Monday, February 10, 2014

HARIDWAR, MONDAY, 20 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 respects.
I especially welcome all the participants in Toronto-Kailasam, all the devotees, viewers, visitors gathered in Toronto-Kailasam for the special Kalpataru Darshan, unique Kalpataru Darshan, Kalpataru Utsava.  Wow!  The hall is overflowing and people are in the garbha mandir also!  Blessings to all of you!  Great!  I think this is the first time the temple is overflowing!
And, today, all the Inner Awakening participants, you guys are going to enjoy the world’s oldest recorded ritual – Ganga Arathi!  Please understand, see when the priest completes the ritual and signs the document and receives his salary, that document is called “Maniyam”  “Maniyam” is the name of the document.  All Hindu temples boast their age, their oldness, based on that “Maniyam” record.  And that record where the priest completes the ritual, signs and receives his salary, that record is accepted as the evidence to recognize that temple’s oldness and unbroken worship.  So, in Hindu Tradition, size of the temple is not important, but how many number of years the worship has happened without breakage, without disturbance, that is important. 
So, please understand, Sringeri Temple has a 1,200 years of unbroken record, Rameshwaram Temple has a 7,000 years of unbroken record, and Ganga Arathi has an unbroken record of 12,000 years!  More than 1,000 Kumbha Melas, Ganga Arathi has record of!  It is an unbroken ritual!  The oldest ritual available to us, that record is Ganga Arathi.  “Har ki Pauri”, means the “Feet of Shiva”, where the Ganga comes to wash the feet of Shiva (In Haridwar, Ganga Arathi is done at the place called “Har ki Pauri”).  So, you are going to enjoy that ritual today at exactly the same spot.   
Of course, Vishwanath Temple (in Varanasi) has a long “Maniyam”, but broken in-between; in-between it was broken.  Unfortunately, even Madurai Meenakshi Temple’s “Maniyam” is broken; it is not continuous.  During the Muslim invasion it was broken; and then the deity was smuggled into the Adheenam (Madurai Adheenam) and puja was going on there; but, in the temple itself, the “Maniyam” is broken.  Somehow, Rameshwaram, because it is an island, an army cannot go to Rameshwaram; any army has to stop at Pamban; an army cannot go to Rameshwaram; so Rameshwaram was saved!
So, today, you guys are going to enjoy the Har ki Pauri Ganga Arathi, worship of Mother Ganga.  It is recorded from the ancient time immemorial.  The oldest ritual I have seen in any scripture recorded is Ganga Arathi only, Ganga Puja, Puja done to Ganga, Ganga Arathi.  It may be a very simple ritual, I can say, maximum half-an-hour, half-an-hour only the whole ritual is; but done without getting broken!  One advantage is.....  See, a temple ritual, for example, Meenakshi Temple ritual, if Madurai is captured by an invading army, the ritual will be broken.  If Rameshwaram is captured, that ritual will be broken.  But, Ganga, you cannot capture the whole banks of the Ganga!  One part you can capture, but the other part will be free.  So, at some spot on the banks of the Ganga which is not captured, you can go and do the arathi.  So, that is the way the ritual was kept alive.  It was an unbroken tradition.  Because the deity (the Ganges River) is too big, it cannot be captured by any army!  How will you capture her from Gangotri to Ganga Sagar?  Even if you capture her in Gangotri, they will be sitting in Tapovan and doing the arathi!  Even if you capture, you cannot stop the ritual from being done. 
Today, again, I wanted to expand on Kalpataru.  Listen!  This is for the Inner Awakening participants also!  Please listen!
There is a big difference between every action you take with the idea of “impossibility” and with the idea of “possibility”.  Understand?  For example, from Haridwar you are travelling to Delhi.  You are going by walk.  Every step you put with the idea you are never going to reach Delhi, with the idea ‘Who knows whether this is the right road?  Who knows whether the weather will be alright?  Who knows whether I will not get into an accident and die?’, with all those doubts, the more number of steps you take, the more and more you will be tired, sick, depressed!  If you walk on the same road with the idea of “possibility”, more and more you will be excited; when you see every name-board, you will feel ‘Wow!  We are coming closer to Delhi, closer to Delhi!’; and the thought of what you are going to achieve, enjoy, have in Delhi, that will inspire you and excite you more and more! 
