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Content: TRANSFORMATION TOOLS FOR INNER HEALTH VOLUME 2 THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

Content: TRANSFORMATION TOOLS FOR INNER HEALTH VOLUME 2

Content: TRANSFORMATION TOOLS FOR HEALTH - VOLUME 2

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Content: Table of Contents

Content: You Are Intelligence

Content: 2

Content: Spontaneity - straightforward Intelligence

Content: 5

Content: Beyond the head is the gate to loving Intelligence

Content: 9

Content: Mind - master or tool?

Content: 11

Content: Body Intelligence

Content: 12

Content: You can heal

Content: 16

Content: Acceptance of the inevitability of life

Content: 17

Content: Universal intelligence - macrocosm and microcosm

Content: 18

Content: Intelligence is not the experience but the lessons learned from experience

Content: 22

Content: Emotional attachment - the roadblock on the highway of Intelligence

Content: 23

Content: Intellect Vs Intelligence

Content: 23

Content: Meditation technique - drop the intellect

Content: 27

Content: Intelligence

Content:

1. You are Intelligence

Content: 2. Spontaneity - straightforward Intelligence

Content: 3. Beyond the head is the gate to loving Intelligence

Content: 4. Mind - master or tool?

Content: 5. Body Intelligence

Content: 6. You can heal

Content: 7. Acceptance of the inevitability of life

Content: 8. Universal intelligence - macrocosm and microcosm

Content: 9. Intelligence is not the experience but the lessons learned from experience

Content: 10. Emotional attachment - the roadblock on the highway of Intelligence

Content: 11. Intellect Vs Intelligence

Content: Objectives:

Content: To know what is intelligence

Content: To understand body intelligence

Content: To learn the barriers of intelligence and to overcome them

Content: To drop intellect and express spontaneity by practicing meditation techniques

Content:

1. You Are Intelligence

Content: To be free from the fear of death, which is really the fear of losing our identity, we need to be aware that we are something more than this body and mind. We need intelligence to understand this. We then come to these questions:

Content: What exactly is intelligence?

Content: Are some of us more intelligent than others?

Content: Can we increase the level of our intelligence?

Content: 1.1 Natural Intelligence

Content: Intelligence is not something to attain. Every single being is endowed with intelligence. Every one of us has intelligence. It is an inherent, inborn quality of life just as fire is hot and ice is cold.

Content: I am reminded of a joke on 'intelligent' people:

Content: Once there were four men travelling in a private airplane. Suddenly, there was an emergency as the tail of the aircraft caught fire. Unfortunately for the four passengers, there were only three parachutes available.

Content: The first person in a panic took a parachute saying, 'I just got married. My wife is waiting for me,' and he jumped.

Content: The second person declared, 'I am the most intelligent person on earth. Planet earth needs my intelligence.' He jumped as well.

Content: One of the passengers was an old man. He told the other remaining person, 'I am old already but you have your whole life ahead of you. You take this parachute and jump.'

Content: The young man quipped, 'You can also come, Sir. We can both go. The most intelligent person on planet earth just jumped off with my back-pack!'

Content: Most of us have lost touch with our natural intelligence. That is why we are not able to live life to its fullest potential. We mistake our acquired knowledge for intelligence, we are like the man who jumped with the backpack as a parachute! Every single being in nature has been endowed with inherent intelligence. Birds have a natural intelligence that enables them to fly. It is amazing to see the migratory birds travel thousands of miles in the sky with no map or guide and retrace their paths back when the season changes!

Content: From the caterpillar to the chimpanzee, every animal lives its life beautifully using the natural gift of intelligence. Plants and trees have natural intelligence; this is what enables them to produce food directly from the sun. Man also has tremendous natural intelligence. He is a more evolved, higher form of consciousness than birds, animals or trees.

Content: Patanjali, an enlightened master from India and father of the ancient science of yoga1, says that man has in him the intelligence of all the lower forms of consciousness such as the trees, birds and animals. Man has the capacity to produce food just like trees. He has the capacity to live by himself right from the time he is born, just like animals and birds.

Content: Patanjali explains: when you were a tortoise, all of your past life memories of all the births that you took before that birth as a tortoise, were stored in the tortoise body. When you became a higher level animal, all the memories of the past lives before that life were stored in that animal body.

Content: As you gradually evolve to the level of human beings, memories from all your past lives are stored within you. If you know the technique, you can actually tap into any of those memories at any time. By nature we have all the intelligence in our human body. The difficulty is we strongly believe we are limited. We have been conditioned to think that we have only limited capabilities, that ‘we cannot...’ so we have forgotten how to use these capabilities. Because of this, we are not tuned to the technique to tap into all the dimensions of our being.

Content: For example, human beings have the capacity to swim without any training. In Japan they did experiments to test this, the moment the child was born, it was put in water and it was seen that the child started swimming automatically!

Content: 1.2 Children are born intelligent

Content: A small story:

Content: One boy came back from school and told his mother, ‘You said the school dentist would be painless but he was not!’ His mother became worried and asked him, ‘Did he hurt you?’ The boy replied, ‘No, but he screamed when I bit his finger!’

Content: Children are born intelligent. They are so spontaneous and enthusiastic. But the family, society and conventional school destroy the natural intelligence within the child with the undue

Content: 1 Yoga - Literally means ‘uniting’ of body-mind-spirit.

Content: importance they pay to logic, memory and competition. The price the child pays for education is too heavy. He sacrifices his priceless creativity and uniqueness, and he is not even aware of it. The other day, I read a statement on a teenager's T-shirt, 'I was intelligent until education ruined me.'

Content: If you look at the way children are educated today, it results in a distorted development of the child. Undue importance is given to logic and analysis which are activities related to the left side of the brain. Because of this, the right side of the brain, which is related to creativity and art, is less stimulated. Fifty percent of our potential, a complete half of our brain, a whole half of our body is just waiting to express itself. Education can do wonders if it awakens to this truth. Educating through the left part of the brain is completely okay, but the right part is also equally, if not more important. Allow your complete being to simply express itself, and you will see your natural intelligence flowering beautifully. This is what I call being integrated and fulfilled.

Content: 1.3 The driving forces of fear and greed

Content: We think we are very intelligent and so we try to mould our children to become intelligent like us. When we start this process, we first teach the child the logic of running in life driven by either fear or greed. Either he has to do something to achieve more, or he has to do something to prevent what he doesn't want to happen. When you want something to happen, it is greed.

Content: When you are afraid that something will happen, it is fear. Either he has to study so he can get better grades and win admission in a good college, this is being driven by greed. Or he has to study so he is not left behind in his future professional life; this is being driven by fear.

Content: The motivation for the child is greed or fear, never inner fulfillment. Naturally, the child gets into the rat race and just keeps running, with no time to even look whether he is running for what he really wants. He does not even know that he can enjoy the run! He has been taught that with any other diversion, precious time will be wasted in reaching the goal. But how many people have felt fulfilled after reaching the 'goal'? When you reach the goal you have set, you realize the goalpost is no longer there. It has moved further, and you want something else now!

