19th June 2014 / Thursday
MORNING SATSANGH BY PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA – BIDADI, THURSDAY, 19 JUNE 2014 – NOTES
Nithyanandeshwara Samaarambhaam
Nithyanandeshwari Madhyamaam |
Asmath Aachaarya Paryanthaam
Vandhey Guru Paramparaam ||
I welcome all the devotees, disciples, samajis, satanghis, Shrimahants, Mahants, Kotharis, Thanedars sitting with us all over the world through Nithyananda TV, Sadhna TV, and two-way video-conferencing having Nayana Deeksha.
The cities sitting with us in two-way video-conferencing having Nayana Deeksha: New Zealand-Adi Arunachalam, Austin-Texas, Bangalore-Malleshwaram, Grasse-France, High Point-North Carolina, Hong Kong-Sirkazhi, Jorpati-Nepal, London-Kashi, Coimbatore-Dhyanapeetam, Oman-Sivagangai, Guadeloupe-Rameshwaram, Houston-Texas, Nithyananda University-Los Angeles, Nithyananda University-Paris, Kuala Lumpur-Palani, St. Louis-Tirumala, Ohio-Prayag, Oklahoma-Somanatham, Seattle-Chidambaram, Simi Valley-California, Singapore-Singapuram, Toronto-Kailasam, Vancouver-Bhubaneshwar, Bangalore-Hebbal, Jorpati-Nepal...........
I welcome all of you with my love and respects.
First, a few words about these bhajans. Understand, only when you involve yourself in it, anything becomes spiritual practice. Ramakrishna says beautifully, ‘Under a tree if you stand and clap, all the birds will fly away. Same way, the mind filled with incompletions, if you clap and sing the divine name, all the incompletions will fly and go away!’ Mind is like a tree, all the incompletions are the birds; if you clap and sing the name of the Lord, all the incompletions will fly away and leave you complete. It will leave you in the space of Completion.
Understand, how much ever you are struggling through the spiritual teachings to chisel you, how much ever you are struggling with the Advaithic teachings to chisel you.... See, for example, every day you will be chiselling, Guru will be chiselling. So, in the parts where the chiselling has happened, pain will be there. Bhajan is the healing medicine for that! The part where chiselling has happened, where the pain is there, where the wound is open, bhajan is the healing medicine for that. It heals. It goes on healing, healing, healing.
Understand, sometimes for your mind to heal, recuperate, rejuvenate, and start running, you need the strength of the sacred sentiments, strength of the belief and the feeling that the divine is with you, that connection is supporting you, the unknown is protecting you, God is available to you. Bhajan will give you that experience. Kirtan will give you that experience. That is why Jnana Sambandhar beautifully sings:
ஆடி பாடி அண்ணாமலை கை தொழ
ஓடி போம் நமது உள்ள வினைகளே
“Aadi paadi Annamalai kai thozha,
oadi pom namadhu ulla vinaigaley.”
Exactly as Ramakrishna said..... No, I should say, as Jnana Sambandhar said Ramakrishna said, because Ramakrishna is much junior. The exact words: ‘When you sing and dance and worship Arunachala, the incompletions in the heart will disappear.”
ஆடி பாடி அண்ணாமலை கை தொழ
ஓடி போம் நமது உள்ள வினைகளே
“Aadi paadi Annamalai kai thozha,
oadi pom namadhu ulla vinaigaley.”
When you sing and dance...... See, this line needs to be understood very deeply. The words, if you understand Tamil, you will understand. He is not saying, “அண்ணாமலை அடி தொழ” – “Annamalai adi thozha”; he is saying, “அண்ணாமலை கை தொழ”– “Annamalai kai thozha”. It means, when you sing and dance and worship God, you will have tremendous friendliness. Only with friend you will hold hand. With Lord you will hold the feet. You will experience tremendous friendliness. That is why he says, “Annamalai kai thozha”. See, usually, when you meet your friend you will hold his hand, and when you meet the Lord you will hold His feet. But here he says, singing and dancing will make you radiate so much of friendliness, even if you meet God you will hold His hand! You will radiate so much of friendliness, He will radiate so much of friendliness! That is the reason I introduced this kirtan.
Even though we have this kirtan tradition for the last....the moment.....from the time I started my public life we have had kirtan; we always use recorded CDs. Because of a few people’s horrible voice, in the beginning, I said, ‘Enough! HAHAHAHAHA! Let us have recorded CDs.’ But, because of that, we also made the mistake of never training people. So, that is why I decided I will bear for a few days! However it is, I will bring up all my patience! HAHAHAHAHAH! Because, we need to train people. Otherwise in Arunachala’s history, there is a story that a king was going around the hill on a horse and the horse got enlightened! Same way, the CDs and the speakers may get enlightened! I don’t want just the audio system and CDs to get enlightened. I want you guys to get enlightened. And, even now, the way you are going, the singers only will get enlightened. You also should be part of it. The lyrics should be designed in such a way that people also are able to sing along with it, be part of it. And only then it becomes a spiritual practice for you.