Please understand, don’t ever think like a so-called irrational rationalist.  These irrational rationalists always give an argument: ’What’s there?  Whether I believe or don’t believe, the same number of steps only I have to take to reach Delhi.’  Understand, the number of steps may be the same, but the effort will not be the same!  When you walk with the idea of “impossibility”, the number of steps may be the same, but the effort will be more!  If you walk with the idea of “possibility”, the number of steps may be the same, but the effort will be practically zero! 
The more and more action, the more and more the excitement, is the definition of “Possibility”.  The more and more action, more and more excitement!  The more and more action, more and more tiredness and boredom, is the definition of “Impossibility”.
One of my disciples asked me, ‘Swamiji, what is it, every day morning exactly you get up, run to breakfast, do your puja, and sincerely doing.....!’ 
Even I am sometimes surprised!  See, after the realization of my incarnation-hood.....  See, from the age of three, I started puja.  I first started with Ganapati Puja, with that Ganesha deity I got.  Then a few deities added.  But, from the age of three, I remember me doing puja unbroken till the age of twenty-two.  And, after twenty-two, no puja.....then just being in Samadhi, that’s all.  Again, the day I took up the responsibility of Madurai Adheenam, from that day till now, unbroken I am doing puja as a tradition.  I will sit and invoke my own presence and offer!  I will sit with so much of joy and I will feel exactly almost like my own hand put on myself!  But it is such a joy!  
So, one disciple asked, ‘What is this Swamiji?  You do your puja and run to satsangh!  Are you going to do this your whole life?  Forever?’
Please understand, the moment he asked that, I know that the idea of “boredom” is a pattern in him!  Immediately, I told him, ‘First thing, understand, not only my whole life, EVEN AFTER I LEAVE THE BODY I AM GOING TO BE DOING THIS!  I am going to be doing this forever as Akshardhama!  Forever and ever!  From my Akshardham I will continuously be available to you.  You will see, all over the world, in all my Samadhis, people will gather every morning, do Pada Puja, and sit for satsangh, Upanishad with me!  When I am in the body, when my body is moving, when my vocal cord is functioning, it is “Satsangh”, “Nithya Satsangh”.  When it is not functioning, it is “Nithya Upanishad”!  That’s all!  That is going to be my action whether I am in the body or without the body!’  He could not understand.....my disciple could not understand. 
I wanted to tell you, every one of you, if any action brings you tiredness and boredom, you already have a belief of “impossibility”, the subtle “impossibility” is already developed in you.  I tell you, beauty in the action is “Possibility”.  We all know how to beautify our body and skin.  We need to know how to beautify our actions.  When you are carrying “possibility” and acting, every action gives more and more joy and excitement.  You will grow younger and younger!  Your face will become more graceful, more younger, and more beautiful!  Very rarely I have seen people growing younger.  One person, without doubt I can say, is Sathya Saibaba.  He grew younger and younger and younger.  The more time passed, he was becoming more graceful and more younger.  Without any controversy or doubt I will tell clearly, one person I have seen in my life growing younger and younger and younger is Sathya Saibaba.  I have seen!  Even Ram Surat Kumar also.  Not only his face and the being, even the lifestyle, everything!  Bhagawan Ram Surat Kumar, the more number of years, the more he became like a child, he was growing younger! 
I tell you, the same Haridwar to Delhi if you walk with the idea of “impossibility”, with SDHD (Self-Doubt, Hatred, Denial), you will not even cross Roorkee!  Before that itself, in some Ganga canal you may fall and die!  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...!  With SDHD, you may not even cross Roorkee!  If you walk on the same road with the idea of “possibility”, without SDHD, every step will give you excitement, and by the time you reach Delhi, you will have all the excitement of Delhi and you will be excited to do more yatra, more walking!
