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Content: BLISS BYTES VOL.5 Edition 1

Content: THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

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Content: Bliss Bytes

Content: Volume V

Content: from the Divine discourses of

Content: Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda

Content: 2007

Content: CONTENTS

Content:

1. Path to Progress

Content: 2. Intelligent Parenting

Content: 3. Art of Listening

Content: 4. Still the Mind, Don't let it walk!

Content: 5. Love can transform a stone

Content: 6. Escape Superstition

Content: 7. What We never Forget

Content: 8. Burn Your Worry!

Content: 9. Become the Center of the Universe!

Content: 10. Karma is conscious choice

Content: 11. Drop guilt to become enlightened

Content: 12. Formula for Joy

Content: 13. Divinity is Miracle

Content: 14. Become a Paramahamsa

Content: 15. Experience Total Freedom

Content: 16. Let Bliss Become a Routine in your life

Content: 17. Attend to yourself for Enlightenment

Content: 18. It's all about Love

Content: 19. Qualifications for Enlightenment

Content: 20. Conscience is no substitute for Consciousness!

Content: 21. Life Partner or Lifestyle partner?

Content: 22. Spice up Life with Awareness

Content: 23. Keep it out!

Content: 24. Realize the uniqueness of being YOU!

Content: 25. You Need a Life to Live

Content: 26. Embrace change to grow

Content: 27. Guilt Glues you to same experiences

Content: 28. Choose Your Focus and Energy Flows into it

Content: 29. Why rules cannot rule hearts?

Content: 30. Want to Know Why You Cannot Enjoy?

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1. The path to progress

Content: Many of us cannot accept that we are our greatest enemy.

Content: Let us look into our life. There are so many 'heaps' or rituals that have entered our life. There are plenty of speed breakers. There are so many obstacles. How did they enter our life?

Content: A small story:

Content: One Pundit (scholar) went for a bath in the holy Ganga. The Pundit had a water jug (kamandalu) with him. He searched here and there for a safe place. He looked around at the people on the banks of Ganga to see if anyone looked trustworthy to be entrusted with its care. The pundit, saw no one. Then he had a brainwave, 'why not bury the jug in the sand on the river bank?' He made a small pit in the sand and buried his kamandalu under a heap of sand. Happy with his solution the Pundit went for his ritual bath.

Content: A farmer happened to watch the Pundit from a distance. He thought, 'oh! It looks like we need to take a sand heap before taking a bath,' and proceeded to do just that. Another man witnessed the farmer make a sand heap before taking a bath. He too followed it.

Content: By and by, all the people who visited the river for a bath did exactly the same thing. When pundit waded ashore, he was astonished to see hundreds of sand heaps all over Ganga bed! He had a problem now. Which heap was his kamandalu under? He started to search for it by pushing away the heaps.

Content: The farmer, who watched this, came to the pundit and asked, 'Why are you destroying our Sivalinga (Symbol of God Siva)?' As a pundit, you should have more sense! Don't you know that you are supposed to make Sivalinga before bathing in the holy river? And here you go about trampling and disturbing our Sivalinga! Don't you have sense?'

Content: A sand heap naturally looks like a Sivalinga. The pundit thought, 'When did this ritual start? It is me who started the ritual. It is for sake of my kamandalu, I started.' Finally, it became a big trouble for himself. Anyhow, he was not allowed to destroy the heaps. He had to move on without his kamandalu.

Content: We start many rituals in our life for some reason. Today, they have no meaning or purpose. Until we remove these 'heaps,' we will be unable to progress. We become trapped in habits. We sabotage our progress. We become our own villain.

Content: Be aware and remove these self created obstacles.

Content: 2. Intelligent Parenting

Content: A small story:

Content: A mother brought her American boy to Nithyananda with a complaint. Mother said, 'Master, he is not obeying my words. Please advise him.'

Content: Nithyananda felt awkward. Nithyananda did not always obey His mother. How can Nithyananda advise the boy? The boy looked intelligent, but the mother kept pestering Nithyananda to advice the boy. Nithyananda had no way out of it.

Content: Nithyananda told the boy, 'Why don't you obey your mother? See, she even made me obey

Content: her!'

Content: He said, 'Master, she is not happy. If I follow her where will I end up? I will end up being unhappy like her. Why are you asking me to listen to her? Why are you advising me to obey her?'

Content: Nithyananda was shocked. We had a long talk and Nithyananda convinced the boy to listen to his mother. Some good would come out of it.

Content: The incident made Nithyananda realize that parenting is different in modern times. How different? Nithyananda thinks the young generation children will sue their parents if they end up in depression. They will go to court and say, 'These guys, my parents, did not give me the correct mental setup to handle the challenges in this world. I am depressed because they did a poor job.'

Content: Understand! Parenting is a challenge for both the parents and children. But it is parents, as adults, who have to be careful. The biggest mistake parents make is to induce fear, threat of beating, or greed, by tempting rewards with candies or something, in order to get the children behave in an 'appropriate' manner.

Content: While this works fine, it also creates a deep guilt in a tender being. The child begins to feel terrible when he does anything that deviates slightly from the laid out rules. The child loses his freedom to explore.

Content: A parent has to provide the experience of consciousness rather than let the conscience grow. Consciousness is natural. Conscience is learned, taught, adapted, and imposed by the society.

Content: A parent can spoon-feed a child with conscience with a detailed instruction of dos and don'ts. Consciousness can only flower from within. It cannot be spoon-fed.

Content: Be clear! Unless we have that patience, we have no right to bring one more life on this planet.

Content: Parents tell me, 'It is very difficult to manage them Master. It is very difficult to give their intelligence. We have to create guilt and give them rules.'

Content: Tolerance, compromise, and letting everyone feel included are a part of intelligent parenting.

Content: Understand, if we have not solved our life's problems we have no right to bring the next generation on earth.

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Content: 3. Art of Listening

Content: How do we listen to people when they talk to us?

Content: Let us be honest. Most of the time, we have a parallel discourse running in our minds and we simply miss the point of whatever is being said. Then, there are times when we pretend to listen, but are actually making judgments about the speaker. There is another way we listen: we try to listen to what the other person is saying to support our argument and win it.

Content: When we try to listen, we are not there in the context listening and hearing. There is a dangerous side effect to this pretend listening routine. We often misunderstand what we hear.

Content: Our being is filled with restlessness. We have so many sensory inputs filling our mind. Add our constant mental chatter to it. Our mind is always overloaded. It is always in the past or in the future. It is never in now. We are, our mind is, always restless. Under these circumstances, we don't hear or listen. Even if we do, we cannot understand. At best we can misunderstand.

Content: Misunderstanding the words of a spiritual Master is very dangerous. The Master always speaks great spiritual truths in simple manner. When a Master speaks we often cannot sit and listen to the ideas because of deep restlessness within us. If we are restless it is better to move away from the place because not only do we not understand, but we also misunderstand.

Content: If we can develop patience to listen to the words of a Master our spiritual restlessness will come down. Our mind will not keep begging for the next word or the next exciting event. At the least this circuit will drastically reduce in frequency.

Content: When we listen to the words of a Master we become passive. The thoughts presented by the Master will touch the heart. We become totally open and passive. This state opens us at the emotional level. We are completely at ease. In the Vedanta we say, 'Shravana, Manana and Nivignyasana' to describe this process of calming the mind. When we listen deeply, we are meditating. There is no need to meditate separately afterwards. The process of listening can create the same experience. Listening can become the experience towards bliss.

