30th April

30th April 2014 / Wednesday

Nithyanandeshwara Samaarambhaam

Nithyanandeshwari Madhyamaam |

Asmath Aachaarya Paryanthaam

Vandhey Guru Paramparaam ||

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

Cities sitting with us in two-way video-conferencing: Los Angeles, Nithyananda University-Los Angeles, Nithyananda Nagaramu-Hyderabad, Nithyananda Nagar-Tiruvannamalai, Nithyananda Nagara-Bidadi, Simi Valley-California, Tiruvanmiyur-Chennai, San Jose-Madurai, Oklahoma-Somanatham, Singapore-Singapuram, Seattle-Chidambaram, Jorpati-Nepal, Houston-Kalahasti, Guadeloupe-Rameshwaram, Dakota Dunes, Hong Kong-Sirkazhi, Hyderabad-Gupta Kashi, Ohio-Ma Shivananda, London-Kashi, Tallahassee-Florida, Port Washington-New York, Toon Moon-Hong Kong, China, and.....Ananda Vana!

I welcome all of you who are here, visible to each other, and invisible to each other!

This place is Ananda Vana.  Varanasi is called as Ananda Vana, because it is Mahadeva’s quarters.  This is where he lives.  The first quarters he built for himself.  The first city he developed for himself!  Ananda Vana! 

All of you may be aware that the 26^th Inner Awakening is starting tomorrow in Ananda Vana, Varanasi.  And 23^rd eN-Genius.

Let me be very honest: Whenever I come to Varanasi, I feel like the owner!  That is the exact feeling!  Like a king, owner! 

This the place of Vishwanatha, Kaalabhairava. 

॥ नित्यमद्वितीयमिष्टदैवतंनिरंजनम् ॥

॥ Nithyam Adhwitheeyam Ishta Daivatham Niranjanam॥

Kaalabhairava, the space of eternal Advaitha. 

॥ नित्यमद्वितीयमिष्टदैवतंनिरंजनम् ॥

॥ Nithyam Adhwitheeyam Ishta Daivatham Niranjanam॥

Just when I was coming to the satsangh, I saw one of our devotees.  She was so excited!  Literally there itself she wanted to do Namaskar!  I said, ‘No, no, no!  It is a public place.  Let us go to the hall and do Namaskar!’  Then when we came to the hall, she did Namaskar.  I said, ‘Wait, wait, wait....hold on your excitement!’

When I enter into Kashi, I myself feel the same excitement.  I wanted to touch every stone, every tree, and do Namaskar to everything!  Kashi is Ananda Vana!

Swamiji to the devotee: Don’t worry, you have not done any mistake! 

She is not understanding what I am saying.  She was about to touch my feet.  All the Swamis who were there stopped her.  I also said, ‘Stop...don’t do!’  Because there were so many people there.  Then as I walked into the hall I said, ‘Now you can do Namaskar.’  Because I didn’t want people to say, ‘Oh, people fall at his feet on the road itself!’

This is Ananda Vana, this place!  Whenever I land in this place, this Kundalini goes crazy!  MY Kundalini itself!  And where it is I don’t know!  And the energy the body radiates!  So healthy it feels!  The whole inner-space, and the.....!  So, literally, the word “Ananda Vana” is true!  That is why this place melts away all the karmas!

Please understand, yesterday, yesterday evening, I can say, late evening, we were all having night out on the Ganga in a boat.  We all went to be with Ganga.  It was so nice!  And we did the formal Kashi Yaathra, which you are supposed to do from Assi to Varuna; that is called Kashi Pradakshina; means, going around.  All the Inner Awakening participants, don’t worry, you will also be doing that in the next few days.  And we were doing Rudrabhishekam.  After the Rudrabhishekam – I myself performed Rudrabhishekam for the Shivalinga which is supposed to go to Seattle; that deity I energized and did Rudrabbhishekam – after the Rudrabhishekam, I told our Swami to put the flowers and milk into the Ganga.  I saw, the moment he poured the flowers and milk into the Ganga, some thirty-forty bhootaas holding that!  Only very little fell on Ganga!  These fellows were holding and running, spilling here, there, here, there, that milk and flowers!  I was wondering what these fellows were doing. They are all Ganga cleaners.  They were all the conscious cleaners of Ganga.  They serve Mahadeva, means Kaalabhairava.  They serve Kaalabhairava, helping Kaalabhairava to keep the Ganga spiritually clean.  There are a few places where some of the worst sinners have taken bath.  These fellows are taking the milk and sprinkling it in all those places, those areas! 

