HARIDWAR, FRIDAY, 17 JANUARY 2014

MORNING SATSANG BY PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA –

Nithyanandeshwara Samaarambhaam

Nithyanandeshwari Madhyamaam |

Asmath Aachaarya Paryanthaam

Vandhey Guru Paramparaam ||

Kuala Lumpur-Palani is today offering “Anna Dhaan” for one-lakh (100,000) people.  All our sannyasis, brahmacharis are working.  You can all see the 100,000 people are given free food.  The Nithyananda Hindu Sangam, Malaysia, is celebrating.  You can see that.  100,000!  Nithyananda Hindu Sangam, Malaysia, is distributing 100,000 food packets, you can see, in Kuala Lumpur, Batu Caves. 

Today is Thai Poosam Utsava.  Today is the day when Subramanya became enlightened.  Today is the same day when he appeared on Planet Earth.  And, at the age of eight, Mahadeva gave him enlightenment.  And in the South (South India), there is a tradition, on the same day Subramanya initiated Mahadeva at the age of twelve (Subramnya’s age was 12 years at that time).  In the South he (Subramanya) became “Shivagurunatha”, he became Guru of Mahadeva! 

The story goes that Subramanya asked Brahma, ‘Do you know the meaning of Pranava (OM)?  Brahma was shaken! 

Brahma said, ‘I know only the Pranava Mantra; I don’t know the meaning.’ 

Subramanya then arrested Brahma!  He said, ‘If you don’t know the meaning, then you are not qualified to be the “Srishti Kartha” (the Creator).  I will do your job!’  The whole Cosmos was now shaken because the Creator was arrested! 

Mahadeva asked Subramanya, ‘Hey, why did you arrest Brahma?  Release him!’ 

Subramanya said, ‘He doesn’t know the meaning of the Pranava Mantra.  So I arrested him.’   

Then Mahadeva asked Subramanya, ‘Do you know the meaning of the Pranava Mantra?’

Subramanya said, ‘Yes, I know.  If you want to know, become my disciple; I will teach you!’ 

Then, the story says, Mahadeva sits as Subramanya’s disciple, and Subramanya initiates him into the Pranava Mantra. 

Subramanya was a kid; so Mahadeva was carrying him in his arms.  When Subramanya was teaching the mantra to Mahadeva, whispering it into his ear, suddenly Mahadeva shifted Subramanya (who was in his arms) from one side to the other. 

Subramanya asked him, ‘Why did you change me from your right ear to your left ear?

Then Mahadeva said, ‘No, let your mother also hear!  Half is hers na!’  As Ardhanareeshwara (the Lord who is half-female), one side of Mahadeva is occupied by Devi Parvathi.  (Usually, Devi is depicted as occupying the left half of Mahadeva). 

So, today is the day Subramanya initiated Mahadeva into Pranava.     

Then Mahadeva said, ‘Whoever does not know the meaning of the Pranava, he does not know the technology of Creation.’  Then Brahma was released.

So, all three festivals are observed today.  Mainly in three States – Andhra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu – because only these three States have a lot of Subramanya temples.  Kukke Subramanya in Karnataka.  And there is a big Subramanya temple in Andhra.  Of course, Tamil Nadu is full of Subramanya temples.  And, all over the world, wherever South Indians have settled, they created Subramanya temples.  Everywhere, today is the celebration.  Especially in Tamil Nadu, in Palani, I don’t know how many lakhs will gather!  And in Arunachala also today is a very big festival celebrating Sivagurunatha Swami, means who initiated Mahadeva himself, who taught the meaning of the Pranava to Mahadeva himself.  So, as per the tradition, today whoever comes to Subramanya, he initiates all of them, he blesses all of them, accepts all of them as his disciples and followers.

So, in Kuala Lumpur, Batu Caves, more than ten-lakh people – one million people – gather!  Our devotees have put a huge “pandal” (tent-like structure).  You can see tons and tons of food being packed and served.  I think the way....the amount of food getting cooked and the number of volunteers working and the way it is being served, I think it will be more than 100,000 people!  You can see the whole team is our volunteers’ team, and the whole pandal is ours.  You can see all our volunteers and you can see our banner – “Anna Dhaanam – Free Food for all”!  Thai Poosa Anna Dhaanam!  Great! 

