot prove the presence of God through logic. The moment that is done logic will become greater than God! God is great because He cannot be proved by logic. In the same way life also is beyond logic, it is paradoxical. When you try to see it logically we miss life itself.

Content: It takes constant remembrance to let these ideas sink into our being. If we let this consciousness and awareness flower in our self, we will experience life in eternal bliss, Nithyananda. Let us.

Content: 27. Are You Paralyzed?

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Content: A few friends sat to chat over a cup of coffee. The first man said, 'Good we could all come! I know a man who spends his evenings, every evening, at home. He has been doing it for the last 30 years since his marriage.' The other man replied, 'Oh! This is what I call love, real love for your wife.' The third man said, 'You call that love? Doctor says it is paralysis.'

Content: Understand the word 'paralysis.' We are not referring here to a medical condition where a person is unable to move. We are examining the habits that paralyze us. Most of us, although healthy and wealthy, are actually paralyzed. We are unable to move in the direction we want at our will. We are incapable of determining the path and purpose of our lives.

Content: We live in paralysis when we cannot make a conscious decision. Only when we choose and if choose consciously, deliberately, with our discrimination, are we making a conscious decision. When we make a conscious decision we take responsibility for our actions. We choose the direction of our life. We attract the best purpose that suits our nature and work towards it. It is only when we decide to live consciously we have a 'life.'

Content: By saying conscious choices, Nithyananda does not say that we should be adamant, attached and fixated on a purpose. Let us say that we decide to smoke. Let us do it consciously. If we become deeply aware of breathing the smoke in and breathing it out, and the pleasure it give us, then we are in a position to make a conscious decision about our smoking habit. This is the same with drinking, gambling, food addiction, and other addictions. When we become deeply aware of the purpose of doing an act- understand how our mind interprets it- then we are living consciously.

Content: A vast majority of us do not live in this manner. We do not make conscious decisions. We let incidents happen on their own. If incidents happen in our lives on its own, not by our choice, we are paralyzed. Our lives are nothing but a state of paralysis. Living without conscious choice can never be called life. Until the moment we decide to live and live consciously it cannot be called 'life.'

Content: Wake up! Live and get a life. Direct the life events consciously. This is the only way to shake the paralysis that has gripped us.

Content: 28. Why Speed Slows Us Down

Content: We all watch movies. In fact, we love to watch movies. Some of us watch it for entertainment; some of us watch it to forget who we are and what our problems are. Many of are addicted to it.

Content: At the end of the movie the experience doesn't remain with us. If we pay attention to the experience we will actually notice that we are dazed. We are in fact numb. There is a lot of information flooding our mind.

Content: Understand the science behind watching movies. It is very similar to speed travel. When we travel on the road at 30 kilometers per hour, we can read all the signboards, we can see all trees and the scenery around us clearly.

Content: If we travel 130 kilometers per hour, we won't be able to see anything clearly. That is because we are traveling way too fast for our senses to grasp. The movies we watch are actually filmed in frames. The frames can be manipulated to run fast. If a movie or any object is presented to us at less than 6 frames per second, we can clearly read and understand everything. If it is more than 6 our consciousness cannot relate to signals through our eyes.

Content: When we watch TV and movies we are given information at 12 to 16 frames per second. So naturally our consciousness is just pushed aside with the gush of information to our system. Because we have no awareness we can totally merge and identify with the scene portrayed before us.

Content: Consider this. When we watch movie or TV show, we know for sure that the actor is alive but if we see a scene in which the actor dies, we believe, at that point, that it was real. We are all educated, logical, intellectual people. We know people are simply playacting. We still laugh for the jokes and our moods change with each scene that is depicted.

Content: Be Clear! When too much information is sent into our mind or if our senses are flooded with too much sensory information, our mind does not process all of it. It simply pushes aside the intellect and the discriminatory power. When too much is sent inside at a too fast a speed we don't think anymore.