Content: Just look in. See if you are really bringing up your children or just teaching them to be driven by greed and fear. Take a deep look at yourself and see if simply running the rat race gives the feeling of real fulfillment deep within you. Are you doing what you are doing because that is what you really want to do? Or are you doing it because that is what is expected of you by your family, friends and society? Understand, if you are living your life based on just seeing what others are doing, you are just wasting your precious life. This is what they call 'herd mentality' - joining the rat race because everybody else is a part of it. You may even win the rat race, but you are still a rat!

Content: 1.4 What is the measure of Intelligence?

Content: Can we measure intelligence? Is there a standard to measure intelligence?

Content: Right from school, we use standard benchmarks to determine a person's so called level of intelligence. In the grading system used from elementary school through college, we compare

Content: and grade all children for various skills and aptitudes. One child may be good in science and another may have a natural talent for music. But both are graded on the same scale in science, and both are graded on the same scale in music. Now, how do you decide which child is 'more intelligent'?

Content: If the intelligence is measured based on performance in science, the child with an interest in science will be declared more intelligent. If the intelligence is measured based on musical performance, then, naturally, the child with a flair for music will be seen as more intelligent than the child who has the aptitude in science. Say you choose science as the benchmark for intelligence. Then, the child poet gets the idea that he is not as intelligent as the science based child. Consciously or unconsciously, the poetic child starts suppressing his natural intelligence and tries to imitate the scientific child. We need to understand an important thing here.

Content: One kind of intelligence is needed to be a scientist and another kind of intelligence is needed to be a poet. To be an Olympic swimmer one needs yet another kind of intelligence! Intelligence is the ability to respond to a situation or challenge.

Content: As the situation differs, the dimension of intelligence that responds to the situation also differs. The scientific child responds to a particular situation from a particular dimension of intelligence, whereas the poetic child responds to another situation from another dimension.

Content: The swimmer responds to yet another kind of situation from yet another dimension of intelligence! Everyone is born intelligent, it is a question of just discovering each one's unique dimension of intelligence.

Content: 2. Spontaneity - straightforward Intelligence

Content: You have a natural, spontaneous intelligence inside you. You have tasted it as a child.

Content: As a child, you looked at things in a very simple, straightforward way. That is why you were so spontaneous. What took away that spontaneity as you grew up? The societal conditioning that has been telling you right from when you were a child, 'You are not enough...' Because of this, you are constantly trying to become something else, to prove something to others. By constantly thinking that you are not enough, you try to imitate others and waste the wonderful natural energy bubbling inside you.

Content: I read a funny one-liner on a company's notice board: Death will be accepted as an excuse, but we would like two weeks' notice, as we feel it is your duty to teach someone your job prior to your death. Note: this new benefit program began yesterday.

Content: If you blindly imitate another person's performance or behavior instead of acting from your own inner spontaneity, your own intelligence, you will be cheating yourself out of wonderful possibilities.

Content: Once there was a statistics student who, while driving, would always accelerate before coming to any junction, and then drive fast past the junction and slow down again once he passed the junction. One day, he was travelling with his friend. They passed a junction in his usual way. The friend asked him in surprise, 'Why do you drive so fast across junctions when you are actually supposed to slow down?' The statistics student replied, 'Well, statistically speaking, you are more likely to have an accident at a junction, so I just make sure I spend less time there!'

Content: Knowledge is good only when applied intelligently. It is intelligence that gives the real result, not the knowledge itself. When knowledge is applied in the right place at the right time, it is intelligence. Spontaneity is when we easily express our knowledge in the right place at the right time, in other words, using our intelligence.

Content: When you don't use some thing, slowly you start forgetting the very art of using it. In the same way, when you don't use your intelligence, slowly you start believing that you don't have the intelligence to handle whatever is happening in the moment and you start relying on others or on your past experiences.

Content: Intelligence is the ability to respond to new situations. It comes from your very being, not from knowledge which comes from the mind.

Content: 2.1 The key to awareness

Content: A small story:

Content: A small boy was learning a lot of new things at school and home. One day, he told the teacher, 'Yesterday I killed three female and two male flies.' The curious teacher asked, 'How did you know which were males and which were females?' The boy replied, 'Simple. Three of them were on the mirror and two were on the cigarette box!'

Content: Intelligence is being aware and spontaneous. Understand an important thing, when you are deeply aware, you cannot make mistakes! With awareness, you don't rely on what others have taught you. You don't rely on the past conditioning that has gone on inside you for many years.

Content: You act just out of the fresh intelligence that comes with awareness. With deep awareness you are in the present moment. When you are in the present moment, you are alive and alert, what you call as intelligent. Your intelligence by its very nature is spontaneous. There is no training, no learning needed for it. It is only a question of awakening it from within.

Content: The first step is to watch yourself and see how you unconsciously react to situations.

Content: See how your actions are rooted in your attitudes and conclusions from past experiences. Watching yourself with awareness is the first step. The good news about awareness is, it is the only step that is needed! Most of the time, we continue to live in the dead past and miss the wonderful dimensions of life, or we get angry over what has happened and feel hurt. Either way, we are escaping from the problem by going to one extreme or to the other. Instead, if we just look with deep awareness into the problem, energy will awaken, the energy of intelligence which is enough to bring about the solution.

Content: The very awareness is enough to awaken and break free even from the past conditioning, and we can act intelligently. This awareness will simply kindle the spark of intelligence that has always been a part of you. The light of awareness is enough to remove the darkness created by years of living by habit. The whole key lies in being aware so that your intelligence can function. Living every moment in total awareness is what meditation is all about.

Content: 2.2 Beyond rules to responsibility

Content: A small story: Once a sergeant in his training session asked the recruits why walnut wood was used for making the rifle. The recruits thought hard and one of them answered, 'Because walnut is h a r d e r than other types of nuts.' The sergeant brushed him off saying, 'Wrong!' Another recruit ventured, 'Because it is more durable.' The sergeant's voice boomed, 'Wrong!'

Content: A third person tried his luck, 'Because it is waterproof.' The sergeant, tired of the answers by now, replied, 'You boys surely have a lot to learn. Simple reason: that is what is laid down in the rule book!'

Content: In life, because it is easy to place responsibility on others, you blindly follow other people's directions instead of relying on your own intelligence. You say you are obedient, but you are actually shirking the responsibility of owning up to your actions. This is a dangerous and age old habit of following the rule book. It is dangerous because sometimes you are not even aware that you are missing responsibility and intelligence.

Content: You become a parrot, repeating the same thing for years together because someone told it to you. Talking about responsibility, a small joke on how people understand responsibility:

Content: Living every moment in total awareness is meditation.

Content: Once, a convict was scolding his lawyer, 'You are a useless lawyer. You don't even u n d e r s t a n d your responsibility of when to raise an objection.' The puzzled lawyer asked him, 'I don't understand. When do you think I should have raised an objection that I did not?'

Content: The convict replied, 'When the opposing lawyer spoke, you objected. But when the judge declared me guilty, you kept your big mouth shut. That was the time to do all the objecting!'

Content: It is always easy to put the blame on the whole world for what happens in your life. But if you just look a little deeper, you can see how you are completely responsible for what is happening in your life!

