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Content: CONTENTS

Content: Life is beyond Logic

Content: Enlightenment comes from within

Content: Have Fears? Face them!

Content: Reach for Freedom, don't search for it!

Content: Create Intelligence

Content: Beyond Compare

Content: How to follow rules and be happy!

Content: This is a miracle!

Content: Don't Let deadlines beat you!

Content: Who runs your life?

Content: Celebrate your life

Content: Happiness lies within

Content: The original sin

Content: Love is Not a choice

Content: Create Eternity in You

Content: Rules don't rule your life!

Content: Taming restlessness

Content: Breathe Awareness

Content: Choose Energy over Matter

Content: Are we successful?

Content: Plummeting the Depths of Devotion

Content: Improve Quality of Life

Content: Replant the seeds of Samskaras

Content: Relax! That is Meditation!

Content: Dissolving Boundaries

Content: Choose your rebirth- Consciously!

Content: Morality is an understanding

Content: Release the Past and Move on

Content: What Do You Invite into Your Life?

Content: Understanding ends the search

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1. Life is beyond Logic!

Content: We think our life, the rules the society lays down for us to follow, and the creation are all ruled by logic. We are completely wrong.

Content: We cannot live our life based on any law. Understand this! Nobody can live their life based on any law. When Nithyananda says nobody, Nithyananda means NOBODY.

Content: When Nithyananda says any law, Nithyananda means ANY LAW.

Content: Life is far superior to laws. All the laws, rules, regulations are based on partial understanding of life. But life is beyond all our understanding and beyond our logic.

Content: People ask Nithyananda, 'Why this life is created at all?' Nithyananda tells them, this WHY can never be answered. Because this WHY is based on our logic.

Content: Life is based on God's logic. There is no place in this universe that He is not present. There is no time He is not present. There is nothing He does not know. Our logic and reasoning melts like the ice in front of sun.

Content: Our human logic and God's logic can never meet. His logic is so immense, vast, and infinite. We can never meet His logic. Life, in myriad forms, is created by Him.

Content: Rules are created by us. Life is created by Him. Laws are created by us. Naturally, our laws can never match or fit with God's logic or God created life.

Content: Life is natural. Laws are societal. Life is physical. Laws are mental. So, all our ideas, all our dos and don't s, all our morality, all our right or wrong is given to us by society. God gives us only love.

Content: Society rules us by labels. We are called as a saint, savior, or a sinner by the society. Not by God. When society titles us as saint, we are saint. The moment society decides we are sinners, we are sinners. To God, we are still the same.

Content: When we kill someone in the society, we will be called a murderer and punished. If we kill someone in war front, we will be hailed as a hero. The society rules us by these titles and rules. God neither creates these rules nor promotes them.

Content: There is a great danger in following the logic laid down by the society. It creates

Content: deep wounds in our beings. Every one of us experienced a rule, a social situation, that impacted us deeply.

Content: Look beyond human logic. Experience the logic of the God- the gift of existence.

Content: Do not resist. Be open to every experience existence brings.

Content: 2. Enlightenment comes from within

Content: When Nithyananda says our physical activities are in no way related to enlightenment, people are confused. Enlightenment is the realization of energy with in. It is the connection we make with the universal energy.

Content: We can easily spot an enlightened man. He can never fake his feelings. He always is and can only be natural. But an ordinary man can fake anything. He even fakes his naturalness.

Content: When Nithyananda was wandering in the Himalayas, Nithyananda met an elderly sadhu who was compassionate, blissful and simple. Nithyananda stayed with him for about 6 months. He used to smoke. Nithyananda hated the smell of it. It used to make Nithyananda feel physically sick. One day, Nithyananda summoned enough courage and asked him why he smoked it and advised him that it is bad for health. He laughed and asked me, 'Can you tie a big elephant inside a small hut? Similarly, unless I smoke, I can't stay inside this body'

Content: Nithyananda then understood that enlightened masters had to do some things to reverse process that will help them to stay inside the body.

Content: This Baba had a clay pipe. He used to fill it with a copper coin and light it. After he finished smoking he cleaned the pipe. Unbelievably, the copper coin would have turned into a gold coin. He would take the gold coin to the market, sell it and buy some leaves to smoke. This was a regular feature. It may sound too far-fetched to you but Nithyananda can bear testimony to it. It is from him Nithyananda learned the art of solidifying mercury and energizing the mercury.

Content: Nithyananda is telling you this to explain to you that physical activities are in no way related to enlightenment. We cannot and should not judge a master by his habits. The rigors of practice are only necessary when we start learning.

Content: It is like when we learn to ride a bicycle. We have to sit straight and properly. We need to keep our feet straight on the pedals. But once we

Content: master the art of cycling, when we are able to balance ourselves well, we can perform many stunts on the cycle. In the same way, when we start sadhana (spiritual practice), we have to practice a few things. Once we master it, we will learn to balance our energy and run our life.

Content: Enlightenment is beyond body and mind. It springs from deep within.

Content: 3. Have Fears? Face them!

Content: Our lives are filled with fear. We live constantly and continuously in fear.

Content: If we look deeply into the aspect of fear, we will see that we have many types of

Content: fears: fear of losing material possessions; fear of losing physical and mental health; fear

Content: of losing one’s loved ones and love; and then we fear many unknown things, including

Content: death of which we know little and yet which generate unease and fear. All these fears can

Content: be managed somewhat. The ultimate fear that we all have is the fear of losing our

Content: identity. This completely terrifies and confuses us.

Content: In many scientific surveys, it has been shown that what we fear the most are

Content: usually two things: the first fear, not surprisingly, is the fear of death. The second most

Content: common fear is that of public speaking.

Content: Do these fears seem poles apart? They are not. They actually have a common

Content: thread, that of the loss of ego. At death, we have no idea where we are going; our ego is

Content: threatened. In public speaking it is a fear of failure, of being shamed, of losing one’s

Content: identity.

Content: Meanwhile society and religion keep instilling more and more fears into our

Content: system. The fears of- sin, moral wrong doing, punishment in hell are all drilled into us

Content: from childhood by those who wish to control us and our actions. None of these fears have

Content: any spiritual sanction.

Content: Morality has to come out of awareness not through compulsion and fear.

Content: Fear is like a shadow. It follows us and stalks us. The moment we turn around to

Content: face it, it will disappear.

Content: How to face the fear? Become aware of the fear, of every reaction our body

Content: produces, way it changes our thoughts, speech action. Just watch the fear and face it

Content: totally. Many times we will be able to catch it come in waves. And we realize if we

Content: observe, we are not drained of energy or caught up in the drama of it all.

Content: Another technique is to watch our breathing. Concentrate on breathing in and out.

Content: Simply concentrate on these two events. Mind will automatically be controlled.

Content: Face the fears, win over them. Greater victories in life can become ours.

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Content: 4. Reach for Freedom, don’t search for it!

Content: In our lifetime, we all have one common hobby. It is to search for freedom.

Content: Everything we do is a search for the ultimate, true freedom. Even when we search or seek money or wealth, it is another manifestation of the search for that elusive, complete freedom. We reason that if we have more money, we have more choices. We think money will buy us bigger and better choices, bigger and more luxurious house, car, and more comforts. We think that we have more choice.

Content: In our struggle and our journey we forget that choice is not freedom. The search for the choices is the search for freedom.