Content: This creates a deep restlessness in us. Eventually, we may be traveling at great pace or speed but we will reach no where. No destination!

Content: Slow down! Relax into the moment and grasp eternity in all its potential. Understand this is the path to eternal bliss.

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Content: 29. Signs of Divinity

Content: Many people are confused about how to recognize a truly divine person from pretenders. Be clear! A divine person always radiates love and energy.

Content: There are many pretenders who play intense mental games and become schizophrenic. Understand that they can never be divine. Their ego plays a double role. It is like a game children play. When they play, they stand in front of the statue and pray to God: 'O God, give me your blessings!' Then they open their eyes, run and stand behind the statue and say: 'My son, I bless you!'

Content: Words like Telepathy, I get the command, are all expressions of our ego most of the time. Our own ego plays a double role. We become the divine and the the person needing blessings. Our dual role leads us to become schizophrenic and some patients start acting like God.

Content: To confuse us the pretenders show some special powers. They fall into a hysteric state and predict the future. Intuition tells them these things. It might seems as though God has descended on them.

Content: The truth is clear to all when we look at the faces of these fortune tellers. They are always tense, suffering from tension of an inexplicable kind. Understand! If God descends we will see only joy and bliss on a face. These fortune tellers are restless and agitated. Some of them shout and create strange noises. That cannot, can never be God.

Content: The signature of Divinity is totally different. There is no way we will miss the Divine. When the Divine descends, it brings in with it a different ambiance. Divinity is beauty. When divine descends, it is so beautiful, so ecstatic and blissful, because God is filled with love and energy. He radiates this love and energy. He radiates compassion, never restlessness.

Content: Even in our daily meditations and spiritual practices we can easily fall into this trap. We think that we have heard something. If we intuitively figure out one simple incident, our ego will blow it out of proportions. Be careful and watch these mind traps.

Content: Our mind plays both the roles subtly. When we become aware of it treat it as warning. Let us not cheat ourself. Visions, communication, and predicting future happen at the mental level. Go beyond the mental level. Enter into the search for enlightenment in earnest.

Content: Let us lead our search inwards and look for divinity with in. Experience it least once, to understand what divinity is all about. Divinity is love. Love to survive.

Content: 30. Choose Happiness Today

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Content: Abdullah was an Enlightened Sufi saint. One day his disciples asked him, 'Master,

Content: we have always seen you happy! What is your secret?'

Content: Master said, 'I just choose happiness over everything else.'

Content: The disciples were surprised and inquired the method.

Content: 'As soon as I wake up every morning, I ask myself, 'Abdullah, how do you want to be

Content: today?' The answer I always get is, 'happy.' So I am totally, completely, happy.'

Content: 'Suppose, just suppose, you choose sadness?' inquired a disciple.

Content: 'Then I have no choice to be anything but totally, completely sad.'

Content: The disciple fell silent.

Content: 'Decide for today. Decide for now. Decide to be happy,' said Abdullah.

Content: Understand! This incident tells us clearly that we can choose our actions every

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Content: When ever Nithyananda talks about this incident, there are more questions from

Content: the audience. The first question usually is, 'Master, Abdullah has no other responsibility

Content: that is why he can afford to be happy. We have so many responsibilities, how can we be

Content: happy, blissful?'

Content: We have to understand one thing. If we start worrying do we think our

Content: responsibilities are going to be smoothened? If we think by being worried, by being

Content: sorrowful, by being morose, we will be able to discharge our responsibilities in a better

Content: way, then we can cry as much as possible, then we can be in sorrow as much as possible.

Content: Then we should be as miserable as we want. But is it going to work out? Is it going to

Content: give us any solutions?

Content: If we have ten problems, by worrying we create the eleventh problem.

