March 19 2011

Title

Ultimate Reality Between Soul & Self || Part 1 || Brahma Sutras || 19 March 2011

Description

Name of Convention: Brahma Sutras
Session on: Ultimate Reality Between Soul & Self Part 1
Date: 19 March 2011
Venue: Adi Kailasa, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

In this video the Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism HDH #Nithyananda Paramashivam sits with his delegates to share His experience and understanding on 1st chapter, 1st section, 17th sutra of the Brahma Sutras. In which He also shared Swami Sivananda's teaching and other masters & acharyas that covered on this sutra. The Brahma Sutras is a Sanskrit text - The text systematizes and summarizes the philosophical and spiritual ideas in the Upanishads. The sacred secret of this sutra, in summary, is describing that we are to get back to witnessing our consciousness. To be centered on awareness, and not on ego. When one is centered on awareness, it will naturally create wealth and fulfilment. And this will create constant awareness which will become an independent mechanism to achieving wealth & consciousness.

Come and find out more about the Brahma Sutra with His presence!

The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism Jagatguru Mahasannidhanam His Divine Holiness Nithyananda Paramashivam (HDH) is the reviver of #KAILASA - the ancient enlightened civilization and the great cosmic borderless Hindu nation. Revered as the incarnation of Paramashiva - the primordial Hindu Divinity, HDH has a following of 2 billion Hindus worldwide with de facto spiritual embassies in over 150 countries. He has worked untiringly for over 26 years for the revival of Kailasa, for global peace and to give super conscious breakthrough to humanity. He has survived the worst persecution of multiple assassination attempts on person and on character by anti-Hindu elements. He is collecting, organising, preserving, time capsuling, decoding, spreading and reviving 20 Million source books of Hinduism and the 64 sacred arts & sciences like Ayurveda, music, dance, sculpting, astrology, vastu and much more. Close to 20,000 hours of HDH’s timeless talks have been recorded till date (Sep 2020), which are a treasure trove of powerful cognitions to solve individual and global problems of any kind.

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(0:17)

Sadāshiva samārambām shankarācharya madhyamām Asmadācharya paryanthām vande guru paramparām

(0:42)

Let us enter into today's Sutra. I Am continuing on Brahma Sutras. First chapter, first section,17th Sutra: Bheda Vyapateshat cha Bheda Vyapateshat cha Bheda Vyapateshat cha Swami Gambhirananda translates this Sutra as, “And because of the assertion of the difference between the individual soul and Supreme self.” Swami Vireswarananda translates as, “On account of the declaration of difference between the two, the one referred to in the passage the self consisting of Bliss etc. and the individual soul, the latter cannot be the one referred to in passage.” Swami Sivanandha translates as, “On account of the declaration of the difference between the two, the one referred to in the passage the self consisting of Bliss and the individual soul, the latter cannot be the one referred to in the passage.” Bheda Vyapateshat cha

(02:14)

There is a beautiful Sutra in Taittiriya Upanishad.I wanted to bring it to your attention and very beautifully Swami Sivananda, Rishikesh Sivananda Swami. There were two Sivananda's very popular at same time. One was in Kerala, Palakkad. Paramhamsa Sivananda. Another one was the Rishikesh Sivananda Paramahamsa, Sivananda Swami. So here I Am referring to Swami Sivananda from Kerala….. sorry, from Rishikesh. Swami Sivananda from Rishikesh. He very beautifully refers. He is one of the great, a very great Acharya of the modern days, one of the great architect of Hinduism. I can say some handful of people are responsible for what is known now as Hinduism being alive. Our yoga, upanishads, vedanta. If this is part of a common man's life today in the modern world, this handful of people are responsible- one is Ramakrishna and Vivekananda naturally, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Osho, Shreela Prabhupada.

(03:56)

I will say that in My experience, I will put Swami Sivananda in that level. He is one of the great contributor to the vedic tradition. He refers very beautifully. Actually I Am referring everyday many of his collections and selections on Brahma Sutra. He has written a very beautiful commentary on Brahma Sutra. He has collected, culled out many of the Upanishads and references from various Aranyakas, various beautiful scriptures. Very authentically he has collected and translated. I wanted to remind you all, great Swami Satyananda Saraswati, one of the greatest Yogi happened in the modern day is disciple of Sivananda Saraswati. I wanted to remember both of them and give them My humble respects because today what I am talking to you, all this technical information, for Me to collect and translate will take at least ten years if I have to do all by Myself. So lot of the technical work they all have done. So I wanted to give My gratitude, My humble respect to those masters.