Content: Because you do not live every moment with awareness and take responsibility for your words and actions, you do so many things unconsciously. Then, when the effects of these actions happen, you claim you don't deserve the results! Acting out of your own intelligence is taking complete responsibility for what you do at all times.

Content: For example, when you obey someone else you feel that you are being subservient to that person. But when you disobey that person, you feel guilty because a part of you feels that you should obey him or her but you are not obeying. The way out of this conflict is to follow your intelligence at that time with the clear understanding that you alone are responsible for your action. Then you will not hurt anyone including yourself. And you will be responding intelligently to the person you are disobeying as well.

Content: 2.3 Now and here

Content: A small joke:

Content: A salesman called up a prospective client and asked him, 'Is the boss in?' The new office assistant asked, 'Are you a salesman, bill collector or a friend of his?' The salesman, thinking quickly, replied, 'All three!' The assistant said, 'In that case, he is in a business conference, he is out of town, step in and see him.'

Content: The answer depends on the person asking the question! Being intelligent requires the effort to be yourself, which you are not used to. So you choose to react based on your past experiences. Usually, we only react like programmed machines. We do not respond to situations. Someone insults you and you become angry even before becoming aware of what you are doing.

Content: A beautiful story from the life of Buddha, an enlightened master from India:

Content: Once a person insulted Buddha openly. His disciple Ananda said, 'I was getting so angry with the person. Why did you keep quiet? At least I would have given him a piece of my mind.' Buddha calmly replied, 'You surprise me. What he was saying was completely irrelevant and you know that. Then why are you getting angry? You are punishing yourself. It is foolishness. When somebody else has made the mistake, why are you suffering for it?'

Content: Moving with time, flowing with life, becoming a fluid process instead of being a solid ego is called intelligence. But we are too lazy to act intelligently because responding to the present requires us to be continuously aware and alert.

Content: Living in the present moment is living in utter insecurity. It needs courage and intelligence. Actually, even the idea of security in life is an illusion. How can you predict what will happen even in the next moment?

Content: Anything that you predict can only be based on the past, something that you have seen. But the future is yet to happen. It is an unknown gift, so it can never be predicted.

Content: 2.4 Welcome people, situations, life

Content: Intelligence is being open to life. It is being welcoming to people, situations and everything in life. Many times you can see that you have your own expectations and ideas of how things should be. You are afraid to receive life with open arms. Can you put conditions on how the weather should be tomorrow? No! Then why do you put conditions on how the 'weather' at home, the mood of your wife or child, should be?

Content: Understand, there are two things that we can do. One is collecting the data, making the argument and making a judgment. The second is forming a judgment and then collecting arguments to support that judgment.

Content: Most of the time we have already formed the judgment and then we pay attention only to those incidents that support our judgment. For example, you have formed an opinion of your husband or wife. By now you know what your husband will say if you ask him to come shopping with you. By now you know what your wife will say if you ask her to join you in watching the Sunday football match. Based on just these few incidents, you would have made so many more judgments about them.

Content: You don't credit him or her to have an intelligence that gets updated from every moment of life. The problem is, you don't even credit yourself with having that natural intelligence. That is why you can't believe others can become updated.

Content: 3. Beyond the head is the gate to loving Intelligence

Content: Once, a father and son checked into a cheap motel at night. The father tucked in the son to sleep and switched off the light assuring the son, 'Don't be afraid, son. The angels are watching over you.' 'I know,' said the boy. 'Two of them just bit me!'

Content: Operating with intelligence is the process of going back to the innocence you were born with. It is not a process of becoming.

Content: It is not attaining something new, it is discovering your very being. It is the true door to knowing you as you truly are. When you are intellectual, you operate purely from the head, from logic.

Content: A small story:

Content: A man was working on his doctorate in philosophy. He was so involved in his studies and research, his wife thought he would forget her if he was not reminded of her once in a while.

Content: So one day, she casually mentioned to him, 'Honey, what is the one reason you love me so much?'

Content: The man asked very seriously, 'When you say 'so much' are you referring to the depth, quality, quantity or mode of expression?' When you are too caught in the head, you start thinking that your logic, your head, can understand the whole of life. You try to frame everything in this universe with your head.

Content: Another small story:

Content: Once, a student had freshly graduated in a course on plumbing. He went with his friends on a sight-seeing tour to Niagara Falls. He took a look at the huge Falls and said, 'I think I can fix it!'

Content: Your knowledge gives you the false illusion of knowing everything that exists. It keeps you firmly rooted in the head.

Content: When your intelligence awakens, you drop from the head to the heart, from logic to love. Then, you operate neither from pure intellect nor from pure sentimental love. You operate just from loving intelligence, and you automatically radiate compassion to all of those around you.

Content: 3.1 Understanding, not thinking

Content: A small story:

Content: Once, three wise men set out on a travel journey to the city with the hope that they would learn more about life. They entered a big city and were surprised to see a very tall building, a skyscraper in the distance. They wondered what it might be.

Content: They grouped and discussed what to do. They were afraid to go near and see for themselves thinking what if it had something dangerous in it. What if they did not know how to come out?

Content: So, they decided it was better to find out before they ventured inside.

Content: They analyzed and came up with all the things it could possibly be, based on all their past experiences.

Content: Finally, they concluded it was something too big for human beings and it must belong to giants. So, it was not safe for them to be in this city of giants. Very satisfied that they had gained this new knowledge, they picked up their bags and went back to their village!

Content: So you see there is not much you can understand from past knowledge. You cannot think about something in the mind and try to understand everything about it in that way. You need to see it, to experience it in order to fully understand. It is like the man who saw the water of Niagara Falls in a bucket and thought he knew what the Falls looked like! You rely on thinking because you do not allow the natural understanding to happen. When you allow the understanding to happen, you don’t have to think any more. Only a person who has not understood needs the crutch of thinking. One more thing: you can only think about what you have known, what you have experienced. Can you think about anything u n k n o w n ? You may fantasize about what the unknown could be, but that is still based on what you have seen in the past.

Content: With thinking, the energy of intelligence and truth is not there, so the answer will be based on your limited experience and it will always lead to further questions and doubts. Understanding is intelligence, it is fresh and new.

Content: Intelligence is clear, so it gives answers and not further questions. It is the answer from your very being, so it is nothing but the truth. Even if the answer that comes is ‘I don’t know’, the ignorance is closer to the truth than pretending to know.

Content: Not falling back on the answers rising from the past memory but functioning from your present consciousness is called understanding.

Content: 4. Mind - master or tool?

Content: Thinking arises from the mind, which is actually one of the most marvelous mechanisms. But the problem arises when the mind becomes your master instead of a tool in your hands.

Content: A small story:

Content: There lived a king who had a very faithful servant. He was so loyal he had even risked his own life to save the life of the king on a couple occasions. On one such occasion, the king highly pleased with the servant asked him for anything he wanted. The servant humbly replied, 'I don't need anything, O King. You have given me everything I need.' But the king insisted. Finally, the servant said, 'Ok. If you really want to give me something, please make me the king for one day.' The king was a bit uncomfortable but he had already promised and had to keep it up.

Content: The morning of the day the servant became the king. He simply pointed to the king and ordered the royal guards, 'Kill him!' The king was shocked and asked the servant, 'Do you know what you are saying?' The servant calmly replied, 'I am the king today. I can do what I wish to.' The king was killed and the servant remained king forever.

