15th March :

15th March 2014 / Saturday

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Nithyanandeshwara Samaarambhaam

Nithyanandeshwari Madhyamaam |

Asmath Aachaarya Paryanthaam

Vandhey Guru Paramparaam ||

I welcome all the devotees, disciples, samajis, satsanghis, Bala Sants, sannyasis, Shrimahants, Mahants, Kotharis, Thanedars sitting with us all over the world through Nithyananda TV, Lotus TV, Janashree TV, Sadhna TV, Eshwar TV, and through two-way video-conferencing.

The cities sitting with us through two-way video-conferencing: Island Creek-North Carolina, New Zealand-Adi Arunachalam, Dakota Dunes, Houston-Kalahasti, San Antonio-Texas, Port Washington-New York, Hong Kong-Toon Moon, Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam-Hosur, Hyderabad-Gupta Kashi, Paris-Home Temple, London-Kashi, Bala Sannyasi Training Centre-Bidadi, Indira Nagar-Bangalore, Devon-UK, Dubai-Vaidyanatham, Jenkintown-Pennsylvania, Nithyananda Nagara-Bidadi,  Kulim-Tiruttani, Ohio-Prayag, Singapore-Singapuram, San Jose-Madurai, Johorbahru-Tiruchendur, Toronto-Kailasam, Oklahoma-Somanatham, New York-Varanasi, Annanagar-Chennai, Charlotte-Srisailam, Nithyananda Nagaramu-Hyderabad, Seattle-Chidambaram, St. Louis-Tirumala, Los Angeles-Arunachalam, Redondo Beach-Ma Mukthananda.....................

I welcome all of you with my love and blessings.

Oman-Sivagangai, I can see Oman-Sivagangai.  Blessings!

I welcome all of you with my love and blessings.

Today, I wanted to share these great few truths: The power of Creating Space.

Please listen!  The Power of Creating Space!  Especially, to all the participants who have gathered for Kalpataru in Haridwar and in Charlotte.....Haridwar and in Charlotte who have gathered for Kalpataru Darshan.....and Island Creek-North Carolina, both.

Please listen!  Listen!  Never make a decision when you are sad.  Never make a commitment when you are happy.  Listen!  No....you need to know!  This is the Science of Space!  The happiness you feel always brings powerfulness....the power.  Whenever you have power, powerful, parts of you itself cannot tolerate you being so powerful!  So it conspires, plans against you to somehow put you in powerlessness.  What is the best way to put you in powerlessness?  Make you commit into something.  Push you to commit into something.  So, whenever you are happy, don’t commit.  Keep this as an instruction from the Science of Space, understand?  Whenever you are sad, don’t make decisions.  Only when you are in the space of Completion, make commitment or make decision.  So, before every time you are going to make commitments or decision, bring yourself to the space of Completion – please listen – bring yourself to the space of Completion.   

See, sometimes you feel happy; you show happiness just to even avoid your powerlessness inside.  I am explaining your own struggles to keep yourself happy, and your own failures, how you fall into powerlessness.  You need to understand.  Every one of you try to keep you happy, but you don’t plan to grow the happiness in you.  You want rice, wheat, all the grains, but you don’t want to do agriculture!  You want rice, grain, wheat, all the best things, but you don’t want to do agriculture!  All of you want joy, happiness – please listen – but instead of growing it out of Completion space, from the space of Completion, you try to get it..........

(At this point, an honoured guest makes an entry into the satsangh hall.......)

I will request every one of you to bear with this interruption.  A senior Mahamandaleshwar from Juna Akhada, Arjun Puri Maharaj is coming.  We will receive him and then we will continue the satsangh.

(Arjun Puri Maharaj enters the satsangh hall and takes his seat.......)

Yes....I just wanted to offer our respects to Maharaj Shri Shri 1008 Mahamandaleshwar of Juna Akhada, Shri Arjun Puri Maharaj.  You all need to know, Swamiji is the senior-most Mahamandaleshwar in this whole Pancha Puri, Haridwar-Rishikesh.  Swamiji is one of the important sadhus of Hinduism.  And Swamiji just walked in to be with us!  We thank Swamiji for coming and blessing us and gracing us.  It is so nice to see him. 

I am really happy, and I wanted all our devotees and satsanghis to be complete.  Don’t think that satsangh has been interrupted.  You don’t know what a blessing it is when these great sants, Mahatmas, walk in just to be with us and spend time and bless us! 

And Swamiji didn’t even bother about any protocol and all that.  Usually, among the sants, the way they are received with protocol and all that.....everything is co-ordinated.  Swamiji just said, ‘I will spend a little time with you all.’ 

He is Head of the largest temple in Haridwar, the Tulsi Manas Mandir.  Swamiji is Head of the temple.  And he has a great Guru Parampara (lineage of Gurus).  And he has done amazing contributions to Hinduism.  And I can go on expanding Swamiji’s contribution and how much he has contributed and sacrificed for Hinduism! 