(05:35)

If you read Swami Satyananda Saraswati’s Yoga and Kriya book, whatever I Am teaching in the morning Brahma Sutra…. Yoga Sutra, you will be able to catch it very easily. It will be very useful if you read that book if you are regularly attending the Yoga Sutra satsang and same way, if you read Swami Sivananda’s Brahma Sutra translation, it will really help you to grasp more whatever I Am sharing in the Brahma Sutra satsang. Because they have done a amazing work on the technical knowledge. To tell you honestly, I Am not that strong in the technical knowledge. See, I Am commenting on the authority of My spiritual experience, Enlightenment. I Am neither a Sanskrit scholar nor English scholar or scholar in the Upanishads or Vedas or the traditional literatures.

(06:44)

I Am telling you very honestly, maybe if you are glamoured by Me, enchanted by Me, you will say, “No, no, no. You know so much about scriptures,” and all that but an honest, social standard. There is a social standard. If there is an examination about the scriptures, I can be hundred percent sure I will not take more than thirty marks. That is the maximum any normal teacher will give if they test My scriptural knowledge. I Am commenting on the authority of My personal experience and the grace of My mentors like a Raghupati Yogi, Kuppammal or Isakki Swami, all these people but the technical knowledge, these masters have done a amazing job. I wanted to recognize and I wanted to put this on record so that the posterity, the future knows their great contribution.

(07:49)

I wanted to make it very clear I never wanted at any time My organization to evolve as a independent cult built on Me. It should always be rooted in the original Vedic tradition, the broad Vedic tradition which is the source for Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Vaishnava, Tantra. These are all different branches evolved out of Vedic tradition. You may be surprised, I mentioned even Hinduism as a one name. Please understand, whatever you practice in the name of Hinduism- going to temples, rituals, anything, yoga, pranayam. All these things evolved from Vedic tradition. I wanted all of you to know it is not Vedic tradition. It is from Vedic tradition.

(08:58)

Just like Buddhism is from Vedic tradition, Sikhism is from Vedic tradition, Jainism is from Vedic tradition, the distance between the Vedic tradition and Buddhism, distance between Vedic tradition and Jainism, distance between Vedic tradition and Sikhism, distance between Vedic tradition and modern day Hinduism is equal. I wanted to make it very clear. It is equal. No way modern day Hinduism is closer to Vedic tradition than Jainism or Buddhism. So I wanted always our Sampradaya to be established and rooted in the broad Vedic tradition which is the source of all these traditions: Shakta, Shaiva, Vaishnava, all these great traditions.

(10:04)

There is a beautiful reference by Swami Sivananda: Raso Vysaha Rasam Hevayam Labdhva Nandi Bhavati Taittiriya Upanishad, second chapter, seventh Sutra…. If you don't understand it is ok. I Am just putting it on record but I will translate and give you the complete meaning in course of the discourse. You see, lot of the sacred secrets embedded in this Sutra you will be able to relate and understand if you have little bit of background of the technical knowledge. How the truth is experienced and expressed and referred. Raso Vysaha Rasam Hevayam Lab dva Nandi Bhavati

(11:37)

That which is attainted and the attainer cannot be the same. Hence individual soul is not referred to in the passage which is under discussion. I think here they have done one printing mistake. It is supposed to be attained and the attainer. They have put one T extra. It became attainted and attainer. Anyhow, that is okay. Now let Me enter into the sacred secret embedded in this sutra…. The whole thing I can see, boils down to pushing you towards the transcendental awareness happening in you. Constantly Vyasa, Badarayana is getting you back to the transcendental awareness. If I have to reveal the sacred secret, if I have to reveal what I Am going to talk for next half an hour, for example you say, “Swamiji, next half an hour I don't have time to sit. I have to run for the other work. Can You just tell me in one statement so that I can hear and run,” I Am going to say get back to witnessing consciousness. That's all, which I Am telling for last ten years. This is the sacred secret in this Sutra.

(13:34)

Basically Patanjali is trying.... Sorry Vyasa, Badarayana Vyasa is basically trying to push you to the truth: Do not be satisfied in the space where the attainer retains even a scratch of individual identity. I have a big difficulty because first time these Sutras are being taught to youngsters. Always these sutras were taught to some old buddos who can’t do anything further. Then Ramakrishna says, “Brahmasutra cannot be taught to the old people. Even if you teach, they will not catch it.” Please understand, when I use the word here Brahma sutra, I use the world more like a, the process of awakening the inner space.