Content: Nithyananda says, early in the morning as soon as you wake up, you decide. Call

Content: yourself by your name. One strange thing, when we call ourself by our name, the ghosts

Content: or samskara with which we associate ourselves with gets disconnected. As long as we

Content: think we are 'Abdullah' we cannot call ourself 'Abdullah.' We associate ourselves with

Content: samskara or ghosts. When others call our name it is an unconscious process, but when

Content: we call ourself by name it becomes a conscious process.

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Content: About The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam

Content: The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism ("SPH"), Jagatguru Mahasannidhanam ("JGM"), His Divine Holiness ("HDH") Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam, is recognized as the 1008th living incarnation of Paramashiva as per Sanatana Hindu Dharma ("Hinduism") and by His predecessors of enlightened masters and adepts.

Content: The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam is reviving Hinduism as the 1008th Acharya Mahamandaleshwar (the head for all spiritual leaders) of Atal Akhada (ancient apex body of Hinduism), coronated as Mahamandaleshwar (Supreme Spiritual Head) of Maha Nirvani Akhada (largest apex monastic order) and the youngest Mahamandaleshwar, ordained as the 233rd Guru Mahasannidhanam (Pontiff) of Thondai Mandala Aadheenam, ordained as the 293rd Guru Mahasannidhanam (Pontiff) of Shyamalapeteeta Sarvajnapetam, ordained as the 23rd Guru Mahasannidhanam of Dharmamukthi Swargapuram Aadheenam, and coronated as the 203rd Emperor of Suryavamsa Surangi Samrajyam.

Content: The Srimad Karana Agama, Purva bhaga, Patala 71, Sakalotpatti vidhi, Sloka 8 & 9 (Sacred Ancient Hindu scripture) declares:

Content: इत्येवं निष्कळः प्रोक्तः परं भावमिति स्मृतम्‌।

Content: सृष्टिस्थं लोकरक्षार्थं लोकस्योत्पत्तिकारणम्‌॥

Content: साधकानां हितार्थं तु स्वेच्छया गृल्हते तनुः।

Content: In this way (Shiva) who is Nishkala - without any body and parts, who is the Ultimate Supreme Being, who is established in the Creation, who is the Cause of the creation of the Universe, assumes a body out of His Free Will for the protection of the Universe, and for the welfare of the Spiritual seekers and Devotees.

Content: The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam is the reigning spiritual emperor of 17 ancient traditional Hindu kingdoms and the reviver of the most ancient, most peaceful, still-living and long-lasting demonstrable system that shows the possibility of peaceful co-existence amongst people. Following the coronation to establish KAILASA worldwide at the age of 16, for the past 27 years, The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam, as the face of the unified Hindus, has been single-handedly, tirelessly inspiring the dispossessed Hindu Diaspora to reclaim their Hindu centric freedom and stand unified for the centuries-old Hindu genocide.

Content: About The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam

Content: The 1008th living incarnation of Paramaśiva, The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam stands as the unifying force for the 2 billion born and practicing Hindu diaspora worldwide and established the Hindu State, KAILASA for the persecuted Hindus in over 100 countries.

Content: The SPH Nithyanada Paramashivam has made resolute efforts towards recognizing and legitimizing the Hindu genocide which has been receiving scant consideration by global leaders and international bodies, The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam founded KAILASA Uniting Nations. For the past 27 years, this international body has been responsible in building relations, bridging dialogs, inspiring leaders, uniting nations towards acknowledging the Hindu policies which are universal, life positive as referenced from the ancient text of Hinduism. This is the ‘ahimsa’ (non-violent) way of bringing acknowledgment to the horrors of the Hindu genocide, the untold facts of the darkest act of mankind on Earth to the most contributing civilization - KAILASA.

Content: KAILASA is an apolitical nation whose vision is enlightened living for all. Towards this goal, KAILASA is the only Hindu nation on planet Earth today bringing legitimacy to the principles of Hinduism. Social principles, economic principles, judicial principles, Hindu medical principles, and Hindu economic principles. KAILASA is The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam’s response to humanity’s global problems of poverty, hunger, illiteracy, disease, violence and global warming and the continuing ethnocide and genocide of over 80 million Hindus worldwide since 7 centuries.

