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February 22, 2015 Today’s (22nd February, 2015) Morning Satsang continues with the Upanishads Series - Living Advaita. Isha Upanishad–Verse 3 continues: asuryā nāme te lokā andhena tamasā’vṛtāḥ | tāṁs te pretyābhigacchanti ye ke cātma-hano janāḥ || 3 || In this profound delivery of the Isha Upanishad, Paramahamsa Nithyananda advises that following bad people is a huge blunder in our lives and can cause us to miss the Guru, even after 100s of janmas of tapas. Continuously check if you are with people who are saying yes to life; for even just being in the company of good people, we can become enlightened! Watch, Share and Subscribe to our channel to be notified of the next upload click https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9OM-qeiYIPtAkBe9veG5uw?sub_confirmation=1 to subscribe. visit: http://www.nithyananda.org http://www.nithyananda.tv http://www.innerawakening.org https://www.youtube.com/user/LifeBlissFoundation https://twitter.com/SriNithyananda https://www.facebook.com/ParamahamsaNithyananda https://plus.google.com/104086565286265959836/posts

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Nithyanandeshwara Samaarambhaam

Nithyanandeshwari Madhyamaam |

Asmath Aachaarya Paryanthaam

Vandhey Guru Paramparaam ||

I welcome all of you with my love and respects. I welcome all the devotees, disciples, samajis, satsanghis, Shrimahants, Mahants, Thanedars, Kotharis, sitting with us through Nithyananda TV, Sadhna TV, Arra TV, and two-way video-conferencing having Nayana Deeksha.

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I welcome all of you with my love and respects.

Let us enter into third verse of Ishavasya Upanishad. I will continue to expand on it, because so many questions need to be answered, so many answers need to be questioned.

असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः ।

ताँस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥

Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah |

Thaagumsthey prethyabhigachchanthi ye ke chaathmahano janaah ||

असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः ।

ताँस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥

Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah |

Thaagumsthey prethyabhigachchanthi ye ke chaathmahano janaah ||

Listen! “Athmahana”, saying “NO” to life, leads to the lower levels of existence, “Dussangha”, company of the lower level people. I tell you, that is the hell! That is the hell! Company of the lower level people, because, they will somehow brainwash you to get into their space, and they will make you do what they want you to do. Finally, they will put you in trouble; then they will escape; because they are very shrewd. They will escape so that they will go and haunt the other person.

One fellow, very popular preacher of suicide theology, he will preach, teach, literally mesmerize, hypnotise everyone to commit suicide, and lot of people have started committing suicide. Teaching death is very easy. That is why all death-based concepts spread like a wildfire. All the death-based religions, concepts, killing yourself and killing others, they spread like a wildfire. But the life-based religions, concepts, take lot of time. The best life-based religion in toto, hundred percent, is Jainism. The pure, life-based religion, Ahimsa and life, saying “YES” to life! But how much struggle that religion has to go through to spread! Actually, there are no followers; literally there are no followers of Jainism. That is the truth. Except a handful of monks, a few people! Because, it is life-based, doesn’t spread that wildly. But all death-based concepts, they just spread like wildfire!

Please understand, billions of animals are killed every year for our food. Still I can’t imagine how will you kill somebody for your snack?! How will you kill somebody for your snack?!! It takes a lot of time to accept life-based truths, understandings. It is very easy to receive and teach, spread death-based ideas and concepts, because, it is all agitating. Agitation is misunderstood as excitement.

This suicide theology fellow, he spreads so much, and people commit suicide!

Somebody asked, ‘Why are YOU not committing suicide? You are teaching to so many people!’

He said, ‘No, if I die, then who will teach this idea and make more and more people commit suicide?’

Dussangha! Understand, biggest warning this Upanishad is giving is “Dussangha”, the “wrong company”.

असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः ।

ताँस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥

Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah |

Thaagumsthey prethyabhigachchanthi ye ke chaathmahano janaah ||

असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः ।

ताँस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥

Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah |

Thaagumsthey prethyabhigachchanthi ye ke chaathmahano janaah ||

Lower-grade worlds, abodes of demonic people, “asurya”, asuras, understand?

Once, when I was in Ramakrishna Mission, I met a very senior sadhu, a great “thapasvi”. His name is Nandananda, Swami Nandanandaji. Great “thapasvi”! Very rarely I have seen “thapasvi” of his calibre! Actually, he has a little difficulty in hearing; not a little, lot of difficulty. Literally he can’t hear! But he is such a beautiful, innocent being, he is almost like a deaf grand-father of the whole family! If there is a deaf grand-father in the family, how these grand-kids will tease him and play around him and go near him, shout, scream, and make fun. He can’t hear, so he will be screaming and running around, chasing. So, he was exactly the deaf grand-father of the family. We small young brahmacharis will be running around him and teasing him, playing with him. He was such an innocent being and such a loving being, caring being, he will enjoy the whole thing! Just all by himself, walking from village to village, he established Ramakrishna Sangha in whole Andhra! So much he has done just by walking from village to village! He will take Ramakrishna’s photo on his head and go from village to village and established the Sangha. In whole Andhra he has established the Ramakrishna Sangha!

When I met him, he was already well above ninety! There is every possibility he can even be still alive! Because, there was no sign of death in him! And I have not heard the news he left the body. There is a possibility he would have left the body and I have not received the news, or there is a possibility he has not left the body. At least, when I met him, there was no sign of death in him. And I am hundred percent sure he has achieved Bhaava Samadhi, means he can converse with, he can talk to Shri Ramakrishna directly! Because I have seen him fulfilling the people’s prayers by talking to him, talking to Shri Ramakrishna! Actually, when people ask him, the village people come to him and ask him any prayers, he will note that in Telugu. He is from Andhra basically. Born in Andhra, but I think, brought up in North. Anyhow, he can write Telugu. He will write, note that down in Telugu, and when he comes and sits in the room, when he gets into that Bhaava Darshana, bhaava, means when he starts doing japa and meditation, when he gets into bhaava, I used to help him, assist him.

Sadhu Seva is one of the greatest part of my lifestyle. With all my work, I will never miss serving any elderly sadhu whom I come in contact. From the time I know, I remember me, Sadhu Seva – serving the sadhus – was an important component of my life. It is an instruction from Kuppammal. ‘Hey, serve the sadhus. You will be served thousand times better!’ And the word always came true! The word always came true! Now I can say I am the most served Guru on Planet Earth! Not with any pride or arrogance, I can be very straightforward: Most served, most attended, most physically, literally, worshipped! The whole thing is just because of the Sadhu Seva I did. Understand? Never miss serving elderly sadhus, especially when you know that they are honest sadhus, they are sincere sadhus. They might be enlightened or unenlightened, they might be in the various levels of enlightenment, various levels of Samadhi, but if you know them that they are sincere sadhus, never miss serving them. So, I used to serve him.

In the night time he will ask for a little hot water and all that. And one problem with people who have a less hearing is, they will think we also can’t hear; so they will speak very loudly! They will speak very loudly! From his room if he calls, I can listen from my room which is almost hundred feet away! ‘Khokhaaaa!’ He will call like that! “Khokha” means “small boy”. I am the youngest in my batch. Actually, when I was accepted in the Mutt, I was a minor. Minors are usually not accepted; legally you have to be a major, eighteen years. But I did not completely my eighteen years, but they accepted me. So I was called as “Khokha”. And, he will scream! When I run to his room, he will ask for a little hot water. Very simple person; not much things needed; just a little hot water to drink in the night, and, very rarely he will ask for one banana. And, very simple person! So, when I give the hot water and wait for him to....I used to wait some time that if he wants to give some instruction or if he wants to ask something further. So that time I have seen him getting into that Bhaava Samadhi and he will start talking to Ramakrishna! He will start talking to Ramakrishna! Please understand, he was not in any delusion or illusion, because, he will ask me, ‘Hey, bring that paper from that table!’ There was a small table nearby. I will bring the paper and give it to him. And whatever devotees have asked him, he would have penned down in that paper. He will ask one by one. And whenever he comes and stays in Mylapore Mutt, around that place there are a few slums, city slums. There is Kapalinagar, Dhideerkuppam, and Ramakrishna Nagar. From those slums people will come to see him. He was well-known for fulfilling the prayers of people. So, they will come to see him and he will tell Ramakrishna that, ‘This person wanted his daughter to get admission in the college. Will it happen? When it will happen?’ Just like talking to us, he will talk to him (Ramakrishna). And then he will pick up a pen, and, ‘Oh, okay, it will happen aa? Alright.’ No, he will tick. And next day when those devotees come, he will explain to them, he will tell them. I have seen this whole scene personally, end to end! Means, when devotees come to him and talk to him how he notes down, and the night time how he sits and talks to Ramakrishna and notes down Ramakrisna’s answer. And next day when the devotees come, he will call them and pick up that paper, and slowly read one by one with his loud voice. He will explain, ‘Thakur bolchey...’ He will mix Bengali also into his Telugu, Tamil, all mix language. He has his own language. And he knows some four-five languages. So, he will mix all that and... ‘Thakur bolchey’ means, ‘Ramakrishna said’. And he will explain. At least, whatever I have seen, not even one case failed! Not even one reply he got back failed! And it will be very precise! Very precise! Not collective or superficial, rough. No! Very precise!

