This article has been written based on Paramahamsa Nithyananda's discourse series on 'Shiva Sutras' this year (2008).
Have you observed a boy looking at his elder brother and always would be thinking, 'Ah, it's so nice to be like him, a moustache, a macho look!' When this boy grows up to that age, he begins to think, 'Ah, look at father, it's so wonderful to hold a laptop and go to an office like him'. Like this the story moves on and on.
As we can clearly see in our own lives, we always live on with a clear anticipation of a better future. We constantly feel the years to come would be better than the current time. Swami says very beautifully, 'When we all are in this mode of anticipation of a better future, why can't we look at death as something better than now. Surely, sometime or later in the future, we all will have to face death. So, why not look at it this way, that it is also something to be anticipated as a better future than now!?'
This simple analogy and understanding liberates one from the fear of death. Just allow this understanding to soak into us to only live fearlessly and relaxed.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Monday, February 4, 2008
What's your weight? [Series - 1]
'What's your weight?' is a pretty common question, I should say. Anyone can relate with it. But this weight is only relative. We weigh, say 50 kgs, with comparison to the Earth's gravity. So, as such none of us actually know our real weight!
Immediately all think it is just to do with our physical sheath. Well, we are totally mistaken. We have 5 sheaths in total. In brief, let me put it down here.
1. Annamaya kosha (Physical body)
2. Pranamaya kosha (Pranic body)
3. Manomaya kosha (Mental body)
4. Vijnanamaya kosha (Knowledge body)
5. Anandamaya kosha (Bliss body)
For more insights into the sheaths..pls get linked to 5 koshas
Okay, let's touch one concept today to perceive our 'real' weight. As we see, we have 5 sheaths. Now, if one is to say, all these sheaths contribute to our weight, how can we substantiate this statement? This is how. We all have thoughts, don't we? These thoughts may be in a huge number per second. We call this 'Thoughts per second' (TPS). On an average we all have 100-1000 TPS, or more.
These thoughts are related to the past, future and present also may be. Thoughts about the past will be of the 'guilt' category mainly. And thoughts about the future will be of the 'fear' category; generally. Well, there are other categories, like 'desire', 'greed', 'worry' and lots lots more...
Let's try this one small experiment. Grab a piece of paper and simply pen down all the thoughts running in the mind; WITHOUT editing. You dont have to show this paper to anyone, it's just or you. Try doing so for 5-10 minutes. Then, just have a read-through; what do you find? ....? Let me guess... highly illogical, unconnected, irrelevant thoughts, right?
It's practically like a mad-house! These thoughts have a direct influence on the space within us, around us and all around. This is the scenario with most of us. These thoughts arise from the various koshas and create energy blocks (what we call 'Samskara' in Sanskrit) More these Samskaras, more is the collective unnecessary weight in Space. The poor planet is struggling due to over-weight.
We need to melt these Samskaras, or energy blocks to help experience our actual weight! So, join in to reduce the weight of the space within, space around and the space all-over. We've to work on our energy blocks, to melt them; thereby phenomenally reducing the negative collective conscious.
You might be wondering how this is so simple and achievable?... Here's a jet-age and enjoyable technique. log on to http://www.lifeblissmeditation.org/
n!joyyy
Stay tuned for the future related posts of this Series . . .
Immediately all think it is just to do with our physical sheath. Well, we are totally mistaken. We have 5 sheaths in total. In brief, let me put it down here.
1. Annamaya kosha (Physical body)
2. Pranamaya kosha (Pranic body)
3. Manomaya kosha (Mental body)
4. Vijnanamaya kosha (Knowledge body)
5. Anandamaya kosha (Bliss body)
For more insights into the sheaths..pls get linked to 5 koshas
Okay, let's touch one concept today to perceive our 'real' weight. As we see, we have 5 sheaths. Now, if one is to say, all these sheaths contribute to our weight, how can we substantiate this statement? This is how. We all have thoughts, don't we? These thoughts may be in a huge number per second. We call this 'Thoughts per second' (TPS). On an average we all have 100-1000 TPS, or more.
These thoughts are related to the past, future and present also may be. Thoughts about the past will be of the 'guilt' category mainly. And thoughts about the future will be of the 'fear' category; generally. Well, there are other categories, like 'desire', 'greed', 'worry' and lots lots more...