Content: Over the last 50 years, the effects of meditation and its significant impact on stress, crime rates, violence, political decision making and even war in local and global consciousness is well established. Unfortunately, in the last two hundred years, forcibly we are made to believe Hinduism is a functional principle only for enlightenment and spirituality. It is absolutely dysfunctional for the political, social, economical system. Making Hindu family structure, Hindu social structure dysfunctional is the greatest crime done against humanity.

Content: About The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam

Content: Sanatana Hindu Dharma has faced both historical and ongoing religious persecution and systematic violence, in various forms including assassination attempts on living incarnations, targeted elimination of Hindu pontiffs through bio war and lawfare, cyberbullying, Hindu phobia, forced conversions, documented massacres, demolitions, desecration and grabbing of worship temples and monasteries, looting of Hindu temples properties, destruction of Hindu educational institutions, elimination of well known Hindu libraries, the gross violation to the freedom to practice the Hindu school of liberated thinking (Sankhya), Hindu schools of living enlightenment (Jeevan Mukthi), gross violations of the right to freedom of religion that includes violations of the right to life, personal Hindu integrity or personal Hindu liberty, mass execution, looting and enslavement.

Content: Hinduism was once practiced freely in over 56 nations across the continent from Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Burma, Sri Lanka, all the way to Singapore, Malaysia, and Cambodia and Indonesia, and in 200 states, 1700 samasthanas (provinces) and 10,000 sampradayas (traditions). Over several centuries the combined forces of foreign invasion, political upheaval, colonialism and religious persecution systematically ended millennia of Hindu Swarajya, or self-rule. Today Hindu temples remain in a few countries but the Hindus who worshiped in them have been ethnically cleansed.

Content: The revival of Hinduism through the civilizational nation of KAILASA globally irked vested interests of atheistic terrorist militant elements, caste supremacist terrorists and other anti-Hindu forces who executed a massive persecution and genocide on SPH and His followers on 2 March 2010 that continued for the next whole decade and comprised of over 70 assassination attempts, over 250 sexual assaults on SPH and his monks and disciples, lawfare of 120 false cases over 10 years, massive hate propaganda in electronic media of over 14,000 hours and print media of over 25,000 articles in 5 years, destruction of heritage properties worth over 27 million USD, and the continuing ethnocide and genocide of over 80 million Hindus worldwide since 7 centuries. Specifically, the lawfare involved:

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Content: Delegitimizing SPH by hate propaganda, disenfranchising Him of His civil and human rights, prejudicing Him from fair representation and fair trial

Content: Repeated illegal imprisonment, with brazen torture, custodial assassination attempts, supported by system justification in various forms, including the common processes of bureaucracy, indifference, self-deception, diffused responsibility and has resulted in continued systemic complicity with torture, murder and genocide

Content: Well-planned multi-layer false hate propaganda by the ‘fourth estate’ media sustained by moral disengagement, leaving the broader public in a state of willful ignorance, motivated denial, out-group victim-blaming, dehumanization and bystander apathy to even genocide.

Content: The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam stands in solidarity with the untold, multi-level - social, political, intellectual, religious, cultural, linguistic, economic, legal, digital - persecution done to Hinduism and faced by Hindus and Hindu minorities worldwide for the past several thousands of years continues through the modern day. The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam has been recently acknowledged by the United Nations for the persecution of The SPH and the KAILASA global community, especially the affected women and children.

Content: The KAILASA with de facto spiritual embassies operating across over 100 countries and having presence across the globe as the largest spiritual knowledge source on Hinduism is spiritually governed with the life positive, all-inclusive, universal policies sourced from Hinduism revived by the SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam. Having enriched and enreached more than one billion individuals over the past 27 years the KAILASA raises the voice to protect Hindus, defend Hindus and preserve the Hindu narrative for the world.

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