Content: It is natural for us to seek freedom. Because, freedom from bondage is our true nature. In Sanskrit, we call it Svabhava Swatantraka, free by nature. Freedom is our true nature. Everything else has been acquired by us in our mistaken belief. It stays because we hold on to it.

Content: Why then, we wonder, are we bound by so many rules, regulations and we live like a bonded slave? Be clear. The entire society is actually struggling. We are all, each one of us, are working, struggling, towards freedom. That is why, breaking a rule, even for a brief time, gives us enormous satisfaction.

Content: By nature, we are Nithya Mukta. These Sanskrit words mean eternally free. We are free by nature, we are eternally free. We never want to be caged! We never want to be bound by any rule. We don’t want to be slave of any rule! Any rule, when we don’t understand the roots of, but internalize it as right or wrong to follow the rule, will create guilt in us. Any rule can create this. A rule interferes with our eternal aspiration for freedom. Everything we struggle with in our life is just a struggle for our freedom.

Content: Rules of the society, the morality, are imposed upon us. Rules of the society are imposed upon willing and the unwilling alike. On our part, we tolerate the rules.

Content: We are waiting to break the rules by constantly testing the limits of the rule. If the rules are rigid, we turn to avenge the people who imposed the rules upon us.

Content: Understand our true nature. Understand that no one is tying us to any rule. We don't have to search for something that is within our grasp. We only need to reach out for the freedom. Understand and express the freedom that is our true nature.

Content: 5. Create Intelligence

Content: Many of us don’t know that we can create our own intelligence. That is why we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again in an endless and helpless circuit.

Content: How to create intelligence? First and foremost requirement is to not create guilt in our mind or our selves about our inability to follow someone’s directions. The moment our mind is locked in guilt, our consciousness cannot flow freely anymore. It is blocked. We kill the intelligence.

Content: All beings are born with intelligence. How to let the natural intelligence bloom in us? There is no substitute for experiencing the free flowing intelligence. Even a glimpse of it is enough to sow the seeds of intent in us. We need to be conscious. Let us not confuse consciousness with conscience.

Content: Consciousness is more solid than conscience. Consciousness is natural. Conscience is learned, taught, and imposed by the society. Consciousness is our true nature. Conscience is acquired, consciousness is natural, our birthright. Conscience is a pure substitute for consciousness. Of course, we need little patience to create consciousness.

Content: Let us not cling to anything. Vivekananda, one of the greatest modern saints, said, ‘Flood your religion with reason and logic. Let whatever that is washed away by reasoning, be washed away. Do not run behind it and hold on to it. The earlier they are washed away, the better it is for humanity.’

Content: We are so conditioned by societal conscience that we cling to it as if it was our lifeline. But, a society’s rules and conscience changes with circumstances and time. What was right at one time might have no relevance today. It is time to let those rules go. It is time to remove the dead and clean the mind.

Content: What will happen if we don’t remove dead bodies from our homes? Not only will they occupy space, they will also smell rotten and invite diseases. It is dangerous to have

Content: dead bodies at home. Here is another example. Do we use last years train timetable to schedule our travel this year?

Content: If we live based on past rules, without understanding why the rules were created in the first place, we create a deep wound in our being. We will create guilt.

Content: We need to let go of all the things that block our joy. It is only when our natural intelligence flowers that our inner joy will also flower.

Content: Create and express the inherent intelligence. Enjoy the bliss and keep the life vibrant and alive.

Content: 6. Beyond Compare

Content: Master is beyond mind. Master is beyond compare. When we try to analyze them, we will always fall and fail.

Content: In our worldly interactions we compare two objects. We can readily see the similarities and differences between them. For example,when we compare two vases we use parameters like size, shape, front view, back view, everything visible about them.

Content: In the case of Masters, they are beyond physical attributes. They are infinity. They are one with the infinite dimensions! Can anyone see the similarities and differences between two infinities? Can infinity be subject to comparison and contrasts? If anyone can compare two infinites, the similarities and differences between two infinities is the same as that between two Masters, that's all!

Content: The problem with us, modern people, is that we have forgotten the language that Masters love to hear. We may know many other languages: English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, but Master will not heed to these. Master has talk to us unless we learn the language of Silence. We immediately will refer to a dictionary to find out the exact meaning of the word silence. The meaning given in the dictionary is soundlessness.

Content: But that is not the meaning Master wants to convey. What the Master means by silence is a vibrant, live energy that is silent! We cannot relate in that language. With a living master we can understand what we have to say because we use the language we know.

Content: So, be silent: in thought and speech, in front of a Master. Let the Master be able to guide us. But the Master addresses a crowd of thousands of people. On the one hand, people are not able to ask their questions or to get their doubts cleared individually. On the other hand, a Master, will clear whatever thought or doubt we have in our mind by the Master's address. Whenever the question is sincere, whenever it is a quest, we find that the Master answers it.

Content: A living Master will guide us. This is more of a possibility of a living Master

Content: guiding us than a Master who has left the physical body.

Content: Be very clear, a dead Master has become very silent, very subtle. They continue to speak, to communicate with us. We can even call it communion.

Content: Master can communicate with us in many ways, yet He is always silent. Master has conquered mind and is beyond mind. Can you compare silence?

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Content: 7. How to follow the rules and be happy!

Content: Everything around us in our society and our values are based on the situation.

Content: Consider this. In many countries when deer population becomes too much, it

Content: becomes legal to hunt them. When the deer population is low killing that animal will

Content: become a criminal offense!

Content: In the same way, once upon a time in India, there were too many cows. The cow

Content: population was too much. That was why they started giving away cows in the sacrifices.

Content: The practiced followed for some decades when suddenly the people realized that cows

Content: were becoming scarce. Once the cow population became low, people began to worship

Content: the cows.

Content: Sanatana Dharma, the original name for Hinduism, declares that Smriti can be

Content: changed. From time to time, the Enlightened Masters create new Smriti became the social

Content: laws and morality change based on the situation.

Content: The Enlightened Masters know that no morality can remain as morality forever.

Content: What is morally wrong at this time of the society might have been right at one time. What

Content: is morally right at this time might have been totally wrong at one time. This happens in

Content: every society, every time.

Content: Moral values also provide guidelines that help the society, community, or a nation

Content: to function harmoniously. When we all live together, we need to have basic

Content: understanding abut how to live happily. For instance, you will not try to kill anyone so

Content: that the person will not try to kill you. We both can live without fear if we have that basic

Content: understanding. Slowly, this becomes a rule. Then, it becomes established as a morality.

Content: Here comes the problem we all face. As long as we understand the root of

Content: morality, we neither behave immorally nor get unduly perturbed by the laws of morality.

Content: With time the understanding is lost. The rules continue to remain. Once we do not

Content: understand the rule, it becomes a forced rule. We are trying to follow something someone

Content: told us to do somewhere. We will not only try to escape from that rule, but we will also

Content: harm ourself by creating a deep guilt when we break the rule every time.

Content: Take time to understand the basis of the rule. When we understand any rule can

Content: become a technique to live a blissful life. With this understanding, we can create a happy

Content: and blissful life for ourself and everyone else around us.

Content: 8. This is a miracle!

Content: When we talk of miracle we have no idea what to expect. We talk of everything else that is totally unrelated to us as a miracle.