Content: In this same way, when we give the power of attorney to our mind, it takes entire control over us. The mind is like a radio that you don't know how to turn off.

Content: The mind is like a radio that you don't know how to turn off. Since the signal is continuously broadcasting, there is no silent gap for you to feel the energy of intelligence from within you that occurs between thoughts. Because of this, you are unable to experience relaxation and you feel tired and exhausted.

Content: 4.1 Into the depths of the mind

Content: Try this simple exercise that can reveal so deeply the nature of your mind. Write down on a piece of paper whatever thoughts come to your head. Do it honestly, sincerely without editing. Write down any thought that comes. Do this for just five minutes. Then read what you have written.

Content: You will be shocked! For one moment you would have written about something that happened in India, the next moment about your daughter in the USA, the next moment about your school teacher, the next moment about a dog that is barking next door...and what not! The paper will look like a madhouse! If you analyze the paper, you will see, your thoughts are actually independent, unconnected and illogical.

Content: The mind is just a collection of thoughts which are independent, random and illogical by nature. Understand, thoughts have no solid existence at all. What we call mind itself is an illusion. Mind is a collection of unrelated thoughts projected onto it, much like a movie screen which displays the images from multiple frames of a movie. The screen itself is not the movie, it simply displays the projected images.

Content: Thoughts are like bubbles rising in the mind. Like a bubble which breaks when you touch it, thoughts dissolve when they are touched with the finger of awareness. They simply dissolve and the inside and outside become the same.

Content: This happens in the mind when we bring awareness to thoughts. All you have to do is witness your thoughts, be aware. Then you will see how your thoughts simply drop. Thoughts cannot survive the arrow of your watchfulness. Intelligence is the quality that actually witnesses the mind.

Content: 5. Body Intelligence

Content: How many of us realize the tremendous intelligence that our body possesses?

Content: 5.1 Intelligence of the digestive system

Content: Take the example of our digestive system. The whole process of converting bread to blood is such a complex and delicate one, requiring fine intelligence to convert the different types of food into energy to run the body. What is achieved through a few feet of coiled intestine would need a few miles, if it were an industry outside of the body!

Content: The process of digestion starts from our mouth. We chew the food and the saliva we secrete starts the digestion. There are so many big and small body elements that perform amazing functions in the process. We swallow the food and it passes through the throat into the food pipe.

Content: Beautifully the food is blocked from going into the wind pipe instead of the food pipe by the epiglottis. The food enters into the stomach, which is like an elastic bag and has a delicate and powerful digestive mechanism. Depending on the type of food taken in like carbohydrates, proteins or fats, the digestive mechanism varies.

Content: The digestive fire in us, what we call jataragni in Sanskrit, is related to the acid in the stomach. The stomach is such a delicate organ but it actually contains this powerful acid needed to digest the food we eat. The stomach itself is beautifully protected from this acid by a thick mucus layer around its wall which neutralizes the acid.

Content: All the complex foods we eat take just a few hours to digest and absorb into our system. Imagine not even a single process has to be consciously thought about! It is managed automatically and so precisely, adapting itself so beautifully to accommodate all our diets. After the stomach, the food passes into the small intestine where the majority of the digestion takes place. It is actually a long structure but so efficiently fitted in a small area with many folds which increases the surface area of absorption. Most of the nutrients get absorbed in the small intestine. The main function of the small intestine is absorption of nutrients. The complex products like carbohydrates and proteins are broken down into basic elements and absorbed. The nutrients that are absorbed are carried to the liver for further processing.

Content: Then the food moves into the large intestine where mostly water absorption occurs. Then the food that cannot be absorbed like fiber is mixed with other waste products from the body and

Content: thrown out as waste matter. This is just a basic explanation of digestion. But in the body it is such a complex, well-organized and adaptive mechanism.

Content: Similar to the complex process of digestion, controlling the level of blood sugar involves an intricate mechanism. When we eat, the level of sugar in the blood increases because the food is broken down into glucose or sugar. Because blood reaches all parts of the body, it is very important to monitor a person's sugar level. Otherwise, many parts and functions of the body like the kidneys, eyes and nerves can be affected. This is what happens in people with diabetes. Insulin, a hormone released by the pancreas which decreases the level of sugar in the blood, is important in regulating blood sugar levels when we eat food.

Content: This hormone helps protect us from blood sugar levels that are too high. If the blood sugar level drops too low, sugar stored in the liver is broken down into glucose by a hormone called glucagon that is also released by the pancreas. The glucose is then released into the blood stream and the blood sugar level increases.

Content: The same pancreas which generates the insulin that reduces the blood sugar level also generates another hormone, glucagon, which raises the blood sugar level! Every moment, the level of blood sugar is regulated so beautifully by the body sensing the level of blood sugar and activating the appropriate mechanism to maintain it in a safe range.

Content: 5.2 Intelligence of the brain

Content: Take the example of the human brain. Such a mind-boggling intelligence operates inside a structure that is just about two fist sizes! To date, scientists around the world have not been able to replicate tasks that the brain seems to do so effortlessly. A recent research report reported that ten linguists working full time for ten years to analyze the structure of the English language could not program a computer with the ability of a child that learns the language in the first five years of life. A computer may be able to perform trillions of mathematical and logical operations in a second but it cannot perform the amazing array of parallel tasks that the brain performs every millionth of a second.

Content: 5.3 Intelligence of the heart

Content: If you see, the body and the heart function in such beautiful synchronicity. The natural pacemaker in the heart sets off an electrical impulse every few seconds. This impulse creates an electromagnetic field, which is sent to the whole body. The field acts as a field of resonance where all the body cells tune in to each other. Because of this resonance, each cell not only does its own specialized function but also adapts to the activity of its neighboring cells, so our body can function in a c o m p l e t e l y integrated way.

Content: 5.4 Distributed Intelligence

Content: The human body starts from a single cell which replicates and becomes about 250 different types of cells. Imagine one cell transforms into so many different specialized cells that form the complex parts of the body! Not only do these cells do their specialized job, their very maintenance needs millions of things to be done in a second. And all their activities have to be

Content: coordinated for the body to function as a single organism. It is the best example of distributed intelligence.

Content: 5.5 Trusting the body intelligence

Content: Just think, when our body can digest food, pump blood, adapt to the environment and at the same time perform a thousand other complicated tasks without help from outside, you have to accept that there is an intelligent energy driving it. If you just reflect on this, you will realize there is something called body intelligence. But we don’t see it because it goes on silently within us.

Content: A small story:

Content: Once a king went to an enlightened Zen master and asked him, ‘I heard that you are an enlightened man and you radiate energy around you. You are always in bliss. What do you do?’

Content: The Zen master replied, ‘I eat when I eat and sleep when I sleep.’ You may ask, ‘Don’t we also do the same thing?’

Content: Look into your own life. You will find that while you are eating you are thinking about all of your worries and problems. Your mind will be busy planning everything about work tomorrow or your vacation next week. You quickly eat your food because there is no time for eating. You don’t really eat when you eat! When you eat, your being never feels the food. If you eat with awareness, you will never feel the heaviness because you will never overeat. Your body has its own intelligence to decide what food to take and how much.