Let's try this one small experiment. Grab a piece of paper and simply pen down all the thoughts running in the mind; WITHOUT editing. You dont have to show this paper to anyone, it's just or you. Try doing so for 5-10 minutes. Then, just have a read-through; what do you find? ....? Let me guess... highly illogical, unconnected, irrelevant thoughts, right?
It's practically like a mad-house! These thoughts have a direct influence on the space within us, around us and all around. This is the scenario with most of us. These thoughts arise from the various koshas and create energy blocks (what we call 'Samskara' in Sanskrit) More these Samskaras, more is the collective unnecessary weight in Space. The poor planet is struggling due to over-weight.
We need to melt these Samskaras, or energy blocks to help experience our actual weight! So, join in to reduce the weight of the space within, space around and the space all-over. We've to work on our energy blocks, to melt them; thereby phenomenally reducing the negative collective conscious.
You might be wondering how this is so simple and achievable?... Here's a jet-age and enjoyable technique. log on to http://www.lifeblissmeditation.org/
n!joyyy
Stay tuned for the future related posts of this Series . . .
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Get into the Cage of Freedom !?
I know you may be wondering about the contradictory title, right? A cage may sound like a trap; this is a different cage. You are actually much freer here. Enter the realm of freedom from your mind/ego deciding for you. Let's give it rest for a while...as we have been listening to it from a very long time, I suppose.
Just let's beopen to the marvels of that loving and caring energy; what you may refer to as Divine, God, Collective consciousness, Intelligence, Energy, etc., etc. For once, let's drop the mind and experience for ourselves the freedom from its intervention.
This may sound strange and contradictory, but it is true. You'll fly as never before once having dropped the load. This sense of freedom, I could experience by the grace of a young and dynamic enlightened master, Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
I leave you with an interesting video clip to move beyond our 'so-called' identities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cRDguGz8NM
Just let's beopen to the marvels of that loving and caring energy; what you may refer to as Divine, God, Collective consciousness, Intelligence, Energy, etc., etc. For once, let's drop the mind and experience for ourselves the freedom from its intervention.
This may sound strange and contradictory, but it is true. You'll fly as never before once having dropped the load. This sense of freedom, I could experience by the grace of a young and dynamic enlightened master, Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
I leave you with an interesting video clip to move beyond our 'so-called' identities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cRDguGz8NM
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Heart says to the mind thus... [Series - 2]
Mind: Hey, how are you doing?, I've been waiting for you.
Heart: Oh, I'm doing great, as usual. Okay, let me start with a small question. 'Who do you think is more important for a human being to live, you or me? :)
M: Hmmm, I feel both of us are essential. I'm very much required to think and plan out things, help in logical analyses, and so on.
H: That is what you think. If I tell you that you are absolutely wrong...is that fine? Please understand friend, the world does not run because of you, it runs inspite of you. There is something beyond you and your friend, that is ego.
[Mind listens on, ofcourse puzzled]
Paramahamsa Nithyananda in one of his discourses says that we have been taught from our childhood that we can not survive without our mind.
A small story to be shared here. A blind man goes to the doctor and asks him, ‘Doctor, please do something and give me my eyes’. The doctor says, ‘don’t worry, I’ll do an operation, you’ll have your eyes back. You can walk without the stick then’. The blind people use a stick to find their way, actually.
The blind man says, ‘doctor, I can understand you’ll do an operation, I can understand I will have my eyes back. But I can’t understand how I can walk without the stick!’.
By and by, he has started thinking the stick is part of his walking. Initially, he started using the stick just to feel and navigate. By and by, the moment he started walking, he would have the stick in his hand. In his mind he started associating having a stick and walking; and that both are directly connected. Now he thinks he can not walk without the stick even after he gets his eyesight.
Then the doctor says, ‘I CAN'T convince you intellectually; please have your eyes, then you yourself will understand’.
Only when the man opens his eyes, only when he gets his eyes back, he can understand that he can walk without the stick. In the same way, only when we relax and understand that by our very nature we are unattached, suddenly we will realize we can live without the mind.
The walking stick is just extra for the blind man. Same way, the mind is extra for us, because by our very nature we don’t need the mind to live. Because we have gone to such an extreme of relying on our mind, we cannot understand that we can live without the mind.
M: [now thoroughly shaken, feels himself losing ground] Hey, do you mean to say I am useless to anyone? All this while, it was me whom all were listening to. I would play my own tunes, and people would dance accordingly. Now, you are saying the reverse...!