I am a great Vedanthi. I will not believe any of this easily. For me, only my gurus are enlightened! I will not bend, bow down in front of anything, anybody. So, I tested two-three times.

And, I used to take him to the shop where his hearing-aids are made. So I used to travel with him. Closely also when I sit next to him also I will watch, ‘Has he really achieved Bhaava Samadhi? Or, is he just having some illusion or delusion?’ But, continuously, I have seen him being in that space of joy and innocence. Finally, one day, I was very clear, means, all my doubts are cleared that I am hundred percent sure he is in Bhaava Samadhi, and he really talks to Shri Ramakrishna, and he really gets the response! That much I realized, I understood.

Nandanandaji was even in Madurai Ramakrishna Mutt. He spent a lot of time in Madurai Ramakrishna Mutt also. And, he will go and talk to Sundareshwara also! He will go to temple and stand in the garbhamandir, and talk to Sundareshwara (Mahadeva). One day I was really convinced about his greatness and he is established, he is established in Bhaava Samadhi.

I asked him, ‘Swamiji, you are talking to Shri Ramakrishna for the sake of every one. Can you tell me what should I ask Ramakrishna? What YOU ask from him for you, you tell me. I want to ask the same thing for me from him. Because, if you are talking to him, then you know best what should be asked from him. You would have asked that for you. You tell me. I want to ask the same thing for me from him. Through you only! But, you tell me what should be asked, what is the best thing to be asked from Bhagawan Shri Ramakrishna.’

Usually he will speak loudly. Suddenly, he just pulled my hand, and pulled me near him, and started telling me very lightly, means, I think he is trying to convey something very secret (in a whisper), ‘Hey, ask Bhagawan always to have good company and never you should get into bad company. That’s all you need to ask. Never you should be attracted to bad people and bad company! You should always be with good people and good company. Have only good people’s satsangha. Never you should be influenced, attracted by bad people. That’s all I ask him for me. I will ask the same for you also.’

That’s it! I tell you, still I remember the power of those words! It may look very superficial and simple for you guys. Only if you know the context, the situation, a man who can talk to God directly every night as he wants, says, ‘I think I should ask only this: “Let me not have bad people’s company who influence me wrongly”.’ I tell you, bad people’s company is such, they can even steal, rob, Guru in your life, who happened after janmas of “thapas”, understand! After hundreds and hundreds of births, your prayers, your “thapas”, your fasting, your meditating, a living Guru happens in your life! The bad company – Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah (असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः) – these people, asuras, the company of the asuras, bad people, can take away, rob even the greatest happening, that Guru, from your life! Be aware! Be careful! Be aware! Be careful!

Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah

असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः

Nandanandaji, that Swamiji said, ‘Whether when I am living, or after death, don’t allow bad people’s company to happen to you. That’s all I wanted.’

He used to tell me, ‘I told Thakur, if he doesn’t give me health I have no problem; if he doesn’t give me wealth, I have no problem; I don’t want name and fame; I don’t ask anything; I don’t want anything; Whatever he gives he gives, if he doesn’t want to give, he doesn’t want to give. I only ask one thing: Let me have satsangha. Let me not have dussangha. Let me not have bad company who move me away from spiritual lifestyle.’

Dussangha is the worst curse, I tell you! Because, even you falling into depression or slipping from spiritual lifestyle, spiritual practice, is not crime; it may be mistake; but you can, if you have good company, you can recover and come back. But, company of the bad people is blunder! Blunder! Blunder! Understand? They will be so enchanting, enticing, I tell you, always the bad people will be enticing, because they are encouraging all your basic instincts, they are encouraging all your agitative excitements; they don’t let the maturity happen. So, the company of bad people is the blunder!

Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah

असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः

Today’s subject for Vaakyaartha Sadhas is “Satsangha and Dussangha”. What is Satsangha? What is Dussangha? How Satsangh does good? How Dussangha does bad?

Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah

असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः

This line – Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah (असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः) – this line is the subject for Vaakyaartha Sadhas, today’s Vaakyaartha Sadhas. Company of good people! Not having the company of bad people!

असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः ।

ताँस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥

Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah |

Thaagumsthey prethyabhigachchanthi ye ke chaathmahano janaah ||

Understand? Good company, just good company is enough; you will become enlightened! What else has happened in the Shivoham process? Whole Shivoham process which happened in Cambodia, which is going to happen in Varanasi, is all just satsangha! Sit with the Master; simply the enlightenment happens, Shivoham experience flowers! Especially, Varanasi! Moorthi, Theertha, Sthala, all the three.

Theertha, the Ganga! In Kaamika Aagama, Mahadeva says, ‘Ganga is the ever-pure water!’ In the “Bhasmasnaana Vidhi”, he says, ‘Just like Ganga is ever-pure water, bhasma is ever-pure!’

Ganga: Theertha!

Sthala! What better sthala you will get than Varanasi? His very own address! If Kailasa is his address, Varanasi is his bedroom! It is his private quarters! If Kailasa is his address, Varanasi is his private quarters! What better place you will find?

And Achala Moorthy: Vishwanatha! Sachala Moorthy: Gurudeva!

And the concept you are going to work on is “Shivoham”! Actually, when you start the program only, you will even chant “Shivoham”. You will end up as Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, because, “aham” will not be there to tell even “Shivoham”. It will end up as “Shiv, Shiv”!

Satsangha! Satsangha! Satsangha!

असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः ।

ताँस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥

Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah |

Thaagumsthey prethyabhigachchanthi ye ke chaathmahano janaah ||

I will continue to expand on –

ताँस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः

Thaagumsthey prethyabhigachchanthi ye ke chaathmahano janaah

Prethyabhi (प्रेत्याभि) means, “after death”. Prethyabhi (प्रेत्याभि) – “after death”. Listen! Whoever does “Athmahana”, “killing the Athman”, after death they get into the space where negative people live. It is a simple truth. Same frequency attracts same frequency. Birds of same feathers flock together! That’s all! It is a simple fact; nothing mystical about it. And, if you are a negative person, you will not be happy even in satsangh. You will get only negative people and (gossip) – ‘Pssst! Do you know what he is doing? Do you know what he is doing? Do you know what she is doing?’ Only with that kind of talk you will also be comfortable! ‘Yes! Wow! I feel so relieved! And she is such a nice person and such good friend!’ And, same way, if you are a person aligned to the truth, and FOR life, spirituality, you will feel comfortable only with those kind of friends. I tell you, this one statement: ‘Tell about who is your friend, with whom you are hanging out, I will tell about you!’ This is the ultimate sutra! I think this can even be added into Upanishads! No, I can tell in our Sangha, based on who is walking with whom, who is hanging out with whom, who is sitting with whom, who is talking with whom, just with that I can tell whether this fellow is going to be evolving, or he is going to be disappearing soon, running away soon. I can very clearly tell! Same way, among devotees also, who hangs out with whom, and who takes selfie with whom and puts it in the Facebook, no, with that I know very clearly it is going to pass or fail!

Understand? Prethyabhigachchanthi (प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति)! After death where you are going to go, prepare yourself for that. The best place to prepare yourself for the journey of “after death” is Varanasi! Actually, this Varanasi Inner Awakening is going to the experience of Upanishads literally! Literally the experience of Upanishads! And the construction of Varanasi Ashram and Gurukul is happening in superfast speed. Inner Awakening programme itself may not be held in the Varanasi Ashram now, but we may be inaugurating, at least installing the deity in the Varanasi Gurukul.

असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः ।

ताँस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥

Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah |

Thaagumsthey prethyabhigachchanthi ye ke chaathmahano janaah ||

Understand?

Yesterday I was expanding on how saying “YES” to life raises you, saying “NO” to life disturbs you. I was explaining about “vairaagya”. Listen! I wanted to add something further. If you feel the sensory pleasures of your life, saying “NO” to it is saying “NO” to life, and, when life teaches you ‘Sensory pleasures are not ultimate. Move!’, not ready to learn that lesson is also saying “NO” to life! Remember, whenever life gives you the experience, ‘Hey, sensory pleasures are not ultimate! Come on! Come next! Move, move further! Move further! Let your pleasures be matured! Let your aspirations be matured!’, and you say, ‘No, no....I think that is too much. Too much risk I have to take. I think....it is okay, I am here. Good.’, that is again saying “NO” to life! Saying “NO” to the evolution of life is saying “NO” to life. If you are confused, ‘Now, if I say “YES”, am I saying “YES” to my passions and “YES” to my sensory pleasures, or should I say “YES” to my maturity, evolution? I think life has also told me many times that sense pleasures are not ultimate; it is asking me to get matured. What should I do?’ Always, even if you think it is going to be mistake, decide FOR maturity. Because, even if it is a mistake, it is a right side to err! Right side to err! Err on the right side!

So, understand, lot more thinking through is required about this concept of “saying YES to life”. That is why I insist on Vaakyaartha Sadhas. All the seekers should either listen or participate in Vaakyaartha Sadhas. I tell you, in Vaakyaartha Sadhas, so much of “vaadha-prathivaadha”, internalizing, exploring happens. The beauty of Vaakyaartha Sadhas is, it makes even your body matured, listen, not just mind. Your body gets matured! Whenever you do intense yoga, kriya, pranayama, don’t think just your body gets matured; your mind too gets matured! When you work on the body, mind also gets matured! When you do Vaakyaartha Sadhas, body also gets matured!

In all our ashrams, the sound of the mantras in the temple, and the smell of the “goshaala” (cow pen), and the sound of the food being cooked in large quantity and served freely, and sound of the bell ringing in the temple, and the sound of the Vaakayaartha Sadhas should be continuously heard! All these should be the brand of Nithyananda Sangha ashrams!

असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः ।

ताँस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥

Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah |

Thaagumsthey prethyabhigachchanthi ye ke chaathmahano janaah ||

Those who kill the Athma, who does “Athmahana”, they get into the space of demons, the hells coerced by blinding darkness, and all the negative qualities of “Thamas”. So, wake up! Decide FOR LIFE! Never give up! Come what may, look through it; you will see the light in the other side of the tunnel! However long the tunnel may look, you will see the light on the other side! Don’t give up! And I have the right to tell that word experientially! Don’t give up! As Hindus, we have the right to tell that word – ‘DON’T GIVE UP!’ After being beaten so much, attacked so much, understand? I am not even talking about three-thousand years. Just last three-hundred years, the amount of Hindus killed, tortured, abused, just because of our faith, our way of life! After all that, we are still standing! And we have a right to say DON’T GIVE UP! And, I tell you, after all this torture, we are made to believe, our own upper caste has killed our own lower caste. That is the peak of crime! After being destroyed, the remaining few of us are made to believe, ‘No outsider killed. You guys killed each other!’ Because we are seeing so many dead bodies all around. How to dispose? What to do? Who killed it? Who did it? ‘No, you guys did it among yourself, when you were sleeping. When you were sleeping, you rolled on that person, he rolled on you, and he got killed.’ This is the story we are told! Anyhow...! All these we withstood! We have not given up! It is time for us to win. We won’t give up! And we will teach people not to give up! Because, we have faced all the worst situations where anybody would have given up, and we did not give up, we have a right to tell you guys, DON’T GIVE UP! Always decide FOR LIFE! Always decide FOR LIFE! Always decide FOR LIFE!

असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः ।

ताँस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥

Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah |

Thaagumsthey prethyabhigachchanthi ye ke chaathmahano janaah ||

Those who do “Athmahana”, deny life, get into the worst abodes filled with negative people and negativity.