Content: Listening is God. Deep, total listening without restlessness is divine. That itself is God.

Content: Listen deeply. Open the heart so that words of the Master are imprinted into the being. Accept it in silence. This is a path to enlightenment.

Content: 4. Still the Mind, Don't let it walk!

Content: Ramana Maharishi, an enlightened master who lived in 20th century in India, used simple but unusual ways to bring awareness to his disciples.

Content: When disciples visited him, he used to tell his followers go round the hill and the hillock on which he lived.

Content: People used to ask: 'Sir, why are you asking us to go around the hill? Why can't we sit and meditate?'

Content: He says: 'if you sit your mind will wander. At least if you walk, your mind will be still.'

Content: He says beautifully: 'when you sit for meditation, you can be sure your mind will be walking. Its Better if you walk. You will see the mind stills. Mind will sit.'

Content: We might think that it doesn't apply for us. We are wrong. We no longer feel or become aware of whatever we do.

Content: For example, do you know what you ate today morning. No, not the name of the food you ate. We are talking about what details was recorded when you ate.

Content: We cannot recall how we felt when we ate it. Nothing is recorded. Nothing is enjoyed. Our mind is just like a wave. When we are living through our mind, we are living on another plane. When we brush our teeth we are already planning what to do at work. When we eat our breakfast we are already at the workplace. In the mind when we are at working we are already back at home. When we are back at home our mind has already planned for tomorrow's office work. This is simply a vicious circle.

Content: It is a never-ending vicious circle. We live in one way but our mind is working in the other way. Our mind and body are not working in coordination with each other. Our body and the mind do not fit into each other. Neither our body nor our mind lives where we physically live. We live in one place physically but our mind lives in another place, even another plane. If we are here, in this position, the only truth we can be sure of is that we are actually not here.

Content: We should experience everything we do consciously. Be aware of every act. If we brush our teeth, we should recall the cold water touching our mouth. We should remember the taste of the toothpaste in our mouth and the pressure of toothbrush upon our gums. We should recall how it felt after brushing.

Content: Let us be alive, aware and vibrant every moment.

Content: 5. Love can transform a stone

Content: When we read the title, we think, yes, every Enlightened Master says this. Nobody tells us how to do it.

Content: Many educated people think that idol worship is idle worship. Understand- it is not what we worship- it is the manner in which we worship that determines the outcome of our prayers.

Content: A small story:

Content: A devotee prayed to Vishnu for ten years. Although he worshiped with passion, he never once got his hearts desire fulfilled. All he wanted was a darshan (vision) of Vishnu.

Content: Frustrated, he decided to stop worshiping Vishnu and to pray to Siva instead. In his little altar, he set Vishnu's statue aside and placed Siva's in front of it. He started the worship. He lit the incense sticks and the smoke curled towards Vishnu. The devotee was extremely annoyed with this. In a reflex, he plugged Vishnu's nose. There was no way he wanted to offer the incense to Vishnu. He was so angry with Vishnu.

Content: Much to his surprise, he felt that he was actually pressing somebody's nose. He opened his eyes and saw Vishnu in front of him! Vishnu was giving him a darshan! At once he removed his hand from the nose and exclaimed, 'O Lord! For so many years I worshiped you with so much love and devotion, now when I when I am denying you the perfume of the incense sticks, why did you give me your darshan?'

Content: Vishnu said, 'When you prayed to me all these years, you did not feel that I was alive in that statue. Only now when you punished me, you had the intensity of feeling that I was actually there in the statue. When you have such a deep feeling, I had to come down and give you a darshan!'

Content: Be clear! We can only get what we invest into a activity. This is true for any activity.

Content: Enlightened Masters transcend the levels of ordinary mortals. When a Master says love transforms a stone, He speaks from experience. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa used to say that sometimes after performing worship to Mother Kali he doubted if Mother was alive in the idol or whether he was wasting his time worshiping a stone. So, he used to place a small thread in front of the idol's nose. He said that the thread always moved with the flow of air.

Content: Love packs enormous power. Ordinary love with all its limitations can perform miracles. Use it and watch it grow and work for you.

Content: 6. Escape superstition

Content: We often wonder how things become a superstition or a moral code?

Content: A small story:

Content: In an ashram in India, one Master used to hold worship every morning. Now, the Master had a pet cat. The cat used to jump and play around. It got in the way of Master and his disciples. It never allowed them to finish their worship peacefully. Gradually the cat, in all its playfulness, became a big nuisance. The Master did not want to get rid of the cat. One day he asked his disciples to cover the cat with a basket before he began the worship. That day, the worship was peaceful. The Master asked his disciples to do the same next day.

Content: Unexpectedly the Master died. The disciples continued the tradition established by their Master. They began their daily worship by covering the cat with a basket. Soon after, the cat too died. Now, the disciples faced a big dilemma. How could their worship be complete without covering the cat with a basket? They got another cat and subjected it to the same treatment. After a few days, the cat escaped. Soon, all cats in neighborhood moved away. The disciples gradually found it hard to get a cat for their worship. But to worship without a cat? It was a sacrilegious! Gradually they stopped the worship because there was no cat!

Content: This is how a practice becomes a superstition, and a superstition takes on its own life to become a binding rule.

Content: Morality is one such rule. It is like superstition that has taken a life of its own. When we have no understanding about the roots of the rules that have formed the morality, we will also behave like the disciples in search of a cat.

Content: Be clear. As long as morality is given, spoon fed to us we react. When morality is served as a rule, we rebel. When morality is enforced, we create two things in our mind. First, we try our best to escape from it. When we cannot, we do not want to give in to it anyways. We create a deep guilt in our system when we ignore the rules every time.

Content: Morality, guilt, superstition are all the same. They all arise from our lack of understanding or poor reasoning. Don’t carry the burden of guilt, or morality without understanding its meaning. Be aware and alert.

Content: 7. What We Never Forget

Content: We never forget many events in our life. Our first time at school, the first time we cycled, our achievements and may be the first million dollars.

Content: These events are dated. They are based on the past or in the future. We are constantly going back into the past and checking if we had a better time then. Our memory always instills nostalgia. If we decide that we did not have a good time in the past, we are planning to have it in the future.

Content: There is a chance, a small chance, although we live either in the past or in the future, we are truly not happy in either places! On the one hand we have the disgust or nostalgia for the past and on the other hand we have hopes and aspirations for the future. Both these positions are not satisfactory for us. In fact it begins to bother us.

Content: For example. Let us say we have a headache. Our first reaction is to take a remedies to come out of it. Why do we do that? We take medicine or something to help us reduce the pain because pain is not our true state. Painlessness is our real nature.

Content: Similarly, if we are worrying about the past or future all the time, why are we unhappy and dissatisfied with it? Because it is not our true nature. We attach ourselves to worry, we chase the same endless thoughts over and over again. When we associate ourselves with living in the present, we are expressing our true state.

Content: Consider another example. If we have come from Hyderabad and lived in America for the past 30 years. As we have no practice we have forgotten how to speak Telugu. Suddenly if somebody starts speaking to us in Telugu, will we not remember? Don't we experience some joy in talking in our mother tongue.