(14:54)

Unfortunately always it was taught to the old people. So almost their tiredness is taken as non-ego state but first time, I Am talking about Brahma Sutras to youngsters. That is why so much of difficulty. Lot of difficulty because the modern day youngsters have to live continuously asserting their ego. Every moment the survival itself becomes ego-based. You see, that is why even creation of the wealth, it is not creation, it is more like a grabbing. How much you can lie and cheat your boss and grab, that's all. It’s all about grabbing. It is nothing to do with creation. In the modern day, the youngsters have to constantly be asserting their ego but here Brahma sutra, constantly Vyasa is pushing to be centered on awareness.

(16:39)

Actually if you are centered on awareness, you will be able to create wealth out of creativity and have a deep satisfaction, fulfillment but the big problem is, almost your whole life has to be reshuffled. When you start living based on this Sutra which says that, be established on the space where the achiever and achieved is one and the same. Do not be in a space where the achiever and achieved are visibly felt as different, experientially felt as different.

(17:57)

A continuous drive….. you see, if you are a yogi for example, tomorrow many of you guys are taking up this Vrata, Samyama on Chandra, sixteen days. When you take up these kind of things and explore, basically you are a yogi. Your attitude is yogi. If you are a yogi, because of your everyday practices, all these ideas are constantly reminded to you and the rising of the awareness has become a independent mechanism in your system. Everyday because constantly you remind yourself, you push yourself, even though one day you become low and angry, depressed, next day you are up, you say, “No. I will stand. I will not fall.” That re-establishing, I tell you, that is the greatest thing in the life.

(19:14)

I had a such a uncompassionate mentors and Masters for Me. I Am really happy. No, they will go on, you see, as far as the techniques and the spiritual knowledge, they are so compassionate but they will never ever give Me any support for My human weakness. You may be laughing, “What? Swamiji had human weakness?” When I use this word, I wanted to define it very clearly. It's like a, “Oh! Tomorrow we can do the practice. It’s okay. These are all... Tomorrow we can do. Later on. No, no, no, I don't want to do meditation.” This laziness, they never supported and whenever the ideological difference problems, they never bent. They just stood strong.

(20:22)

Title

Ultimate Reality Between Soul & Self || Part 2 || Brahma Sutras || 19 March 2011

Description

Name of Convention: Brahma Sutras
Session on: Ultimate Reality Between Soul & Self Part 2
Date: 19 March 2011
Venue: Adi Kailasa, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

In this video the Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism HDH #Nithyananda Paramashivam sits with his delegates to share His experience and understanding on 1st chapter, 1st section, 17th sutra of the Brahma Sutras. In which He also shared Swami Sivananda's teaching and other masters & acharyas that covered on this sutra. The Brahma Sutras is a Sanskrit text - The text systematizes and summarizes the philosophical and spiritual ideas in the Upanishads. The sacred secret of this sutra, in summary, is describing that we are to get back to witnessing our consciousness. To be centered on awareness, and not on ego. When one is centered on awareness, it will naturally create wealth and fulfillment. And this will create constant awareness which will become an independent mechanism to achieving wealth & consciousness.

Come and find out more about the Brahma Sutra with His presence!

The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism Jagatguru Mahasannidhanam His Divine Holiness Nithyananda Paramashivam (HDH) is the reviver of #KAILASA - the ancient enlightened civilization and the great cosmic borderless Hindu nation. Revered as the incarnation of Paramashiva - the primordial Hindu Divinity, HDH has a following of 2 billion Hindus worldwide with de facto spiritual embassies in over 150 countries. He has worked untiringly for over 26 years for the revival of Kailasa, for global peace and to give super conscious breakthrough to humanity. He has survived the worst persecution of multiple assassination attempts on person and on character by anti-Hindu elements. He is collecting, organising, preserving, time capsuling, decoding, spreading and reviving 20 Million source books of Hinduism and the 64 sacred arts & sciences like Ayurveda, music, dance, sculpting, astrology, vastu and much more. Close to 20,000 hours of HDH’s timeless talks have been recorded till date (Sep 2020), which are a treasure trove of powerful cognitions to solve individual and global problems of any kind.

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(0:15)

So their compassion- one side compassion, other side completely cruel. Completely- that is the right word ‘cruel’ but I Am fortunate I was not supported. I had such a beautiful mentors. Again and again and again standing up was become very easy. They will go on giving spiritual words, spiritual techniques and I can tell you, it will be always good if you have 2-3 mentors in your life when it comes to mentors. Of course, Master will be only one naturally. Master can be only one but mentors…. when you are in a spiritual community or satsang center or the spiritual groups, just have 2-3 people to talk to because you will have 2-3 version of the understanding. It can always be inspiring. Then you will catch that balanced perspective. Objectively you will catch it.