Please understand, understand this truth. I have two parts in me:
· Which is known to you, what you call as “Nithyananda”;
· Which is unknown to you but known to me; you call it as “Shiva”, “God”, understand? Because that is known to me, I am enlightened. It is still unknown to you, so you call that part as “God”.
At some time, when the known, what you call as “Nithyananda” is not enough for you to rest in the state of Advaitha, you may need that unknown support, you may need to heal yourself in that unknown. Bhajan will help you in a big way to heal yourself, to soak yourself in that unknown.
I really wanted all of you to get involved all over the world and make in each of your temples, your Centres, your ashrams, a bhajan group. It is possible! It is possible! And, by depending on the recorded audio CD from the beginning, the plus point is we had beautiful bhajans, kirtans; the minus point is we forgot to train people. Now with the live bhajan, the plus point is we will train people; the minus point is, a few days we will have to bear all their training! HAHAHAHA! I think that is okay! That’s okay! Any one day or the other we will have to have this training; otherwise it is only the audio system which will be getting liberated! I don’t want just the audio system to get liberated.
Today is Kaalabhairava Ashtami. Every month Ashtami. So, from today, with the auspiciousness presence of Kaalabhairava, let us start this project of havaing bhajan teams all over the world. Each temple should start developing your own bhajan team. Each ashram should start developing your own bhajan team. The lyrics can be developed from here and sent. Just like the ISKCON bhajan team, kirtan team, you should develop the Nithyananda Kirtan Team all over the world. “Shivoham” and “Nithyanandoham” – this should be our Maha Mantra, Maha Vaakya. Just like ISKCON sang “Hare Rama Hare Krishna” in 108 tunes, our team should chant this “Shivoham” and “Nithyanandoham” in 1008 tunes! Just like Jnana Sambandhar was given a golden cymbal by Mahadeva, all the kirtan singers will be given a golden cymbal by me. I will give a golden cymbal, gold-coated “thaallam”, cymbal, to the people who sing in a way which inspires everyone. You should use all types of instruments in large numbers and inspire people with varieties of tunes and music. And no East or West bar for us; you can use the coconut shell of South Africa and guitar from Hollywood....anything!
Just yesterday in Tirupati-Tirumala, I have seen a few Andhra villagers doing kirtan. Just a few minutes only they crossed. I saw one team dancing, another one team, when we were going for darshan, crossing us, a unique combination – one guy with a flute and ten people with cymbals, and different loud instruments, but all the loud instruments were not able to take over the sound of the flute! That was a rare combination! See, usually the mild instruments like flute or veena, it will get drowned in the sound of the wild instruments. The skin instruments, wild instruments, their music will be so loud, the mild instruments like Veena and all will be lost. But, yesterday, I saw a unique combination: The sound of the flute was so beautifully high, and all the other instruments were just supporting, it was not drowned at all! So, we have amazing village combinations, Indian village combinations. You can use anything from Indian village combinations to Western fusion to enrich the world with naama sankirtan, Nithyananda Kirtan.
I wanted this also to be part of our Gurukuls, Nithyananda Bala Vidyalaya, from the context. Understand, I am clearly explaining the context. The context needs to be understood completely. I am explaining the context now. Any music, from which plane it comes out, it will take you to that plane. If a singer is screaming from lust, it will raise you to the space of lust, or push you to the space of lust. If the singer is screaming from fear, it will take you to that adrenalin release, fear kick. If a singer is singing from love, it will take you to the space of love. I wanted all of you to sing from the space of Ananda Gandha, Advaitha, so that you and everyone who hears, the whole group experiences Advaitha.....the whole group experiences Advaitha.
Kirtana, kirtan to experience Advaitha, kirtan to radiate Completion, from this context the bhajans and kirtans should become part of our Sangha. In all our gurukuls, all ashrams, all temples, kirtan should become part of our lifestyle. Kirtana should become part of our lifestyle. Even if you are sitting, your whole body should be dancing! Your whole body should be involved in that sound. Kirtan never happens like........ (Swamiji imitates a bored, uninvolved, disinterested singer). No! It never happens in that way. It should move the whole body, the whole mind, the whole being. Jnana Sambandhar’s instruction is: “ஆடி பாடி அண்ணாமலை கை தொழ” – “Aadi paadi Annamalai kai thozha”. He says sing and dance. Every day if you don’t get time to dance, at least in the sitting posture your body should be alive with the mantra, with the sound, with those words. You may not be standing, you may be sitting; but even in the sitting, the body should be dancing along with the singing. Sing with your whole voice; body should be allowed to move with the whole voice, sound. Kaalabhairava is Lord of Dance. Mahadeva is Lord of Dance.