My blessings to the whole Nithyananda Hindu Sangam, Malaysia, and the whole Malaysia itself!  You guys are doing such a wonderful job, all your past incompletions will be washed away, all your incompletions will be washed away!  You will all be complete and blissful!  All our devotees, disciples, ashramites, Mahants, Kotharis, Thanedars, everyone in Malaysia, devotees, everyone, blessings to all of you!  All your past incompletions will be washed away!  You will all be blissful, complete!  And let Subramanya’s grace be on all of you!  This Batu Caves is a Siddha Peetha where Subramanya’s energy is so alive!  My blessings!

I am always happy when devotees are served.  I want to do this job in India in a large scale like Gayatri Peetha (Gayatri Pariwar) was doing yajnas.  I really wanted some twenty-five lorries full of items and people, they go to every big celebration, offer free food for journeys.....I want to say free food for “spiritual yatris”, free food for yatris.  The “yatris”, people who go to temples, should not suffer or should not be in want of anything.  Whether it is Magh Mela in Prayag, or Thai Poosam in Palani, or Deepam in Tiruvannamalai, or Meenakshi’s Marriage in Madurai, or Char Dham Yatra, we should be there giving food and serving all devotees.

One of Ramakrishna’s most beautiful biographies – the book was called in Bengali “Sri Sri Ramakrishna Punthi”; in English they have translated as “Portrait of Sri Ramakrishna” – the book starts with a beautiful verse, “I revere and take respectfully all the feet-dust of Ramakrishna’s devotees.....”.  I tell you, this is the peak of Hinduism – being devoted to devotees.  This whole book, I think around seven to eight-thousand verses, the whole book I know by heart!  I used to read!  Now that touch is lost, I forgot many things.  It is a beautiful book describing the glories of the devotees.  By describing the beauty and glory of the devotees, the Master’s glory is described.  I think when you serve bhaktas, devotees, Bhagawan is very happy.  Nithyananda Hindu Sangam, Malaysia, is doing that work.  My blessings to all of you guys!  I am so happy!  I would not have been happy even if you had kept 1008 naivedyams in front of me.  See, it is the devotees in whom I am living! 

One day, I know, I will have thousands of my sannyasis, I will have thousands of my sannyasis, devotees, Kotharis, Mahants all over the world, serving the devotees like this.  We may not have enough resources now – the people, money, organizing – to do this job; but I am really, really, really, at least I am putting it on record, that when the time comes, when the world starts giving us more resources, I wanted this to be one of the top projects where at least ten-thousand sannyasis do only this job.  Anywhere any Yatra happens, go there with twenty-five lorries full of items, cook and feed million people, two-million people...!  I think, this is one of the best ways the tradition is kept alive.  Yatra – “spiritual tourism” – is a unique concept given by Hinduism to the world.  All religions received this concept of Yatra, religious tourism, spiritual tourism, from Hinduism.  Even now, India is the country where the largest spiritual tourism happens in the world.....largest spiritual tourism happens in the world.

I will continue to speak on KALPATARU and Mahabharata, both.  I will speak on Kalpataru and Mahabharata characters.  In-between, for a few days, because we are fighting Mahabharata, I did not speak on Mahabharata!  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...!  There was a live Mahabharata going on, “Aaj Ka Mahabharat” (in Hindi this means “Today’s Mahabharat”). 

I tell you, never before and never after, this multi-hero-heroine story was built, understand?  Never before, never after, the multi-hero-heroine-villain-comedian story......!  The human mind can conceive a story means, one hero, one heroine, one villain, one comedian, or maximum two heroes, two heroines.  But, never, this large scale of multi-hero-heroine-villain stories have been built! 