Content: In the same way, bliss and living in the present are the language of our being. It is a language that is more natural for us than our mother tongue or any language that we master. Bliss is our true state. Our dissatisfaction with the past and the fear of the future are all reminders that we need to live in the moment to experience bliss.

Content: Up to the age of 7 we were in that state. Start reclaiming that forgotten language, that forgotten state. Meditation is the doorway to the process. Meditate everyday.

Content: 8. Burn Your Worry!

Content: What is worry? If we think about the question deeply we understand that we have no answer.

Content: We can come up with a long list of reasons for worry. Still, word worry will elude definition. If

Content: we list reasons that cause us to worry it keeps growing. There is no end to it. If we look at our lifestyle,

Content: it will never help.

Content: If we work on the reasons for worry there is no end to it. Only if we work on the subjective

Content: experience of worrying, will we get rid of it. We chase our lifestyle intensely and we cannot relax until

Content: we reach our grave. Even in the graveyard we will be worrying about the kind of tombstone that will be

Content: put up for us!

Content: When we are bothered about lifestyle, we keep running continuously, till we fall into our grave.

Content: A small Zen story:

Content: A person wanted an acre of land to grow vegetables. So he prayed to God. Satan appeared in the

Content: form of God. Satan said, 'I give you more than one acre of land. Just run from morning till night. All

Content: the land you cover will be yours.' The poor man became very happy and started walking the next

Content: morning. His initial aim was to cover 10 acres so that he could live comfortably. As the day progressed

Content: his greed took over and he wanted more and more. He thought he could own a small kingdom. He

Content: forgot his food and water. He denied himself the basic needs of his body. He would not even sit down

Content: for a few minutes to rest. Towards the end of the day he saw a beautiful graveyard across a river. He

Content: wanted to acquire that too. So he pushed himself to swim across the river to get to the graveyard. Alas!

Content: As he reached the graveyard his body could take no more. He collapsed never to get up again.

Content: Look deeply. This happens in our lives too. We neither relax nor enjoy our lives. We postpone

Content: enjoyment. When we are studying, we say 'I will enjoy after marriage'. After marriage, we say 'After I

Content: have children.' After children we say,'After his education.' Then we say 'After retirement I will enjoy

Content: social security.' We are trained to run continuously, and we have created within ourself the mental set

Content: up that will never let us relax and enjoy.

Content: Become deeply aware of mind and thoughts. That alone is enough to burn worry!

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Content: 9. Become the center of the Universe!

Content: A small story:

Content: Galileo, the scientist who discovered that earth was not flat, wrote a book after his research. He wrote, 'planet earth is round. It is a globe. It is not flat.'

Content: In the Bible, it is said that earth was flat. Bible also says that sun goes around planet earth. It did not say that the planet earth was moving around sun! The Bible is not wrong. At the time Bible was written this was the best information available to them.

Content: A Christian court summoned the scientist. They said, 'No. You can't say planet earth is going around the sun. Bible says sun goes around planet earth. You have to change your statement or face penalties for declaring Bible as false.' They were talking of death penalty.

Content: Galileo changed his statement. But he added a footnote in his book. He said, 'I am Christian. I changed my statement. But the sun and planet earth are not Christians. So they go around as they go around. They are not going to change the direction based on my statements.'

Content: Like majority of the population, the court too missed the point of what Jesus said.

Content: When Jesus said the whole existence moved around him and he was the center of it all, he did not mean it to be interpreted literally. Jesus was expressing his enlightened state in these statements.

Content: Understand! When we experience enlightenment, we will also experience whole existence moving around us. This is what Jesus meant when he said that entire existence moved with Him. The statement was a metaphysical expression. Jesus found and experienced that even the sun revolved around Him. He was in such deep joy that is brought by enlightenment.

Content: When a metaphysical statement is recorded and interpreted as a physical statement, as a fact, it loses its validity. What Jesus declared was the truth of His experience. He declared it from the depth of his enlightenment.

Content: Be clear! When we create superstitious beliefs out of metaphysical experiences of our spiritual Masters, we are doing harm in many ways. We are reducing Master's metaphysical experiences into physical plane. When we apply it without understanding we are reducing it to a superstition. When we fail to follow the superstition and someone points it out to us, we also experience guilt.

Content: Break this cycle! Guilt will kill intelligence. It will strangle our being. Clear this guilt with deep understanding. This will eventually bring enlightenment. In an enlightened state, entire existence will continuously flow towards us!

Content: 10. Karma is Conscious Choice

Content: Our understanding of karma- the concept and the word- is incorrect.

Content: An aphorism, a sutra in the Upanishads says: a man who decides to live is not affected by any of the karmas. To interpret this sutra, we need to have some basic understanding about karma.

Content: Simply put: Karma is the conscious choice we make. In our life we face a series of continuous conscious choices. We make these choices continually. The sum of all our Conscious choices makes up what is called as karma.

Content: How does this work in everyday life? A small example will help us understand the basic truth. Let us say someone criticizes us. Our usual response is to get offended. In other words, we choose to get offended. Yes, it is a conscious choice. We can choose to get offended by someones reaction. If somebody praises us, we choose to be flattered. This system of being offended and being flattered to a comment from the outside is so well ingrained in our system and we do it many hundreds and thousands of time a day. It so automatic that we are no longer aware of it. It becomes a habit, an automatic response. We choose it unconsciously.

Content: Be Clear! Our life is nothing but the totality of conscious choices. We direct these choices that we continuously make. Whether we want to or not, directly or indirectly, we choose everything that is present in our life. Someone else does not choose. It is we who choose. Continuously. It is our choice, our decision. We may think somebody else decides. But it is only we who is deciding.

Content: We can decide either way. We can decide to be unmoved by either praise or blame. We can choose not to get offended. We can choose to remain calm, relaxed, and collected. It is our choice to get offended. Not only do we get offended we often go out of our way to try defend ourselves. We end up making a bigger mess than it was to begin with.

Content: Our life is a continuum of conscious choices. Continuous choices, our choices, becomes what is called 'life.' The decisions we make every minute all our choices put together decides our life. Another thing about the decision. If we do not decide, if incidents decide our life, then we live in a state of 'paralysis.'

Content: Meditation helps to bring awareness into our lives. When we live and do our duties with total awareness, we are beyond karma. We can all rise above it. Try it.

Content: 11. Drop Guilt to become Enlightened

Content: Society runs on rules. It has laws of do's and don'ts. Spirituality thrives and blossoms in freedom.

Content: When we live in society we follow its laws to help society to function smoothly. It is not human nature to follow laws. Even when we live in the society we are always breaking laws. We are looking for ways to break free.

Content: Freedom is our true nature. We are totally and completely free from everything that binds us. Understand this, when we express this freedom, with the choices we make, we enter the spiritual path.

Content: Society however has a way to control us. It lays out many laws. We follow some of them when we were young. We were trained to do that. There is a danger in this. When we internalize the laws of the society in our mind we create a deep wound in our being. We destroy our intelligence. We have begun to destroy what we are born with, our gift, our birthright.

Content: Rules and regulations are only superficial. Our concepts of morality, at the best, are narrow and shallow. Look at it deeper. Our logic, our rules, our morality and society are only skin deep. It is just skin deep! Look deeper, farther beyond everything changing and superficial.

Content: Our morality, like our concepts, keeps changing. Consider the idea called sin. In some religions, people believe that they are born sinners. They live their life- their entire life- in fear of committing another sin and guilt. The truth is the only good the system serves is to the religious leaders. They can now control populations through the idea of sin and guilt.