Only in Varanasi the bhootas and prethas have the right to enter an enlightened Master’s energy field.  Otherwise, they cannot enter my energy field.  The moment they enter my energy field, they will be liberated!  So, they are all like Ishvara Kotis.  Kaalabhairava allows them to be in that shareera.  So, they never harm anybody.  They only serve.  Bhootas and prethas means the people who leave the body before the time they were supposed to leave the body.  And in Kashi these fellows get a special opportunity to serve Mahadeva, serve Kaalabhairava, like keeping the place clean, like scavengers, and keeping the unwanted fellows out of Varanasi.  The fellows who are not qualified to be in Varanasi, they keep them out.  And the people who are supposed to be in Varanasi, they send them here.  It is like cleaning and security job the bhootas and prethas do in Varanasi!

The whole Kashi is celebrating, understand that!  The whole Varanasi is celebrating!  All the gods, goddesses, Shiva Ganas, Shiva Bhootas, Shiva Bhaktas, all of them are celebrating!  I can only say, get ready to have the best spiritual blast!  And, anything else I say, you may think it is marketing.  And I don’t want you to have that cheap word “marketing” for Varanasi. 

I tell you, this is the most fascinating city in the world!  Here cows, bulls, dogs, beggars, dead bodies, snakes, all of us have to literally scratch each other while we walk, and that is the way we can survive!  That is the only way we can survive!  You will see the dead body’s cloth will be touching your body while you are walking!  Bulls and cows literally scratch you!  And dogs!  But, you know, none of them hurt each other!  It is like literally a miniature Cosmos!  Miniature Cosmos!  None of them hurt each other!  They all live together in such a small place....that main Varanasi.  The main Varanasi is the place they all live together.  It is a tradition that bulls don’t hurt anybody here.  And lizard will not make a sound!  And eagle will not fly in Varanasi!  Any flower you bring here in Varanasi will not have smell!  Because, all smell belongs to Kaalabhairava!  That is the tradition!

Sometimes people think....these stupid fellows they, seeing my devotion to Kashi, all this, they think, ‘He speaks so logically all the great principles like Advaitha and all that.  Why he is so irrational and superstitious about this Kashi?’  I want to tell those stupid fellows: ‘The real me, my love and devotion and belief and faith in all this, what you call as simple things, touching every stone in every street corner, in Vishwanatha Temple in Kashi, and every day sprinkling Ganga, sitting with Ganga, I will be most happy to do all this than anything else!’  I tell you, this is the real Nithyananda!  Even some of our devotees were not able to digest!  In Kashi, when any pillar, any stone I see, I do Namaskar!  ‘O Vishwanatha, Namaskar’!  HAHAHAHAHAHA!  Because, this city is not built out of stone or pillar or pole or any construction material.  This whole city is built out of all our intense, sincere, sacred sentiments!  Intense, sincere, sacred sentiments!  This whole Varanasi is built on sacred sentiments!  That is why Ramakrishna says it is a Golden City. 

We were publishing a special issue on Inner Awakening in sacred places – Varanasi, Haridwar.  In that, my editor, she has written about Manikarnika Ghat, saying, ‘This is the largest crematorium ground.  People burn their near and dear ones’ dead bodies here believing they will directly go to heaven or liberation.’  I immediately called her and said, ‘What do you mean?  You are a Communist organization or a Christian organization?  What do you mean by saying, “believing people will reach heaven or liberation”?  I told her, ‘Put it in affirmative and put my name as authority!’  Anybody burnt here is liberated immediately!  Mahadeva appears and initiates them, liberates them!  This is Avimuktha Kshetra – never forsaken, never given up!  Avimuktha Kshetra! 

This city is, Varanasi is literally like a Cosmos!  If you understand it, it is most fascinating.  You will see such a beautiful order in the chaos.  If you don’t, you will see so much of chaos even in the order!  If you don’t understand, it will be frustrating.  If you understand, this will be the most fascinating city! 

I think, the next twenty-one days, I am not going to speak about anything else other than the glory of Varanasi.  I don’t think anything will even come up in my mind or inner-space.  I can’t say “mind”, because I don’t have mind!  At least in my inner-space, I am going to be speaking only about Varanasi, Varanasi, Varanasi, Vishwanatha, Vishwanatha, Vishwanatha!