Content: You can very clearly find out which food suits you and which does not if you eat with awareness. This itself is a great meditation.

Content: In the same way, when you sleep, you never really relax your mind, you start analyzing all of the events that happened that day. Just try focusing on the present moment and falling asleep, that is enough.

Content: 5.6 The guaranteed way out of addictions

Content: A real incident:

Content: Once a young man came to me and asked me to help him stop smoking. I asked him how he picked up the habit in the first place. He said, once he had gone out with a group of friends who were all smokers. He happened to meet his father on the road that day. Seeing him in the group, his father assumed that he too had been smoking. When he returned home, his father yelled at him, and refused to believe him when he said he was not smoking.

Content: The boy said that the next day he smoked a whole pack of cigarettes just to spite his father! In that way he gradually got addicted. When he asked me how to drop it, I told him, ‘Don’t drop it. Go ahead and smoke. But don’t do it to prove anything to anybody. Don’t do it to spite your father. And don’t imagine that you have become mature and independent by smoking. Every time you pick up a cigarette, do it silently. Be conscious of why you are smoking. Consciously feel the smoke entering your system. Be aware of how you hold the cigarette, how you put it in your mouth. You will realize on your own.’

Content: After just a few days the boy returned to me.

Content: He said, ‘Swamiji, I am not able to smoke anymore! Doing it consciously, I started wondering how I could send so much smoke into my system! Also I realized that smoking is not that important to me after all.’ Then he added something which made me very happy. He said,

Content: 'Swamiji, I realize now that I have been abusing my body all these days by pushing smoke into my system.'

Content: When we become conscious of what we are doing, many things drop on their own. This is the only permanent solution. Of course it may take a few days to awaken the intelligence. During that time, the important thing is, not to lose hope and fall back on the borrowed intelligence that you have picked up from the society, from the moral codes set up by society.

Content: Have trust in the natural intelligence of your body, that's all. There is no need to control the body at all because whatever we try to control will express itself in some other way. It will refuse to be controlled! The only thing needed on our part is awareness in every action that we do and the trust in our own natural intelligence. That itself will break the wall of conditioning that makes us do things unnatural to us and will allow us to live life consciously.

Content: 5.7 Every cell in your body has Intelligence

Content: We have been taught that the center of our intelligence is in our brain. We think that we control the body through our brain. Science has all along been saying that the brain controls respiration, digestion, blood circulation, and all such activities of the body.

Content: Now, cutting-edge research has given rise to a new field called epigenetics. One of the pioneers in this field, Dr. Bruce Lipton2, an eminent biologist, has been doing research in the field of epigenetics for over ten years. In his book, 'The Biology of Belief ', he states that our brain does not control our body. In fact, there is evidence of intelligence in every cell, even in the cell's membrane! Recent research at Sandia National Laboratories, USA, supports cellular intelligence theory.

Content: Scientists there studied how cells responded to a harmful substance called an antigen that attacked the cells in the body. They concluded that even the cell membrane had a beautiful and complex structure to fight the antigen, and that the cell membrane was not as simple a structure as earlier believed. Our body is not a simple centralized system of intelligence controlled by the brain. The human body is a highly evolved distributed system of intelligence beautifully and seamlessly orchestrated.

Content: 5.8 The intelligent self healing energy

Content: Electric current does not have its own intelligence. If you fix a bulb in the socket, it will glow. If you put your hand in the socket, it will give you an electric shock! But the energy in your body is not like that. It is an intelligent, healing energy. Your body has a natural self-healing energy. You can see it at work when you see a cut or a wound healing itself even without any intervention on your part.

Content: 2 Dr. Bruce Lipton - Molecular cellular biologist and author of 'The Biology of Belief ', renowned for his seminal work in relating genetics to conditioning.

Content: 6. You can heal

Content: There is an automatic body intelligence which is constantly rejuvenating and even replacing the cells in your entire body. If some part of the body is damaged you have enough intelligence inside to replace the damaged cells. But when the ego or mind interferes, this natural process is interrupted. Constantly our body repairs itself and cells replace themselves. You might ask, 'Then why does the same disease occur again in my body? If my body is again and again replacing itself, rejuvenating itself, then why do I carry the same disease?' Because you strongly believe that the disease is continuing!

Content: You carry the same mental setup that strongly believes that you are not well. This is what stops the self-healing from happening in your body. All you need to do is just trust the automatic intelligence which is in you and relax.

Content: Energy is i n t e l l i g e n c e . Your being is i n t e l l i g e n c e . The problem is, you never trust that your being is intelligent. You weigh yourself only with your weakest link and you are not your weakest link. Be aware, you are something more than your weakest link. The strength of a chain can be measured based on the weakest link but the strength of your being cannot be measured this way because you are something more than what you think you are.

Content: 6.1 Nithya Spiritual Healing

Content: Actually your body has the capacity to heal every disease, physical or mental, however complex it might be. The secret is to use the lost science of self-healing. This is what the science of Nithya Spiritual Healing is all about. It is a process of connecting the intelligence of the person to the cosmic energy, which is pure intelligence, through an initiated healer.

Content: 6.2 Compassion, Intelligence, Bliss

Content: Please understand, energy is compassion, energy is intelligence, and energy is bliss. Energy, compassion, intelligence and bliss are four sides of the same pillar. If all four are present, it is super-consciousness. If any one is missing it is unconsciousness. When the energy manifests itself through the head, it is intelligence. When energy manifests itself through the heart, it is compassion. When energy manifests itself through the being it is pure energy. When energy does not manifest outside but remains inside, it is bliss!

Content: 6.3 ‘You’ are not needed to run your life

Content: An important thing to understand which may shock you is you have an independent intelligence in your system which runs your life without your interference. Right now, you think you need to interfere with your intelligence in order to run your life happily. But the truth is the intelligence with which you came down to planet earth, the intelligence which created your very body, can run your life beautifully for you. The intelligence or the energy based on which you created your body at birth, is called your bio-memory. You need to understand this important truth here, it is you who designed your own body to enjoy specific things, to live for a particular number of years, and to do particular things.

Content: When you take birth, you decide your life, your enjoyments, whatever you want to do, based upon what you think is the 'juice' of life. That same bio-memory has enough intelligence to live, run and expand your life. That tremendous intelligence is operating every single moment whether you believe it or not, whether you accept it or not. But our limited understanding prevents us from realizing this and we constantly feel that life has to be different from what it is at the present moment. Trusting that intelligence and relaxing is what I call devotion.

Content: Surrendering to that higher intelligence is true surrender. Living in harmony with our natural intelligence is living a spiritual life.

Content: 7. Acceptance of the inevitability of life

Content: For the majority of us, life is driven in only two ways. One way is based on greed, which happens when we don't accept the present state of our life. We want something more or something different.

Content: The other way is based on fear, which happens when we don't accept the future moments of our life. Fear means being afraid of the future. When you don't accept the present moment, it becomes greed, restlessness. When you are not ready to accept the future moments, it becomes fear. In both the cases if you see, it is a question of not being able to accept the 'inevitability' of life! You need to understand this word 'inevitability' in a very deep way.