Content: Understand this! There is only one sin. Be clear about the original sin any human being can commit. The original and the only sin is ignorance. The ignorance of not realizing the truth that we too are divine is the original sin. The depth of this ignorance guides every act in our life.

Content: Awake from the ignorance! Be aware of this ignorance. Divinity is present within each being. Divinity is eternally present in each one of us. Our true nature is to be blissful.

Content: To convert into a belief that we are sinners and need to live in eternal guilt and sin is the primary sin of all times. This process wounds our being. We do not and cannot honor and cherish the belief that we each are divine beings. We cannot experience the gifts that existence showers upon us.

Content: Drop the guilt, sin. Express the divinity within.

Content: 12. Formula for Joy

Content: How many times have we experienced victory that tastes flat? There is no more fizzle or joy in our victory.

Content: Why does it happen so? There is a deep rooted reason for this. Often, without being aware of it, we are on a run to fulfill our ego. We run to achieve something but once we achieve it, we feel like fools because it gives us no fulfillment.

Content: Ask a cross section of youth about goals in life, they will say that they want to achieve so many things and it is possible only in a foreign country.

Content: If we look at people who came to foreign country, they all seem to have a similar formula. They have an agenda, list of things to achieve and they give themselves, some time, say 20 years to accomplish it. By God's grace, they achieve everything within 8 years. Now, in spite of all the achievements, they feel a deep void, a restless, and a dissatisfaction within them.

Content: Understand this: we have achieved 'what' we wanted to achieve. We are clueless about why the 'what for' aspect.

Content: We begin to backtrack and think, 'why did I think I wanted these things?' The reason we want to achieve these, we realize that was for joy and bliss. That bliss has not been achieved yet. It proves to be elusive. Our formula, though caused us lot of troubles, at its best provided temporary joy. It is mostly the joy of acquisition.

Content: As we become more aware, we realize that the joy of acquisition is a bottomless pit. Once an acquisition is accomplished, another project has to be in place to keep the adrenalin flowing. When we fail to do this, we experience depression.

Content: Consider what we are missing with this attitude. We don't desire to experience happiness by enjoying whatever has been acquired. We have set ourselves in a no-win situation. We have programmed ourselves to acquire and acquire, but missed the key components: meaning for acquisition and the joy of it. Our life is filled with acquisitions that have neither meaning nor joy.

Content: This causes depression of success: the empty feeling that arises even after we have achieved success.

Content: Be clear! All that we do in the outer world is the lifestyle. It is not life. It is imposed by society. We find the purpose of our life only by connecting deeply with our being. Travel inward, deep within, to find joy. That is the only formula for everlasting joy.

Content: 13. Divinity is Miracle

Content: We have heard enlightened Masters reassure us that miracles do happen. We often question the role of divinity in miracles.

Content: Let us analyze this with an example. Let us examine a simple act like raising the hand. First, the brain has to give the order; the hand has to understand the order and execute it. In our ordinary knowledge and understanding, three things have to exist before this can happen: head, hand, and the command. In a normal plane of living, we understand every act as being composed of three things: the doer, deed, and the result. Logically we can understand any action if these three are presented to us.

Content: In the ultimate plane of reality, the level at which divinity operates, these are not three different things. When we ask what part divinity plays in miracle, we miss the subtle point here. The very miracle itself is divinity. When we question the role of divinity, we are asking for cause, effect and the act. We want to know whether divinity is the cause, the act or the effect. In the language of divinity, these three different things do not exist.

Content: Normally if we have to raise our hand, first the brain has to give the order, the order has to be carried to the hand and the hand has to act. The language of normal human beings separates unity and says that three things have to exist: head, hand and command. But in divinity all the three are one and the same and do not exist separately. So the very divinity is a miracle.

Content: Many people ask, 'Master who created the world?' Understand! There is no creator. Please be very clear: Existence created itself. The universe is a self created entity. The very creation itself is a creator. It is Intelligence, continually created.

Content: It is a little difficult to understand. It is just the 'creating': the process is continuously going on because of its own intelligence. There are no three separate things: creator, creation and created. There exists one thing-- creating: a self expression of intelligence.

Content: So, in any miracle- the miracle itself is divine. The cause for miracle is divinity, the happening is divinity and the result is also divinity. The three things are not separate: divine, miracle and divinity.

Content: Understand this single truth. Follow this path of inquiry. It will lead to ultimate bliss, Nithyananda.

Content: 14. Become a Paramahamsa!

Content: Vedic seers of ancient India initiated students to chant Gayatri Mantra. Understand the key words in the statement above: initiate and Gayatri Mantra.

Content: The seekers of eternal knowledge were not baptized. They were initiated. The two are different. Baptizing is giving a guideline, initiation is handing over a torch for our use.

Content: A small story: A man had lived in the jungle for more than 70 years. He had been born there and he had lived there all his life. He knew every secret place in the forest and paths to many places. He was like a walking directory and encyclopedia.

Content: Once, a young man, person new to the forest cames to him with a request, 'Sir, how can I cross the forest? Please help me.'

Content: The old man said, 'That is not hard. If you walk one kilometer further, you will see a lion. Now, turn left, and walk on for three more kilometers. Here you will find a large snake. He is vicious, try to escape him. If you are successful, then you have to walk for another three kilometers. You will find a valley. Cross that valley and go on for four more kilometers. You will come to the banks of a river. Cross it to reach the other side.'

Content: Let us understand this story. Is this the guidance of any use to the young man? How could the old man have helped him better? He could have given him a tool that would have helped the young man more than these detailed instructions. For in the jungle, lions don't wait precisely where the old man told. The young man would have benefited more from having a tool, like a torch that would give him a clear view of the road and that would have been enough.

Content: Life is like a forest. We cannot always live by rigid rules and regulations. We meet with so many surprises and shocks that guidelines are of no help. Life, like the forest, is continuously changing. We cannot live by the dead rules or religions. To be successful in life we need a system that will give us more clarity, more understanding. We do not need any baptizing.

Content: Be Clear! Gayatri is not baptizing. Gayatri does not mean any religion. It is simply a decision to live consciously. Gayatri has no other religious paraphernalia. When we start living consciously, life happens to us. We are reborn, dvija. In the Upanishads, a person who is reborn, a conscious being, as a Paramahamsa. Live in this consciousness.

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Content: 15. Experience Total Freedom

Content: Total freedom is enlightenment.

Content: When we are enlightened we live in total bliss. We are immersed in ecstasy. To be totally free our being has to flow like a river without blocks. Our mind should not be attached to the past or worry about the events of the future. To be totally free, to be enlightened, we only need to live in the moment. Take every moment as it comes. Delight in every moment. Live completely in each moment. We need to become aware of everything in the body and around us. To become enlightened we need to live as if every minute is the very last one for us.

Content: When we are totally in the moment our being flows like a smooth river. When we have blocks we create whirlpools which sap the energy. Guilt is one such whirlpool. It creates blocks such that the energy is sucked into it.

Content: Guilt is caused by our poor understanding of rules and morality. These rules and morality are imposed by the society. They are simply a list of dos and don'ts that are necessary for smooth running of the society. With time, these rules are modified, changed, and discarded. It is a natural progression of life.