Content: Understand! The real miracle is happening deep within us. It springs from deep within us. It is called love. It is a very powerful force.

Content: A small story:

Content: A man was searching for an Enlightened Master to guide him. He could not find one. Finally he went to a forest and decided that the first person he saw would be his guru.

Content: After a long wait a man came running towards him. He jumped up and caught hold of this man's feet and said, 'O Master, you are my Guru, my God! Please guide me.'

Content: The man was actually a thief. He had just stolen jewels from the palace and was trying to escape. The man confessed that he was thief and that he was in a desperate hurry to get away from the police chasing him. No matter how much he explained, the first man insisted that the latter was his guru and wanted guidance to attain enlightenment. Finally the thief said, 'As you have taken me as your guru, do as I tell you. Close your eyes and sit down. Don't open them till I tell you to.'

Content: Immediately the man obeyed and the thief disappeared. He continued to sit even when his mind told him that the running man was only a thief and he should look for another guru. His conviction and faith said that once he had accepted one as a guru, he had to do as he was instructed.

Content: So he sat in meditation, determined to see it to the end. Because of his faith and deep love for the master, after a few days, his penance had effect. Siva had to come down from his heavenly abode in Kailash to bless him. A great truth is expressed in this story.

Content: Love without expectations will work miracles in our life. When we express love to the best of our ability, it does two things. First, it gives life to us, second it heals us and the other person receiving it.

Content: If ordinary love gives us life, gifts our life back to us, imagine what selfless love

Content: can do. It has the power to breathe life to even the stone we worship. Even stone can become God, even ordinary man can become a Guru when selfless love is practiced. This is a true miracle.

Content: 9. Don't Let deadlines beat you

Content: How do we act when we have a deadline?

Content: If somebody, for some reason gives a deadline, 'You will live until tomorrow morning. Do whatever you want.'

Content: What will we do? Look inside our mind and ask ourselves what will do at that time. Let this question simmer in our minds a little as we meet a Master who got the same dead line.

Content: A small story:

Content: Once there lived a Zen Master. The king, for some reason, declared that one morning that the Master would die the next day. The king conveyed the decision through a messenger to the Master. The messenger went to the Master and said, 'The king has decided that you can have time till tomorrow morning to do whatever you like. You can live as you like. You have the full freedom. It all ends tomorrow morning.'

Content: The Master replied, 'All right.'

Content: To the amazement of his disciples, the Master followed the same routine. The Master loved gardening. He fetched water, cooked the food, served his disciples, and did things exactly the same way as before. The Master did not alter his routine even slightly.

Content: Some disciples went to the Master and asked, 'Master, tomorrow morning you will die! Don't you wish to do something different today?'

Content: Master gave a simple, yet, profound answer. He said, 'I live my life from my understanding. This is the best way I can live. I am totally fulfilled with the life I lead. I want to do nothing else or nothing more weather I live for 24 hours or for 2 hours. I am doing what I want to do. I have nothing else to seek as enjoyment.'

Content: Be clear! If we don't enjoy what we do every minute, if we wish to do anything other than our routine, understand that we are controlling ourselves for some reason. Our thoughts, morality, and values are only skin deep.

Content: What does this mean? It means that we are not living our whole life for some

Content: reason. We have not dedicated our entire life for a purpose. As long as we are not deeply connected with every moment of our life, we feel that we are missing something. We feel a hole, a vacuum, a loss of connection between our life and our dreams.

Content: Live in now. Live in the moment. Enjoy every task, even the simplest one, deeply. If we live in the present, deadlines will die their own death. Try it today!

Content: 10. Who runs your life?

Content: Most of us have no understanding of what life is. If our actions are unconscious and automatic, we are not living.

Content: To understand what life is, we should know of Samskara- the emotion filled memories. They are extremely powerful memories that are stored throughout our body. When we are presented with a situation, it simply takes over our being and we get into automatic mode. It is almost as if we have no choice. Samskara pulls us to do the same thing again and again so that the memory of the activity is imprinted deeply in us.

Content: It is a vicious circuit. 'Doing' creates a samskara and repeating the deed makes it deeper. By making samskara we do things, doing things makes the samskara deeper.

Content: When we understand samskara, we will understand what life actually is. As of now, we don't live, only samskara are living in us. In our daily life, we are guided by the imprints made in our mind by social conditioning, by the way we are socially brought up, by our unconscious decisions. Whatever we do, they create a set of samskara and these are living through us. Never think we are living life and we have some control over life.

Content: Only samskara's are living through us.

Content: If we cannot stop any habit we have, then the habit is holding us hostage. If we eat what we want, how much we want and when we want, then we are eating the food. If we eat without an ounce of control of our mind, then, the food is eating us. First we have to drink a little; after that drinks will drink us. That is what is happening in all levels of our life.

Content: Be Clear! At first we create samskara later on samskara live our life. As of now it is pure samskara, habits.

Content: Nithyananda always says, the word ‘habit’ is the perfect word to describe this. If we drop the ‘h’, a bit is left, if we drop the ‘a’, bit is left. Drop the ‘b’, it remains. Only when we drop the ‘i’ it will die. Our mental habits live through us.

Content: When we decide to live consciously life happens to us. When we are born, only the seed, the potentiality of life is given to us- never life itself. When we decide to live, only then we are born, reborn.

Content: Resolve today to become aware of who runs the life. Live consciously and take control of it.

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Content: 11. Celebrate Your Life

Content: When we recollect our past memories, we think they were golden years. For others, it is the rosy dreams of the future that makes them happy.

Content: Be Clear! We are both wrong! If we think of the past with joy, we think life was a celebration. On the other hand if we expect the future to bring joy, we expect that life will be a celebration. In both these cases, we cannot celebrate the given moment.

Content: We cannot go back into the past to celebrate nor can we go into future. In fact there is only one thing we can do-to live in the present. To live in the moment is the only thing we can do. To tell life is a celebration, we need to live in the present.

Content: When we say life was a celebration, we are living with the ghosts. When we say life will be a celebration we are living a dream. We get life only by living in the present. We need to life to live it.

Content: Not only can we celebrate life by living in the present, we can also make it an eternal celebration. Understand the saying: Life is an eternal celebration. The key here is to be clear about the word 'eternal.' The word 'life', as we understand is either with reference to the past or future. But eternity, if it lives in the past and the future, should also live in the present.

Content: Understand! Eternity is now. Eternity all the three- the past, present, and the future, put together.

Content: A small story:

Content: A Sufi master called Abdullah, lived throughout his life in nithyananda, eternal bliss. He was happy and blissful from morning to night, wherever he was. Even his unconscious mind was in ecstasy.

Content: Once a disciple asked him, 'Master how are you so continuously happy? What is your technique?' His beautiful reply was 'When I get up in the morning, I ask myself, Abdullah do you want to be happy, do you want to be blissful today or do you wish to be

Content: in sadness. My mind always tells me I want to be joyful. Then I tell myself, okay, then be happy. Over. I decide for that day itself, not for the next day. I never decide for eternity.'

Content: If we are asked: what will you do? We will say, 'from now on....' We decide for eternity, although we may not remember it tomorrow.

Content: Decide to celebrate today. Decide for now. Decide to enjoy and live in the moment. Eternity will be ours!