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-February 20, 2015 Today’s (20th February, 2015) Morning Satsang continues with the Upanishads Series - Living Advaita. Isha Upanishad–Verse 3 begins: asuryā nāme te lokā andhena tamasā’vṛtāḥ | tāṁs te pretyābhigacchanti ye ke cātma-hano janāḥ || 3 || In this profound delivery of the Isha Upanishad, Paramahamsa Nithyananda explains how life gives us what we asked for. When we look in and learn the context for why we asked for something in our lives, we can evolve. Whatever is happening now is because we craved for this one day in the past. Life is painted on the canvas of Tathastu – so be it! The celebration of life is completion; then we are qualified to make updated aspirations into a reality. Watch, Share and Subscribe to our channel to be notified of the next upload click http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=lifeblissfoundation to subscribe. visit: http://www.nithyananda.org http://www.nithyananda.tv http://www.innerawakening.org https://www.youtube.com/user/LifeBlissFoundation https://twitter.com/SriNithyananda https://www.facebook.com/ParamahamsaNithyananda https://plus.google.com/104086565286265959836/posts
+February 22, 2015 Today’s (22nd February, 2015) Morning Satsang continues with the Upanishads Series - Living Advaita. Isha Upanishad–Verse 3 continues: asuryā nāme te lokā andhena tamasā’vṛtāḥ | tāṁs te pretyābhigacchanti ye ke cātma-hano janāḥ || 3 || In this profound delivery of the Isha Upanishad, Paramahamsa Nithyananda advises that following bad people is a huge blunder in our lives and can cause us to miss the Guru, even after 100s of janmas of tapas. Continuously check if you are with people who are saying yes to life; for even just being in the company of good people, we can become enlightened! Watch, Share and Subscribe to our channel to be notified of the next upload click https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9OM-qeiYIPtAkBe9veG5uw?sub_confirmation=1 to subscribe. visit: http://www.nithyananda.org http://www.nithyananda.tv http://www.innerawakening.org https://www.youtube.com/user/LifeBlissFoundation https://twitter.com/SriNithyananda https://www.facebook.com/ParamahamsaNithyananda https://plus.google.com/104086565286265959836/posts
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+I welcome all of you with my love and respects.  I welcome all the devotees, disciples, samajis, satsanghis, Shrimahants, Mahants, Thanedars, Kotharis, sitting with us through Nithyananda TV, Sadhna TV, Arra TV, and two-way video-conferencing having Nayana Deeksha.
-I welcome all of you with my love and respects.  I welcome everyone who is sitting with us through Nithyananda TV, Sadhna TV, Arra TV, and two-way video-conferencing.
-Cities sitting with us in two-way video-conferencing: Canberra-Australia, San Jose-Madurai.......
-Australia, I am able to see your Fair.  My blessings for the programme to be successful!  Nirbheda, Paul Sadashivam, blessings for all of you for the programme to be successful!
+The cities sitting with us through two-way video-conferencing having Nayana Deeksha: Surrey-Canada, Madurai, North San Antonio, Rajapalayam, Chicago, Hyderabad, Dubai, Hong Kong, Trinidad, Charlotte, San Antonio-Texas, Minot-North Dakota, Singapore-Singapuram, Winston-Salem, Doncaster-UK, Vancouver-Bhubaneshwar, St. Louis-Tirumala, Indrani-New Jersey, Hyderabad-Gupta Kashi, Los Angeles-Hollywood, and China, Charlotte-Srisailam, Toronto-Thiru Kailayam, Seattle-Chidambaram, Kuala Lumpur-Palani, Guadeloupe-Rameshwaram, St. Louis-Tirumala, Ohio, Los Angeles-Arunachalam, Oman-Sivagangai, Kulim-Tiruttani, and Malaysia, Chennai-Tiruvanmiyur.....and lot more cities.
-And, many more cities are joining.  I welcome every one of you with my love and respects.
+I welcome all of you with my love and respects.
-Today I am going to expand on just only one word: “ATHMAHANA”.
+Let us enter into third verse of Ishavasya Upanishad.  I will continue to expand on it, because so many questions need to be answered, so many answers need to be questioned.
-Let us repeat the Upanishad.  Third mantra, third sutra in Ishavasya Upanishad:
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+असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः ।
-ATHMAHANA!  Even while you are alive, saying “YES” to death, is “Athmahana”, hell.  Even during the so-called death, saying “YES” is liberation, [[enlightenment]].  Varanasi stands for that principle, principle of saying “YES” to life even when it presents death!  Listen!  Saying “YES” to life even when it presents death!  Saying “NO” to life in any form is “Athmahana”, understand?  If you feel, if you perceive life is doing something against you, life is not letting what you want happen, this feeling – ‘Life is not co-operating with me, supporting me, making what I want happen’ – this feeling is as universal as the universe itself.
+ताँस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥
+Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah |
-Understand, this truth is from Akashic Records.  Listen!  Listen!  I am colloquially presenting to you; means, in the user-friendly language I am presenting.  May be I will read the original Akashic Records as it is, and then present it to all of you.
+Thaagumsthey prethyabhigachchanthi ye ke chaathmahano janaah ||
-“By its own existence, it expands into possibilities.  Because of its existence and saying “Thathaasthu” to life, “YES” to life, life shows you the possibilities which you declare as denied to you.  If life is interested in denying, it will not even show its possibilities to you in the first place.  Its possibilities, by being revealed to you itself, the “YES” is given to you, and your decision, expression to live is accepted, respected, encouraged.  By you claiming life is not co-operating or supporting into what you want, you are denying the very revelations and expressions happened to your very consciousness.”
+Listen!  “Athmahana”, saying “NO” to life, leads to the lower levels of existence, “Dussangha”, company of the lower level people.  I tell you, that is the hell!  That is the hell!  Company of the lower level people, because, they will somehow brainwash you to get into their space, and they will make you do what they want you to do.  Finally, they will put you in trouble; then they will escape; because they are very shrewd.  They will escape so that they will go and haunt the other person.
-Listen!  By its own light, moon shows the black patches inside it.  By its own light, moon shows the black patches inside it.  On New Moon Day (Amavasya), you will never find black patches of the moon.  Only on Full Moon Day (Poornima), you will find the black patches.  It means, by its light only even the black patches are found.  If you are finding the black patches of the moon, the moon is shining, reflecting light, understand?  Because the possibilities are revealed to you, you even come to know about those possibilities!  For example, you think flying is possible for you, and then complain life is not letting you achieve that; becoming a billionaire is possible for you, and then complain life is not letting you to achieve that.  Understand, the very moment life informs you something is possible, it is saying “YES” to you.  The very moment you come to know flying is possible, becoming billionaire is possible, life is supporting you.  That is why it is even making you understand it is possible for you!
+One fellow, very popular preacher of suicide theology, he will preach, teach, literally mesmerize, hypnotise everyone to commit suicide, and lot of people have started committing suicide.  Teaching death is very easy.  That is why all death-based concepts spread like a wildfire.  All the death-based religions, concepts, killing yourself and killing others, they spread like a wildfire.  But the life-based religions, concepts, take lot of time.  The best life-based religion in toto, hundred percent, is Jainism.  The pure, life-based religion, Ahimsa and life, saying “YES” to life!  But how much struggle that religion has to go through to spread!  Actually, there are no followers; literally there are no followers of Jainism.  That is the truth.  Except a handful of monks, a few people!  Because, it is life-based, doesn’t spread that wildly.  But all death-based concepts, they just spread like wildfire!
-Try to listen to the Akashic Records which I read out just now, again and again, at least five times.  Today, the Akashic Records I read out about this sutra is the subject for Vaakyaartha Sadhas.
+Please understand, billions of animals are killed every year for our food.  Still I can’t imagine how will you kill somebody for your snack?!  How will you kill somebody for your snack?!!  It takes a lot of time to accept life-based truths, understandings.  It is very easy to receive and teach, spread death-based ideas and concepts, because, it is all agitating.  Agitation is misunderstood as excitement.
-Listen!  You feeling life is not letting what you want to happen in your life....  For example: You always wanted health, but life is never letting that happen to you.  You always wanted wealth, and just one day before you achieve it, everything collapses.  Please listen, the very information being given to you, the hope being generated in you that health is possible, wealth is possible, is a solid proof life is supporting you.  Otherwise, even that possibility will not be informed to you!  You will not be informed even about that possibility!  The moment the possibility is informed, life is supporting you; be informed, be very clear!
+This suicide theology fellow, he spreads so much, and people commit suicide!
-Reading out Akashic Records is much more easy than making all of you understand with the language you understand.  Reading Akashic Records is just: open the screen and it will appear!  Originally, the Akashic Records appear in Sanskrit, and then it gets translated into English during the process of Seer seeing the Seen and cognizing.  That is why most of the English words which I use, those same words are getting repeated in the Akashic Records, because the Seer, during the process of seeing, translating the Seen.  Because the Seer is the person who is talking to you regularly in English, he uses the same word to cognize and translate the Seen during the process of seeing itself.
+Somebody asked, ‘Why are YOU not committing suicide?  You are teaching to so many people!’