Content: 7.1 Meditation technique - Nithya Sutra of acceptance

Content: Please sit straight. Close your eyes and be in a relaxed way without moving the body. Body movements will create thoughts. So if your body is stable without movement, it can take you to a deeper silence.

Content: Very consciously and intensely, create an intention that you are accepting yourself as you are in the outer world and the inner world, this moment. Tell yourself, 'I have enough nice things in the outer world, enough possessions. I have enough good qualities in the inner world, my inner feelings. I am accepting myself completely.

Content: There is no need to develop myself in the outer world or in the inner world. If I have ego, that is ok. If I have guilt, that is ok. If I have fear, that is ok. If I have greed, that is ok. Whatever I have been told I have, is ok. Even if I am going to die the next minute, it is ok.' Decide consciously, 'I accept everything.' Don't bother whether it is right or wrong.

Content: Whatever objection your mind raises, accept that also. Accept the present moment. Accept all the future moments. Whatever your mind thinks as the worst thing that can happen to your life, accept even those moments. If it happens, you cannot avoid it. It is inevitable. Understand the inevitability and accept everything. Do this for 21 minutes.

Content: Your intelligence will simply awaken and show you how to relate with every moment, how to relate in every situation, in every relationship.

Content: 8. Universal intelligence - macrocosm and microcosm

Content: The microcosm, that is this individual body, is intelligence. In the same way, the macrocosm, that is the universe, is also intelligence, pure energy. The same intelligent energy which runs the universe is also running your body.

Content: 8.1 Chaos in order and order in chaos

Content: The universe, the macrocosm, looks like there is a lot of chaos. There are so many planets, stars, comets and all the heavenly bodies existing all together in the universe.

Content: But they all move so precisely in a beautiful order, with no police or regulatory authority! Imagine if one planet moved out of its orbit. There would be so many collisions in space! This is what is meant by the words 'order in chaos'. What we think is chaos in the universe is actually beautiful order.

Content: This is enough proof to show that the universe is not just power, it is a combination of power and intelligence. The intelligence is nothing but the energy of the universe. Energy IS intelligence. That is why this energy can heal a person in a purely energy based healing system. It is pure cosmic intelligence that knows which part of the body to flow into and heal.

Content: For example, that is why even without knowing where the liver is located in the body, you can heal the liver with healing energy. Energy is pure intelligence. When we realize this power and order in the macrocosmic chaos, we enter into bliss.

Content: While we feel the universe is chaotic, we also understand that there is a beautiful order in it. In the same way, what we think as order in us is actually chaos! We are part of the potential of this universe and also part of its chaos and order. Right now, we think we are orderly because we see a small boundary around ourselves - our home, our office, a few relatives etc. That is why we put in so much effort into maintaining our life in an orderly way. We condemn those who don't follow this order.

Content: But the truth is, deep down in our being we are a beautiful chaos. We are a microcosm of the macrocosmic intelligence, which is a beautiful orderly chaos. When we understand this, we will become compassionate towards ourselves and towards others. We will stop condemning people. We will also understand that the real order in us is nothing but the cosmic order.

Content: So understand, initially, we try to maintain our so-called order because we believe we have boundaries. If we just let go of our boundaries, our need for order will disappear and we will fall in tune with the cosmic order, and joy will happen. When we realize the Cosmic Consciousness within ourselves, we will discover the order that is inborn in us. We will then accept ourselves as we are and others as they are.

Content: When you experience the order in cosmic chaos you experience bliss. When you realize the chaos within your order you exude compassion.

Content: 8.2 Cosmic Intelligence responds to us

Content: This may be a surprising revelation, but the truth is that universal or cosmic intelligence responds to every thought of ours. Interesting research by Japanese scientist, Dr. Masaru Emoto3 shows this point very clearly.

Content: Water responds to our thoughts

Content: Dr. Masaru Emoto did experiments on water. He collected water samples from different sources and exposed them to various kinds of thoughts. Then he froze the samples and studied t h e i r crystalline structure through a microscope with the help of high-speed photography. Thousands of these crystals were studied under tightly regulated conditions of temperature, cooling time and lighting. He did various experiments on these water samples, playing different types of music to the water, talking to the water, reading out from ancient life teachings, praying with a certain intention etc. He found that when the water samples were exposed to healing music, the water crystals that formed were very beautiful and graceful.

Content: The water exposed to negative feelings or thoughts did not form crystals but rather an irregular structure which reflected the emotions of the person handling them. Another series of experiments was done to study the effect of words and sounds. The water used was distilled water. The water sample was divided into two parts and placed in different bottles, one labeled 'Thank you' and the other labeled 'You are a fool' in different languages such as English, Japanese and Korean.

Content: After exposure to these labels, the frozen water samples when examined under the microscope showed a clear difference in the crystal structure. The water labeled 'Thank you' showed a beautiful, well balanced crystal structure. The water labeled 'You are a fool' showed a very irregular, amorphous structure.

Content: Water samples with negative labels like 'You make me sick' showed distorted and dispersed crystals. The water samples with positive labels like 'love', 'appreciation' and 'peace' showed beautiful and uniform crystal structures.

Content: Even the tone of the words made a huge difference on the microscopic forms! For example, the collaborative words like 'Let's do it' caused a very beautiful crystal structure compared to the crystals formed by the commanding words 'Do it'.

Content: Another surprising thing was the behavior of the water crystals when photographs were shown to them. The water, after being exposed to a picture of an innocent child, showed crystals of relaxed positions. The water which was shown a photograph of cherry blossoms showed a crystal almost like a cherry blossom!

Content: Later, experiments were done to study the kind of change that thought could have on water. After a powerful earthquake in Japan, the water structure was seen to be a dark, amorphous structure reflecting the people's fear and pain. Three months later, after kind help and warmth from around the world for the affected people, the water structure was studied again. This time the water crystals reflected the same warmth.

Content: 3 Dr. Masaru Emoto - Japanese scientist and author of 'The Hidden Messages in Water' showing the effects of one's thoughts and words on water and therefore on living beings.

Content: Experiments conducted on dam water initially showed a terrible structure. But after just one hour of praying and intention that the water become clean, it showed a remarkable change into beautiful hexagonal crystals.

Content: Our body is about 70% water. Planet earth is covered with over 70% water. After studying the effect of mental thoughts on water, just imagine the tremendous effect our thoughts, words and intentions have on the planet and us!

Content: Another real incident from history:

Content: When India was under British rule, the British soldiers found that when they carried water from England to India in their ships, the water got spoiled even while on the ship. But when they carried water back from India to England, the water not only stayed fresh through the voyage, but also remained fresh until they consumed all of it back in England! When scientists studied this surprising phenomenon, they found that this fresh water was from the sacred river Ganga in Calcutta which was worshipped by millions of people from around the world. It had the natural properties of neutralizing harmful bacteria and purifying itself.

Content: Billions of people have been praying to Ganga for over thousands of years. Naturally they have left their prayerful thoughts as imprints on this water which is so energizing and self-healing.

Content: Even in Egypt, the river Nile4 has been studied by the Egyptians over thousands of years by measuring its flow, level, turbulence etc. They have found that many times these parameters reflected the calamities like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis, that have happened or are about to happen in even distant parts of the world.