Content: 12. Happiness lies within

Content: We all have a perfect life long dream- the pursuit of happiness. No matter how hard we chase it remains elusive.

Content: Understand this! We are not chasing life we are chasing a lifestyle. The two are not the same. We design our lifestyle. We continuously ask and seek attention from other people. We feel that we are happy or we enter into an expansive mood as long as other people give us attention. We derive our energy from the attention others bestow upon us.

Content: In fact, if we analyze our life calmly it seems to be a series of certificates we collect from people. We need someone to tell us that we are great son or daughter. We want someone to tell us that we are good friends, we want another person to acknowledge that we are beautiful and so on. We are constantly doing things for others so that they notice us. The more certificates we receive the better we feel. Be Clear! This is our choice for a lifestyle.

Content: We can turn away from lifestyle and turn our focus solely on life. When we are based on life we will get deep satisfaction by what we do, not by what others say. It requires time to be alone; to inquire and hold a dialog with the person with in us. When we get to know ourself and value our own opinion of ourself, we will be living for life itself . We will not be living for the sake of lifestyle.

Content: We do many things in life for other people's approval. Sometimes, we also refrain from doing something because others may not approve. We stop doing what we wish to

Content: do in the end. We do what others want us to do. We do not do what we are passionate about. Are we chasing happiness by following these rules? No! We start living life for others. We are not living for our own sake.

Content: Lifestyle is all about belonging to a crowd, pleasing others, and being popular. Living our life is about developing a strong foundation of self-esteem. It is about knowing what our capabilities are and what we wish to achieve. It is about realizing that we do not have to dance to any one's tunes to be happy in our life.

Content: Understand this mindset! Break out of this lifestyle trap. Bliss, the highest form of happiness is within all of us. Following what we are genuinely passionate about, without caring what others may think of us, provides a better chance of finding true happiness.

Content: 13. The Original Sin

Content: We are used to a life of compromise. We have become so skilled in accepting anything for convenience.

Content: If the society gives us a label, calls us as a saint or a sinner, we accept it. Yet, we are constantly trying to break the mold that society has made for us. How many of us beak laws? Even if we break a minor law, like speeding for a short burst, we are thrilled.

Content: Look at our mind. On the one hand, we accept something society gives us because it is easier to accept it than fight it. On the other hand, we fight what the society gives us!

Content: Be clear! This is because we are having a deeper experience that we are unaware of. Our nature is always struggling to express its true identity. It is guiding us to go beyond rules, regulations and laws.

Content: Understand! Our consciousness is trying to break through our conscience. Our consciousness continuously fights with conscience. Conscience is imposed by society. Consciousness is natural. Conscience is learned, taught by the society. Consciousness is our true nature. Conscience is acquired, consciousness is natural, our birthright. Conscience is a pure substitute for consciousness.

Content: In all our daily dealings, we accept conscience and ignore consciousness. We ignore it mainly because we are caught in an endless loop. We do not like the rules imposed by the society. It is human nature to reject anything that curtails our freedom. But, we have been so trained that we feel guilt when we break the rules. This action is played and replayed. Again and again, without a break.

Content: Master, we ask, how can we break out of it?

Content: Cast away this guilt.

Content: Then we have another thorny problem. Sin.

Content: We ask, Master, what is sin? How can we get rid of it?

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

Content: realizing the truth that we too are divine is the original sin. The depth of this ignorance guides every act in our life.

Content: Cast away the guilt- of being born a sinner till someone redeems us. We become liberated and realize that we are already one with the divine.

Content: Accept nothing less than this. Consider no compromise. Ignore all substitutes. The journey brings great rewards. This is a sure path to self-realization.

Content: 14. Love is not a choice

Content: Love is a basic necessity.

Content: In our daily interactions with people, many of us behave in a fashion that shows

Content: love as a choice. We express love when people do something that suits us or agrees with

Content: us. We love a person when they praise us or reward us. We love a person when they do

Content: exactly as we ask them to do. This is exactly what extremists do. Can we say that

Content: extremists act out of love?

Content: We feel that we can choose to experience love or express love. We behave as if

Content: we had a choice. We decide if we want it, we can use it. Understand! If we use something

Content: to gain something else, it becomes a weapon. Even love can become a weapon. Of course,

Content: love can become a weapon of choice for transformation. Usually, we don’t go down that

Content: path. Only when we apply it does it become a valuable tool.

Content: Love is not a choice. We cannot have it when we want to or leave it when we

Content: don’t want to. Every human being has to experience and express love in one form or the

Content: other. Love is a basic necessity to be alive. We have to first experience love and then

Content: express it. Be clear! Unless we experience love, we cannot express it.

Content: Experiencing and expressing love is not a matter of choice. It is the only way to

Content: be alive, to live. If we do not experience and express love we may inhale and exhale but

Content: we are not being alive. Let us look back and recollect one incident that makes us feel

Content: alive. That incident has a tender moment, an aspect of love incorporated into it. Love is a

Content: basic necessity. Even to feel that we are living, we need to experience and express love.

Content: In our daily life our expression and experience of love is laced with

Content: possessiveness, jealousy, anger, and strength. This is the simplest, basic form of love

Content: most of us experience. Even this ordinary love, simple infatuation, can do miracles for

Content: our body and mind. It gives us a deep feeling of healing, of well being.

Content: Love is nothing but pure, concentrated, caring energy. So naturally, whenever we

Content: express love we become a channel for energy. When we are a channel for energy, we not

Content: only help but we are also being helped.

Content: Love is not a choice. Love is survival. Love lets us live, heal, and radiate bliss around us.

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Content: 15. Create Eternity in You

Content: There is a simple method to create a different space or eternity.

Content: Let us first understand what we mean by different space. We all have headaches

Content: connected to the outer world and heart aches connected to the inner world. In our daily

Content: interactions, we usually mix or bring what happens in the outer world into the inner world.

Content: For example, we meet an old friend who is now rich and well to do. He wears the

Content: best clothes and drives a Mercedes Benz. We think, 'It is better this friend does not meet

Content: my mother or wife. I will look like a loser in front of him.' Understand! The friend is in

Content: the outer world. By comparing ourselves with the friend we are internalizing the situation.

Content: Similarly, we bring many things from the outer world into the inner world.

Content: There is another way in which we usually live. If we sit quiet for five minutes and

Content: watch our mind, we will be shocked to see how it races. It races from the future to the

Content: past. It connects unconnected events of the past and present. It seems to be making a

Content: series of permutations and combinations. Some of these combinations grip our emotions

Content: or imagination.

Content: This wandering mind creates confusion, dilemma and pain. There is a way, a

Content: simple way, out of it all. Please try it with utmost sincerity for three days. For three days,

Content: simply fall into the present moment. Accept and relax into the headaches of the outer

Content: world and the heartaches of the inner world. In just three days, we will experience such

Content: ecstasy, we will see such a different space in us and we will live a different life. In this

Content: process, let us not try to alter anybody or anything in the outer world.

Content: If we cannot be sincere, accept it. Even the acceptance that we are unable to drop

Content: from the rut of being pulled between the past and the future will bring us to the present

Content: moment. When we fall in the present moment, a different space, Nithya (eternity) is

Content: created in us. The moment we fall into Nithya, time becomes our servant.