Just yesterday, see, when we were discussing about today’s Kaalabhairava Ashtami.... Actually, today is every month Kaalabhairava Ashtami. Yesterday, suddenly we found out, every year in the Maargazhi month, Ashtami, the Krishna Paksha Ashtami is the day Kaalabhairava appeared. Suddenly we found out I happened exactly on the same day which is Maargazhi month, Krishna Paksha Ashtami! On the day exactly Kaalabhairava happened in the body; means, Mahadeva did the action of cutting the Head of Brahma and giving him enlightenment. Giving enlightenment to Brahma means giving enlightenment to the whole universe, because Brahma is the Creator. If the Creator gets, the whole world gets. Giving enlightenment to Brahma happened on exactly Maargazhi month, Krishna Paksha Ashtami. Because we celebrate my birthday always based on “nakshathra” (birth star), we never remembered the “thithi”. Only yesterday, when we were discussing, we remembered the “thithi”, exactly it is the same. Now we have answers for many questions! So many puzzles fall in place!
Make kirtan as your lifestyle. Make kirtan as your lifestyle. The kirtan lyrics also should be written in such simple words, it should not be complicated. I wanted it to be composed in simple Sanskrit where only two words, or maximum three words, three words and three verses. Then people should be allowed to repeat those three words. I myself will compose a few lyrics. It should become part of our lifestyle. It should become part of our lifestyle. Even though we know the importance of kirtan from the beginning, unfortunately we didn’t give time and attention to develop the right team. Gurukul, by the time I come back, I wanted Gurukul to start doing morning kirtans full-fledged, with all the musical instruments! You should compose your own lyrics, you should sing, you should have your own instruments. Gurukul....ready? (Gurukul kids: Yes!) Done!
So, in the next few days, I will be going around all over Tamil Nadu accepting Pada Pujas in many devotees’ houses. About this going to the devotees’ houses, I wanted to say a few words. A house is a “ghataakaasha”. Listen! I wanted to clarify this truth once for all. We have Pancha Bhootas – Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space. Earth and Water, the gross elements, Earth and Water, the gross elements, are responsible for our health. Inside our body, the Earth element and Water element is responsible for physical health. Then Fire and Air. Inside our body, the Fire and Air is responsible for our mental health. Understand, the Space element which is inside us, that is where all our memories are stored. Thoughts are recorded and stored in our Space element. The house we live in is also space occupied in the house. Please understand, like in a pot, the space occupied inside the pot is called “ghataakaasha”, the space covered inside the pot. Same way, the space covered by the house is called “ghataakaasha”. Knowingly or unknowingly, consciously or unconsciously, the constant negative thoughts and lack of integrity, inauthentic ideas, thoughts you carry, in your house you release in that “Aakaasha” (space), and that gets recorded there and stays there. So, whenever you come back to the house, you catch that same sickness, understand? That is why people are many times afraid to enter their own house, because the moment they enter, ‘Oh God!’, it is like as if some old pattern has covered them like a layer. They just want to get out of their house as early as possible, because the “ghataakaasha” is completely corrupt, impure with all your fights and memories and what not. When the “ghataakaasha” is completely impure, whenever you go back, that impure blanket just covers you.
Understand, the mind you carry is “chidhaakaasha”, the house you have is “ghataakaasha”. If the “chidhaakaasha” is impure, this impurity gets stored in “ghataakaasha” and that makes you more impure. It becomes like a vicious circle. You put your impurity on your house, and that house puts you in more impurity. It is like a pig makes a place dirty, and that dirt makes the pig more dirty! And pig and dirty, it becomes a pig pen! Pig makes the place dirty, the dirty place makes the pig more dirty, and the more dirty pig makes the place more dirty, and the more dirty place makes the pig more and more dirty, and the more and more dirty pig makes the place more and more dirty! This is the vicious circle. How to break it? Some way you have to break! Two ways you can break it. One, your “chidhaakaasha”, bring that to an enlightened Master who is “mahaakaasha”, understand? “Mahaakaasha” means, “the pure space”, “complete Completion”.