Look at Mahabharata.  Who is the hero?  Yudhishtira?  No!  Arjuna?  No!  Pancha Pandavas, all five?  No, then what about Krishna?  Alright, Pancha Pandavas and Krishna.  No!  What about Bhishma?  Or Pancha Pandavas, Bhishma and Krishna?  What about Karna?  In what way he is less a hero?  Alright, Pancha Pandavas, Krishna, Karna, Bhishma.  Then what about Drishtadhyumna?  Is he not heroic?  What about Drona?  Drona’s history can be a separate book!  Yudhishtira’s can be a separate book!  Karna’s can be a separate book!  The multiple heroes, multiple hero-heroine-villain story which was never before or never after recorded so beautifully!  I will not want to say this story was “written”; I will only want to say this story is “recorded”!  Because, no human mind can conceive such a multiple layered story!  See, the modern-day very clearly proves, to conceive a multiple layered story, you need subtle grooves of your brain awakened.  When I read the story of Mahabharata, I am hundred-percent sure that in Vyasa all the subtle grooves of his brain have been awakened, all the non-mechanical parts of the brain have been awakened!  I think the whole of Vyasa’s body was brain!  Because, each character...!  Shikandi.....he (Vyasa) builds Shikandi’s character for three births!  And Shikandi is only one of the thousands of characters!  Who will you call as a hero?  Who will you call as a villain?  Can you say Shakuni is the villain?  No, then what about Duryodhana?  Can you say Duryodhana is the villain?  Then what about........

(break in transmission on eNTV at this point...........switched to Sadhna TV)

If Duryodhana, Dusshasana, Dhritarashtra, Shakuni, all of them were villains, then what about Ashwatthama?   Then what about Gandhari?  If Kunti and Gandhari are heroines, then what about Draupadi?  The multi-hero-heroine, multi-villain story which was neither conceived before nor conceived after!  And nobody is made as hero!  Everybody, everything is recorded, understand!  Nobody is shown as perfect.  The fradulences Krishna did, the cheap fraudulences are recorded.  When Krishna comes to know that on Amavasya Day if the war starts Duryodhana is going to win, he goes to the Ganga and starts giving “tarpana” (a ritual offered to the departed souls of ancestors on every Amavasya Day) even though it is not Amavasya.  The Sun and the Moon, Surya and Chandra get surprised!  They ask, ‘What is this?  Today is not Amavasya; but Krishna is giving tarpana!’  They run to Krishna and ask, ‘Bhagawan, what is this?  Why are you giving tarpana today?’    Then Krishna asks, ‘What is the meaning of tarpana?’  They reply, ‘Surya and Chandra (Sun and Moon) coming together!’  Krishna says, ‘So, now both of you have come together!  Amavasya!’  What a silly game for Bhagawan to play!  It is like a gurukul kid is trying to smoke a “beedi” (a type of Indian cigarette), and I go there and ask, ‘Why are you doing that?’, and that fellow says, ‘In your breathing space whatever is happening is a blessing.  So I am playing with it’!  What a silly game for Bhagawan to play!  But, I tell you, he is the greatest being!  Krishna you can never compare!

Never before nor after, a personality like Krishna happened who can play all the games!  He was neither integrated, with Integrity......  Krishna’s integrity, if I have to give marks for that, I will give zero!  No, really!  How many times he lied!  He tells Bhishma, ‘I will never pick up weapons.’, but gets into the war-field and picks up the chariot wheel, and technically justifies that chariot wheel is not a weapon!  He says, ‘Hey, come on!  There is a definition for “astra” (missile) and “shastra” (weapon).  Anything which stays in your hand and hurts the enemy is “shastra”.  Anything which goes from your hand and hurts the enemy is “astra”.  Technically, this (chariot wheel) is not astra or shastra.’  (Swamiji picks up a flask and says....) This is just a Can or Flask.  But can you use this and throw it on somebody and hurt that person?  (Yes, you can.)  Is this not an astra (missile) then?  How many adharmas!  You pick up a chariot wheel, and anything which gets into your finger is Sudarshana?  And he (Krishna) says, ‘No, technically it is not a weapon’!  And when he has to kill Jayadratha, he covers the whole Sun!  Arrey, if you are going to use all these powers to kill the poor human-beings, then you could have killed in one blow – ‘Come on, Tsunami!’  Over!  He played with all the powers in an amazing way!  You cannot explain it!  You cannot give any meaning.  You cannot give any reason.  Only when you bow down you understand this Leela (divine play).  Only when you surrender, you understand this Leela. 