Content: The moment our consciousness is raised to the present moment, we will see that

Content: we are penetrating the time shaft. Tremendous realization comes to us when we realize

Content: that the time shaft is only our projection!

Content: Everybody can create Nithya. Live in the moment. Experience it completely without labeling it or moving into the past or present.

Content: 16. Rules don't rule your life!

Content: A small story:

Content: One man was addicted to smoking cigarettes. He asked for Nithyananda's help.

Content: 'Master, please help me to quit smoking. I don't know how I became addicted. Please help me.'

Content: Nithyananda asked him, 'How did you start smoking?'

Content: 'Master, I never wanted to smoke. In fact, I hated that smell,' he said. 'One day I was talking to my friend on the street. My father saw this from a distance. He thought I was smoking. When I went home, he started yelling and shouting at me. He did not listen to me. Then I decided, how does it matter if I smoke now? I have already been punished for it. I started to smoke.'

Content: We all get a thrill, a feeling of adventure, satisfaction in doing what we are not allowed to do. When we are asked not to do something, we feel strong urge or provocation into doing it. We feel a kind of joy and satisfaction doing it. This is the basic tendency of every human being.

Content: When there is a strict rule, we always try to work around it, go beyond it. How many of us speed until we see a cop? We say no to our parents to prove that we are now grownup. We think that we become a man, an adult when we say no. Adults have the power and authority to veto anything by saying no. By saying no we assume that we also have become adults.

Content: We feel that as long as we say yes we are only a child. We feel that we are not mature. When we say no, we think, we assume, that we have become an adult. We think that we have matured. This is the basic tendency of every human being.

Content: We feel that we have matured into adulthood, become man or woman, simply by saying no to our parents. In western countries, that is why there are so many rebellious groups, gangs, and other problems. These people develop a deep satisfaction and taste in saying no.

Content: Saying no is almost like an addiction. When we say no, we try to prove that we are someone special. We feel by saying no we become someone different.

Content: Go beyond what is spoon-fed to us by the society. Go on to develop our own understanding of the rule. Go to the root of what they say. Then we can bend the rules and wear it around ourself without guilt, anger, or emotions.

Content: 17. Taming restlessness

Content: Many people have two cars, two homes, good bank balance, good health, and the spouse of their choice. Yet, they are restless.

Content: According to the Tantra, an arm of Hindu Philosophy, there is five types of restlessness we suffer from. The first kind of restlessness happens in particular place or situation. The cure is to move away from the place or situation, until we feel more settled.

Content: Any location can become a home to us when we find simple things that we like about the place, things that we can relate to and things that can make us smile.

Content: We can be restlessness due to physical reasons in the form of tension within your body. Any tension in our body, any uneasiness, can be released when we express love to somebody. We think: how can love take away physical restlessness? We can see in our life- a mother who has a child to look after - she feels continuously rejuvenated; for taking care of children is not an easy job! This rejuvenation happens because of the love and care the mother feels for the child. Even a simple smile, which emanates from the heart, initiates that process.

Content: We can have mental restlessness. This too can be healed by caring for pets or playing with kids. These simple acts help us avoid heart attacks and can postpone the onset of any fatal disease. Even stroking or caring for pets release tension. They just listen and express love. Their energy heals you.

Content: Restlessness can also come from emotion. Mental restlessness is intellectual. Emotional restlessness cannot be controlled by words. We can heal this only when we express love. When we start radiating love, it floods our being with energy. Our being is receptive to the higher forms of energy. This heals our emotional restlessness.

Content: Ultimately we can have spiritual restlessness. Only our love for the teacher or the Master can heal our spiritual restlessness. Many people tell Nithyananda, 'Master, just the presence of any enlightened person makes us meditate. Whenever we meet swamis and saints we are able to meditate in front of them; why are we not able to do so at

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Content: Whenever we meet enlightened people, swamis and saints, we start relating to them, we begin to express our love towards them. This totally heals our spiritual restlessness. Understand! The words, 'Spiritual restlessness:' means that we can't sit with ourselves, by ourselves, comfortably, alone, in silence.

Content: Love breaks through all these forms of restlessness. Apply it today.

Content: 18. Breathe Awareness

Content: When we switch off a computer it shuts down. Our mind does not. We are always collecting data, processing that data, or conveying that data through gossip.

Content: If we acknowledge this fully, we are actually fostering a lifestyle. It is one based on our fears. We fear that someone will be better than us. Surely, they are. But there are also many people who are behind us. We rarely think of them.

Content: We can chat for hours on telephone, cellphone especially, or watch movies, or television. But if we are asked to sit down by ourselves quietly, simply doing nothing, all by ourselves, many of us will go crazy. We just cannot.

Content: We are afraid to face our fears. We experience our fears over and over again. We are always afraid of something or the other. Even when we enjoy something we are afraid that we may lose that enjoyment. If we have experienced life to the core of our being, then we will know that we have nothing to be afraid of, because we have nothing to lose.

Content: If something is to be lost it is best to lose it fast and move on. Understand this: anything that can be lost is not worth having!

Content: If we really experience life completely, we will never fear death. Because life and death are not two separate things but are two sides of the same coin. If we have experienced life, we realize that death is not an end to life, but the climax of life, the peak of our life.

Content: Death is an intense experience. It is an intense energy undergoing a transformation. The Bhagavad Gita says death is nothing but the changing of our shirt. Only here are we changing our body into another one. And this changing of the body will lead to an inner transformation.

Content: The software to access this inner transformation and finding the spot of peace is pre-loaded in every human body. If we breathe then we are eligible for enlightenment. But the transformation happens away from the hustle and bustle of data. It happens in solitude, in the inner quiet. When it strikes it is an irreversible event.

Content: Meditation, being in the moment, is the shortest and simplest practice to release our mind from the endless loop. We can acknowledge whatever is happening. We can accept it. Take a deep breathe and acknowledge every discomfort, emotion, pain, fear experience. This awareness is the key to transformation.

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Content: 19. Choose Energy over Matter

Content: In our life, we do not decide anything with total awareness, consciously. When we do not decide with awareness we are not living. We live in a series of paralysis. Several situations in our life bring us extreme pain and joy. We choose to react to a situation with pain and joy.

Content: We can decide to live our life without any external input. This means we can decide to live without any interruption from the outside. We can actually run our life without any guidance from outer forces. We can live without any outer situations or decisions forced upon us. When we decide to live with awareness, we live. Without the conscious decision, when we are led by a series of events, we live the life of a paralyzed person.

Content: When we decide to live with awareness we understand life is our choice. We choose what happens to us. Here is an example to make this clear. We get a new Benz car and want to take it for a drive. We get into the car and start the vehicle. After a drive around the block, we return to our garage. Now, we need to stop the car. Until that point we knew everything: how to start, operate the car, turn right, left. But the truth is that we do not know how to stop a car.

Content: Understand! If we do not know how to stop we will not be driving the car. If we cannot stop the car when we want to, then the car has been driving us. In the same way, when we do not live with awareness, we are not living a life. The life is living us. If we don’t know how to stop the car, how to live, we are just paralyzed.

Content: The science behind it is simple. Matter is living the energy. It is not as if energy is living the matter. Matter is active because of the energy in it. There are two things in us, our being - energy, and our outer life - matter.

