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 welcome
all the devotees, disciples, samajis, satsanghis, sitting with us through
Nithyananda TV, Lotus News Channel, Sadhna TV, Janashree TV, Eshwar TV, and
through two-way video-conferencing in thirty-one places having Nayana Deeksha,
in twenty-four countries around the world, as per the statistics.
Cities sitting
with us in two-way video-conferencing: Nithyananda Nagaram-Tiruvannamalai,
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Dhyanapeetam-Chennai, Bangalore North, San Diego-La Jolla, Oklahoma-Somanatham,
Winnipeg-Canada, Bogota-Colombia, Hyderabad-Gupta Kashi, Singapore-Singapuram,
Mulund-Mumbai, Oman-Sivagangai, Paris-Home Temple, Oklahoma-Somanatham, Enriching
Temple-Bidadi, San Antonio-Texas, Kuala Lumpur-Palani, Port Washington-New
York, New Zealand-Adi Arunachalam, Hyderabad-Gupta Kashi, Ohio-Ma Shivananda,
Dubai-Vaidyanatham.....................
I welcome all of
you with my love and blessings.
Today is Arudra
Darshanam, the utsavam, the festival of Arudra.
Means, Mahadeva showed his beautiful, blissful dancing form to Patanjali
and Vyaghrapada and Manickavaasagar on this very day.....WHICH YOU WILL ALL SEE!
And
Nithyanandotsava Poorvanga Puja celebrations today! Karuppar, Kali, Muneeshwara, Mahakala,
Mahaganapathi Puja and Homa! Tomorrow
Dwajarohana of Nithyanandotsava!
And, today, in
Tiruvannamalai, Padayatra starts, Sannyas Yatra starts. Today all the devotees are doing the
girivalam, and, from today, start the Sannyas Yatra! I inaugurate the Sannyas Yatra from
Tiruvannamalai. Let it bring Completion
to you all! Let it lead you all to spiritual
growth and liberation! My blessings to
the Sannyas Yatra! All the sannyasis of
Tamil Nadu and the devotees have gathered in Tiruvannamalai. Tiruvannamalai ashram is in celebration! And, 22nd
batch of Inner Awakening Level-4! Today,
17th day! Full day we are
going to have a field trip!
Poornima! So, Pournami
special! So, full day field trip!
I also wanted to
express my sincere condolences to the family of Travancore Maharaja who is a
long-term associate with our Sangha. And
Maharaja of Travancore, Shri Padmanabha Dasa Vanchipala Marthanda Varma, he and
his family are associated with us for quite a long time. In 2006, he officially, formally invited us
to the palace. I went and spent around
three days in the palace as a guest.
I really wanted
to say a few words.
First, I will
see to it that he is liberated and rests in peace at the feet of Padmanabha
Swami.
And he was also
formally initiated into Ananda Gandha Deeksha and unclutching process. Within ten minutes of initiation, he
experienced Kundalini awakening!
Above all, I
don’t want to even say he is my devotee or disciple, all these words, I only
wanted to say, he taught me what is being a “king” in Hinduism, in Indian
tradition! I tell you, I only wanted to
say, I learned from him! Such a humble
being! Such a humble being! His humbleness and the way he treated me just
because I am a sannyasi! I was not a
well-known Peethadhipathi or well-known religious leader with a big
organization. He is such a sincere
being! He was also initiated by
Anandamayi Ma, saint from West Bengal.
So he had the intuition to smell an enlightened being!
The way he
interacted with me! I went to his
palace. I learned so many things. He gave me a deep insight into being a king
in India in Indian tradition. The
humbleness he was carrying! Please understand, humility is not thinking
about you less; it is less thinking about you!
Please understand, humility is not thinking about you less, but it is
less thinking about you! Catch it! It is not creating a low image about you; but
whatever is your identity, not thinking about it again and again. In this whole photograph you can see the
most humble being is the Maharaja! You
can see who is the Maharaja.
I really think I
should share a few words about his greatness.
Being a Maharaja in India in Hinduism.....! Actually, I resisted so much that I didn’t
want him to do Pada Puja; but he insisted!