Content: Understand! As long as we need a list of dos and don'ts we are simply a child. We should experience and understand why we need those rules the society dictates. For example, will our attitude change if the government declares that there is no death penalty for murders? Will we go and shoot someone? If we do so, then, we are totally immature. We still need the dos and don'ts of the society to regulate us.

Content: These dos and don'ts create a buffer between us and enlightenment. As long as our being has such buffers we can't reach enlightenment. Let us base our morality on our understanding. We usually base our behavior on our internal, deep-rooted consciousness and not on the society-based conscience.

Content: Kill the guilt! Let the natural intelligence bloom. This natural intelligence will take us to the ultimate experience—Enlightenment.

Content: Be clear! Total freedom, joy, bliss, ecstasy is ours to live and experience once we go beyond the societal rules and live with the list of dos and don'ts. What an exchange this is going to be!

Content: Ramana Maharshi, an enlightened Master said, "I gave up everything worthless. In exchange, I got the ultimate human experience!"

Content: Experience this freedom!

Content: 16. Let Bliss Become Routine In Your Life

Content: Our lives are nothing but a simple routine. Nothing about it can change in the way we do it. We lift the same cup, whether we lift it by the left hand or right, will change nothing. Even the temperature of the coffee in the cup will remain the same.

Content: We already know what our routine is. Let us infuse some bliss into the same routine.

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Content: A famous enlightened Master, a Sufi saint called Abdullah, was once asked by his student, 'Master, how can you always be happy?'

Content: Abdullah replied, 'Every morning, as soon as I wake up, I ask myself, 'Abdullah, how do you want to be today?' I get the answer blissful. So I am blissful the whole day.'

Content: Bliss or joy is not to be enjoyed at particular time. Bliss can continuously happen within us. We can be blissful all the time. When we understand this simple truth, we begin to realize that every moment of our life can be bursting with bliss. Bliss can penetrate every routine, every simple thing we do.

Content: Be clear! When consciousness enters our routine, bliss happens. When consciousness enters our routine, bliss happens and our life is transformed. An alchemy, unlike anything we have experienced before happens to us.

Content: Our next question will be- How to live consciously? Become aware. Be totally, completely aware of what we do, think, or act. When we slow down, when we live in the moment, when we bring awareness into the moment, we bring in our consciousness.

Content: Try to live only one day consciously.

Content: People reading this might think, the saint Abdullah decided to live in bliss, but what should I do if my mind wants to live in misery?

Content: Live in misery, what is wrong in that choice?

Content: When asked the same question, Abdullah replied, 'if my mind decides to live in misery, it is perfectly alright. It enjoys misery. That is why my mind decided to ask for misery.'

Content: Understand- if we don't enjoy misery, we will never choose misery. We would, consciously, never choose misery. We are left with only one alternative- to be in bliss.

Content: In Sanskrit they have a beautiful term to describe the blissful choice: sat chit ananda. sat means 'truth ' chit means 'consciousness' and ananda means 'bliss'. These words explain the transformation in us. When any of these enter our life, it is transformed.

Content: If we instill bliss into routine and bliss be the routine in our life.

Content: 17. Attend To Yourself For Enlightenment!

Content: How often have we often wondered why we take the trouble to please people at all? It is in our most frustrating moments that we discover a truth.

Content: We create many of our problems by seeking attention from others.

Content: Our basic instincts are those of sex, fear and worry. Seeking attention from others is a subtle,

Content: emotional, automatic process. It is more for attracting praise for our lifestyle. We feel happy as long as people praise us or give us a boost. We feel larger than life. We feed on the attention that many people give us. We do that for a good reason, although we are unaware of it—Attention is energy.

Content: If our life is built around others opinions we constantly feed on their attention. This is the basis of mob psychology. As long as we are in a crowd we feel that we can do anything. Politicians feel energetic when they are among their followers for the same reason. We think that followers are led by the leader. The fact, however, is that the leader does what the followers want! Leaders are slaves because their energy is based on the attention of others.

Content: If we are more energetic in a group then our lifestyle is based on attention. Our life is being run by lifestyle. Be clear! We are mistaking lifestyle for life.

Content: We are the architects and designers of our lifestyle. If our life is centered on the idea of gaining praise from others, then we completely depend on the attention of others. When that is withdrawn we feel low, deprived, and dejected. We suffer from low self esteem because we are dependent on others' opinion of us.

Content: Our self opinion is based on what others say. If people repeatedly said, 'You are a nobody,' then we feel like a nobody! Our self opinion is based on others' opinion of us because we don't know ourself.

Content: Be clear! If we are based only on our lifestyle, then we want to be continuously certified by others. Opinions are poor substitutes for experience. When we experience, connect with our being, we can break out of this habit.

Content: Awareness and meditation can gradually break the habit. When our life is centered on our inner being, we flower to our full potential. This bond, this connection, at the peak of expression brings the life changing experience called enlightenment.

Content: We can all attain this state. We only need to begin our inner journey towards eternal bliss, Nithyanandam.

Content: 18. It's All About Love

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Content: The other day, Nithyananda was reading a magazine. The title said, 'Live Forever.' It gave eleven techniques, or important instructions to extend our life span. These techniques would extend our lifespan by at least 20 years. It has been supported by standard statistics and survey.

Content: The surprising conclusion by the experts was the same as the advice given by ancient sages, all the eleven techniques listed were related to love!

Content: The survey showed that people die early if they are single or widowers. It showed how life is extended when there is some one to care and share -even caring for a pet animal does so much, surely caring for your spouse will do a lot more.

Content: Another thing was that the chances of getting cancer or depression are low, especially if we are caring for or being cared for by somebody. The people who gave the survey were ordinary people. Their love, the feeling of affection that they shared in normal day to day life has elements of possessiveness, jealousy, and anger. Even this ordinary love or simple infatuation can create miracles for our body!

Content: The simple or practical love or affection for another person can develop due to some reasons. It could be that they support us socially or that person will stand up for us when we face difficult times or the person supports us mentally, emotionally, or psychologically. It could also be that you might want to get a good certificate or name from him or her. These are the usual reasons that we show love. Even this kind of love has powers to heal.

Content: Love can heal restlessness. According to the Tantra, an arm of Hindu Philosophy, there is five types of restlessness we suffer from. These five cause a lot of damage to our body or mind. All these restlessness can be healed by ordinary, simple, everyday, human love. The feeling that we care for someone, and we care for each other, that alone is enough to heal and cure.

Content: There are higher expressions of love, the spiritual love, exemplified in the devotion or bhakthi method. The practitioners of this method have achieved selfless love. They see the entire world as God. Do not underestimate and under value the love we exchange in our daily interactions. We heal, we grow, and we achieve something due to love. Love, in any form, is a powerful tool.

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Content: 19. Qualifications for Enlightenment

Content: When we see young seekers and enlightened Master in a young body, we decide that spiritual advancement is not for us.

Content: We think that the path is not for us. We wonder how many austerities the Master practiced all their life. We think we have no time to follow these rituals.

Content: Understand! If we delve deeply into any subject, we can become enlightened, because all paths lead to the same goal. There is no need to do only puja or meditation. Albert Einstein became enlightened because of Physics. Ouspensky became enlightened because of 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'.

Content: Then we have another question. 'Master, are we qualified to seek?' Ramana Maharishi answered this question beautifully. He asks, 'Are you alive?' If we are alive, that is the only qualification needed for seeking enlightenment!