Content: If we consciously decide, if our energy decides to live without being affected by the outer situations, without being touched by outer things, we start living. Our consciousness shines. Otherwise, matter lives through us. It is not that we live through

Content: consciousness shines. Otherwise, matter lives through us. It is not that we live through matter.

Content: matter. Life can be living or a paralysis. It can be either way. It is our choice.

Content: Understand this! Our being is energy. We can choose Matter or Energy to be the focus of our life. It is our choice.

Content: 20. Are we successful?

Content: In order to achieve something we focus totally on it. But once we get it we realize

Content: that the joy of owning something or achieving something is short lived.

Content: This was not the success we envisioned when we started our task. There are

Content: several reasons for this. We were following what others wanted; parents, friends, and kin.

Content: Our journey along the path was not due to our deepest need. The goal we achieved was

Content: not our own. We were either imitating someone or trying to please someone.

Content: We might have two or three cars, more homes than we can ever live in, a bank

Content: balance that is the envy of most peers. In the eyes of the society, we have achieved

Content: everything that they term as 'success.' Still we are deeply dissatisfied and restless.

Content: This deep restlessness, unhappiness and dissatisfaction is called 'Depression of

Content: Success.' Almost every 'successful' person in the 'civilized' world suffers from this

Content: malady. People in the so-called 'under developed' nations of the world are still struggling

Content: towards material success, and their unhappiness results in depression of failure.

Content: Depression of failure is much better than depression of success. In depression of

Content: failure there is hope that we can achieve the goal tomorrow. Hope acts as a buffer to truth.

Content: But depression of success leads us straight to truth and when we face truth directly, it

Content: hurts. We have nothing more to achieve and nowhere else to go, deep hopelessness

Content: descends on us.

Content: From that point three paths are open to us. The first is the path of addiction: we

Content: choose a substance, food, or shopping to hold on to. The second path is denial- most

Content: people deny that they have a problem. The intelligent, they choose a different path

Content: altogether. They choose meditation, the path that takes them on an inward journey.

Content: Everything we achieve in the outer world, for the society, is a lifestyle. What we

Content: call as success is what society dictates us to be. We are caught in the lifestyle and we

Content: miss life.

Content: Understand! Lifestyle is designed by us. We start living our life for others not for

Content: our own sake. Experience is based on lifestyle wisdom is based on life. When we have sharp awareness, total intelligence, and consciousness of our being, every incident reveals its truth to us. We become more aware of what is happening both inside and outside our being. We are aware of what is needed to fulfill both our life and our lifestyle.

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Content: 21. Plummeting the Depths of Devotion

Content: Masters teach us to fall into depths of devotion so that we can rise out of our every day drama and misery. This awareness is the first step towards eternal bliss.

Content: How to do this? We have varied tastes and preferences. Despite this, we can all work towards enlightenment. Listen to how Ramana Maharishi related to the Divine. In one of his verse Ramana Maharishi laments before Arunachala (Siva), the Lord of Tiruvannamalai:' O! Arunachala! You are my house owner, my husband, how can you stand by and watch while thieves come in and take me away?'

Content: Understand the verse. The five senses are referred to as thieves who come into the house to steal the Being. Arunachala is the Atman, the divine Self within everything in creation.

Content: Somebody asked Ramana Maharishi, 'Bhagavan, how can you say all these things to God?'

Content: Bhagavan replied, ' For you, God is only a faith, just a belief. For me He is a living Being. He is an experience.'

Content: What a beautiful verse!

Content: Many saints and mystics in India have experienced and shown this highest type of love, the spiritual love for the Divine. The love was experienced by Meera, Chaitanya, Ramakrishna, and Ramana Maharishi.

Content: Ramakrishna said, 'My love for the Divine is a totality of three major kinds of love - a miser's love for his money, a chaste wife's love for her husband and a mother's love for her child. Put all these together and add something more. This is my love for the divine.'

Content: If anyone uttered the word 'Krishna' Meera went into ecstasy. When we listen to the devotional songs sung by Annamacharya on Lord Balaji, we realize that he feels the presence of the Divine. It was an actual experience for him.

Content: The power of love, even the love that we feel, with all our imperfections, is a

Content: great influential and inspirational force in our life. Love can do miracles in our being- not only at the mental level but even at the physical level. Love for the Divine is almost like a feeling of being in union, bring one with the other. It is almost means falling in tune with the other person. It is ecstasy, the highest expression of our being.

Content: In the scriptures, it is said, 'If tears roll down as you listen to God's name, be sure that it is your last janma (birth)'. Understand, this is the only use of this life.

Content: 22. Improve Quality of Life

Content: When we go to college or school we have big dreams. We want to go out into the world and achieve fame, money, respect and admiration of peers.

Content: We begin to think that quantity of things we possess is more important than people around us. Our outlook of life changes when we land a job. We live, talk, dress, behave, earn money and spend money in a manner that pleases us.

Content: We are continuously working hard for our material needs that we forget that this is the not the core of our life. We live in a world where we can get any service for money. There is nothing that money cannot buy. Since we need money and find it a useful currency, we begin develop a habit. We begin to reduce everything in our life to monetary transactions.

Content: We forget that everything in the outer world is lifestyle. Lifestyle is all about the quantity of things we possess. We measure our life by our bank balance. Lifestyle is related to the way in which we dress, where we go out to dine, how we behave with people, earn our money and spend our money. All these are related to worldly life and part of our life style.

Content: We mistakenly link two unrelated things together. We start to believe that there is nothing in the world beyond lifestyle. Many of us run to spiritual Masters even when we have achieved everything that the outer world can give us. We will have two cars, many houses although we don't feel at home in any one of it, have stacks of new suits and throw lavish parties. Yet we lack fulfillment. We have a deep sense of restlessness and we cannot relax in one place. This is because we have achieved everything we want in our chosen lifestyle, but it turns out to be all wrong. Something does not feel quite right. No matter how hard we try, it will not be our life. Life is not lifestyle, and lifestyle is not life.

Content: Life is all about the quality of our consciousness. Life takes us inward, in a journey of self-discovery. Lifestyle allows us to swim in the waters of material things,

Content: which after a while become shallow and insipid. We realize that only the outwards things are enough for a lifestyle, but life is another game altogether.

Content: Let's realize this distinction and apply it with awareness. A transformation will happen within us. This will lead us in the right path.

Content: 23. Replant the seeds of Samskaras

Content: We have often heard Enlightened Masters tell people, 'You create your own world. You create your own realities.'

Content: Does that mean that we have so much power over our lives? Be clear! We have absolute power to create our own realities. We create our hell and heaven through our Samskaras.

Content: This Sanskrit word, Samskara, can be loosely translated as imprint or impression. These words are incomplete and the closest way to explain and understand the word samskara is to call it 'emotion filled memories.' Grasp this idea of Samskara. This is a powerful idea with power to transform our life.

Content: Samskara is created if there is a hangover of the activity we undertake. When we think of the event- fondly or otherwise- long after it is over, and want to recreate it again and again, then we are creating samskara.

Content: Let us say we enjoy coffee. When we are faced with a difficult task we immediately think of it. Soon, we begin to drink coffee when we need to do difficult things. We are unconsciously linking the joy of drinking coffee and the difficult task. We do this act repeatedly and in the end it seems that we cannot live without drinking coffee.