-Understand, this concept of “Life is not supporting me”, is like “My breathing is not letting me breathe”!  It is like, “My eyes show some parts as dark”.  Arrey, even you recognizing some parts are dark is because your eyes are functioning!  That is enough proof that your eyes are functioning!  So, if you feel you want to be a billionaire, and you are denied entry into the Billionaires’ Club, and it is not happening, be informed, the very concept revealed to you that you can become billionaire is enough proof life is supporting you!  Only when you understand the tons and tons of ways life is supporting you, you will also decide to say “YES” to life.  As long as you think life is denying you what you want, life is keeping you away from what you want, you will also start saying “NO” to life.
+He said, ‘No, if I die, then who will teach this idea and make more and more people commit suicide?’
-Listen!  It is like this:  Your office provides you a beautiful house, car, everything needed for you to live and work.  One day morning, while you are trying to drink your cup of coffee, the coffee tumbler fell, and it was too hot, and your feet got a little burnt.  Immediately you sue the office, you complain about the office!  ‘See!  They are responsible!  They didn’t provide a carpet for me.  Otherwise the coffee would have been absorbed; it would not have spread and reached my feet and burnt it!’  How illogical and adharmic this action is!  That is exactly, that is exactly the way you need to be handled when you say ‘Life is denying its possibilities for me!  Life is denying what I want from me!’
+Dussangha!  Understand, biggest warning this Upanishad is giving is “Dussangha”, the “wrong company”.
-There was a lady that was a habitual grumbler and was constantly complaining about everything.
+असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः ।
+ताँस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥
-One day her preacher thought he had discovered something that she could be happy about, because her farm crop was the best one for miles around.
+Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah |
+Thaagumsthey prethyabhigachchanthi ye ke chaathmahano janaah ||
-When he met her, he said with a big smile, ‘You must be very happy!  Everyone is saying how healthy your potatoes look this year!’
-She replied grimly, ‘True they’re pretty good, but what am I going to do when I need some bad ones to feed the pigs?’
+असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः ।
+ताँस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥
-You have a reason to grumble!  I tell you, even you have a reason to grumble is the compassion of the Cosmos towards you!  Really, I am telling you!  Even for you to grumble, it finds some reason and gives you, so that you don’t feel too bad about yourself.
+Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah |
+Thaagumsthey prethyabhigachchanthi ye ke chaathmahano janaah ||
-Understand, I am revealing the layer and layer meanings of this verse.
-Hope happening in you is just because life has hope in you, understand?  Hope happening in you is because life has hope in you!  If you are feeling some desire of hopefulness, hopefulness, be very clear, life is giving you that experience itself, because, it has still hope on you!  It still has hope on you!  Don’t think having hope is your birthright!  Birth itself is not your right!  This word is a stupid word!  This “birthright” word is a most stupid word!  Birth itself is not your right!  Then how can you use the word “birthright” as if birth is your right?  No!
+Lower-grade worlds, abodes of demonic people, “asurya”, asuras, understand?
-Somebody asked Ramana Maharshi, ‘Bhagawan, how do I know I received God’s grace?’
+Once, when I was in Ramakrishna Mission, I met a very senior sadhu, a great “thapasvi”.  His name is Nandananda, Swami Nandanandaji.  Great “thapasvi”!  Very rarely I have seen “thapasvi” of his calibre!  Actually, he has a little difficulty in hearing; not a little, lot of difficulty.  Literally he can’t hear!  But he is such a beautiful, innocent being, he is almost like a deaf grand-father of the whole family!  If there is a deaf grand-father in the family, how these grand-kids will tease him and play around him and go near him, shout, scream, and make fun.  He can’t hear, so he will be screaming and running around, chasing.  So, he was exactly the deaf grand-father of the family.  We small young brahmacharis will be running around him and teasing him, playing with him.  He was such an innocent being and such a loving being, caring being, he will enjoy the whole thing!  Just all by himself, walking from village to village, he established Ramakrishna [[Sangha]] in whole Andhra!  So much he has done just by walking from village to village!  He will take Ramakrishna’s photo on his head and go from village to village and established the Sangha.  In whole Andhra he has established the Ramakrishna Sangha!
-He says, ‘The very effort you are putting to reach God is nothing but God’s grace!’
+When I met him, he was already well above ninety!  There is every possibility he can even be still alive!  Because, there was no sign of death in him!  And I have not heard the news he left the body.  There is a possibility he would have left the body and I have not received the news, or there is a possibility he has not left the body.  At least, when I met him, there was no sign of death in him.  And I am hundred percent sure he has achieved Bhaava Samadhi, means he can converse with, he can talk to Shri Ramakrishna directly!  Because I have seen him fulfilling the people’s prayers by talking to him, talking to Shri Ramakrishna!  Actually, when people ask him, the village people come to him and ask him any prayers, he will note that in Telugu.  He is from Andhra basically.  Born in Andhra, but I think, brought up in North.  Anyhow, he can write Telugu.  He will write, note that down in Telugu, and when he comes and sits in the room, when he gets into that Bhaava Darshana, bhaava, means when he starts doing japa and meditation, when he gets into bhaava, I used to help him, assist him.
-Listen!  The disciple asks, ‘Should I try doing spiritual practices?  Or should I depend on God’s grace?  How do I know when I achieve God’s grace?
+Sadhu Seva is one of the greatest part of my lifestyle.  With all my work, I will never miss serving any elderly sadhu whom I come in contact.  From the time I know, I remember me, Sadhu Seva – serving the sadhus – was an important component of my life.  It is an instruction from Kuppammal.  ‘Hey, serve the sadhus.  You will be served thousand times better!’  And the word always came true!  The word always came true!  Now I can say I am the most served Guru on Planet Earth!  Not with any pride or arrogance, I can be very straightforward: Most served, most attended, most physically, literally, worshipped!  The whole thing is just because of the Sadhu Seva I did.  Understand?  Never miss serving elderly sadhus, especially when you know that they are honest sadhus, they are sincere sadhus.  They might be enlightened or unenlightened, they might be in the various levels of [[enlightenment]], various levels of Samadhi, but if you know them that they are sincere sadhus, never miss serving them.  So, I used to serve him.
-He says, ‘Even you thinking that you should try, or, you trying, itself is a solid proof you have His grace!  Only if you have His grace, you can even think or work, plan to move towards Him!  To move towards Him!’
+In the night time he will ask for a little hot water and all that.  And one problem with people who have a less hearing is, they will think we also can’t hear; so they will speak very loudly!  They will speak very loudly!  From his room if he calls, I can listen from my room which is almost hundred feet away!  ‘Khokhaaaa!’  He will call like that!  “Khokha” means “small boy”.  I am the youngest in my batch.  Actually, when I was accepted in the Mutt, I was a minor.  Minors are usually not accepted; legally you have to be a major, eighteen years.  But I did not completely my eighteen years, but they accepted me.  So I was called as “Khokha”.  And, he will scream!  When I run to his room, he will ask for a little hot water.  Very simple person; not much things needed; just a little hot water to drink in the night, and, very rarely he will ask for one banana.  And, very simple person!  So, when I give the hot water and wait for him to....I used to wait some time that if he wants to give some instruction or if he wants to ask something further.  So that time I have seen him getting into that Bhaava Samadhi and he will start talking to Ramakrishna!  He will start talking to Ramakrishna!  Please understand, he was not in any delusion or illusion, because, he will ask me, ‘Hey, bring that paper from that table!’  There was a small table nearby.  I will bring the paper and give it to him.  And whatever devotees have asked him, he would have penned down in that paper.  He will ask one by one.  And whenever he comes and stays in Mylapore Mutt, around that place there are a few slums, city slums.  There is Kapalinagar, Dhideerkuppam, and Ramakrishna Nagar.  From those slums people will come to see him.  He was well-known for fulfilling the prayers of people.  So, they will come to see him and he will tell Ramakrishna that, ‘This person wanted his daughter to get admission in the college.  Will it happen?  When it will happen?’  Just like talking to us, he will talk to him (Ramakrishna).  And then he will pick up a pen, and, ‘Oh, okay, it will happen aa?    Alright.’  No, he will tick.  And next day when those devotees come, he will explain to them, he will tell them.  I have seen this whole scene personally, end to end!  Means, when devotees come to him and talk to him how he notes down, and the night time how he sits and talks to Ramakrishna and notes down Ramakrisna’s answer.  And next day when the devotees come, he will call them and pick up that paper, and slowly read one by one with his loud voice.  He will explain, ‘Thakur bolchey...’ He will mix Bengali also into his Telugu, Tamil, all mix language.  He has his own language.  And he knows some four-five languages.  So, he will mix all that and... ‘Thakur bolchey’ means, ‘Ramakrishna said’.  And he will explain.  At least, whatever I have seen, not even one case failed!  Not even one reply he got back failed!  And it will be very precise!  Very precise!  Not collective or superficial, rough.  No!  Very precise!
-Saying “YES” to life, not doing “Athmahana”.  Understand, this word “Athmahana”, when it is translated into English, it is literally “Kill the Athma”!  But how can you kill the Athma?  Because Gita defines “Which cannot be killed is Athma”!
+I am a great Vedanthi.  I will not believe any of this easily.  For me, only my gurus are enlightened!  I will not bend, bow down in front of anything, anybody.  So, I tested two-three times.
-नैनं छिन्दन्ति शस्त्राणि नैनं दहति पावक:
+And, I used to take him to the shop where his hearing-aids are made.  So I used to travel with him.  Closely also when I sit next to him also I will watch, ‘Has he really achieved Bhaava Samadhi?  Or, is he just having some illusion or delusion?’  But, continuously, I have seen him being in that space of joy and innocence.  Finally, one day, I was very clear, means, all my doubts are cleared that I am hundred percent sure he is in Bhaava Samadhi, and he really talks to Shri Ramakrishna, and he really gets the response!  That much I realized, I understood.
-“Nainam chindhanthi shashthraani, Nainam dhahathi paavakaha”
-“Which cannot be made wet by water, and burnt by fire, and dried by air, and cut by the sword, is Athma”.
+Nandanandaji was even in Madurai Ramakrishna Mutt.  He spent a lot of time in Madurai Ramakrishna Mutt also.  And, he will go and talk to Sundareshwara also!  He will go to temple and stand in the garbhamandir, and talk to Sundareshwara (Mahadeva).  One day I was really convinced about his greatness and he is established, he is established in Bhaava Samadhi.
-“Which cannot be killed” is Athma.  Then how can you literally say, “Kill the Athma”?  “Killing the Athma” means, saying “NO” to life!  Don’t ever say “NO” to life!
+I asked him, ‘Swamiji, you are talking to Shri Ramakrishna for the sake of every one.  Can you tell me what should I ask Ramakrishna?  What YOU ask from him for you, you tell me.  I want to ask the same thing for me from him.  Because, if you are talking to him, then you know best what should be asked from him.  You would have asked that for you.  You tell me.  I want to ask the same thing for me from him.  Through you only!  But, you tell me what should be asked, what is the best thing to be asked from Bhagawan Shri Ramakrishna.’
+Usually he will speak loudly.  Suddenly, he just pulled my hand, and pulled me near him, and started telling me very lightly, means, I think he is trying to convey something very secret (in a whisper), ‘Hey, ask Bhagawan always to have good company and never you should get into bad company.  That’s all you need to ask.  Never you should be attracted to bad people and bad company!  You should always be with good people and good company.  Have only good people’s satsangha.  Never you should be influenced, attracted by bad people.  That’s all I ask him for me.  I will ask the same for you also.’
-Listen!  Whenever you perceive life is denying you something, just look at it from this angle.  It is silver lining that makes you see the cloud.  You cannot say, ‘Oh, what a big cloud!’  There is an end; only then you are seeing the cloud.  Even the energy which you get to say ‘life is denying you something’, means, you want something, so you say life is denying.  The very idea you want something, itself is enough proof life is supporting you!  Understand, I have a great news for you today:  ANYTHING YOU WANTED EVEN ONCE, YOU HAVE TO ENJOY IT!  You HAVE to enjoy it!  That is law of life.  Anything you wanted even once…..  If you had a subtle greed for this seat even once, in any one of the future janmas (lives) you WILL BE MADE TO SIT IN THIS and go through all the responsibilities you need to take for this; only then you will be liberated, understand!  Only then you will be liberated!  If you decide for liberation, then if this seat happens, it will be so beautiful.  Just like how I am enjoying!  But, if you act for greed, nothing wrong; it will not be denied to you; but you have to live it, you have to enjoy it!
-See, one of the biggest problems of human-beings…..  Please understand, I am giving you the Why, What, Where, When, all you need to know about human frustration.  Listen!  First you ask for the chair of CEO.  Then you think, ‘Even CEOs are under politicians.  Let me ask for the seat of politician.’  Then you find, ‘No, even politicians are falling at the feet of these Swamis.  This (Swami’s seat) is the best seat.’  Then you ask for the seat of a Swami.
+That’s it!  I tell you, still I remember the power of those words!  It may look very superficial and simple for you guys.  Only if you know the context, the situation, a man who can talk to God directly every night as he wants, says, ‘I think I should ask only this: “Let me not have bad people’s company who influence me wrongly”.’  I tell you, bad people’s company is such, they can even steal, rob, Guru in your life, who happened after janmas of “thapas”, understand!  After hundreds and hundreds of births, your prayers, your “thapas”, your fasting, your meditating, a living Guru happens in your life!  The bad company – Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah (असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः) – these people, asuras, the company of the asuras, bad people, can take away, rob even the greatest happening, that Guru, from your life!  Be aware!  Be careful!  Be aware!  Be careful!
+Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah
-The other day I was reading a joke:
+असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः
+Nandanandaji, that Swamiji said, ‘Whether when I am living, or after death, don’t allow bad people’s company to happen to you.  That’s all I wanted.’
-·         “Eighty percent” (who scored 80% marks) MBA (Master of Business Administration) graduates, pick up the file and become officers.
-·         Just “Pass” (who scraped through with the minimum marks required for passing the exam), pick up the files and get a government job and become bureaucrats.
+He used to tell me, ‘I told Thakur, if he doesn’t give me health I have no problem; if he doesn’t give me wealth, I have no problem; I don’t want name and fame; I don’t ask anything; I don’t want anything; Whatever he gives he gives, if he doesn’t want to give, he doesn’t want to give.  I only ask one thing: Let me have satsangha.  Let me not have dussangha.  Let me not have bad company who move me away from spiritual lifestyle.’
-·         “Failed” (who have failed in the exams), somehow, for survival, get into politics and rule the bureaucrats!
+Dussangha is the worst curse, I tell you!  Because, even you falling into depression or slipping from spiritual lifestyle, spiritual practice, is not crime; it may be mistake; but you can, if you have good company, you can recover and come back.  But, company of the bad people is blunder!  Blunder!  Blunder!  Understand?  They will be so enchanting, enticing, I tell you, always the bad people will be enticing, because they are encouraging all your basic instincts, they are encouraging all your agitative excitements; they don’t let the maturity happen.  So, the company of bad people is the blunder!
-Listen!
+Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah
+असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः
-·         90% (marks) become officers;
+Today’s subject for Vaakyaartha Sadhas is “Satsangha and Dussangha”.  What is Satsangha?  What is Dussangha?  How Satsangh does good?  How Dussangha does bad?
-·         Less (marks) than that – just “PASS” – become bureaucrats and rule the officers; and
-·         “Failed”, become politicians and rule the bureaucrats.
-·         “Never went to school” becomes a Swami and rules the politicians!  HAHAHAHAHAHA!
+Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah
-No, I am not literally accepting this joke.  This has a lot of implications.  It has to be taken just as a joke.  Understand, the beauty of Hindus is, only we can laugh at ourselves; we have no problem about it.  We can make fun of us, and we can laugh.  We can enjoy!
+असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः
+This line – Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah (असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः) – this line is the subject for Vaakyaartha Sadhas, today’s Vaakyaartha Sadhas.  Company of good people!  Not having the company of bad people!
-Listen!  Your possibilities being revealed to you, itself is a solid proof life supports you!
+असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः ।
+ताँस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥
+Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah |
-I was telling a story:
+Thaagumsthey prethyabhigachchanthi ye ke chaathmahano janaah ||
+Understand?  Good company, just good company is enough; you will become enlightened!  What else has happened in the Shivoham process?  Whole Shivoham process which happened in Cambodia, which is going to happen in Varanasi, is all just satsangha!  Sit with the Master; simply the enlightenment happens, Shivoham experience flowers!  Especially, Varanasi!  Moorthi, Theertha, Sthala, all the three.
-First, you aspire for the CEO seat.  Then, you aspire for the politician’s chair.  Then, you aspire for the Swami’s seat.  But, when you are aspiring for the Swami’s seat, by that time your first aspiration will become reality, which is CEO chair.  That is what is the source of your frustration!
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-Listen!  When your aspirations are right, the happenings are not able to catch up, it is “frustration”.  But you need to understand, happenings are because of your aspirations earlier.  It has to come in the queue as you aspired.
+Theertha, the Ganga!  In Kaamika Aagama, Mahadeva says, ‘Ganga is the ever-pure water!’  In the “Bhasmasnaana Vidhi”, he says, ‘Just like Ganga is ever-pure water, bhasma is ever-pure!’
+Ganga: Theertha!
-Listen!  Listen!  Because your aspirations have changed, don’t be frustrated about life.  Everything you aspired HAS to be enjoyed.  I tell you, this one law of life if you understand, you will never curse the happenings of life!  You know, every happening now, you aspired at one time; you craved for it at one time.  This is the best news, greatest news I can give you.  With this, you can say, ‘Wow!  I craved for this one day.  So I am enjoying!’  Anything you crave for HAS to be lived!  Yes, now your aspirations have changed; that does not mean what you aspired can be dropped.  It has to be lived so that you grow further, you grow further, you grow further.
+Sthala!  What better sthala you will get than Varanasi?  His very own address!  If Kailasa is his address, Varanasi is his bedroom!  It is his private quarters!  If Kailasa is his address, Varanasi is his private quarters!  What better place you will find?
+And Achala Moorthy: Vishwanatha!  Sachala Moorthy: Gurudeva!
-Listen! Even your aspirations getting matured is, life saying “YES” to you!  I tell you, if your aspirations are not getting matured, and what you wanted is happening, that place is called “Deva Loka” (World of Gods).  Yes, what you always wanted, you will be enjoying; but your aspirations never get matured.  I tell you, even if it is nectar, if your aspirations are not getting matured, you will be tired and bored!  Even if it is heaven, if your aspirations are not evolving, you will be sick and tired!  The greatest happening of life is aspirations getting matured.