When I started on my Parivrajaka, I never thought that I will walk the length and breadth of India, I will spend so much time in my Parivrajaka Yatra.  The first few days of the yatra I carried the idea of “possibility”, that’s all.  The concept of “possibility” gave me so much courage, so much joy, I never imagined I will spend nine full years!  God!  See, a person who is more awake, for him one day is equivalent to three days of a normal man. 
See, even for Inner Awakening, all Inner Awakening Graduates, understand, you guys didn’t go through twenty-one days’ program; you guys went through sixty-three days’ program in twenty-one days!  Because, the number of hours.....  See, morning 3 o’clock you get up.  4 o’clock you have to be in Yoga; so 3 o’clock you have to get up and clean all the holes, and 4 o’clock you have to be here for Yoga.  What time do you go to bed?  9 pm, or 10, or sometimes 11!  In one day, regular day, average a man works six to seven hours a day.  But here?  Come on!  See how many hours!  And that also all the emotional roller coasters, ups and downs, so much of cleansing!  So, three days’ action you go through in one day, understand?  External cleaning, internal cleaning, internal internal-cleaning!   
So, I was this kind of a person. Too many hours, too many waking hours was my lifestyle from the beginning.  So, I never imagined, nine years – nine years in my lifestyle means 9 x 4 = 36 years; because for me there is no other thing, no dreaming and sleeping state – I never thought so many years I will spend in Parivrajaka Yatra!  Now, I remember, when walking around Haridwar – I have not spent years in Haridwar; surely months only at different different times; but months only, not years – but I feel as if I know the whole Haridwar!  Because, I didn’t keep quiet; I will be walking around, going everywhere, going to every temple, visit every ashram, going to every place.....the active lifestyle!  I tell you, because that possibility gave me the excitement, only now when I look back I am shocked that nine years I spent in Parivrajaka!  Means, going from place to place, not staying in one place.  God!
Please understand, take this one lesson, intranalyze this one truth: It may be same number of steps, same distance, but the effort, result, everything will be different if you carry “possibility” with you!  I tell you, when you travel with the “possibility” idea from Haridwar to Delhi, with the idea of “possibility”, even if you have walked the same number of steps, you will forget many times you walked or you struggled so much! 
I tell you honestly, when I describe, it looks like “struggle” to all of you, my Parivrajaka time.  Otherwise, it was simply “Honey” and “Sun”.  If I use the word “honeymoon”, you will start imagining your own stories; so I don’t want to use that word.  HAHAHAHAHAHA...!  It was just joy, excitement, a vacation with Nature!  That is the exact word I will use: “Vacation with Nature”!
Travel in your life also with the “possibility” in your heart.  You will see, one: every step does not tire you; it adds to more and more excitement!  See, when you walk with “impossibility”, every step adds anxiety, not excitement.  When you walk with “possibility”, every step adds excitement, and when you reach the goal you won’t even feel tired that you did so much, because when you were walking you didn’t feel tired.  See, when you were walking if you didn’t feel tired, after reaching you will not feel the tiredness memory.  But, with the idea of “impossible” when you are walking, you will feel tired; you will not reach; and if you reach, by the time you reach you will feel ‘Oh, with so much difficulty.....’ 
I tell you, I don’t feel at all I have struggled to do anything in my life.  That is why, still, I don’t care about all this opposition, abusal, illegal attacks; I am not at all bothered!  Actually, these guys who are abusing, spreading lies, spreading rumours, they should have a small trailer of my inner-space, heart!  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...!  They should get it, look into my inner-space.  They will really, they will really be upset!  Because they will be thinking I am giving too much of importance to them in my inner-space, when they look there, when they find that they are not even there, they will be really upset, because they expect that I should be afraid of them, I should be frightened of them, or at least I should have a little concern.  This is too much!  What to do?
I tell you one thing, I tell all these guys who are abusing us, attacking us illegally, immorally, and lying about us, spreading rumours, I want to tell to all of you, please understand, don’t fight with a man who does not have vengeance!  Understand, this is the secret of life!  I don’t have any vengeance, I don’t have any violence.  My inner-space is full of power.  Don’t fight with a guy who does not have vengeance.  If you do, you will fall and collapse and fail bitterly!  See, only a person with vengeance will become tired, will become bored, will feel he is doing so much.  A person without vengeance will never feel he is doing so much.  I neither feel I am doing too much, nor I have any vengeance against anybody, or I have anger.  No, nothing! 