Content: We create a Samskara when an idea or habit is imprinted in our mind. Samskara has a powerful potential energy to make us do the same thing again. People tell, 'Master, exactly at 10 O'clock at night, wherever I am, I am reminded of drinking. I am not able to control. I am just being pulled. My mind simply decides. I go to the bar.' This is a samskara.

Content: Samskaras are powerful. They are like gun powder sprinkled throughout our being. When the time comes it simply pulls us, so we almost have no choice. It pulls us to do the same thing again and again. When we repeat an act, samskara get deeper. It is a vicious circle.

Content: 'Doing' makes a samskara and repeating the deed makes it deeper. Having

Content: samskara makes us do things, doing things makes the samskara deeper.

Content: Understand that we create samskaras every time we do not decide consciously.

Content: When we decide to live consciously, life happens to us. Don’t think life happens to us when we are born. When we are born, only the seed, the potentiality of life is given to us, never life itself. Creating our world is our choice.

Content: Do an act with awareness is the best way to replant the seeds of samskara. Try it the whole day today.

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Content: 24. Relax! That is Meditation!

Content: We are always disturbed by too many words and ideas. How many of us have postponed practicing meditation on one pretext or other?

Content: First we think,'to meditate stillness of the mind is necessary. I don't have it.' Then our friend comes and says, 'practise pranayama. This controlled breathing technique helps us concentrate a lot.'

Content: Understand! 'Stillness of mind', 'Pranayama', these are big words which create more complications. In our current state, that is the unreachable goal. Usually when we are at work, we are thinking of our home. When we are at home we are thinking of the evening discourse. At the discourse we are thinking of when we can go back. At home we are thinking of the next day's office work. At office we are planning the evening outing. When we are outside, we start thinking of home again. We never live where our body is.

Content: Meditation is very simple. If we can relax without TV or other outside distractions, we can meditate. When we simply relax where we are, we are in meditation. We can meditate instantly. We should become deeply aware of our boundaries.

Content: So understand that being in the present, living with awareness and consciousness is called meditation.

Content: Just relax. Just be where we are. Feel the ground or chair, feel how we are sitting, and feel all the parts of our body. Simply experience the present. By being totally in the body we will start experiencing life. Because this idea is so simple, it is also very difficult to understand.

Content: Many people are very successful in their chosen paths. They are also severely depressed. They deal with depression in three ways. Addiction and substance abuse is the first form. Suicide, either by killing oneself or slowly dying within and walking like the living dead, is the second path. The third method, which only very few intelligent people choose, is that of meditation. We have to go into the depression to get to know it, to analyze it and then to come out of it. These are the three paths to get out of depression.

Content: We have to choose our own path.

Content: Meditation helps us face ourselves without judgment. It helps us to face uncertainties in our life without becoming too excited or too depressed. It helps us just be. Being aware of the body, thoughts, and events outside and relaxing into all this is meditation. Try it.

Content: 25. Dissolving Boundaries

Content: If we visit the famous Kali Temple at Calcutta, we can see a strange thing.

Content: The temple has a tradition to decorate Mother Kali's idol with conch shell bangles.

Content: Kali has four hands: one in 'abhaya', the posture of protection and one in 'varada', the

Content: posture of giving; the third holds a skull and the fourth carries a sword. The first two

Content: hands are empty and the bangles can be directly inserted. The sword can be removed and

Content: the bangles inserted on the fourth hand. But the bangles cannot be inserted on the hand

Content: which holds the skull because the skull is too big.

Content: One day the priest assisting Ramakrishna Paramahamsa noticed that Mother

Content: Kali's idol had bangles on her third hand too. They went close and examined it to see if

Content: the bangles were broken, but the stone idol has a full unbroken conch bangle on the third

Content: hand! There was no rational explanation to what they were seeing. They were shocked

Content: and surprised at this impossibility.

Content: The priests rushed to Ramakrishna Paramahamsa to ask him about it. They were

Content: suspicious of Ramakrishna- did he break the skull to insert the bangles? Ramakrishna

Content: was considered to be slightly mad on account of his unique ways of doing Puja.

Content: Before offering the prasad, the traditional food offering to the idol, he would eat a

Content: little bit of the food to see that it tasted alright and only then offer it to Mother Kali. He

Content: would do all sorts of weird things which the scriptures do not condone; but his love was

Content: such that Mother accepted everything. When questioned about the bangle on the third

Content: hand, Ramakrishna replied, ' What is so surprising about this? I just asked Mother to keep

Content: the skull down so that I could insert the bangles and she dropped the skull. I inserted the

Content: bangle and I gave the skull back for her to hold!'

Content: This sounds like an improbable story. But it is true. We can verify this in Kali

Content: temple in Calcutta even today. We are surprised that even stone can react and can

Content: respond to love. Even a stone comes alive for a devotee with deep and true 'bhakti' or

Content: devotion.

Content: Love is the only way to dissolve boundaries. It removes the feeling of separation between us and those around us. Love lets us survive. Love to live.

Content: 26. Choose your rebirth- Consciously!

Content: The Hindu philosophy, rightly called sanatana dharma, is a beautiful system which never conditions. When we meet a teacher who is enlightened through the practice of this philosophy, and if we taken them as our Master we will experience a freedom, a new kind of freedom we never knew before.

Content: The Master will give us a technique and initiate us into meditation. When this happens, when we accept the Master and technique in our lives, we become reborn. The Sanskrit word for this event is Dvija- the man who decides to take birth or gives birth to himself.

Content: Our next question will be how can a man be reborn when he is alive? The truth is until that point in our lives we have neither been alive nor living consciously. When we are born, when we enter this body, only the seed, the potentiality of life is given to us, never life itself. When we decide to live, and that means to live consciously, only then we are born, reborn.

Content: This is how it happens. Once the Gayatri mantra is given to us, if the Gayatri mantra is initiated for us, we become dvija or reborn. Being initiated into the secret of Gayatri does not make us religious. That is the beauty of Sanatana Dharma.

Content: Understand the difference between baptism and initiation. In most religions, baptism is conditioning. Sanatana dharma is a beautiful system which never conditions.

Content: The Gayatri mantra says, let me meditate on consciousness which awakens my intelligence. Let that intelligence help me to meditate on it. That is all. Gayatri has no idea of any form, any Devi, any idea. We are not baptized, We are initiated.

Content: Life is constantly changing and continuously evolving. If we are baptized, we are given a set of rules, concepts and beliefs. As we go through our life, we realize that we don't have either the intelligence or the deep understanding of the problem. We become stuck at some point or other. If we are given the consciousness, the understanding of the power of existence, then it is like someone handed us a torch. With the torch we can see

Content: clearly and walk through our life all by ourselves. The initiation is the torch.

Content: Gayatri does not have a religion. It is a decision to live consciously. The emphasis on consciousness is given to us. We can experience and understand the necessity of what consciousness actually means.

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Content: 27. Morality is an understanding

Content: We often feel guilty when we break some moral rules.

Content: Be very clear! We can never be moral if it is based on guilt. If our behavior is based on guilt, all our morality is skin deep. It is time to mature. We are not going to be immoral if we understand that rules were created for our benefit.