(01:26)

Because I had 2-3 mentors, I can tell you how much it added. Even though Kuppammal is a great vedanti, she had a very powerful connection to the bhakti dimension and same way Raghupati Yogi. Even though he was a great yogi, he was an amazing bhakta. He was an amazing devotee. So these different, different people, different, different juice made Me completely juicy. So you also try to have 2-3 mentors. Then you will grasp more. Even in this Vata-Prativata, now I am seeing. Everyday I am receiving emails. This Vata-Prativata debate is doing a wonderful job, very powerful job. I am seeing really Vyasa and Shankara’s blessings are there on you guys.

(02:26)

So many emails I Am receiving with deeper clarity, understandings. I can tell you, really this twenty one days we don't know how we started, why we started. From Shivaratri, how much of good we are doing to the world is secondary. How much of the good we have all done to ourself I am surprised. All our centers, devotees, they have become so intense. Today I saw, I don't know, I don’t know the number exactly. The number of people going to practice tomorrow onwards samyama I do have. Now I am Guru of worthy disciples, very strong disciples.

(03:06)

Actually in the ashram itself, I was shocked. In Bidadi Ashram some sixty people want to do this fifteen days samyama. These fellows to make them come and sit in half an hour Pada Puja, I know how much I have to struggle. But all these fellows suddenly wanted to do this samyama. Then I only made a rule if you are underweight you cannot do. If you are overweight you can do. I made a rule because health I have to take care. But I was shocked so much of sudden inspiration has happened in our Sangha all over. Everywhere the strong debates are going on. In the Facebook, left and right I Am enlightened, you are enlightened everywhere I am just.... Now the whole Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam I feel like a huge sky with lot of stars, enlightened stars running around here and there. Even in your community, have 2-3 mentors. You will see you will be able to grow easily. You will be able to imbibe this understanding easily.

(04:21)

So the thought trend for today's sacred secret: be stable at the space where the achiever and achieved is one and the same. If you are not in that space, just be unstable. That is enough. You feeling unstable is enough to push you into the stable Consciousness. Actually you feeling you just hate who you are, what you are is enough. Nothing else is required. That will just push you to the space where you need to completely be fulfilled, where you need to completely be in restful awareness. The problem is, you don't completely hate what you are. One part you hate, the other part you hold on, “No no no no. This is all good only. These fellows are telling lies. I am not that bad.”

(05:29)

Be very clear, you are bad completely. There is nothing to be hold on. Be very clear or hold on you are completely good. That is also okay. If you hold on completely good, then your personality will just how the salt melts into the ocean. If you make a salt doll and put it in the ocean, how it melts, you will melt down. That is also perfect, no problem but the problem is, you neither feel you are completely good nor feel completely bad. You hold on to one part. That is where you are not letting the achiever and achieved to become one. Just the deep dissatisfaction of the source where you feel your individual identity is more than enough to awaken the non-mechanical parts of your brain and make you experience the transcendental awareness, transcendental Consciousness. Transcendental awareness and transcendental Consciousness- these are all different words I Am using but I mean one and the same: Source, Existence, Brahman, Cosmos, Original Self. All are same thing I Am denoting with different words.

(07:24)

So through this Taittiriya Upanishad Sutra, Swami Sivananda is trying to establish clearly the individual soul which feels still it need to achieve something cannot be the achieved, the goal. As long as that feeling ‘I still need to do something’ is there in you, you need to do something…. You need to get into the space where that very idea ‘I need to do something’ disappears. I Am telling you, if you just create wealth don't grab, create wealth, the moment you reach certain level, you feel completely fulfilled, “I think I have enough. I have enough. Nothing more needs to be done. I have enough.”

(08:35)

April 14th of 2001. 2001 April 14th, that was the day few people who lived around Me, who gathered around Me that time, not lived around Me. That is the right word. Gathered around Me even before Ayya and Amma came. Two-three people gathered around Me. They all have requested Me to stay in one place that they want to build a hut for Me. I said, “I don't know I will be able to stay in one place.” Then they said, “At least till You stay, let us make a hut for You.” I just laughed and said “Alright, make it.” That was the day the first hut they built for Me on the banks of Kaveri. They inaugurated. Still we have photographs. I had one Ramakrishna’s photo and Sharda Devi, Vivekananda’s photo. Somebody gave Me one kamandalu, one pot. The moment I got that pot, I had the tremendous satisfaction, “Wow! All the wealth I required for My life has come.” That's all. I tell you, after that I have not acquired anything…. The greatest satisfaction that I have what I want, means My prarabdha to accumulate wealth has ended when I got that kamandalu because that was the only thing I require.