You can see his humbleness! He revealed some
of the very important secrets. He was
telling me, ‘Swamiji, in India, all major kings are only guardians; they are
not owners of the kingdom!’ It is not
like the Middle East kings, and not like the kings in the western countries and
Middle East countries. Please
understand, the whole kingdom is owned by the deity! The whole Travancore Kingdom is owned by
Padmanabha (Vishnu)! Padmanabha is
considered to be a perpetual minor; so the king only administers the kingdom as
a dasa (servant) of Padmanabha, and does not own the kingdom! The whole shift in attitude! Understand, the deity is the owner, he is a
perpetual minor; so, the king administers the kingdom as Padmanabha Dasa
(servant of Padmanabha)! People can come
and settle down, live. So, no way the
king can say he is the owner. I was so
shocked seeing his humility and this new principle of being a king! Unfortunately, all Indians read about what is
“king”, who is “king”, what is “kingdom”, everything from the western
interpretation. Western historians never
told us that in India being a king or Indian king is totally different. The whole Ujjaini Kingdom is owned by
Mahakaleshwar! The whole Jaipur Kingdom
is owned by Banke Bihari! The whole
Pandya Kingdom is, of course, owned by Meenakshi! The kings are only guardians!
I was shocked to
see his Integrity! God! He took me around and showed me the whole
palace and the whole treasury. First, I
have to tell his humbleness and the way he lived! After giving a ceremonial reception, he took
me to meet the queen. The queen was his
elder sister. His elder sister was still
living; so she was considered to be the queen.
Her humbleness.....oh God! She
was leading such a simple ordinary life!
She had already received vanaprastha and she was living in a small room
in the palace without even having a cot; just a small mattress on the floor,
because she has taken vanaprastha! I was
just humbled!
He was literally
a Raja Sannyasi, King of Sannyasis! His
sannyas is much more than any Peethadhipathi’s I have seen in my experience in
my life! I am very bold in declaring
this! I am very bold in uttering this
statement! His Sannyas.....!
Please
understand, he is highly educated, knows thoroughly everything about the
kingdom. He was explaining how the
weapons are used in a traditional way and he was even telling me, explaining
about how what type of mantras are used to use the “astras” like Brahmastra,
Vayu Astra, Varunastra and all that. He
has learned even those sciences! Elderly
person! But morning when he went to the
temple and picked up the sword, I saw.....Oh God! He carries a sword when he goes to the temple
every morning. The sword may be weighing
at least five to six kilograms. The way
he carried it! He is a real king and
real sannyasi!
And the way he
behaved himself in front of Padmanabha and in the temple! When he was coming out of the temple, he
washed his feet and removed even all the small dust from his feet! I was wondering.....because, in Hindu
tradition, when you come out of the temple you don’t wash the feet. You carry that “punya” with you. I asked him, ‘Maharaja, what are you
doing?’ He said, ‘No, it is a tradition,
we should not carry even a speck of dust when we come from the temple to the
palace! We don’t carry anything from the
temple to the palace!’ He knows he is
the owner of the richest temple in the world!
Please understand, the treasury Padmanabha has, it is even larger than
Venkateshwara’s! I am not
comparing. Venkateshwara and Padmanabha
are one and the same. One is standing
and one is resting; that is all! I am
not comparing. He is the owner of the
richest temple in the world!
Venkateshwara has crossed the Vatican long before. And Padmanabha has crossed Venkateshwara’s
wealth overnight when they discovered the treasure! Whatever is counted as on now is already
rupees five lakh crore, and counting is going on still; it may take another two
years! He is the owner.....but his
humbleness! His knowledge and humbleness
and his Integrity! Owner of this size
wealth and temple does not pick up even the dust from the temple and take it to
the palace! His Integrity! I can say, if I have to pick up only one
being from Planet Earth, the most integrated being, I will say, “the Maharaja
of Travancore”! Being a king in Hinduism
is not like being a king in the Middle East or in the western countries. Here you don’t own anything; everything is
owned by the deities; you are only a servant, “dasa”.