Content: Be Clear! The qualification for seeking enlightenment is being alive. That qualification is enough because life itself has been bestowed on us by the Divine. That alone is more than enough to receive Divine grace. Nothing more is required. All the rest will be taken care of by the Divine.

Content: A small story:

Content: A man who was born blind went to a doctor and asked him if he could have his vision back. The doctor examined him and said, 'you need an operation to get back the vision. From now on, you will be able to walk without your stick.'

Content: The blind man replied, 'Doctor, I understand two things. I understand that you will perform an operation. I understand that I will be able to see. But I do not understand how I will walk without a stick?!'

Content: All his life he had been walking with a stick and he thought that the stick was related to his walking itself. He could not understand how he could walk without a stick. The doctor said, 'When you get your vision, you will understand.'

Content: 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.

Content: Let us not postpone our enlightenment. Let us do everything with deep awareness. That is enough to set us on the path of enlightenment.

Content: 20. Conscience is no substitute for Consciousness!

Content: Freedom is our true nature. We are totally and completely free from everything that binds us. Understand this!

Content: When we express this freedom, with the choices we make, we enter the spiritual path. Rules and regulations are only superficial, artificial and imposed by the society. Our morality, like our concepts, keeps changing.

Content: People tell me, 'What is this Master? You are breaking all the basic laws. You are pulling the whole social structure. You are breaking the entire structure, the nuts of bolts, the rules and regulations

Content: of the society. How can we all live morally? How will people live with morality? What are you doing?'

Content: Nithyananda tells them, 'Be very clear. You need forced morality only for kids! You can tell a kid, 'If you keep quiet, and you are good I will give you candy.' Of course, nowadays kids say, 'I am happy as I am. I don't need your candy. I am happy jumping around. Who cares for your candy?' To a kid you can say I will give candy or I will beat you. You can impose morality based on fear or greed on kids.'

Content: It is time to act now! We are not kids anymore! It is time to stand up and be moral based on our understanding. Our morality should not be based on fear and greed. As long as our morality is based on fear and greed, we can be certain, that it is only skin deep. It is just skin deep!

Content: We can never be moral, based on fear and greed. If fear and greed from the basis for our morality, we will definitely try all possible ways to escape from it. For instance, we will speed just ten miles over the local speed limit. We think, 'As soon as I see a cop, I can step on the break and slow down.'

Content: As long as our morality is based on fear and greed, we are undoubtedly a child. We are not mature. If we are truly grown up, our morality should be based on understanding.

Content: Be clear! A mature person means the person who lives a happy, blissful, and quiet life without fear and greed. When we drop our fear and greed, a new kind of morality arises in our being. It is not the shallow, social morality. This morality arises from our consciousness and provides our whole being with a different kind of well being. This consciousness brings freedom. Choose it all the time.

Content: 21. Life Partner or Lifestyle Partner?

Content: Indian mythology has stories that refer to the seven loka (worlds). Actually, there is no such thing as seven worlds. It is an expression for seven different ways of perceiving and interpreting the world around us.

Content: We all look at the world through our emotions. These emotions are like glasses we wear. When we wear green glasses everything around us appears green. When we become centered on a particular emotion, we view the world through that particular emotion.

Content: If for instance, we are centered on imagination, fantasy, and sex, the whole world will seem to represent those feelings. Our lifestyle is filled with our own fantasies and imaginations.

Content: Life is energy. It is simply an expression of our inner consciousness. It is living in a manner that gives us total satisfaction and fulfillment.

Content: When we are centered on emotions of imagination and fantasy, in any relationship, we continuously feel that our partner has cheated us. The truth is other person does not have to cheats us. We project our own imagination on people, situations, and cheat ourselves.

Content: Consider this example. When we say we are looking for a life partner, we are actually looking for someone to fulfill our fantasy. We are searching for someone to fulfill our dreams. We are searching for a screen where we can project our fantasies and imaginations. When we successfully project it, we feel fulfilled. If truth be stated, and honestly examined, it will turn out that we are looking for someone who will support this lifestyle of fantasy and imagination. In other words, we are looking for an ideal lifestyle partner not a life partner. So when we search for the partner we are constantly thinking: When I go to a party, I should have a partner who will glorify my lifestyle!

Content: There is a clear difference between a life partner and a lifestyle partner. Be clear! The two are not the same. When we look for someone with a good match to our taste and life style, we are matching lifestyles. We are not in anyway progressing in our search for a life partner. A life partner is one with our being, our consciousness.

Content: When we live with our emotions: fantasy and imagination, fear, worry, seeking attention, comparing ourselves with others, egoistic or discontent- we are living in one of the seven worlds as told in Indian Mythology. Meditation alone helps us to become aware of these workings of the mind.

Content: Mediate everyday!

Content: 22. Spice up Life with Awareness

Content: Often, we find that we have paid too much for a desire. Too much time and energy. There is no satisfaction of having gained a goal or having achieved something.

Content: We feel the pressure and stress of life because we are running a race. Our goal is to be on the top of all material comforts. We neither have time to rest and enjoy our life, nor do we have peace. This leads to deep discontentment.

Content: If we change the idea that we can find fulfillment in quantity or number of things and years instead focus on quality of life, we will radically shift in our thinking. Instead of adding more years to our life we can add life to our years!

Content: Three simple techniques have been given by Yogic Masters of India. We can add life to our years in three ways: Live in the present moment, have more awareness about what happens in the outer world and be more deeply conscious of the changes in the inner world. These three ways will give us a glimpse of life, of the energy of life, and an experience of Samadhi.

Content: These techniques will place us in the sphere of total awareness. We are conscious of what ever happens inside, outside, and around us. When our life is based on consciousness we will have a deep satisfaction. Instead of fantasies we will develop a deep intimacy with our spouse.

Content: Instead of fear of change or death, we will welcome death so that it can bring about a deep transformation in us.

Content: Instead of having a corrupted inner chattering, called worry, we will have clarity of thought. Instead of psychological worrying, we will have effective chronological planning in our life.

Content: Instead of seeking and asking for attention, we will start radiating peace and energy ourself. Instead of others being the source of energy for us, we will start generating our own energy. At the level of self esteem, instead of having low or high self-esteem, we will know who we are and we will start expanding or flourishing in our own way.

Content: At the level of ego we will never work to increase what we possess, never to expand our lifestyle. Instead, we will start enjoying what we already have.

Content: At the highest level deep discontentment will give way to deep fulfillment.

Content: Let us stop and enjoy what we already have. The price is paltry but the gains are enormous.

Content: 23. Keep it out!

Content: Enlightened Masters advise, 'Live in the world, but don't let the world live in you.'

Content: What does this mean? At first it looks like an impossible thing to do. We reason that we live in the world. We have to deal with the world around us on a daily basis, for every interaction. We are affected by what people say and do. We have to let the world live in us too, for, we live in the world.

Content: Master is giving us a technique to live with. He is guiding us through a tricky situation with this technique. The Master is asking us to move one step ahead from this reasoning.

Content: Master asks us, 'Tell me, how do you sit down on the chair?'

Content: We reply, 'We simply sit. Automatically.'

Content: Understand! Our problem lies here. We are doing things unconsciously. We are not aware of what we are doing and how we are doing it.