Forget about Krishna’s Integrity, even Yudhishtira’s Integrity was broken.  When Drona was killed, Yudhishtira tells a lie, understand?  May be, as per the letter he has not lied; but as per the spirit he has lied. 

So, nobody was forcibly made as hero.  Everything was recorded as it is.  Krishna ran away from the war-field; not in the Mahabharata, but earlier.  Everything is recorded clearly.  He was never shown as a falsified, macho hero.  Whatever has happened, as it is, it is recorded.  And same way, just because Karna was in the villain’s team, he was not shown as villain.  All his beautiful qualities have been described.  And each character...!  See, Surya’s bio-memory is “causelessly giving”.  Karna (who is Surya’s son) is carrying that bio-memory.  Even when he (Karna) knows this giving is going to be taking away his life, when he gave his “Kavacha Kundala” (armour and ear-ring) to Indra, he knows he is dead.  When he gave his “punyas” (merits) to Krishna, he knows he is dead.  No one other than Karna can give so many times his life! 

It was not Dharma Yuddha (righteous war), let us be very clear!  How many hundreds of times, this side and that side (Pandavas and Kauravas), both of them have broken all the rules?  As per the law, in the night you cannot fight.  On the thirteenth day of the war, at night, Karna enters into the whole camp of Pandavas, and Ghatotkacha (Bhima’s son) demolishes the whole Kaurava’s camp.  Even Yudhishtira allowed it!  Neither Karna cared for the law, nor Yudhishtira.  Neither Karna nor Yudhishtira followed the rules.  It was not Dharma Yuddha.  Vyasa is not trying to make it as Dharma Yuddha.  He records it.  He records everything.  Other than the people who are cooking and feeding, other than that camp – it was recorded by Vyasa, that a Dravidian king, Chola Raja, takes the responsibility of feeding both the camps; he (the king) says, ‘I won’t be part of the war, but I will be feeding both sides’ – other than his camp, the whole thing was destroyed.

And the story says..... (satsangh goes off air on Sadhna TV....switched to eNTV...)

Physically handicapped people, children, all of them were enrolled into the war!  In some places, even women!  So, understand, it was not a Dharma Yuddha.  I will not give the title “Dharma Yuddha” for it.  When vengeance takes over, both sides lose their cool.  I will only say, even Yudhishtira became a terrorist.  When he started the war, it was for dharma.  After a few days, see, once you are into the war, now it is only a game of survival.  Even Yudhishtira lost all the values in the game of survival.  And as per the law, you cannot hit below the hip.  Duryodhana was killed by breaking his thigh (which is below the hip).  When his thigh was broken, the excessive bleeding killed him.  That was not allowed (hitting the thigh) under the tradition, understand! 

Every death, whether on the Kaurava’s side or Pandava’s side, was done adharmically (unrighteously, by trickery).  Even Bhishma’s death!  A transgender is not allowed to fight in the war.  You should not send your arrows towards a transgender.  In Hindu Tradition, there is a law, neither verbally nor physically can you abuse a transgender.  It is the tradition.  You cannot abuse.  So, Bhishma is a dharmic guy; he will not shoot his arrows towards Shikandi (a transgender warrior on the Pandava’s side).  Arjuna uses that as a weakness.  The other person’s dharma should never be used as a weakness to attack.  Never, ever, the other person’s dharma should be used as weakness.  But, Arjuna uses!  And, even then, they were not able to defeat Bhishma.  Then Krishna directly gets into the field and picks up the chariot wheel to attack Bhishma.  Then Bhishma bows down to Krishna and says, ‘O, Bhagawan, if you want me to die, tell me; now I will drop my weapon.’  When Bhishma was worshipping Krishna (bowing down to Krishna), Krishna shows the eyes to Arjuna (gestures with his eyes to Arjuna), and Arjuna kills Bhishma!  It may be Krishna, but still I am not able to digest!       