This city is older than history itself!  And far older than legends itself!  And still most fascinating!  If you are watching me, I tell you, just come!  I know, even now it is not too late!  Get up and be here!  I know, you may be thinking, ‘Every time Swamiji tells the same thing!  He goes to Kailash and says, “Get up and come!”  And he goes to Varanasi and says, ‘Oh, it is so nice here!  Please come!’  Anyhow...!  Inner Awakening in Varanasi is too much!  Varanasi itself is too much!  Inner Awakening is too, too much!  And Inner Awakening in Varanasi is too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too much! 

After the marriage of Parvathi, Mahadeva wants to stay with all the Ganas and Ganapathi, Subramanya, and everyone, the large beautiful community.  So, they all decided and chose this place, Varanasi, and settled down here.  Then after that only Ganga came and had darshan of Mahadeva.  Varanasi was older than Ganga.  At that time, this place was called Ananda Gandha, Ananda Vana.  And the word “Ananda Gandha” is used in our whole spiritual literature only once – by Adi Shankara, when he sings about Vishwanatha in Vishwanathashtakam.  He sings.  That time he uses the word “Ananda Gandha”.  And those days it was called Ananda Vana.  Then after Ganga came and had darshan of Mahadeva, Varuna and Assi joined, and it became Varanasi. 

I think, may be, one of my longest stays in this body in Varanasi is these next twenty-five days.  I am here in Varanasi twenty-five days!  Nothing much to tell than HARA HARA MAHADEVA!  It is a place to freak out!  No...really!  It is a place for spiritual freaks!  Actually, I can only define me as a spiritual freak!  That is the tradition of Paramahamsa.  Paramahamsa means “spiritual freak”!  That is the right translation of the word “Paramahamsa”.  So, this is the place to freak out!  All the spiritual freaks gather here.  The meaning of the word Shiva Gana is nothing but “spiritual freaks”.  This is the place where spiritual freaks gather.  It is not Vaikunta; it is Kailasha!  Mahadeva’s place Varanasi!  Of course, Vishnu is also here, but he also becomes one of the Shiva Ganas and spiritual freaks!  And even Vishnu applies Vibhooti and becomes spiritual freak here!  Here even Devi worships Mahadeva!

Ananda Vana!  Here even death is a liberation and celebration!  Even death is a liberation and celebration!  Among the seven Jeevan Mukthi Kshetras, this is the foremost!  Kashi is the foremost Jeevan Mukthi Kshetra!

Ananda Vana!  So, even now, Mahadeva relaxes and enjoys his own inner-space and glory, that Ananda Thaandava!  Celebrates his own existence!  How when you are in a high mood you take a selfie and put it in Facebook, same way, Vishwanatha is selfie of Mahadeva!  Vishwanatha and Kaalabhairava are selfie of Mahadeva!  Because he is in such an ecstasy, he took a selfie and posted it to all of us! That is Vishwanatha and Kaalabhairava!

And for all the Inner Awakening participants who have arrived here one day early, I have a special surprise for you guys.  Today I am going to take you guys to Ganga!  The programme starts tomorrow only.  But, today a personal, intimate time with Ganga!  Be ready to be here outside.  The organizers will announce the time.  Please all of you gather.  We will have a beautiful time with Ganga, and Ganga Arathi!  I was having some other plan, but I decided to accommodate and spend time with you guys.  This is a special gift from Ganga Ma to all of you for coming one day early.  I know the organizers will not be happy.  They have to prepare for tomorrow.  I know they already will be crying, ‘Oh God! Tomorrow.....’. But you guys have to co-operate and finish everything, the formal registration and everything.  You all finish and be ready to have time with Ganga and with the Master.

The first, the first human-being who started thinking is Kapila.  And he lived in Varanasi.  His Samadhi is in Varanasi.  He had his enlightenment, education, everything here.  His Samadhi is in Varanasi.  He is the founder of our Akhada, Mahanirvani Akhada.  And from Kapila the unbroken thought-current chain of eternal spiritual flow is available.  Still he himself is alive here.  Vishwanatha is alive here.  You will be surprised and shocked to know the devotion of Varanasi vaasis, Kashi vaasis, towards Vishwanatha!  Usually the local people will always take the deity and temple for granted.  But only here you will see, you will be shocked to see the devotion the Kashi vaasis, the locals carry, Kashiites carry for Vishwanatha!  He is the lifeline for them!  He is the lifeline for them!

The essence of today’s satsangh is:

Varanasi!  Varanasi, the place of Ananda Vana – blissful forest!  And place of spiritual freaks!  That’s all!

Today, I will directly give you the Kalpataru Darshan.  Whatever space you create, it will become reality!  Thathaasthu!  Thathaasthu!  Thathaasthu!

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

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