Yesterday I was discussing with my Mahants and Shrimahants, whoever goes into Completion or incompletion, goes up or down, whatever, it is one person’s Completion holding this whole Sangha together! It is one person’s Completion holding this whole Sangha together! Sometimes people go to the peak of ‘I am responsible for everything! I will become Mahant!’ And valley: ‘Let me die! What is the reason to live?’ You can be peak or valley, but one person’s Completion holds this, holds the whole Sangha together, alive, understand?
Please listen! The Master is “mahaakaasha”. If you bring your “chidhaakaasha”, means, your inner-space, and have one initiation, what happens in your “chidhaakaasha” you know that. Understand, cleaning up your “chidhaakaasha”, this is one way you can break that vicious circle. Sometimes, even if you clean up your “chidhaakaasha”, the moment you enter into your “ghataakaasha”, your house, the blanket is so thick it just envelopes you! You are back to square one! So, making the “mahaakaasha” enter into your “ghataakaasha” itself, means, literally giving Energy Darshan to your whole house, blasting, breaking the vicious circle, that vicious circle from both sides, clean up the “ghataakaasha” and clean up the “chidhaakaasha” at a time, and start the new possibility, you be in high energy so the house stores the high energy and that high energy makes you more high, and more high energy makes you more high, the more and more high energy makes the house more and more high. Breaking the vicious circle and putting you in the virtuous circle is what is “house visit” or receiving the Pada Puja in that space. So be very clear! Breaking this vicious circle of impurity in the “chidhaakaasha”, impacting the “ghataakaasha” from both sides is the purpose, context, reason why an enlightened being, an incarnation is brought to the house.
As I said, around four-and-a-half years ago I stopped going to devotees’ houses and accepting Pada Puja due to various, stupid, foolish fellows’ comments. Then I thought, just because of a few stupid fools, how can devotees lose? And, this is the purpose they comment! And if I stop going to devotees’ house, it is their success, these fools are successful then! No! That cannot be! That should not be! So I decided to accept, break around four-and-a-half years of non-attendance. First time I broke in Hyderabad and accepted four devotees’ houses Pada Puja. And even I was moved by the amount of joy brought in their beings! I felt that, ‘God! It is a long time I have withdrawn myself from people! That should not be! That should not be! I am here to radiate and go on giving, and I should do my job! Come what may, Sun should rise, lotus should bloom, peacock should dance, birds should sing.......and I should be radiating and giving! That cannot be withdrawn! That should not be withdrawn! That cannot be withdrawn! That should not be withdrawn!’ After four-and-a-half years, around twenty days of yatra all over Tamil Nadu and Karnataka! Bangalore also! May be, I will be stepping into Kerala also. One or two houses, or a few houses; I don’t know the exact number now. And I will be accepting a few Pada Pujas in Pondicherry also. I already accepted in Hyderabad. And, I will be accepting in Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Kerala and Karnataka, all the four States, in the next twenty days. It will be a lot of work, but it will be fun!
Almost twenty-five houses per day I will be visiting, morning four o’clock to night twelve-thirty or one o’clock. But, seeing the joy of the devotees, the bliss of the devotees, anything can be done to see you guys smile! Anything is worth to see you guys smile! I will go up to Kanyakumari I think after four-and-a-half years almost. May be after four years plus a few months, I am taking up this long drive yatra, blessing devotees everywhere, meeting up with devotees everywhere, bringing tremendous healing, love, bliss, joy. On the auspicious day of Kaalabhairava Ashtami starting! Loka Samastha Sukhino Bhavanthu, let everyone be blessed!
With this, we will move to the Kalpataru process.
All the participants who came for Kalpataru Darshan, please pick up paper and pen. Pen down one thought you want to create as reality, and all the incompletions you have around that thought. Please everyone sincerely, authentically do it.....including Swamis, Thanedars, Kotharis, Mahants.....sincerely do it! If you are already enlightened you don’t need to do it! Others, please sincerely do it.
(After a few minutes...........)
Please sit straight. Complete all your incompletions and drop. Hold the space for what you want to create as reality. Complete all the incompletions and drop. Hold the space for what you want to create as reality. Namah Shivaya!
KALPATARU MEDITATION IN PROGRESS...........
Thathaasthu! I bless you all! Whatever space you are holding, let it become reality! Whatever visualization you are holding, let it become reality! Thathaasthu!
We will have Kalpataru Darshan for all the participants who have come to Bidadi. And then a few minutes of SMK meeting we can have. Whoever SMK is available here....just a few minutes after the Kalpataru Darshan. That’s it!
I bless you all! Let you all radiate with Integrity, Authenticity, Responsibility, Enriching and Causing eternal bliss, Nithyananda! Thank you!
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