Monday, February 10, 2014

FRIDAY, 24 JANUARY 2014

MORNING SATSANG BY PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA 

Nithyanandeshwara Samaarambhaam
Nithyanandeshwari Madhyamaam |
Asmath Aachaarya Paryanthaam
Vandhey Guru Paramparaam ||


I welcome all of you with my love and blessings.  I especially welcome the devotees who have gathered for Kalpataru Darshan in Oman-Sivagangai and Pattanam Dhyanapeetam.
Today, I will expand on KALPATARU. 
Kalpataru is nothing but the space you carry inside.  Please understand, I wanted all of you to know from my experience, last few days we were going to well-known old Mahadeva temples – Daksheshwar Mandir, where the Daksha Yajna happened, where Veerabhadra killed Daksha and destroyed his Yajna, and Sati left the body, Mahadeva appeared and gave life back to Daksha; it was a powerful energy center.  And, then, yesterday we went to Neelkanth Mahadev where Mahadeva drank the poison of Halahala and saved the universe, protected the universe and took the risk of Halahala poison on himself.  I was wondering, in both places the deity was too small.  I started contemplating: Why?  Is this done purposely?  Such a huge temple, well-known temple, the whole city has happened just around the temple.  The city is also known as Neelkanth.  There is a huge settlement around the temple.  The deity can be only six inches, maximum six to nine inches; but a whole settlement around the temple for the temple!  And, on festival days like Shivaratri, five lakh devotees come it seems, they were telling.  Both the temples belong to our Akhada.  I was wondering...!
Same way, if you go to Varanasi, not only Kashi, the whole of Hinduism is centred on Vishwanatha, the whole of Hinduism is built around Kashi Vishwanatha, but the deity is so small!  I was contemplating and wondering, what is the message our masters wanted to give by keeping the deity so small in all the major temples?  The Badrinath deity is only twelve inches!  In Kedarnath and Yamunotri, you can just carry the deity with you; it is only twelve inches!  What is the message they are trying to give?
Please understand, by the time you reach the temple, the space you generate inside you, the devotion you generate inside you, the feeling you generate inside you, the space which happens inside you, is the deity!  They are saying very clearly, don’t expect something big outside.  Outside whatever is there is just to remind you of the inside space.  If there is a huge, big deity, your whole attention will be on that, thinking you have come all the way to see what is there externally.  But, when the deity is too small, not as you expect with some shape, jewels, clothes, decked, suddenly you will realize our masters are asking something more.  You can see the photograph of Neelkanth Mahadev (photograph is shown on the TV screen); by one hand you can cover the whole deity.  You may not even be able to find the deity, where the deity is.  But the space you achieve, that is the deity!  That is God! 
In Daksheshwar Temple, there is no deity.  Actually, the main deity, the Shiva Linga, by being worshipped continuously for ages, it has almost become like ground level, a little lower than the ground.  They call it “Bhu Linga”; means, the Linga has become ground level. 
Then, what is it? What for are we travelling to all these great temples?  Understand, by the time you reach there, the space you generate inside you by the remembrance is the deity!  Yesterday, experientially I saw when I sat in front of the Neelkanth Mahadev.  When I just sat in front of Neelkanth Mahadev, the deity may be small, but the presence it generates, the experience it can generate, I was just shocked!  Wow! What an energy!
So, understand, the space you create inside is Kalpataru!  The space you create is Kalpataru.  That is why all our temples and ashrams, centres, it may be just one small room in a village, or one small room in some apartment complex in a busy city like New York, it may be a small one room in a remote village like Seeragapadi or Pattanam, or one apartment in New York Queens, or a huge, vast, palatial building like St. Louis or Los Angeles or Bidadi, wherever.......the Presence, THAT functions, the Presence, THAT radiates, the Presence, THAT lives through!  Understand, the presence you carry is Kalpataru.  The presence you carry in you, the space you create in you is Kalpataru.
Sometimes I wonder when I just look around the banks of the Ganga and the banks of the Cauvery, and the banks of New York River.....sometimes I wonder, in the banks of Ganga, banks of Yamuna, Cauvery, Narmada, the Himalayas, everywhere..............
(break in transmission on eNTV and other channels because of power failure......)