Content: Even when we make ordinary decisions like sitting in a chair, we can sit consciously. We can feel the comfort of the chair consciously. Not only should we sit consciously, we should also listen to things happening around us. We should see things happening around us, consciously.

Content: What does this consciousness mean? It means being aware. Becoming aware of the hardness or the softness of the chair. It is to experience the act of sitting with our mind and senses. We need to be completely, totally, aware of how our muscles flex, our spine curves and the comfort or discomfort the chair gives us. Being conscious also means that we engage our senses totally in the task we are doing and disconnect from it as soon as the task is done.

Content: When we are aware and conscious, we will see that the outer thing or matter will not be enforced in us. The outer events will not create an echo or generate a pattern of recognition within us. The outer thing will not engulf us with its own waves. It touches us and leaves. Like the waves in a beach that wash our feet the events in the world all go back to their origin. If we can be aware that it is a wave we can turn our attention and energy to other important tasks in life.

Content: By this simple change, we will conserve tremendous amount of energy. This energy can be redirected to other productive things in life.

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Content: 24. Realize the uniqueness of being YOU!

Content: We often why wonder bad things happen only to us.

Content: We think of our neighbor who bought a new air conditioned system and the temperature in our homes automatically goes up. If a friend buys a new house our home becomes uninhabitable. If a brother gets a new wife the wife at home becomes ugly and filled with faults!

Content: Understand what is happening here. We do not live our life on our basic needs and requirements. We live in jealous comparison with what our friends, neighbors and colleagues possess. Our wants are based on jealousy, nurtured by greed, and has no finish line in sight. It goes on expanding, miring us deeper and deeper into unhappiness.

Content: Jealousy is the root cause for this comparison. It is a terrible waste of our energy. It simply drains us and saps us of all energy. It is a futile emotion with no productive function.

Content: Be clear! This happens because we think that we are the best. We all struggle constantly to be number one and number two in something or other. If we line up all the people in the world based on one attribute or another, most of us will be in the middle somewhere.

Content: When we chase an object out of jealousy we quickly become number one in reaching the graveyard. It is a race to no where. The seeds of this are sown very early in our education system when we start ranking our children based on perceived capabilities. Once you rank the first three, does it mean that the rest of the class is useless?

Content: Let us get out of this fatal habit of ranking people. It only leads to comparisons, jealousy, and achievements of other people become prominent in our life. Such comparisons are based on how good we think others are in what seems to be important to us. This leads to unhappiness with in a person, within family, and in the community. Only if we remove this comparison can we can work towards communal happiness.

Content: There is a way out of the jealousy trap. Realize uniqueness of being YOU. Let us all work to realize our own special uniqueness. When we spend time with ourselves we understand several things for the first time. We know that we have our own abilities and capabilities which may be different from those of others. When we allow these unique abilities with passion to flower to the fullest extent we will realize true happiness.

Content: 25. You Need Life to Live

Content: One word, is that all it takes to make us angry or elated.

Content: In our daily interactions, just one word is enough to take our mind wandering on its own journey. We will be physically present in an air conditioned room with our colleagues but mentally we might be sitting in the hot sun and re-live an humiliating experience from the childhood.

Content: Or we might be sitting there thinking, 'I will wait for the day I become the boss. I will show them. I will do this.... I will behave like this....'

Content: Be clear! In both cases, when we travel back in the past or jump into the future, we are not living! We are not alive when we don't live in the moment!

Content: There is a simple truth that enlightened Masters have been teaching for centuries. It is so simple that people cannot accept it. Unless we live in the moment, relax in the moment, enjoy or feel everything that happens to us deeply at any moment, and then move on to the next moment with freshness, we are actually not alive. We are living in a dream.

Content: We often think of our golden days as being in the past or in the future. If we live in the past or future, or enjoy the memories from the past and dream of the the future, we are actually not enjoying life. We are enjoying a hangover. In Sanskrit, a word describes our emotion filled attachments, samskara. We are living with a ghost, when we live in the past.

Content: If we are living with a ghost, living in the past, if we think past is eternal, if we remain in the past celebrating all that we have achieved in the past, we lose the power of our life. If we dream of a golden future, planning far into future, then we lose the tataka.

Content: Tataka is a word Buddha often used to indicate that we should remain in the present to enjoy life. Life will fleet past us if we live in the past or future. We will be living with a ghost or a dream. If we live in the present, live in now, live in the moment, we are alive.

Content: When we live in the present and in the moment, we experience things differently. We experience a depth that will keep us continually happy and in bliss. When we live in tataka, we become sensitive. When we live in tataka, we get life.

Content: Experienced life by living it.

Content: 26. Embrace change to grow

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Content: When Nithyananda visited USA Nithyananda saw something funny. In one state gambling is illegal. In the neighboring state gambling is legal. A river separated the two states. The border line between the states passes through the river. The casino is built right on the river! On one side of the casino it is legal to gamble, on the other side it is illegal!

Content: In adjoining places we see that something is lawful in one state and totally illegal in another. What is the scale, or basis, for saying something is right or wrong? For some people or in some cultures, a particular food is considered to be tasty, ambrosia. For another person the same thing is poison!

Content: What is the scale to measure the right and wrong? There is no scale. It is like weighing two different things with one scale. It is like comparing apples and oranges.

Content: Ancient sages gave a lot of thought for this problem. They offer a solution. The correct name for Hinduism is Sanatana Dharma. It means the eternal principle in Sanskrit. Ancient sages gave two scriptures for followers of Sanatana Dharma not one. All other religions have only one book, the ultimate! They have only one book that is all!

Content: There is another major difference between Sanatana Dharma and other major religions. Not only does Sanatana Dharma have two scriptures, ancient sages the authors of these books have proclaimed that these books have to be updated! Not revised, not edited, but updated.

Content: Sanatana Dharma has Smriti and Shruti. The Smriti has social rules of conduct. Shruti are the Vedas and Upanishads. They contain the ultimate laws of enlightenment and divinity. They are the ultimate truths. These concepts will not change.

Content: Many religions say that their holy book cannot be updated! In our life, we update everything- cars, computers, cell phones, camera, clothes, and even our homes. The software that we use in the computer to run its programs and perform tasks for us needs to be updated frequently. Everything in life, everything around us is constantly updated. So, why cannot we update the holy books that are the basis of our beliefs?

Content: As our society changes, the Smriti also changes. That is why the ancient sages declared that Smriti can be changed. From time to time, enlightened Masters create new Smriti because no morality can remain forever. No law remains a law forever. Law and morality are based on the situation!

Content: Embrace the change. Grow with it. This is the path to bliss.

Content: 27. Guilt Glues you to same experiences

Content: People wonder why they are unable to live without fear, pain or with a stable mind. Why are they stuck in the same experience?

Content: If we experience guilt, it will never let us move in our life.

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Content: One of our devotees had a tumor at the end of her spinal cord, very close to the root chakra. She had suffered with it for twenty years. One day she asked me, 'Master! It comes back even after surgery. Please heal me!'

Content: Nithyananda spoke to her to trace the origin of the problem. Nithyananda asked her, 'Do you have any guilt related to your sex energy?' She started to weep. She said one of her close relatives sexually abused her when she was a kid. It went on for many years. The guilt stayed with her. She said, 'I started hating that part of my body. I did not want that part of my body to exist at all. My hatred towards that person turned towards my own body.'