Same way, Abhimanyu (Arjuna’s son) on this side.  A fourteen-year-old kid, seven warriors – Duryodhana, Karna, Shakuni, Dusshasana.........around him.  As per the dharma, only one person can fight with one person.  Seven big warriors, one is with elephant, one is with chariot, one is with gadha (mace).  He (Abhimanyu) is on the ground.  Seven warriors together killed him!  So, where is dharma here?  It is crooked terrorism!  But Vyasa is not trying to make it as dharma by painting.  I can say, Vyasa is the greatest, juiciest, unbiased historian.  He records the whole thing.  He does not care about how the future is going to respond to it.  He does not care about how the future is going to look at it.  He does not have a vested interest.  If you read what Krishna did on the tenth day, you won’t have respect to read the Bhagavad Gita.  But Vyasa does not care; he does it, he records it. 

And, same way, Drona was killed by putting him into a powerless space by telling lies.  Krishna knows his root-pattern, Drona’s root-pattern.  He triggers his root-pattern.  So, when the root-pattern is triggered, your muscle, the whole body loses its strength.  Then he (Krishna) tells Arjuna, ‘Come on, hit, kill him!’  For a Vysya (trader, business man), poverty will be the root-pattern.  For a Kshatriya (warrior, ruling class), powerlessness will be the root-pattern.  For a Brahmana (teacher class), keeping the tradition alive will be the root-pattern.  As an enlightened being, I don’t have any root-pattern; but if you ask which will be the most important thing for me, it will be keeping the tradition alive; but I am doing this out of powerfulness!  But, unfortunately, Drona has this one root-pattern: he wants to keep the tradition alive by keeping his son (Ashwatthama) alive; that one root-pattern. 

And Ashwatthama!  Oh, God!  If I have to give an award for “Rowdy No.1”, I will give Ashwatthama only that award!  Because, after the whole war is over, he goes and kills five kids of the Pandavas in the night!  The war is over.  On the eighteenth day, the war is over.  Duryodhana is dead.  But, it took three-and-a-half days for Duryodhana to die.  His thigh is broken.  And he is in a coma.  Three-and-a-half days it takes for excessive bleeding to happen for him to die.  He is left to die.  In the night, Ashwatthama gets into the camp of the Pancha Pandavas who are celebrating victory, goes secretly in the night and kills all the kids of the Pandavas.  In the night! 

Please understand, now I am describing the complexity of the Mahabharata; I am not disrespecting any character, be very clear.  I am not disrespecting anybody.  All I am trying to tell is, the complexity of the life is captured as it is, and that itself is not a small joke, because human-beings are always trained to edit others’ and their life.  You don’t want to see a person’s paradoxical dimensions and complexities, because you don’t want to see your complexities and paradoxical dimensions.  If you cannot be complete with your paradoxical complexities and dimensions, you will never have the intelligence to handle people who come in your life.  So, Mahabharata should be studied as it is.  I wanted to make Mahabharata as a syllabus for our gurukul kids.  NDTV’s Ramayana and Star TV’s Mahabharata.  Please understand, I am even giving the version!  All our gurukul kids should study these two.  We should even have examination on who is who, what is what.

Vyasa has not done any make-up to anybody.  He has not done any make-up to anybody.  If he wanted to do make-up, he could have hidden Yudhishtira’s only one mistake, only one lie.  Krishna you cannot hide!  Every fellow Krishna killed, it is only through conspiracy.  But, at least Yudhishtira’s one lie, he (Vyasa) could have hidden; but he didn’t!