H: Sorry to hurt you so directly, my friend. But this is the truth. I can perfectly understand how you are feeling now. All who read this article will surely start rejecting you from their system... Hope to see you in sometime, if you still exist ;)
Heart: Oh, I'm doing great, as usual. Okay, let me start with a small question. 'Who do you think is more important for a human being to live, you or me? :)
M: Hmmm, I feel both of us are essential. I'm very much required to think and plan out things, help in logical analyses, and so on.
H: That is what you think. If I tell you that you are absolutely wrong...is that fine? Please understand friend, the world does not run because of you, it runs inspite of you. There is something beyond you and your friend, that is ego.
[Mind listens on, ofcourse puzzled]
Paramahamsa Nithyananda in one of his discourses says that we have been taught from our childhood that we can not survive without our mind.
A small story to be shared here. A blind man goes to the doctor and asks him, ‘Doctor, please do something and give me my eyes’. The doctor says, ‘don’t worry, I’ll do an operation, you’ll have your eyes back. You can walk without the stick then’. The blind people use a stick to find their way, actually.
The blind man says, ‘doctor, I can understand you’ll do an operation, I can understand I will have my eyes back. But I can’t understand how I can walk without the stick!’.
By and by, he has started thinking the stick is part of his walking. Initially, he started using the stick just to feel and navigate. By and by, the moment he started walking, he would have the stick in his hand. In his mind he started associating having a stick and walking; and that both are directly connected. Now he thinks he can not walk without the stick even after he gets his eyesight.
Then the doctor says, ‘I CAN'T convince you intellectually; please have your eyes, then you yourself will understand’.
Only when the man opens his eyes, only when he gets his eyes back, he can understand that he can walk without the stick. In the same way, only when we relax and understand that by our very nature we are unattached, suddenly we will realize we can live without the mind.
The walking stick is just extra for the blind man. Same way, the mind is extra for us, because by our very nature we don’t need the mind to live. Because we have gone to such an extreme of relying on our mind, we cannot understand that we can live without the mind.
M: [now thoroughly shaken, feels himself losing ground] Hey, do you mean to say I am useless to anyone? All this while, it was me whom all were listening to. I would play my own tunes, and people would dance accordingly. Now, you are saying the reverse...!
H: Sorry to hurt you so directly, my friend. But this is the truth. I can perfectly understand how you are feeling now. All who read this article will surely start rejecting you from their system... Hope to see you in sometime, if you still exist ;)
Thursday, January 3, 2008
ssss....it hurts!
Oh yes...truth really hurts....only if we allow it to. If not it simply heals. Truth when absorbed in totally and practised (rather when the truth is lived), different dimensions of the same truth presents itself before us and leads us to next level, and to the next level and beyond.
A small quote here: Distractions are distractions as long as we feel they are. Fall in tune with the distractions, they will no longer distract you! says Nithyananda
Being socially polite and hiding the truth only postpones the disciple's progress, also the Master's progress. It is very easy to sit, hear to some discourse, or read a book; and come back to continue the same old life as before. All we need to do is open up to the spirit behind the words of an enlightened one rather than judging, analyzing and thinking too much even before practising them.
The openness to receive ideas which can transform the very inner software is the true listening. Then we shift from questions to quest; from asking 'why' to asking 'how'; from mind to the heart; from the surface to the real core; and from belief to trust.
For a total solution, we need to ask 'How?' Asking 'Why?' will only give us an answer, not a solution! We need techniques, not words - for life solutions.
Just having the curiosity of a child and the sincerity to really work for it gets anyone and everyone there. A little freshness always, wanting to learn more and experience and the deep thirst to know more than what we already know is enough for a jumpstart.
Arjuna, in the Bhagavad Gita keeps speaking (in the whole of the first chapter) until he gets tired...which is when he realizes he knows nothing; and then on Krishna leads him step by step and makes sure he reaches the Ultimate consciousness.
May be, it's good to leave you with a discourse on the Bhagavad Gita delivered by Paramahamsa Nithyananda... http://www.lifebliss.org/video_BG.asp
A small quote here: Distractions are distractions as long as we feel they are. Fall in tune with the distractions, they will no longer distract you! says Nithyananda
Being socially polite and hiding the truth only postpones the disciple's progress, also the Master's progress. It is very easy to sit, hear to some discourse, or read a book; and come back to continue the same old life as before. All we need to do is open up to the spirit behind the words of an enlightened one rather than judging, analyzing and thinking too much even before practising them.
