MORNING SATSANGH BY PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA – MONDAY, 22 DECEMBER 2014 – ANNOUNCEMENT
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MORNING SATSANGH BY PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA – BIDADI, FRIDAY, 21 NOVEMBER 2014
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 all over the world through Nithyananda TV and Sadhna TV, and two-way video-conferencing having Nayana Deeksha all over the world.
Cities sitting with us in two-way video-conferencing: Oklahoma, Houston, Toronto, Los Angeles Temple, Hyderabad-Gupta Kashi, Seattle, Scottsdale-Arizona, Varanasi, Pudukottai, Ohio, Surrey-Canada, Jorpati-Nepal, Colombo, Kuala Lumpur, Warrington, Guadeloupe, Singapore, Oman, Rajapalayam, Los Angeles-Hollywood, Grasse-Frances, Austin, Hong Kong.....and some more.......
I welcome all of you with my love and respects.
I have something important to tell you; that is why I have not read out all the cities’ names fully. It is just too overflowing! Today it was overflowing so much! Usually, when I sit for Puja and offer the flowers and fall into Samadhi, that is the time this downloading happens. Today the downloading was too much! Even my eyes became watery and started getting wet!
Listen! Just listen to these two words:
· Logic of experience; one word. We will call it “Experiential Logic”.
· The second word: Logic of multiplying, subtracting, adding, deleting. The “Logic of Calculation”. We will call that.....I will give a new name – “Exponential Logic”. Just by multiplying or subtracting exponentially, the logic applied uses the exponential levels.
Understand these two logics; you will understand how you are missing some of the greatest experiences of life by getting caught in a blind logic. It is like, instead of cooling glass (dark glasses), you are wearing complete no glass, just two black stones fixed in a frame! If you get two black stones fixed in a frame and wear it and think it is a cooling class and say, ‘The whole world has become dark!’, who is responsible? So, if you are using exponential logic for experiential matters and go on saying, ‘Experience is not happening!’, who is responsible?
Listen! Listen! This, today’s one satsangh alone is enough to give you the experience and cognition and clarity, Shivoham!
Listen! Listen sincerely! Nakkeeran (an ancient, famous Tamil poet who lived in the Pandya kingdom) argued in front of Mahadeva, knowing that who is standing in front of him is Mahadeva! I tell you, they both must have had some sweet relationship. I am giving you an insider’s secret. Otherwise, you will not have the guts to argue. ‘Even if I argue, whatever said and done, end of the day he will not forsake me, he will not give up on me. I am Avimuktha.’ The guy must have had that kind of a confidence that he is Avimuktha, because, earlier many times Nakkeeran was saved by Subrahmanya from demons, devils, rakshasis, one rakshasi. Lot of confidence in Nakkeeran that he is Avimuktha, never forsaken. Otherwise, he will not have the guts to argue with Mahadeva knowing that Mahadeva only has come! You need to have the story line.
Once there was a king who had a doubt whether women have a natural smell in their hair, or it is because of the perfumes and flowers. And that king said, ‘Whoever clarifies my doubt, I will give thousand gold coins.’ Like those days’ million dollars kind of a lottery.
One priest of Sundareshwara Temple...... In the Sundareshwara Temple priest community, that Bhattar community, Bhattar, Deekshithar, all of them have a tradition: unless you are married, you cannot perform the rituals. You need to be married to perform the rituals. Even now the Deekshithars’ families, at the age of fifteen, fourteen, the boys get married. Because, unless you are married, you cannot do the puja. It is a tradition.
So, this priest wants to get married, because he can then start the rituals. But he needs money. He went and asked Sundareshwara.
Sundareshwara is a living god, please understand. He was never a dead statue. He was a living god. He was continuously responding to people and came down in human form again and again and again. Came down, coming down, again yet to come down! He is a living swaroopa!
The priest comes to Mahadeva and asks, ‘Give me money.’
Mahadeva says, ‘This is a verse. Take this verse. This verse will clarify his (the king’s) doubt. Go and give him and ask for the thousand gold coins.’ He could have directly given the money to the priest. Why should he (the priest) go to the king and take it? Anyhow...!
The song (the verse Mahadeva gave to the priest) exactly means that women have a natural smell in their hair. That is Mahadeva’s song, the meaning of Mahadeva’s song.
So, this guy (the priest) goes to the king, and the king was very happy with his song and was about to give the money, the thousand gold coins.
And then Nakkeeran jumps into the scene and stops. ‘No!’ And then he says, ‘No, this song is not the truth!’
Then the priest goes and cries to Mahadeva, ‘What is this? You should not have done this to me. At least if you had not given this song, I would not have suffered all the defamation and disrespect.’
Mahadeva, ever compassionate, he himself assumes human form, picks up the palm leaf on which he wrote the song, and in the form (in the guise) of a poet comes to the court directly and argues with Nakkeeran.
Two things you need to understand. That whole argument, I will try to describe some of the important points in that argument. First thing, Nakkeeran is highly integrated, understand. He is highly integrated. He is so clear that women’s hair has no natural smell. I don’t know whether “smell” is the right word. “Fragrance”! No natural fragrance! The argument starts. You need to look into this whole scene to understand some of the things. Mahadeva himself says women have in their hair a natural fragrance. And Nakkeeran who is so highly integrated, who says, ‘No!’ What is the actual truth? Why this conflict? No one has solved this mystery, understand. First time, I am revealing and solving this mystery!