+And the concept you are going to work on is “Shivoham”!  Actually, when you start the program only, you will even chant “Shivoham”.  You will end up as Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, because, “aham” will not be there to tell even “Shivoham”.  It will end up as “Shiv, Shiv”!
-Please understand, if you are frustrated, I have a great news for you: YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK!  And I have a good news for you: YOU DON’T NEED TOBE FRUSTRATED!
+Satsangha!  Satsangha!  Satsangha!
+असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः ।
-Great news: You are on the right track!  Because, the very frustration, the formula of frustration is: “FULFILMENT OF YOUR EARLIER ASPIRATIONS + ASPIRATIONS GETTING MATURED = FRUSTRATION”.  Listen!  Fulfilment of your earlier aspirations + Aspirations getting matured, brings Frustration.
+ताँस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥
+Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah |
+Thaagumsthey prethyabhigachchanthi ye ke chaathmahano janaah ||
-In law of life, your earlier aspirations, however silly it was, cannot be denied, because YOU ASPIRED FOR IT!  Life is painted on the canvas of “Thathaasthu”!  Whether you visualized the scene of eating a pizza or rolling on the ground, or sitting in the CEO chair, or sitting in the politician’s chair, or sitting in the Swami’s chair, all visualizations are painted on a large canvas which is a huge “Thathaasthu” of life.  So, the canvas on which the painting of life is done, visualization of life is done, is “Thathaasthu” – “So be it!’  The whole universe is moving with this sound of “Thathaasthu”, “Thathaasthu”, “Thathaasthu”.  By the time you have moved to the politician’s chair, you already received “Thathaasthu” for the CEO chair.  So, that cannot be destroyed.  You HAVE to sit in that chair as per the interest and intention and intensity of “Thathaasthu”.  Then you HAVE to move to the chair of politician as per your interest, intention and intensity of “Thathaasthu”.  By the time you move to politician’s chair, you might have already started desiring for Swami’s seat.  But the “Thathaasthu” received is the “Thathaasthu” received, and it HAS TO BE EXHAUSTED.
-So, the great news for you is: EVERYTHING YOU WANTED NOW IS YOUR ASPIRATION WHICH WAS GIVEN “THATHAASTHU” BY COSMOS!  EVERYTHING HAPPENING TO YOU NOW IS THE “THATHAASTHU” YOU RECEIVED EARLIER is the great news!
+I will continue to expand on –
+ताँस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः
-And good news is:  EVERYTHING YOU ARE ASPIRING FOR NOW IS GETTING “THATHAASTHU” FROM THE COSMOS.
+Thaagumsthey prethyabhigachchanthi ye ke chaathmahano janaah
-So, understand this secret of life.  Understand this secret of life.
+Prethyabhi (प्रेत्याभि) means, “after death”.  Prethyabhi (प्रेत्याभि) – “after death”.  Listen!  Whoever does “Athmahana”, “killing the Athman”, after death they get into the space where negative people live.  It is a simple truth.  Same frequency attracts same frequency.  Birds of same feathers flock together!  That’s all!  It is a simple fact; nothing mystical about it.  And, if you are a negative person, you will not be happy even in satsangh.  You will get only negative people and (gossip) – ‘Pssst! Do you know what he is doing?  Do you know what he is doing?  Do you know what she is doing?’  Only with that kind of talk you will also be comfortable!  ‘Yes!  Wow!  I feel so relieved!  And she is such a nice person and such good friend!’  And, same way, if you are a person aligned to the truth, and FOR life, spirituality, you will feel comfortable only with those kind of friends.  I tell you, this one statement:  ‘Tell about who is your friend, with whom you are hanging out, I will tell about you!’  This is the ultimate sutra!  I think this can even be added into Upanishads!  No, I can tell in our Sangha, based on who is walking with whom, who is hanging out with whom, who is sitting with whom, who is talking with whom, just with that I can tell whether this fellow is going to be evolving, or he is going to be disappearing soon, running away soon.  I can very clearly tell!  Same way, among devotees also, who hangs out with whom, and who takes selfie with whom and puts it in the Facebook, no, with that I know very clearly it is going to pass or fail!
-And, listen, listen, I am giving you the key to get out of frustration.  Listen!  Any situation you are in, when you are frustrated, look in and find out ‘What must be the best thing in this situation for which I have aspired this situation in my past?  Let me look from that context at this situation.’  You will see you are enjoying exactly what you wanted!
+Understand?  Prethyabhigachchanthi (प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति)!  After death where you are going to go, prepare yourself for that.  The best place to prepare yourself for the journey of “after death” is Varanasi!  Actually, this Varanasi Inner Awakening is going to the experience of Upanishads literally!  Literally the experience of Upanishads!  And the construction of Varanasi Ashram and Gurukul is happening in superfast speed.  Inner Awakening programme itself may not be held in the Varanasi Ashram now, but we may be inaugurating, at least installing the deity in the Varanasi Gurukul.
+असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः ।
-Understanding the original context for which you aspired the present situation and happening of life, and celebrating life, is “Completion”.  Understanding the original context for which you aspired the present situation, and looking at the present situation from that very context, and enjoying, celebrating, is “Completion”.  The moment you start celebrating the present happening, you are now qualified to make your updated aspirations into reality.  If you celebrate the CEO chair, quickly you can jump into the politician’s chair.  If you celebrate the politician’s chair from the context why you asked for it, you can quickly jump into the Swami’s seat.  If you celebrate that from the very context which you asked, understanding, you can quickly jump into the SWAMIHOOD itself!
+ताँस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥
+Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah |
+Thaagumsthey prethyabhigachchanthi ye ke chaathmahano janaah ||
-Understand, even Karma is not binding if you understand the context.  You feel Karma is binding, because, your context has become matured, your aspirations have become matured.  Aspirations getting matured should be celebrated, not to be cursed, not to be dealt with frustration.
+Understand?
-Listen!  I wanted every one of you to listen to this satsangh again and again.  Only then you won’t miss a single point and catch it.  Just catching this satsangh will free you from all the wrong concepts of Karma and you will say the real “YES” to life!
-Even your Karma is not a curse on you.  No!  Even your frustration cannot frustrate you any more if you understand the frustration is caused by your aspirations getting matured.  Listen!  You want CEO chair; you achieve it before your aspirations got matured towards the politician’s chair or towards the Swami’s seat.  Your life may look heaven, but not enlightenment.  Aspirations not getting matured, but your past aspirations getting fulfilled, is “Heaven”.
+Yesterday I was expanding on how saying “YES” to life raises you, saying “NO” to life disturbs you.  I was explaining about “vairaagya”.  Listen!  I wanted to add something further.  If you feel the sensory pleasures of your life, saying “NO” to it is saying “NO” to life, and, when life teaches you ‘Sensory pleasures are not ultimate.  Move!’, not ready to learn that lesson is also saying “NO” to life!  Remember, whenever life gives you the experience, ‘Hey, sensory pleasures are not ultimate!  Come on!  Come next!  Move, move further!  Move further!  Let your pleasures be matured!  Let your aspirations be matured!’, and you say, ‘No, no....I think that is too much.  Too much risk I have to take.  I think....it is okay, I am here.  Good.’, that is again saying “NO” to life!  Saying “NO” to the evolution of life is saying “NO” to life.  If you are confused, ‘Now, if I say “YES”, am I saying “YES” to my passions and “YES” to my sensory pleasures, or should I say “YES” to my maturity, evolution?  I think life has also told me many times that sense pleasures are not ultimate; it is asking me to get matured.  What should I do?’  Always, even if you think it is going to be mistake, decide FOR maturity.  Because, even if it is a mistake, it is a right side to err!  Right side to err!  Err on the right side!
+So, understand, lot more thinking through is required about this concept of “saying YES to life”.  That is why I insist on Vaakyaartha Sadhas.  All the seekers should either listen or participate in Vaakyaartha Sadhas.  I tell you, in Vaakyaartha Sadhas, so much of “vaadha-prathivaadha”, internalizing, exploring happens.  The beauty of Vaakyaartha Sadhas is, it makes even your body matured, listen, not just mind.  Your body gets matured!  Whenever you do intense yoga, kriya, pranayama, don’t think just your body gets matured; your mind too gets matured!  When you work on the body, mind also gets matured!  When you do Vaakyaartha Sadhas, body also gets matured!
-I tell you, it is only Bhuloka, Planet Earth is the only loka where the aspirations getting matured is possible.  That is why even gods and goddesses have to come to this plane for evolution.  Evolution is possible only if your aspirations are able to get matured.
+In all our ashrams, the sound of the mantras in the temple, and the smell of the “goshaala” (cow pen), and the sound of the food being cooked in large quantity and served freely, and sound of the bell ringing in the temple, and the sound of the Vaakayaartha Sadhas should be continuously heard!  All these should be the brand of Nithyananda Sangha ashrams!
-Analyze your whole life with this one truth; no frustration can frustrate you anymore.  Frustration frustrates you only if you are from the wrong context.  Frustration frustrates you only if you are from the wrong context, understand?
+असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः ।
-What I am talking in today’s satsangh is the intense truths.  You need to listen to this satsangh four-five times.  Only then you will understand the layer by layer by layer what I really mean by these statements.
+ताँस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥
+Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah |
+Thaagumsthey prethyabhigachchanthi ye ke chaathmahano janaah ||
-When you aspired for CEO chair, you must be having some context.  But when you sit in that chair, you forget the context and start aspiring for the politician’s chair.  Again, when you sit in the politician’s chair, you forget the context why you aspired for it, and aspire for Swami’s seat.  That is why life continues to be frustrating.  Nothing wrong in your aspirations getting matured.  Something is seriously wrong in you forgetting the context of why you are having what you are having.
-One more great news I have for you is: Your aspirations getting matured does not necessarily need you forgetting the context with which you created your present.  You can continue to celebrate your present and make your aspirations getting matured.  That space is “Nithyananda Loka”, understand?
+Those who kill the Athma, who does “Athmahana”, they get into the space of demons, the hells coerced by blinding darkness, and all the negative qualities of “Thamas”.  So, wake up!  Decide FOR LIFE!  Never give up!  Come what may, look through it; you will see the light in the other side of the tunnel!  However long the tunnel may look, you will see the light on the other side!  Don’t give up!  And I have the right to tell that word experientially!  Don’t give up!  As Hindus, we have the right to tell that word – ‘DON’T GIVE UP!’  After being beaten so much, attacked so much, understand?  I am not even talking about three-thousand years.  Just last three-hundred years, the amount of Hindus killed, tortured, abused, just because of our faith, our way of life!  After all that, we are still standing!  And we have a right to say DON’T GIVE UP!  And, I tell you, after all this torture, we are made to believe, our own upper caste has killed our own lower caste.  That is the peak of crime!  After being destroyed, the remaining few of us are made to believe, ‘No outsider killed.  You guys killed each other!’  Because we are seeing so many dead bodies all around.  How to dispose?  What to do?  Who killed it?  Who did it?  ‘No, you guys did it among yourself, when you were sleeping.  When you were sleeping, you rolled on that person, he rolled on you, and he got killed.’  This is the story we are told!  Anyhow...!  All these we withstood!  We have not given up!  It is time for us to win.  We won’t give up!  And we will teach people not to give up!  Because, we have faced all the worst situations where anybody would have given up, and we did not give up, we have a right to tell you guys, DON’T GIVE UP!  Always decide FOR LIFE!  Always decide FOR LIFE!  Always decide FOR LIFE!
+असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसाऽऽवृताः ।
-Your aspirations getting matured does not necessarily require, frustration is not pre-condition, you forgetting the context of your earlier aspirations present life.  Aspirations, when you forget the context why you aspired for it, will become perspiration even if you achieve it, because the context is forgotten.  And forgetting the context is not a prerequisite for your aspirations to get matured.  Knowing the context of the present, why you are having what you are having, why you aspired for it, remembering that right context, and celebrating what you are having, and your aspirations getting matured, can happen together.  That is what I call “Completion”.
+ताँस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥
+Asurya naama they lokaa andhena thamasaavruthaah |
+Thaagumsthey prethyabhigachchanthi ye ke chaathmahano janaah ||
-“Completion” is, celebrating your life happening as it is now from the context of why you aspired for it, and your aspirations getting further matured.  A Shudhra aspires to be economically independent so that he can have his time for himself.
-Listen!
-·         A person who sells just his time is a “Worker”.
-·         A person who sells products made out of his time and intelligence is “Businessman”.
-·         A person who sells certain concept of security and protection is “Politician”, “Kshatriya”.
-·         A person who sells the concept of ultimate realization is “Brahmana”.
-Listen!  A worker always aspires to be a businessman so that he feels his life will be freedom, he can work whenever he wants, and he can relax whenever he wants.  So, with that context, he aspires to be a businessman.  But the moment he sits as businessman, he forgets the context why he wanted to be a businessman, and his greed makes him forget he can take off (“off” means “holiday”) when he wants.  Too many workers’ hands are held by businessman.  So, from this side, the worker’s side, he thinks if he becomes this hand (businessman), he can withdraw whenever he wants and be free.  But, after he becomes this hand (businessman), he realizes his greed not only does not let him withdraw, but now he has too many hands holding his hand.  Earlier he was only one hand holding one hand.  Now, too many hands are holding his hand, or he is holding too many hands.  So, when he becomes Vaishya, businessman, if he forgets that he wanted to become a Vaishya, businessman, just to have the freedom of his life, that being a businessman becomes frustration for him.  But, if he continues to remember he wanted this seat just to have time for himself as he wants, he will be celebrating this seat.  Remembering the context why you wanted what you are having now, leads to Completion.
-And, a Vaishya always feels jealous about Kshatriya.  ‘See, they don’t need intelligence.  But they are ruling me!  They are just giving some false sense of security, and they are ruling me!’  So, a businessman aspires to be the power centre, the power seat.  He aspires, ‘Hey, these fellows don’t do anything, but they are ruling me!  I should get into that seat.  Then I will be so powerful!’  Yes, get into that seat.  Then, so many enemies trying to attack you and take over your seat makes you forget the context you wanted that seat to feel powerful.  And you are so powerless in that seat now!  Understand, the powerful seat always brings enough enemies which a businessman does not face in his life.  Businessman may be a trillionaire; he will have small, “chota-chota” (small-small) few enemies.  But, if he becomes a power centre, even if he is a millionaire, he will have multi-million enemies!  So, once he forgets the context why he wanted this Kshatriya’s space, the politician’s seat, or protector’s seat, or power seat, he feels frustrated – ‘Why did I get into this mess?’  Because, now he forgot the context why he wanted this, and his aspirations have become already matured.
-To be ‘Paah, just let me sit quietly, and teach, share knowledge, which is a harmless job’.  By the time he reaches this seat, seat of sharing knowledge, if he remembers the context that he wants peace, great!  If he forgets that context, again he will feel empty.  ‘What is this?  Till yesterday so many people used to come to meet me to get their work done when I was a politician.  Now I am a Swami; and nobody comes to listen to me!  Who listens to my knowledge sharing?  Earlier I will just pass one order and execute what I wanted!’  Habituated to “Hard Power”!  Can’t know the science of “Soft Power”.  Understand, “Soft Power” is built on patience; “Hard Power” is built on passion.  “Soft Power” stands on patience.  “Hard Power” stands on passion.
-Understand, meditate on Formula of Frustration and realize even frustration cannot frustrate you!  And, understand, your present is handed over to you because you got “Thathaasthu” from life; it is not forced upon you for any other reason.  You are not a sinner!  You are not a sinner!  The reason why you are having what you are having is not because you are a sinner, but because you wanted it from a different context.  Remembering that context – why you always wanted what you wanted – will bring you Completion.
-Listen!  Not letting the frustration happen towards the present happening of your life, at the same time letting your aspirations getting matured, is saying “YES” to life.  You are always given a very wrong advice – ‘Only if you feel frustrated about the present, your aspirations will get matured’ – which is wrong advice.  You don’t need to be discontented about the present to develop higher aspirations about the future.  You don’t need to be discontented about the Second Standard (Second Grade in Indian schools) you are studying in to reach the Third Standard, understand?  You don’t need discontentment about the Second Standard to reach the Third Standard.  If you have been taught – ‘You need to be discontented, you need discontentment; only then you will grow, your aspirations will get matured’ – it is a wrong teaching.  That is what I call “saying NO to life”, “killing the Athma”, “Athmahana”.  Believing frustration about the present is required for the aspirations to get matured is “Athmahana”.  Not knowing the context of the present created by you when you aspired for it is “Athmahana”.  Feeling frustrated when the present happens to you by forgetting it is your own request which was granted is “Athmahana”.
-In every situation, whenever you perceive life is denying you what you want, don’t give up.  Wait and look in: ‘What is being denied?’  Look into your Perception; it will become Fact, it will become Truth, it will become Reality.
-So, the Akashic Records Mahadeva read out, Kaalabhairava read out, is the centre point of today’s Vaakyaartha Sadhas.
-I will continue on this one truth – “Athmahana”.  But I am feeling job satisfaction!  At least this one truth I am able to put it in words through multiple ways.  Thanks to Maatha Saraswathi for sitting in this tongue and oozing out, uniting the Ganga and Yamuna.  Understand, the tradition describes:  Ganga is River of Knowledge, Yamuna is River of Devotion, Saraswathi is River of Enlightenment which comes unseen underground.  Where Knowledge and Devotion unite, it comes and joins there and expresses itself as Enlightenment.  Knowledge is Head, Devotion is Heart.  When these two meet in the Throat, Saraswathi, Vaak, she expresses herself as Enlightenment.  Thank Mother Saraswathi for her beautiful, literally playing the Veena, poetry in words, dancing, expressing the concepts to all of us.  Be very clear, don’t think only you are sitting and listening.  I am also sitting and listening whatever Saraswathi is teaching, whatever she is explaining!  Namo Saraswathi, Sarasa Vaani!  Let you radiate!  Let you continue to reveal yourself!
-And, with this, I bless you all!  Let you all radiate with [[Integrity]], [[Authenticity]], [[Responsibility]], [[Enriching]], Causing Living Advaitha, eternal bliss, Nithyananda!  Thank you!
+Those who do “Athmahana”, deny life, get into the worst abodes filled with negative people and negativity.