The openness to receive ideas which can transform the very inner software is the true listening. Then we shift from questions to quest; from asking 'why' to asking 'how'; from mind to the heart; from the surface to the real core; and from belief to trust.
For a total solution, we need to ask 'How?' Asking 'Why?' will only give us an answer, not a solution! We need techniques, not words - for life solutions.
Just having the curiosity of a child and the sincerity to really work for it gets anyone and everyone there. A little freshness always, wanting to learn more and experience and the deep thirst to know more than what we already know is enough for a jumpstart.
Arjuna, in the Bhagavad Gita keeps speaking (in the whole of the first chapter) until he gets tired...which is when he realizes he knows nothing; and then on Krishna leads him step by step and makes sure he reaches the Ultimate consciousness.
May be, it's good to leave you with a discourse on the Bhagavad Gita delivered by Paramahamsa Nithyananda... http://www.lifebliss.org/video_BG.asp
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Heart says to the mind thus... [Series - 1]
Heart: Hi, how are you doing today...A small question..do you believe God in a human form?
Mind: Eh, don't be silly...how can that be possible.
H: Hmm, well then; do you deny the godliness of Sri Ramakrushna, Ramana Maharishi, etc.?
M: No, no, no...all of them were great enlightened masters. They are more than God to me.
H: How do you know that, dear?
M: I've read loads of books on them and on many more Masters. If you want, I can lend them to you.
H: See, this is where your ego is playing a trick on you, watch out. You say you find godliness in the dead masters... then why not in a living master; who is in flesh and blood right in front of you?
I'll share a small analogy with you here. "The grandfather when alive lived in the out-house, outside the house. When he died, he was brought inside the house, into the God's room and worshipped!"
This is exactly what we are doing with a living Master every janma (life). We easily, casually brush aside the living Master when we bump into him and may be after He leaves his body, we'll start scrambling in every possible book-store collecting all his books, cd's and information about that Master, and make a lovely book-shelf to store all of them and once again start bragging about our archive with friends and family.
M: Hmm, yes heart, I find a ray of truth in your words. Thanks for enlightening me about living Masters...I won't miss him in this life atleast. If not for you, I wonder how many more janmas I had to come back here. I won't repeat the same mistake. Hey, and by the way, who IS this living Master you are going on and on about?
H: Good, you are on the track now friend. We call him Paramahamsa Nithyananda. Check out this link http://www.dhyanapeetam.org/ or http://www.nithyananda.org/ ... you can relate better to what I'm trying to convey...formless in form and stuff.
Happy reading....bye, will see you tomorrow.
M: Byeee...I'm very eager to talk to you soon.
Mind: Eh, don't be silly...how can that be possible.
H: Hmm, well then; do you deny the godliness of Sri Ramakrushna, Ramana Maharishi, etc.?
M: No, no, no...all of them were great enlightened masters. They are more than God to me.
H: How do you know that, dear?
M: I've read loads of books on them and on many more Masters. If you want, I can lend them to you.
H: See, this is where your ego is playing a trick on you, watch out. You say you find godliness in the dead masters... then why not in a living master; who is in flesh and blood right in front of you?
I'll share a small analogy with you here. "The grandfather when alive lived in the out-house, outside the house. When he died, he was brought inside the house, into the God's room and worshipped!"
This is exactly what we are doing with a living Master every janma (life). We easily, casually brush aside the living Master when we bump into him and may be after He leaves his body, we'll start scrambling in every possible book-store collecting all his books, cd's and information about that Master, and make a lovely book-shelf to store all of them and once again start bragging about our archive with friends and family.
M: Hmm, yes heart, I find a ray of truth in your words. Thanks for enlightening me about living Masters...I won't miss him in this life atleast. If not for you, I wonder how many more janmas I had to come back here. I won't repeat the same mistake. Hey, and by the way, who IS this living Master you are going on and on about?
H: Good, you are on the track now friend. We call him Paramahamsa Nithyananda. Check out this link http://www.dhyanapeetam.org/ or http://www.nithyananda.org/ ... you can relate better to what I'm trying to convey...formless in form and stuff.
Happy reading....bye, will see you tomorrow.
M: Byeee...I'm very eager to talk to you soon.
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