(10:35)

As I said, I Am a washing maniac. That keeping Myself clean is a very big thing. So I always wanted after taking bath when I come out of Kaveri, I want to carry one kamandalu water so that when I reach the place where I used to lie down, I want to wash My feet. See, the feet will be dirty, will become dirty by the time you come out. So the only property I was in need, only thing I needed is I need one kamandalu to wash My feet after I reach the place where I stay because I cannot see My room muddy. Of course, the whole room itself is inside burial ground. That is different and it is the samadhi of one person. That is funny thing. On one samadhi on four pillar they put the thatch. On that only I used to sleep. That was My first....

(11:34)

The guy is little bulky guy. So they built a bigger samadhi, very big samadhi. It is a square 8 feet by 8 feet and there was a pillar and on that they put some four wooden pieces and put thatch. So from the Kaveri if I reach that place where I used to lie down, leg will become muddy, dirty. So after reaching to that place I want to wash My feet before I put My feet on the place where I lie down. So the moment that kamandalu came I can say, the whole personality has become completely satisfied…. Such a deep satisfaction! I can tell you, when you create wealth, your prarabdha hits a space of that utter satisfaction…. After that, wealth was never in My mind. It was always around Me but it was never in My mind. My inner space never had wealth. It was always around Me but never inside Me.

(13:09)

So as long as you feel you need to achieve something, you need to achieve. The moment you feel the achiever and achieved has disappeared, you have achieved. So the sacred secret in this Sutra is, if you are feeling you need to achieve something more, then let the dissatisfaction grow intensely and swallow your whole personality. It is capable of pushing you into Existence. It is capable. This is the sacred secret I want you to do the debate today. How the feeling of not attained can lead to the attainment. What should we do with that feeling of not achieved! When, how the feeling of achiever and achieved becomes one and the same. I am really happy because these great truths are never discussed especially to the mass like this.

(14:53)

Even if you comb the whole Varanasi, where the Vedanta is supposed to be repeated even by parrots, you will not find one tenth of the number of the people who are sitting and discussing all these great truths but go on drill these great truths into your inner space. Do the debate, eN debate. Don't say, “Oh! I am... These are all not for me. This is too much for my head.” No! Catch at least 2-3 people and start. Just because you failed once in the debate, don't think you should not start again. Go on and on and on. So start the eN debate today, Vada- Prativada today on this sacred secret: How the feeling not attained can lead to the experience of attainment. How to deepen it? When you are achieved, attained, how to know it means the feeling to attain will disappear. That's it.

(16:18)

As you all are aware, today is the Holi and Manmatha dahana. In all Shiva temples, the Manmatha will be burnt. It is a symbolic representation that Shiva opening the third eye and burning all the fantasies. Shiva becoming beyond fantasies. It is like a, it is a philosophical description of Shiva expressing His Enlightenment and very beautiful description of Krishna initiating all His gopas and gopis into the Bhava Samadhi. Today is the day He did Rasa, Rasa Purnima where He played with His gopas and gopis and gave the experience of Bhava samadhi to all of them, experiencing Oneness with Krishna to all of them. So all the ashramites are waiting for the celebration. We are having now two celebration. In all Vishnu temples they will have the Holi. In all Shiva temples they will have the Manmatha Dahana, burning of Manmatha. We have both. We have Shiva and Vishnu, both here. So naturally we will be having both celebrations. Holi now and after the Holi, the burning of Manmatha, Manmatha’s effigy, like a collective negativity, fantasies, delusion, that's all.

(18:06)

So now, we are going to have the celebration. That is the reason I Am ending the Brahma Sutras little early and today we have a great news. Scarborough Toronto is starting a new center, a new place. Satsang is held in new place today. My blessings to Toronto devotees. Scarborough and Toronto and My blessings. I Am now in you guys, with you guys in that center. This place now will experience intensely My presence. Let all of you experience Kundalini Awakening and levitation. Up! Intense experience of My presence will fill that place. I have already now sanctified that place. Put the padukas in that place. You will see vibhuti coming from that Paduka. That whole place will vibrate intense positive, auspicious spiritual energy.

(19:16)

So as today is very auspicious day, Panguni Uthiram, very good day for Subramanya. You guys have got a right place on right day. Today is the good day for Subramanya, good day for Vaishnava tradition and good day for Shaiva tradition. All three tradition, today is the great day and My blessings. Beautiful temple will happen in Toronto. My blessings to all of you who are sitting with us at this moment 669 places and 223 cities in 30 countries. Let you all achieve, experience, live, express, radiate and share the Eternal Bliss- Nithyananda. Thank you.

(20:16)