Swamiji has built a huge Rama Temple on the banks of the Ganga.  Just on the way you can see.  Not only he has a great Guru Parampara and Sampradaya (tradition), he himself has also contributed to Hinduism. 

I would like to request Swamiji to bless us, and then I will continue the satsangh. 

I also wanted to take this moment to sincerely welcome Swamiji.  And I also apologize to Swamiji....I think we are not completely prepared.....and if we miss the honour and respect supposed to be given to Swamiji, we sincerely apologize.  And we sincerely thank him for his presence.  And we are grateful to Swamiji for his presence. 

SWAMIJI SHRI ARJUN PURI JI MAHARAJ ADDRESSES THE GATHERING:

Everybody chant with me: Hari Om!  Hari Om!  Hari Om!  (All the satsanghis in Haridwar chant “Hari Om” along with Swamiji Arjun Puri ji.....)

Namo Brahmanya Devaaya

Go Braahmana Hithaaya Cha |

Jagat Hithaaya Krishnaaya

Govindaaya Namo Namaha ||

(Vishnu Purana: 1.19.65)

(Salutations to the Lord Who is of the Nature of Supreme Consciousness,

And the Friend and Benefactor of the Cows and the Brahmins |
Salutations to the Lord Who is the Friend and Benefactor of the Whole World;

Salutations to Sri Krishna; Salutations to Sri Govinda;

Salutations, Salutations to Him again and again ||)

Akhanda Mandalaakaaram

Vyaaptham Yena Charaacharam |

Tatpadham Darshitham Yena

Thasmai Shree Guravey Namaha ||

(I prostrate to the Sadguru by whom the whole world, comprising of unbroken consciousness,

is pervaded and filled through and through in every moving and unmoving object |

Sublime salutations to the Guru who is established in That,

and who has awakened me to its realization ||)

Respected, world-renowned Mahamandaleshwar Swami Nithyananda Maharaj, and devotees who have come from India and abroad, I welcome you to Haridwar.

(Our Swamiji, Paramahamsa Nithyanda explains: Swamiji is welcoming all of us to Haridwar.  Actually Swamiji is the face of Haridwar!  He is the most senior Mahamandaleshwar who resides in Haridwar.)

Swami Arjun Puri continues his address which is translated by Turiya Swami:

Haridwar is a Kumbh Nagari (City of Kumbh Mela).  The beginning of Kumbh happened here.  Haridwar is a city on the banks of the Ganga.  This is a great Tapo Bhoomi (Land of Penance and Sadhana).  Ever part of this land is blessed and divine – Gangotri, Badrinath, Kedarnath, Yamunotri.  This is the land of Shiva.  Shiva resides here.  The Himalayas are here.  And this is a blessed land. 

This is the land of Lord Shiva.  Lord Vishnu also resides here as Badrinarayan.  And this is the land of the birth of Ganga.  The Ganga River is the very essence of India.  Without Ganga, Indian culture and heritage cannot be imagined.

This is Haridwar.  “Hari” means Vishnu, Narayan.  And “dwar” means gateway.  This is the “Gateway of God”.  “Hari” means God, and “dwar” means gate.  So, “Haridwar” literally means “The Gateway of God”.

In this sacred land, Swamiji (Nithyananda) by inviting all of you to this great, blessed land, has given a great blessing to all of you.

Swamiji is a very great Mahamandaleshwar of our Mahanirvani Akhada.  He is a great Guru.  You are really blessed to have the satsangh of Swamiji in this program. 

I am also very happy that such a real saint as Swamiji has come to this Pancha Puri land, Haridwar, and started his sadhana here, got the program here in this blessed land.  I am very happy to see all of you here, and Swamiji here.

The goal of human life is to achieve “Moksha” – liberation.  Many people think that once you leave the body (once you die), you are given Moksha (liberated).  But what happens after you leave the body nobody knows!  So, the best way to achieve Moksha, liberation, is to achieve it when you are alive and in the body.

Tulsidas (a great saint of India who wrote the “Ramcharitmanas”) says in the Ramayana that Moksha is the goal of life....and Moksha happens only with knowledge....and knowledge can happen only with a Sadguru.  Without Guru, it is not possible to get knowledge at all.  For everything, for learning everything, whether it be a simple science or great science, you need a Guru.  All of you are very fortunate that Nithyananda Swamiji is your spiritual guru. So, all of you are very lucky. 

Swamiji started his spiritual journey at a young age.  From a very young age Swamiji has been doing tapas, sadhana.  And he way he is blessing us all in India and blessing all around the world, it is really great!

Sant Tulsidas says, unless you have a strong body, you cannot attain knowledge.  So, to attain knowledge, you have to keep your body very strong and healthy.  And to keep your body strong and healthy, you have to practice Yoga.  If the body is healthy, your mind and intelligence, both will be healthy.  And if your mind is healthy, you will have concentration in spiritual practices and the words of the Guru.  So, you HAVE to keep your body healthy. 