(Swamiji: Sorry for the interruption....because a little power failure here......)
Understand, sometimes I wonder how the same science is working for a person from Guadeloupe to Kanchipuram, Phoenix to Tiruvannamallai, all over the world.  I realized that, finally, end of the day, human-beings are the same all over the world, understand.  We are all embodied consciousness.  Consciousness has used the body, that’s all, as a human-being.  And we can, our consciousness is capable enough to create what we want in our life.  Whether you are a tired, retired, old lady, always waiting to die or about to die, or a young, energetic, excited man who is waiting to enter into life, you carry the consciousness, you are embodiment of that consciousness, you carry that advaithic experience, you carry that universal energy, you carry that “Brahmanda”. 
Please understand, losing the memory of the experience does not take away the truth from you.  Because you forgot your oneness with the Ultimate, don’t think oneness has been taken away from you.  Because you forgot, you are let to live in that forgetfulness, the state you created.  Because you dream at night, don’t think the bed in which you are sleeping is taken away from you.  In the night, while you are dreaming, you may be dreaming as if you are being chased in the forest by a tiger.  Don’t think just because you are dreaming that you are running in a forest, the bed on which you are sleeping has been taken away!  No!  Because you wanted to have that dream, you are allowed to have that dream; but the truth remains as a truth even while you are dreaming. 
Same way, the pure oneness of the consciousness, the pure non-dual oneness of the consciousness remains as a truth whether you are an old village lady waiting to die in a remote corner of the world, or a young, energetic man, excited to enter into life.  Whoever you may be, whatever may be your caste, creed, gender, State, nationality, background, education, your inner-space is capable of creating what you want, your inner-space has the power to create life of what you want, your inner-space is intelligent enough to do what you want.     
Have courage, have strength!  Have courage, have strength!  I can say, the whole Vedanta can be reduced to just these two statements: “Have Courage!  Have Strength!”  Go on creating a powerful space for you.  Go on creating a powerful space for you.  The powerful space you create for yourself, the powerful space you create for yourself is the strength.  The ability to create the powerful space for yourself is the wealth of life. 
I will give the essence of today’s satsangh in Hindi.
Understand, the essence of today’s satsangh:
The space you create is wealth.  The ability to create the right space is wealth for human-beings.   Whether it is health, knowledge, enlightenment or wealth, your ability to create your space is your wealth.
So, we will now move to the process of Kalpataru. 
Pattanam Ashram, Ma Jyotikananda, you guide the Kalpataru process in Tamil.....guide the Kalpataru process in Tamil, Ma!
All the participants in Oman-Sivagangai and Pattanam Dhyanapeetam, please pick up paper and pen.  Think through, listen to yourself and write only ONE desire which you wanted to make as reality.  Right one desire which you wanted to make as reality.  And all the incompletions you think about this desire, the ideas of impossibilities you have about this desire, pen down all of them.  Take a few minutes and write.
(After a few minutes.....)
Please sit straight.  Close your eyes.  Oman-Sivagangai and Pattanam Dhyanapeetam, sit straight, close your eyes.  Start creating the space for the one desire you want to cause as reality.  Complete with all the incompletions and drop it.  Create a space responsibly to make that one desire into reality.  Please create the space that the desire you want to cause as reality has already become real, it is reality in the present moment.  Drop all the incompletions.  Complete all the incompletions and drop it.  Continue to hold on to the space to create what you want as reality.
KALPATARU MEDITATION IN PROGRESS.....................
Relax.  You can open your eyes.  I bless you all!  Let the space you carry become reality!  Let the space you created become reality!  Namah Shivaya!
First, we will have Kalpataru Darshan for all the devotees gathered in Oman-Sivagangai.  Then we will move to Pattanam Dhyanapeetam.  Oman, can you call and connect?
KALPATARU DARSHAN IN PROGRESS.....................
I bless you all!  Let you all radiate with Integrity, Authenticity, Responsibility and Enriching, with eternal bliss, Nithyananda!  Thank you!
___________________ END OF SATSANG ___________________



 



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