Content: Nithyananda spoke to her and explained that it is not an unusual experience. They say that one in four kids is sexually abused in America. Of course, kids don't open up with these stories. Kids don't tell you.

Content: Slowly she came out of the guilt. She healed psychologically. Nithyananda explained the nature of all guilt, pain, and hatred. Listen now, we will be surprised! What Nithyananda is telling you is the truth! In just 10 days, simply the tumor disappeared!

Content: Nithyananda gave her a small meditation technique. Nithyananda told her, 'Express your anger towards him. Close the doors of your room, take a pillow, imagine that it is him and weep, cry, shout and hit. After all that sit silently. Meditate on that part of your body and accept it also as your body. Stop hating that part of the body.'

Content: We will be surprised; in just 10 days the tumor disappeared. It never came back. Difficult to understand; but it is the truth!

Content: When we hate an action, we also start hating that part of the body. It is not as if we always get physically ill. We get disturbed psychologically. Most of the time, our energy gets blocked based on our guilt. We develop psychological illness because of our guilt.

Content: If we look deep in our mind, wherever we have fear, wherever we are not able to move, wherever we are not able to take decision, there will be some guilt. We have to move away from it to blossom and grow to the fullest potential. Try it.

Content: 28. Choose Your Focus and Energy Flows into it

Content: A Small Story:

Content: An old, rich widow remarried for the second time. One day she was infuriated by a mistake her husband made. She shouted, 'But for my money this furniture would not have been here. But for my money this house would not have been here. But for my money you would not be having such a big car. But for my money you would not have all these comforts. How dare you misbehave with me.' Her second husband replied in a cool and sober tone, 'But for your money I would not have been here. Your value is nothing but your money.'

Content: In the society, we are weighed by the paraphernalia around us. Our value is higher if the paraphernalia that surrounds us is extensive. Cars, houses, jewels, houses, and other things add value to us. Naturally we ask the question, 'am I nothing more than these?'

Content: It is our choice. There are two things in us, our being - energy, and our outer life - matter. When we choose the materialistic things, matter adds value to energy. We add all our energy to materials. When we add all our energy into matter, we are constantly chasing it. We are not happy with what we have. If our neighbor or friend buys an air conditioner the temperature in our house will become unbearable!

Content: When we are weighed by matter, we become paralyzed. We live in fear, our life becomes a series of circuits. We expend all our energy trying to get one thing more, something bigger and better than the crowd we move in.

Content: Is there another way of living? Yes. We can add value to matter by living with awareness. In people who live consciously, pcoplé who have become enlightened, value is added to matter by energy. We can see, when a conscious person touches anything, everything becomes holy. Even small things like an old coconut shell, a piece of wooden furniture or a staff, even those things become objects of worship. The enlightened Masters receive respect because they lived consciously. Energy guided their lives. Conscious decision guided their lives. When we actually decide to live, when we consciously decide to live life starts happening to us.

Content: Whether matter should get value by energy or energy should get value by matter is our choice.

Content: 29. Why rules cannot rule hearts?

Content: We are waiting to break the rules by constantly testing the limits of the rule.

Content: If the rules are rigid, we turn to avenge the people who imposed the rules upon us. We always take revenge. Some of us wait for the right time, some don’t. Understand! Everyone who imposes a rule is always avenged in the end.

Content: People again and again tell me, ‘Master, my son is not taking care of me.’

Content: Be very clear, our son may be the first enemy for us. We are also the first enemy for him. We have given him so many rules, so many regulations. We gave him so many laws, so we were almost the master for him when he was young. Naturally, in one part of his mind he will have respect; the other part will always rebel against us. The other part will be just waiting to take revenge on us. Because we imposed rules and regulations on him, it is a basic rule that naturally he will be against us.

Content: A few people try to impose the rules in subtle or cunning ways. They exploit our fear and greed by showing, talking, and convincing us about hell and heaven. They make us aspire and desire for heaven and develop a fear of hell.

Content: They create so many concepts of hell and heaven in us. They say, ‘If you practice these types of teachings you will be rewarded with heaven; if you practice other type of teachings you can only go to hell.’

Content: This concept of heaven and hell is a subtle way of exploiting our being. When we are given some rules based on the greed and fear we start creating a deep guilt in us.

Content: And one more thing! There is one law which is difficult to understand but it is one of the ultimate laws. The law states, ‘Nobody can live their life based on any law.’

Content: When Nithyananda says nobody, Nithyananda means NOBODY. When Nithyananda says any law, Nithyananda means ANY LAW. Life is far superior to laws. All the laws, rules, regulations are based on some, partial understanding of life.

Content: But life is beyond all our understanding and beyond our logic. People ask Nithyananda, “Why is this life created at all?” Nithyananda tells them, this WHY can never be answered. Because this WHY is based on logic. Logic is not truth. With logic one can only travel as long as reasoning has power. Life is beyond that. Life is expansive. Embrace it.

Content: Live the life and expand. Break the rules to grow!

Content: 30. Want to Know Why You Cannot Enjoy?

Content: We think that we have everything. We have two cars, palatial home, good job, pretty wife and enough bank balance. But, why, we wonder, are we unable to enjoy anything?

Content: As long as we have guilt, we can never enjoy anything.

Content: A small story:

Content: One devotee came to Nithyananda and said, 'Master, I love ice cream! But the moment I see ice cream I develop cold.'

Content: 'By seeing ice cream, ma?'

Content: 'Yes Master! I don't have to eat it. I just have to see an ice cream to catch a cold.'

Content: Now, this is a serious problem.

Content: 'How long has this been happening?' I asked

Content: 'For the last twelve years or more, Master.'

Content: Nithyananda started speaking to her. Nithyananda began to trace the root of her problem. It is deeper than psycho-analysis. Slowly Nithyananda traced the origin of the deep rooted problem.

Content: Let us understand one truth here. We think that if anything has deep roots it must be great.

Content: Listen to Nithyananda tell you, the older the roots are, it is more likely that the roots are dead! If a dead thing lies in our mind, it will cause many problems.

Content: The mother did not want the little girl to have too much ice cream. To stop her from eating ice cream, the mother created a deep guilt in the little girl. The mother created a deeply negative attitude towards ice cream. The child imbibed it so deeply that she developed cold just by looking at the ice cream! The negative attitude created an allergic reaction in her even if she saw the ice cream.

Content: When Nithyananda explained this, the lady said, 'sometimes I hear my mother's voice saying, 'don't eat!'

Content: After analyzing Nithyananda told the lady, 'It is your mother's voice that creates the disturbance in your mind. Practice this simple technique. Get five ice creams!Don't bother about your mother. If you hear your mother's voice, just be angry with her and continue to eat ice cream.'

Content: Understand this. How do we create guilt based on someone's opinion? We create it, because we have respect for that person. The moment we become angry with that person, naturally the respect is lost. Anger is a wonderful way to release guilt. The moment we become angry with the person who created guilt in us, we will come out of guilt.

Content: It often happens that sometimes the person does not know that they are creating guilt in another person.

Content: Life without guilt is bliss. Enjoy it!

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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 Shyamalapeeta Sarvajnapeetam, 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 निष्कळ प्रोक्त परं भावमिति स्मृतम्‌।

Content: सृष्टिस्थं लोकरक्षार्थ लोकस्योत्पत्तिकारणम्‌॥

Content: साधकानां हितार्थ तु स्वेच्छया गृहत 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:

Content: About The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam

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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