And the command
he had over not only the people, but also over the animals of the palace! Just one word, and the palace elephant just
falls at his feet! He was taking me
around. I saw the animal husbandry of
the palace. When he went near the
elephant, he just touched the elephant and he told in Malayalam, ‘Hey, guruji
has come! Do Namaskar!’ Simply the elephant fell on the ground! I can’t understand, such a heavy animal how
can it fall down in a few seconds! Like
in a photograph, the fellow went down on all fours on the floor! The the king touched his ears and said, ‘Say
“Namaste”, “Namaste”!’ He (the elephant)
roars “NAMASTE”! And then I asked the
Maharaja, ‘Do you take care of these animals every day? How do they listen to your words?’ He said, ‘No, no, no. I come once in a while; that’s all.’ It is not that he trains them, but he had
command over them! I was so shocked!
We will remember
eternally the embodiment of all the Hindu values lived by him. And, I tell you, he is the most ideal expression
of being a Hindu king! He is the last
Maharaja. I sincerely remember him and
miss him for the values he radiated.....for the values he radiated. Unfortunately, all the rajas are leaving the
body. Just now, Mysore Maharaja.....and
now Travancore Maharaja!
And one more
thing you need to know. Yesterday was
the first day of Margazhi month. In
Malayalam calendar, already Uttarayana is born.
He waited for Uttarayana and left the body! Only in Tamil calendar it is Margazhi. In Malayalam calendar it is already Uttarayana. Exactly he waited for the Uttarayana. Even though he was in his death bed for the
last few days, he waited for the Uttarayana.
The Bhishma Parva started day-before-yesterday night; so after Bhishma Parva
was born only he left the body. So it
proves it is a conscious death! Consciously
he left the body!
And his
knowledge of Ayurveda, his knowledge in the science of
temples.....unimaginable! So, today I
declare as a mark of reverence and respect for him, we will have Ananthapadmanabha
Swami’s deity in our temple, in Nithyanandeshwara Temple in Bidadi. This is my humble respects to him. I think he will enjoy this more than any
monument I build for him. If I ask him,
he will tell this only. We will have
Padmanabha Swami’s deity made in salagrama just like in
Thiruvananthapuram.
You can see the
elephant (Swamiji points to a photograph).
We have some of the pictures. He
taught me, he made me understand what is a “king” in a Hindu kingdom. Please understand, even though legally the
kingdom was not in his hands when I visited him, but the whole Trivandrum
respected him as the king! We were driving
around the whole Trivandrum in his car.
When the car moved around, even the tea-shop people dropped their
tea-cups and did namaskar! I think he
had many servants and cars, and a huge palace, but he lived as a sannyasi. Practically he lived as a sannyasi!
I was so moved
by his hospitality. (Swamiji points to a
photograph.....) You can see the seat I
am sitting and the seat he is sitting in the photograph. He insisted that I sit on his throne, and
that he sits on the floor! But I said,
‘No, you can’t sit on the floor’. Then
he put a plastic chair and sat on it.
Please understand, this is not respect done to me; it is respect for
Indian tradition. The king never sits in
a seat in front of a sadhu in Indian tradition!
See the way a sadhu is sitting and a king is sitting! I can say this photo is a symbol of Indian
tradition, not my pride. And, I tell
you, this only shows his greatness, not my greatness. This photo shows the greatness of the king,
not me! I never wanted this photo to be
telling my greatness; I am only making it clear that this shows his
greatness. And this happened in 2006
when I was not a well-known religious leader or Peethadeeshwar; I was a humble
sadhu sitting in a few huts in Bidadi.
In 2006, I
didn’t even have a shelter over my head other than a small hut. Actually, when he invited me to come to the palace,
he came to the ashram personally to invite me, and that time I was in the
Laughing Temple. At that time, the
Laughing Temple was only a hut. He met
me in the Laughing Temple to invite me to his palace. I was moved by his humbleness and devotion
and his Integrity. I asked him, ‘Do you
really feel in your being that I am an enlightened being?’ He said, ‘Yes, Swamiji. That is the reason I am having you in the
palace.’ I asked him, ‘Then ask whatever
you want. Whatever you want is in my
hand which I can give is yours.’ He
said, ‘Swamiji, just initiate me into the process of Jeevan Mukthi which is the
essence of your experience. That is all
I want.’ Then I initiated him into
Ananda Gandha initiation and Unclutching, awakened his Kundalini and his elder
sister’s, the Queen. He was the embodiment
of humbleness! Kalidasa says in
Shakuntalam, ‘While entering an ashram, one needs to be humble to the
core.” And he maintained that!