Content: We have three kinds of guilt. Some of these have a function in society. The first kind of guilt is created by our immediate family, our parents, and kith and kin. The guilt based on our greed and sex fall into this category. The second kind of guilt is created by social laws. When we break any of these laws, we feel guilty. We also feel fear about the repercussions of breaking the law. Our social guilt is based on fear. The third kind of guilt is our own creation. When we internalize the guilt for greed and fear, we create hurt and create new types of guilt for ourselves. If we calmly and deeply analyze whenever we are stuck or wherever we are stuck, we find that these three kinds of guilt will be operating.

Content: However, if our morality will change based on circumstances, we are in trouble. For instance, if we know that there is no punishment in a country for murders; will we kill our neighbor? If we are going to an act, just because it is free, then, we can be sure that we are immature. We have not grown up.

Content: Such a life is not worth living. We are far worse than dead people. At least dead people don’t disturb others. But the living dead will always disturb others. We become living-dead if we have shifting values. And we are walking, breathing, not even dead.

Content: Dead people don’t disturb the living. Throughout Nithyananda’s life, Nithyananda has lived in grave yards. For nine years, Nithyananda walked length and breadth of India. Nithyananda walked from Tapovan, in north India to Kanya Kumari in Southern India; from Ahmadabad in the west to Ganga Sagar, in the east. Nithyananda has walked the length and breadth of India. Nithyananda always stayed in graveyards. Nobody don’t need to make or have an advance reservation here!

Content: People always ask Nithyananda, 'Master, were you not afraid? Have you been disturbed by ghosts?' I tell them, dead people don't disturb others.

Content: If our morality is based on greed and fear such a life is not worth living. Be very clear! We are worse than a dead person.

Content: Morality is an understanding, a guidance that is right code of behavior at a given time. Live in the present moment and go beyond morality!

Content: 28. Release the Past and Move on

Content: A society runs on morality. We create rules and regulations that suit us and our circumstances.

Content: There is a good chance that the kids of today, who will be the adults of tomorrow, will reject our morality and establish their own.

Content: Vivekananda, one of the foremost Masters on earth, was a courageous person. In his time he was revolutionary. As a Master, he had nothing to do with the socially drilled conscience. He broke every rule in the society books. He did this to give new light to the entire humanity. He is clearly the creator of social laws, Smriti kara as it is called in Sanskrit.

Content: In his discourse on Reason and Religion he said, 'Let your religion be flooded by reason and logic. Whatever can be washed away by reasoning, let it be washed away. The earlier they are washed away, the better it is for humanity.'

Content: Follow this idea. He said, flood the religion by reasoning. Allow the reasoning to be the main pillar. Let your consciousness be the torch. Flood it. Superstitions, fears, beliefs, customs, traditions, that cannot stand the test of time or have become old and irrelevant will have to be washed away. The earlier these dead objects are washed away, the better it is for humanity. If they can't stand the flood of reasoning or logic, let it be washed away. It is better for humanity.

Content: What will happen if we don't remove dead bodies from our homes? Not only will they occupy space, they will also smell rotten and it is dangerous to have it at home.

Content: Here is another example. Do we use last years train timetable to schedule our travel this year?

Content: If we live based on past rules, without understanding why the rules were created in the first place, we create a deep wound in our being. We will create guilt. This guilt blocks our intelligence, energy flow, and keeps us trapped in a circuit of instinct, emotion, and response.

Content: Every human being has equal opportunity to become enlightened. Each should take the responsibility to look into one's life and flood it with reasoning. What ever cannot stand the test of reasoning, what ever is dead, what ever is irrelevant has to go.

Content: When we remove all these blocks in our minds, our being will flow like a river. When we have blocks, our being is sucked up in a whirlpool.

Content: Live in the moment and accept what each moment brings. This is the easiest path to enlightenment.

Content: 29. What Do You Invite into Your Life?

Content: People think that becoming enlightened or living in the enlightened state is difficult and requires severe practices. Nithyananda says No!

Content: Understand this single line from a sutra, an aphorism, of Hindu scriptures. The secret, the master key of one’s own enlightenment is clearly stated in that. When we decide consciously, we simply express our enlightenment. When we decide consciously, we can simply walk over our samskara (or emotion filled memories) because neither our samskara nor the ghosts have any value as they are. It is only we who give power to them.

Content: A small story:

Content: An alcoholic man came home after one o’clock, every night, totally drunk. The wife of the drunk was frustrated with the situation. She asked her friend for some ideas, some suggestions to stop him.

Content: The friend said, ‘Everyday he passes through our city graveyard. Today, you hide yourself in the graveyard. When he passes by, you create weird noises, howl, and frighten him. Then maybe you will do it so well that he will be scared. Now that fear will keep him from coming back home late. Once he stops coming late, then naturally he will not go to the bar and naturally the habit can be stopped. Try this technique.’

Content: It sounded like a good proposition to the wife. She donned ghoulish makeup, black clothing and had a small pot with fire, to create a smoke effect. Prepared thus, she hid herself behind a stone. When this fellow walked by she jumped in front of him and shouted, with all her music arrangements, with all her paraphernalia. The man, even for a minute was not duped or fooled.

Content: He walked up to her, shook her hand and said, ‘Oh! Don’t you recognize me? I am living with your sister.’

Content: Understand! Our being respects the ghost and the samskara. These are essentially one and the same. That is why it is said that the ego is like a ghost. If we give value and

Content: importance to ego, it will be present in our life.

Content: There is a beautiful word in Sanskrit, Maya. Maya means ya ma iti maya...that which is not there is maya. That which is not there but continuously appears to be there.

Content: We invite ghosts and samskaras into our lives. When we live unconsciously, ghosts and samskara become our life.

Content: Decide to live consciously. That will take us towards enlightenment.

Content: 30. Understanding ends the search

Content: The world has many kinds of people. These kinds are not based on their skin color or anything external or superficial. These are created by our mental setup. We each have our own mental set up, our own expectations. Divinity is equally present in all of us. It is packaged and expressed differently.

Content: Ramakrishna Paramahamsa explains this beautifully. A mother cooks the same fish in ten different ways to satisfy her ten children. For one she makes the fish into a sweet delicacy, for another she cooks it hot and spicy. She fries it for yet another child. She cooks the same fish and presents it in ten different ways to satisfy the taste and expectations of all her children.

Content: Divinity does the same with its presentation of enlightened Masters. All the great Masters are manifestations of the Divine. The Divine fulfills us in the way we want it. For the well-read person, the intellectual, Sankara will appeal. Mira and Chaitanya will not suit such a person because they are always singing and dancing. An intellectual person will think that as silly and foolish. Similarly, the man who is attracted to the ecstatic love of Mira and Chaitanya will think that it is foolish to sit and analyze all the time!

Content: A person who is head oriented will be attracted towards intellectual explanations and pursuits. On the other hand, a person who is heart oriented will be attracted towards devotional things. A person who is being oriented will be attracted towards meditation. Actually, we each have our own mental set up, our own expectations. Masters help us to flower in that path or direction.

Content: There are many paths and Masters. Each person is centered on a different energy. A person who constantly thinks is on the path of gyana yoga- the path of knowledge. A person centered on emotions is a bhakti Yogi, following the path of devotion. People who are being oriented are silent and introverted; meditation is their path. We are attracted to the philosophy, Guru or Master based on our individual energy.

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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 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 निष्कलं प्रोक्तं 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 consciousnessness 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.

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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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