Today, the whole world is standing at the brink of war.  There is so much chaos. Everybody is looking for peace.  But how this peace can happen?  It can happen only through knowledge and the satsangh of the Guru.  Everybody is searching for peace and knowledge; but this can happen only through the Sadguru.

When you join a University, immediately you can’t expect to get a degree.  You have to go through the classes, years of training and studies, and only at the culmination of the course you are awarded a degree.  Same way, when you start your spiritual practice, when you do your sadhana, do not expect results in a day or two.  You will have to continuously do sadhana; only then you will get results.  And, if the teacher is good, the journey will be easier, faster.  You are fortunate, you have a great teacher.  You are fortunate you have a great Guru like Nithyananda Swamiji to guide you in your sadhana.

I pray to the Lord for all of you, that all of you achieve your spiritual success.  You have come to the right place, to Paramahamsa Nithyananda.  One thing I want to tell you: DON’T CHANGE YOUR GURU AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!  You have come to the right place; so DON’T LEAVE THIS PLACE!

I pray to God that all of you achieve your spiritual success at the earliest.

Everybody wants happiness and bliss.  But how to get it and what is the sign of somebody who is really happy and blissful?  The sign of somebody who is really happy and blissful is, he will always have an everlasting smile on his face!  Swamiji Nithyanandaji has always a smile on his face!

Swamiji Nithyanandaji is like my younger brother.  Swamiji has become a Mahamandaleshwar.  I have been a Mahamandaleshwar for the last thirty-two years.  So, I am very happy that our community (community of saints, Sant Samaj) has such a great “Navaratna” like Swamiji Nithyanandaji as Mahamandaleshwar! (Navaratna = nine precious gems extolled in Indian tradition).  I travel all across the world.  Wherever I go, I get to hear Swamiji Nithyanandaji’s name everywhere!

The place where I stay, that road is Sapta Sarovar Road (Sapta Sarovar = Seven Lakes).  Seven Rishis stayed there.  When the river Ganga descended from the Himalayas, she travelled very aggressively, fast and furiously to Haridwar.  And when she reached Haridwar, she split into streams, and then only she got rest.  How she got rest, I will tell you.

When Ganga came down to Haridwar and saw the Sapta Rishis (the seven rishis) meditating there, Ganga thought she should go around all the seven saints to pay her respects, and so she split into seven different streams.  So, obviously, when she split into seven streams, her speed came down.  So, after coming down from Gangotri, Ganga got rest in Haridwar.  So, this place is called Sapta Sarovar. 

On the same Sapta Sarovar Marg (Marg = Road), the area where Gangaji got rest, I have a temple called “Tulsi Manas Mandir” (Mandir = Temple).  This temple has amazing architecture.  And I want to invite Swamiji and all of you there.  Whenever you get time, whenever you can take some time off, please come and visit us.  I am sure, just like how Ganga got rest in Sapta Sarovar, same way all of you devotees also will get rest here. 

SWAMI ARJUN PURI JI MAHARAJ CONCLUDES HIS SPEECH.  AND PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA RESUMES HIS SATSANGH:

Thanks Swamiji! 

All of you should know, Swamiji (Arjun Puri ji) is not only an elder brother for me, he is an elder brother for so many of the Gurus here!  In Haridwar, in any spiritual function, he is given first preference!  I can actually go on appreciating and speaking about Swamiji’s glory for hours!  He is the most respected, senior-most spiritually venerated and revered Mahamandaleshwar.  As I said, he is the face of Haridwar! 

We are so happy, Swamiji just walked in!  So sweet and so nice of him!  He just walked in to spend time with us!  He just came in to spend time with us!  I am very happy to have Swamiji here, to host Swamiji here.  See, it is like when you become a teacher and start teaching your first class, suddenly your Principal walks into the class-room and sits!  I can say that is exactly the feeling I have!  When your Principal walks into the class-room to see what are you doing, what are you teaching, that is exactly how I feel!  I am very happy Swamiji walked in to bless all of us, to grace all of us in such a simple way!

Even the other day, if you had come to the Bhandara (spiritual feast offering free food) with me, you would have seen Swamiji (Arjun Puri Maharaj) was the first to be respected.  The whole Sadhu Samaj (Society/Community of Sadhus and Saints) respects Swamiji.  Swamiji says he got me as a “Navaratna” (one of the precious, fabled nine gems of Indian tradition); but, I say, he is the Crown!  He is the Crown on which all the Navaratnas have to sit!  He is the Crown! 

I am so happy Swamiji is here to bless us all, to grace us all today.  And I am feeling overwhelmed, feeling so joyful that I am accepted by the Sant Samaj of Haridwar.  I can say, these are all the happy moments for me and our Sangha!

So, now, the Swamis (our Nithyananda Order Swamis) will guide you into the Kalpataru process in Charlotte and in Haridwar.  Please go through the Kalpataru process.  I will just host Swamiji (Arjun Puri ji Maharaj) and come back to give you Kalpataru Darshan.  We will get back for Kalpataru Darshan.  Let us be here for the next session.  Thank you!

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