And one funny
thing. We both went to the temple and
came back. When entering the palace, his
own palace, he touched the doorstep and put the dust on his head! I asked him, ‘It is your own palace. Why are you bowing down to the
door-frame?’ He said, ‘No, Swamiji, you
are staying here now for three days. It
is now a sacred place. It is now an
ashram. You are staying here for the
last three days; it is an ashram now. As
long as you are here, it is your court. In
our tradition when an enlightened person stays in the palace, it is his
court. I can’t sit in the court or on
the throne as long as you are here, your presence is here.’ And as long as I was there, only I was
sitting on the throne!
Every morning he
does puja, puja to Padmanabha and Shiva.
Because, in Trivandrum, the tradition is, Padmanabha Swami is doing
Shiva Puja every day. You may have seen,
in the right hand of Padmanabha Swami, the Shiva Linga will be there. The deity of Padmanabha has all
trimurtis. Near his right hand the Shiva
Linga will be there, and Vishnu, Padmanabha, and in his navel Brahma will be
there.
And his extreme
humbleness! And one more thing you need
to know, when all this religious persecution, attacks, scandals happened, he
sent a message, ‘Swamiji, I am still your dasa.
I am your disciple. I wanted you
to know, all this is just a rumour’, and he just expressed that he is not
interested in trusting or believing any of this foolishness.
I tell you,
actually he created in my heart devotion for Padmanabha by his way of
living. Before leaving the palace, he
gifted me a beautiful Padmanabha Swami photograph which is still there in the
ashram with me. I smiled and asked him,
‘Why did you choose to gift this?’ He
said, ‘Swamiji, I took you around the whole treasury and palace. Your eyes did not fall on anything else other
than Padmanabha Swami! I was observing
you, what to give you. I decided, on
anything if your eyes are deeply falling, it is yours! I saw in these last three days, other than
Padmanabha Swami, your eyes did not fall on anything, you did not enjoy
anything. That is why I decided to give
the photo of Padmanabha Swami.’ Of
course, still I am keeping it and I am enjoying it.
I asked him,
‘You don’t have any request? Please tell
me something which is ordinary. I will
be happy...’. He smiled and said,
‘Alright, Swamiji, you give me one copy of all the photographs you took. I wanted to keep it with me.’ Because, they didn’t take any video or
photographs, we requested them; but we took the photos, our ashram
sannyasis. He said, ‘If you can give me
one set, I will be happy to keep it in my archives as sweet memories.’ I thought, ‘Oh, god! In his palace, he is respecting my space and
not taking any photograph; and after we take, he is requesting!’
His extreme
humbleness.....extreme humbleness! I
tell you, humility, embodiment of dedication, Integrity, humility, dedication,
not just out of weakness, but with so much of powerfulness! He was so powerful in his decisions. He was so powerful! He had command over everything! The way he maintained the Padmanabhaswami
Temple! I can go on and on, talk about
him and his humbleness.
With this, me
and Dhyanapeetam, we pay our humble respects to him, remember him for the great
values he radiated. He is the embodiment
of eternal principles in the changing society as a king. Making the deity of Padmanabha in salagrama
and installing it in Nithyanandeshwara Temple will be my way of paying respects
to him. It will be remembered in his
name forever!
With this, I
move to Nirahara Samyama, the next segment of the morning satsagh. All the Nirahara Samyama participants, please
sit straight. Visualize you have become
Bidadi Kalpavruksha and cognize, allow the mirroring of the neuron activities
of the Kalpavruksha in your body. Inhale
through both the nostrils and the mouth simultaneously. Hold as long as you can, and exhale through
both the nostrils. With this, I bless
you all to experience Kundalini awakening, live health, bliss and
excitement! Namah Shivaya!
NIRAHARA SAMYAMA
IN PROGRESS.....................
Relax. You can open your eyes. I bless you all to be Niraharis!
With this, 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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