Content: 8.3 Connection with nature

Content: What makes us become insensitive to nature? The moment our ego comes into play we become insensitive to nature.

Content: There was a beautiful story I was reading about a poet who in his young age used to go and play with the wild animals near his house. His father used to warn him that he should not play with the wild animals because they might harm him.

Content: But, he still used to go and sit with the wild animals when he could. He would say, 'When I was self-conscious and afraid that there was a possibility that the animals might harm me, they would never come near me. The communication never happened, the relationship never happened. But, whenever I had courage or I was in a very playful mood, whenever I did not have the fear or the self-consciousness, the communication and relationship used to be so strong.

Content: I could feel very clearly the animals were connecting with me and I was connecting with them.'

Content: Understand, what I mean when I say your ego becomes strong. It means when your identity that you are a 'separate person' is felt strongly. When this happens, your connection with nature is

Content: 4 Nile - The longest river in the world flowing through Sudan, Egypt etc in Africa.

Content: disturbed. The innocent way of relating is lost. The feeling of being connected is lost. This is one of the big losses that can happen to a human being.

Content: It is similar to how a person who is born blind can never be made to understand what he is missing. In the same way, the man who has forgotten the way of relating with the heart can never be made to understand what he has lost.

Content: 8.4 Power of intention

Content: Writer and doctor Deepak Chopra5, in his book ‘The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire’ talks about a similar experiment where white blood cells were studied for their responses to various stimuli. The white blood cells were separated from a blood sample and placed in a test tube.

Content: Suddenly, the experimenter had the idea to make a small cut on the back of his hand to see if this action might affect the cells in the test tube. By the time he went in search of a device to make the cut, to his surprise he found that the white blood cells in the test tube had registered intense activity.

Content: The cells were reacting to the experimenter’s intention to cut his hand even before the cut was actually made! The power of intention in a mental plane can cause something to happen in the physical plane. That is why it becomes very important to have the right intention at all times.

Content: 8.5 Space no bar

Content: I was reading about an experiment where some years back scientists used an electroencephalograph6 (EEG) to measure the brain waves of two people meditating together. It was found that certain pairs of people showed a strong correlation in their brain wave patterns. These strongly bonded pairs were asked to meditate side by side for some time. Then, they were moved to different rooms.

Content: Then one of each meditating pair was stimulated by bright lights flashing in the room. The EEG brain wave recording showed activity in the brain of that meditator as expected. But surprisingly it also showed that the paired meditator in the other room who was not stimulated by the lights also showed the same activity in the brain automatically and instantly!

Content: Understand, what happens in your mind affects not only you but also those around you. Space is not a criterion for thoughts. They simply travel in air. That is why in your house, if you express worry and negative thoughts a lot, the very atmosphere for your family members becomes heavy. They are affected by the negativity that you radiate.

Content: 5 Deepak Chopra - A medical doctor who writes and teaches spirituality in USA.

Content: 6 Electroencephalograph - Machine which uses electrodes attached to the scalp to measure brain wave activity.

Content: 9. Intelligence is not the experience but the lessons learned from experience

Content: Intelligence is not to do with the information that you have or receive. That is only intellect. In other words, intelligence is not the totality of your experiences, but the lessons learned from those experiences. Understanding happens only when you are open and spontaneous without prejudice. If you are with prejudice, the complete understanding does not penetrate you. If you are open, then the complete understanding penetrates you and you become intelligent.

Content: For example, a person touches a burning matchstick and learns that it burns. Next, the person touches a gas flame and learns that it burns too. Next, he touches a blazing fire and finds that it also burns. If that person waits for learning this way, from experience, it will take him ages to learn the lesson that fire burns. And when he finally learns, it will be time for him to go to the burning cremation grounds! The intelligent person figures after touching the first fire of the matchstick, that any type of fire burns. But the even more intelligent person does not even wait to touch the fire of the matchstick, he learns even when he sees another person touching it!

Content: There is a beautiful story from the life of Buddha:

Content: Once a philosopher came to Buddha and asked, 'Without words, without the wordless, will you tell me the truth?' Buddha remained silent. The philosopher bowed down to Buddha saying, 'With your loving kindness you have cleared away my delusions and I have entered the true path.'

Content: After the philosopher had gone, Ananda, one of the closest disciples of Buddha, asked Buddha what the philosopher had attained. Buddha replied, 'A good horse runs even at the shadow of the whip.'

Content: There are three types of horses. With the first type, unless you beat him he will not move even an inch. If you beat him, he will move forward a little but then again he will stop and he has to be beaten again to get him moving again.

Content: With the second type, there is not as much coaxing needed. If you even threaten to hit him he will start moving. The third type of horse is the most intelligent. This horse does not even need to see the whip, just seeing the shadow of the whip is enough to make him run!

Content: It was similar in the case of the philosopher who came to Buddha. The urge to know the truth was burning so much inside of him he only wanted the truth and nothing else. He had had enough of words and techniques. That is why he wanted the truth from Buddha in neither words nor wordlessness. So, in the silence of Buddha, the philosopher saw the shadow of the whip and got his answer.

Content: 10. Emotional attachment - the roadblock on the highway of Intelligence

Content: Your past can become part of your intelligence if you allow it to teach you, if you approach it with pure consciousness, with a witnessing mood, without having positive or negative emotional attachment.

Content: Positive emotional attachment means love for that memory. Negative emotional attachment means hatred for that memory. Either way that memory will continue to haunt you. Understand, memory of the past itself is never a problem. Only the emotional attachment to it is the problem.

Content: If it is love for that memory, then you will put it in the 'favorite' file and constantly you will be seeing it. If it is hatred, you will put it in archives or trash. Even if you put it in trash, just because of your hatred for it, it will again and again come back to you in the form of guilt. Be very clear, your emotional attachment to the past is the first and the last problem in life.

Content: 10.1 Guaranteed Intelligence to handle life

Content: If you look around there is continuous intelligence and energy that exists to solve your problems. If you have lived for fifty years, by now you know from your own experience that you can handle your problems in life. You can surely live without worrying for another fifty years based on your experience.

Content: Bliss provides energy to face and solve problems. When you are not blissful, that energy is used to create more problems. That is the problem! When you are blissful, you disconnect from worries and use the energy to solve problems. In a physiological sense also, researchers have found that when the 'bliss' chemical dopamine is released into the body, the frontal lobes in the brain which are primarily responsible for intelligence and wisdom start working much more efficiently. When you are really blissful you work with higher intelligence. That is why you will find when you are very happy and without worry for a few minutes, many creative and exciting ideas are expressed from inside you.

Content: 11. Intellect Vs Intelligence

Content: Our entire educational system is based upon evaluation of information, not intelligence. It is driven by intellect and verbalization, not visualization. When you try to move on the basis of information you lose the ability to be intelligent. In fact, if you are logically logical you will understand that logic itself is not logical. Life is not logical. It cannot be explained with the mundane logic and intellect. It happens in a plane much higher than the intellect.

Content: The intelligent person lives moment to moment, not through logic. He does not believe in borrowed answers. He sees the challenge of the situation and directly responds to it.