Understand, one of the very important lessons in life: Don’t fight with a guy who does not have vengeance; you will lose the game!  Always fight with a fellow who has vengeance; you will always win the game!  Please understand, the fellow with vengeance, even if he is too big a guy, and you are too small a guy, you just go in the space of non-vengeance, holding completion, you will just win!  I am still working, I am trying to get some of the Akashic records to find out how did a few Akhada sadhus fail in war.  I want to study that, because many of our Akhada sadhus were established in Nidhidhyasana.  Only after they are established in Nidhidhyasana level, when the cosmic shift has happened, will they be sent to war.  A few wars they lost.  How did they lose, I want to study. 
I tell you, a violence-free man can never be conquered.  It is a law of life!  A violence-free man can never be conquered.  My victory, be very clear, not just my victory, but the victory of dharma, I am telling you, my victory over all these abusive elements, anti-spiritual elements, anti-social elements, anti-humanity elements, anti-national elements, proves this one truth: A non-violent person can never be conquered.  You will always lose if you are violent with a non-violent person, because he is so powerful.  I tell you, a non-violent person will be so powerful inside, he will not have any wounds inside, and beautifully he will handle the situation, and he knows what to do.  When you are filled with violence, you will not know what to do; you will enter foolishly into a small ashram and break and beat that Swami there, and get into trouble. 
I tell you, that is why, in our tradition, always before the war, a warrior has to do tapas, he has to do tapas.  Whether it is Arjuna or Bhima, first they have to do tapas to become non-violent, powerful.  Only then any war. 
I tell you, carry this space of “Possibility”; you will always win any wars.  No one can win over you in any war, because the space of “Possibility” excites you more and more, inspires you more and more, brings rejoicing in you.  You can see in my life:  Really, people thought, ‘How can Swamiji do twenty-one days’ program continuously?’  First year, we did one; second year, we did two; third year, we did one, because of the abusal and attacks; the fourth year, we did four; and fifth year, we did six; sixth year, we did eight; and the seventh year, we are doing twelve!  Yes, 2008 – One; 2009 – Two; 2010, because of the attack and abusal – One; 2011 – Four; 2012 – Six; 2013 – Eight; Now, in 2014 – Twelve!  It will be just multiplying!  By next year, I am training acharyas.  I will do in one spot, acharyas will be going around and doing in different places. 
Understand, carry the space of “Possibility”; every day action will only lead you to more and more excitement.  Every Inner Awakening only excites me, not tires me.  I am only excited to spend more time with people, to be with people.  Every day Kalpataru only excites me; it does not tire me.  I tell you, in your life, carrying the space of “Possibility” in your heart is “Kalpataru”.  So, meditate on this one truth:  Carrying the space of “Possibility” in your heart is “Kalpataru”.
The essence of today’s satsangh is this one line:  CARRYING THE SPACE OF “POSSIBILITY” IN YOUR HEART IS “KALPATARU”.
We will move to the process of Kalpataru.  Please sit straight.  Before moving into the process of Kalpataru, one small video presentation about Inner Awakening.  Commercial Break! HAHAHAHA!
VIDEO ON INNER AWAKENING IS PLAYED.....................
Yes!  Please sit straight.  Close your eyes.  Before closing your eyes, pen down one desire you want to cause as reality, and all the obstacles you think, all the doubts you carry about that desire.  Please pen down for a few minutes.
(After a few minutes.......)
Sit with closed eyes.  Create a space for what you wanted.  Please listen.  For example, if you want health, see already the health has become your reality.  If you want wealth, see already the wealth has become your reality.  Whatever doubts you have, complete with all that.  All the ideas of impossibility you have, complete with all that and drop.  Sit holding this space of pure possibility.  Sit straight, be in the space of possibility.
KALPATARU MEDITATION IN PROGRESS.....................
Relax.  I bless you all!  Let the space you hold become reality!  Be Blissful!
So, first we will have darshan for all the Kalpataru participants who are here in Haridwar; then Toronto. 
So, 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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