How the whole characters, the complicity, complexity of the multiple characters, how Karna was killed!  God!  Much, much, much before Karna joins the Kaurava’s camp, when he is studying in the gurukul of Parashurama, Krishna goes as a bee and starts eating his (Karna’s) thigh, makes him bleed, and makes him get the curse of Parasurama.  First, he does not even know whether Karna is going to join Arjuna’s side or the Kaurava’s side.  Then, next, Krishna sends Kunti to ask two boons from Karna that he will not kill any of the Pandava’s other than Arjuna and that he will not use the Naga Astra (a deadly missile) a second time.  When Karna gave these boons, he knows he is dead.  Third, Krishna sends Indra to take off his (Karna’s) Kavacha (armour) and Kundala (ear-ring).  Karna knows if he gives his Kavacha Kundala, he is dead; but still he gives.  Then, fourthly, he (Krishna) himself goes and asks Karna for all his punyas (merits).  Karna knows if he gives, he is dead; but still he gives.  I tell you, Bhagawan himself has to come down and do so many things to kill a person!  I tell you, Karna is the biggest hero in the whole story!  Disowned by his mother (Kunti), left in a driver’s (charioteer’s) house, but learnt everything in his own way, self-mastery, and got the recognition in his own way! 

I don’t know how many days I will take to describe the complexity of the Mahabharata, from how many dimensions!  Not a single guy was killed this side or that side (Kaurava’s side or Pandava’s side) dharmically; that much I can be sure!  But when you read the whole thing, you are just awestruck!  ‘Wow! What a civilization!  What a civilization!’  Complexity of life!

It is not that the death of Abhimanyu was illegal or adharmic.  The next day Karna’s son, he was also a thirteen-year-old kid, he was brought to the war-field just to give him an experience of the war-field.  He didn’t even come to watch the war.  But the moment Krishna sees him, he engages two-three people to fight with Karna and separates the child from Karna, from Karna’s chariot, and makes Arjuna kill the kid.  That kid has intuition power.  So, before dying, he addresses Arjuna as “chitthappa”, means younger brother of father (in Tamil).  When he screams, he screams “chitthappa”.  Arjuna could not understand this logically, but his whole heart falls into depression.  His whole bio-memory knows the child is his brother’s son.  His logic does not know.  So he comes back with unimaginable depression.  And, Krishna, who knows the whole secret, without telling the secret consoles him, saying, ‘No, no, no, in the war-field this all is okay.’  Arjuna asks Krishna later on, ‘How did you hide this, such a big truth?’  He even goes to the extent of saying, ‘You Yadava! (Krishna belonged to the Yadava Kula, the cowherd race).  You planned and killed the Kauravas, destroyed the whole vamsha (clan)!  If we had known Karna was our elder brother, we would not have fought!’  Krishna says, ‘That is why I did not let you know!’

Jayadratha’s killing!  Krishna covers the Sun (with the Sudarshana Chakra creating the illusion of sunset).  Because sunset has happened, Jayadratha comes out (of the protective formation shielding him).  He (Jayadratha) tells Arjuna, ‘Come on, now the Sun has set.’ (meaning, you can’t fight now as the sun has set, so drop your arms).  Krishna immediately removes the Sudarshana Chakra (to reveal the Sun still shining) and says (to Arjuna), ‘Come on, kill him now!’  And Arjuna cuts Jayadratha’s head! 

And the way the whole story has happened!  But one good thing: Vyasa is such an unbiased historian who recorded the whole history as it happened.  The Mahabharata is like an ocean.  If you understand the Mahabharata, you will understand the complexity of personalities, or the complexity of you.  You will never try to have hatred or denial to some part of you.  And you will never have the hatred or denial towards some part of others.  You will understand how to handle the whole life as it is.

With this, I move to Kalpataru.  Today’s process also is the essence of today’s satsangh:  Complete with your SDHD (Self-Doubt, Hatred, Denial) and accept all your complexities and paradoxes.  Some parts of you which you hate, or powers and powerful parts of you – if you hate your anger, you are not allowing that to become compassion, if you hate some components of you, you are not letting that transform, understand? 

So, sit straight, close your eyes.  Complete with your whole being. Accept with your whole intelligence.  Complete with all the SDHD (Self-Doubt, Hatred, Denial).  Accept yourself with yourself.  Namah Shivaya!

KALPATARU MEDITATION IN PROGRESS....................

Relax.  I bless you all!  Let the space you created become reality!

Now the people who are here in Haridwar for darshan, you will have darshan.

I bless you all!  Let you all radiate with Integrity, Authenticity, Responsibility and Enriching, with eternal bliss, Nithyananda!  Thank you!

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