Content: The intellectual person is like a photograph, he has the imprint of the past on him. The intelligent person is like a mirror, he reflects and responds to reality and is therefore spontaneous.

Content: The intellect is a beautiful mechanism but only as long as it remains a tool. It should not become the controlling factor. When you put your intellect aside, a deeper intelligence awakens inside

Content: you. You start functioning from your center instead of from the periphery. Your center is pure intelligent energy.

Content: Intelligence can be rediscovered. The only way to rediscover it is meditation. Meditation destroys all the barriers and blocks which society has created, that prevent you from being intelligent. Like in a flowing river, it's as if meditation removes the rocks so that the water can flow smoothly.

Content: Intelligence needs tremendous courage. It needs a love for adventure! When you are always going into the unknown, then intelligence grows, it becomes sharpened. It grows only when it encounters the unknown every moment. Intellect is only a mental game, it cannot be creative. Intellect is imaginative, but not creative. Intelligence is creative because it is a part of the divine energy.

Content: 11.1 Intelligence from mistakes

Content: A small story:

Content: Once, two adventurous hunters decided to go hunting for rare animals in a dense forest in a remote area away from their homes. They chartered a plane to fly them into the forest where they captured and killed many animals. A few days later, the pilot came back to pick up the hunters and the animals.

Content: He looked at all the animals and said, 'This plane will not be able to take the huge ox and both of the zebras. You will have to leave one of them behind.' The hunters replied, 'But we took animals exactly like these in a plane the same size as this one, the last time we came here!'

Content: The pilot was not sure but since the hunters insisted that they had taken all of the animals on the plane the previous time, he thought maybe the plane could handle the weight after all. So, the plane took off with all of them along with the ox and the two zebras.

Content: The plane had hardly gained some height when it came crashing down after some distance. The hunters and pilot escaped unhurt. They stepped out of the plane.

Content: One of the hunters rubbed his bruised forehead and asked the other, 'Where do you think we are?' The other hunter looked around the surroundings and replied, 'I think we are a few feet from where we crashed last year.'

Content: If you see your life, if you have the habit of keeping a diary, you will understand that you have been making the same types of mistakes for so many years! For the last twenty to thirty years you can see that you have been making the same type of mistakes. Maybe the scale is different, the place where you do it is different, or the time when you do it is different. But the mistakes will be almost the same! We need to have intelligence even to do new mistakes!

Content: Another small story:

Content: A man came to the doctor with burns on both his ears. The doctor inquired, 'How did you get burned on both your ears?' The man replied, 'Actually, I had left the hot iron on when the phone rang. By mistake I picked up the iron instead of the phone.' The doctor was surprised and asked, 'Oh! But what about the other ear? How did that get burned?' The man replied angrily, 'The man called back!'

Content: When you live intelligently, you will never do the same mistake again. Because when you are intelligent, you bring in awareness and learn the lesson the first time itself.

Content: 11.2 Intelligence to realize life is a dream

Content: There are two important statements I would like to make now that you need to understand. The first is, whatever you think of as the world is made of the same stuff of which your dreams are made.

Content: This is an important statement. If you understand this statement, you can use it for any purposes. If you know how to use the power with which you create your dreams, with that same power, you can express your dreams. Your dreams are the energy out of which your real world is created.

Content: The second is, whatever you see has been created by you, so you have the capacity to change the whole thing also! We always think our life is an accident. No, it is not an accident, it is an incident. If you understand this one statement, your life can change in so many ways. It can change your visualization, your thinking pattern, and your imagination which creates your dreams.

Content: Most of the time, we create dreams that contradict themselves, that cause confusion. The energy wasted in unnecessary dreams, if it is conserved and put to proper use, the reality that you can create will be much better than the reality you live in now.

Content: You will have the important ability or power to realize your dreams, and more importantly you will realize that everything you see as reality is also just one more beautiful dream!

Content: These two things together can transform your life - the capacity to make your dreams into reality and realizing that all reality is nothing but a dream.

Content: The power of intention, the power of creative visualization, and the power to use your dreams, are very important in creating and achieving whatever you want in your life. These powers can create the energy and mood to live your life with complete fulfillment. But that is only one side of the coin.

Content: The important thing that science has missed is the intelligence to realize that whatever you see as reality is nothing but your dream! Only when you understand that, you can settle down with yourself in deep relaxation. Till then, you are with a continuous feeling of non-fulfillment all the time. It is this feeling of non-fulfillment that keeps you in a state of subtle irritation.

Content: 11.3 Intelligence and Visualization

Content: The very source of intelligence is clear visualization. You need to plan only when you don't have complete and clear visualization. Pure and clear visualization expresses the total concept in one glimpse. If we don't have such visualization, we do linear planning or step by step logical processing.

Content: Enlightened masters don't have inner chatter, in other words they don't have the continuous train of thoughts going on in them. So they experience the pure and ultimate visualization.

Content: Anybody with clear visualization does not require planning. Spontaneity is enough to do the job. Events happen spontaneously around such a person. Any updating or development that is required also happens automatically. Even if events change they will beautifully fit within the framework initiated.

Content: Only a person with pure visualization can create a real, tangible program and update it constantly with spontaneity and intelligence.

Content: We see so many examples of this in our own organization like in our ashram in the temple town of Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu in South India. Tiruvannamalai is home to the sacred, mystical hill Arunachala.

Content: A once empty piece of land near the base of the mountain was converted into a full scale ashram in a record breaking time of 18 days! At the end of 18 days, it had one dozen deities installed, 1008 Shiva lingas (dome shaped representation of the male and female energies of creation) consecrated, as well as accommodation and food facilities.

Content: Over a hundred thousand people witnessed the inauguration and stood testimony to the play of spontaneous intelligence at work.

Content: Work on solving your problems boldly and with simple awareness and you will see that a higher intelligence comes into play. One lesson you will learn is without your knowledge, the higher intelligence comes in to do things for you. When you become sensitive to this happening, your awareness will take a quantum jump. Then you no longer need to work to dissolve your problems. Problems will simply dissolve with the play of spontaneous intelligence in your life.

Content: Tiruvannamalai - Temple town where Nithyananda was born and raised.

Content: lingas - A dome shaped representation of enlightened master Shiva as a symbol of rejuvenation combining male and female principles.

Content: Meditation technique - drop the intellect

Content: Just try this for the next 48 hours. Consciously decide you are not going to think about your problems. Drop your intellect which continuously tells you that you do not have enough intelligence to solve your problems spontaneously, that you do not have the capacity to produce that much spontaneity.

Content: Exercises:

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1. What is the difference between intelligence and intellect?

Content: 2. Brief about spontaneity

Content: 3. Explain body intelligence

Content: 4. What do you understand by the sentence "Acceptance of the inevitability of life"

Content: 5. How cosmic intelligence responds to us explain with a suitable example

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 निष्कलं प्रोक्तं परं भावमिति स्मृतम्।

Content: सृष्टिस्थं लोकरक्षार्थं लोकस्योत्पत्तिकारणम्।।

Content: साधकानां हितार्थं तु स्वेच्छया गृण्हते तनु:।।

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: 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: 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: 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 ennreached 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.