Listen! High intellectual beings lose the smelling sense. The high, linguistic, logical, please understand, poets are not always heart-centred. When they are centred on the content of the poem, the romance, love, joy, they are heart-centred. When they are centred on the verbal beauty of the poem, they become logical-centred, understand? When the concentration is on the verbalization, putting the beautiful, organized, arranged, rhythmic words, it is more of an intellectual jugglery, organizing of different words. Listen! Poetry is a very complex art. For example, painting: You can just soak in the emotions, in the heart; for your hand to do the painting, you don’t need the support of intellect. Carving: You can just soak in the experience for your hand to carve; you don’t need intellectual support. Dancing, you can just be soaked in the emotion, heart; for your body to jump and demonstrate the whole thing, you don’t need intellectual support. But for poetry, you cannot be soaked just in the emotions; you need intellectual support also. You need to pick up the right words, organize it in the rhythmic way, present it in a very grammatical, grammatically, perfect way. The grammatic and dramatic, both perfections. The dramatic perfection which is emotion based, the grammatic perfection which is intellectual based, both need to be happening in poetry.
Nakkeeran was one percent more grammatic than dramatic. He missed! He was a little more bent on organizing the words than being established in the heart. Who will correct him? Only he has to correct. There is nobody to argue with him in the whole world other than Mahadeva. So, he comes down. That is why exactly catching the point of smell, understand?
If you are a poet, and still you have a high sense of smell, be very clear, you are more centred on the heart. You being a poet will do more good to you, and you are a real poet. Any poet who loses the sense of smell means, he has become more grammatic than dramatic. His verses are more verbal jugglery than expression of emotion. You lost Kavithwa in your Kavi identity. You lost poetry in your poet identity. Highly intellectual, verbal people, the first thing they lose in their life is the smelling sense. The first drying up happens due to the over-eating of brain. Please understand, brain over-eats yourself, when your brain over-eats you, the first draining, drying up that happens in your system is, the sense of smell is lost. Nakkeeran lost that. That is why he cannot catch the subtle sense of the fragrance, the subtle fragrance of women’s hair....women’s hair.
We do not have any reference whether Nakkeeran was married or not, but surely he had a mother, and he was not away from the city. He was in the city, he had a mother, and so many women are around him. Surely he would have had the opportunity to come around their hair. That, no doubt! But, unfortunately, because he lost the sense of smell, he never experienced the fragrance.
And, the next important thing, that is what is directly relevant to today’s satsangh: He is not stopping with experiential logic. He could have said, ‘See, I would have smelled some ten or twenty women in my life....only twenty, thirty women, the possibility of going near their hair and smelling their hair would have happened in my life.’ Surely, Nakkeeran was not a womaniser. ‘So, I would have had the opportunity of may be twenty, thirty. Why should I not tell directly that as far as I know, as far as my experience goes, women do not have that natural fragrance in their hair?’ That is experiential logic. But, because his head has eaten more part of himself, his being, he applies exponential logic. He says, ‘Not only any women, all the women on Planet Earth, even the other planets, or Saraswathi herself, or, ultimately, Devi, who sits on the left of Mahadeva himself!’ Has he (Nakkeeran) ever smelled her (Devi’s) hair? Has he smelled Saraswathi’s hair? That is where he misses the experience. Sometimes, you stick to exponential logic and miss Mahadeva standing and pointing experiential logic to you. Mahadeva, again and again, comes to you as Guru and points out experiential logic, and you go on holding on to exponential logic and argue with him! Like, I have ten-thousand Nandis! I can really be proud! Not arrogance of pride. “Proud” is the wrong word may be. I can really “celebrate”! Surely I have many more people dedicated like Nandi. Mahadeva had only one Nandi; I have so many Nandis! He had only a few bhoothas; I have so many bhoothas! And, same way, argument. I tell you, he had only one Nakkeeran; I have so many Nakkeerans around me! So many people arguing with me!
For all my Nakkeeras, I want to tell you guys only one thing, when Mahadeva came, till this scene of Nakkeeran saying women have no natural fragrance, he is okay; but, when Mahadeva asked the question, the next level, the moment he (Nakkeeran) uttered the word “all women”, Nakkeeran should have backed out. He should have said, ‘No, I can only talk from that experience of logic. I cannot make that into exponential logic.’ He would immediately have had enlightenment! His heart and head, his head and heart would have been balanced. His more dramatic would have come down and balanced; there would have been balance between dramatic and grammatic. When there is no balance between grammatic and dramatic, life becomes traumatic! It becomes a trauma! Saraswathi, who is sitting in his tongue, he goes to the extent of saying even for that Saraswathi there is no natural fragrance in her hair! Understand, because your logic has helped you in many places in your life, don’t think it can be a help forever. Because the boat helped you to cross the river which is very dangerous, don’t think the boat can help you ever for travelling in your life.
A guy saw the dangerous river, but fortunately had a boat, and with its help he crossed the river. After crossing, he started carrying the boat on his head.
Somebody asked, ‘Why?’
‘No, it helped me to cross the river. Now it will help me to cross the land.’
You are a fool if you think that just because it has helped you to cross the river, it will help you to cross the land also. Same way, Logic. Because the logic has helped you many times in your life.... Especially Nakkeera’s, all the glory is nothing but his logic. Just the way he is able to organize the words got him the position of Chief Poet. The Chief Poet was more respected in Pandya Kingdom, than the king himself! Even the king was expected to be a poet, not just an administrator. Because the logic has helped him, he (Nakkeeran) got so many wonderful things in his life, he unfortunately, unconsciously, arrogantly jumped into exponential logic by turning a blind eye to experiential logic. That is why he missed something even when Mahadeva came down to give him! And then he goes to that stupid level of saying, ‘Even if you are Mahadeva, what you said is wrong!’ That is pfffftttt! I think Nakkeran lost his sense. He lost even that, the space of Avimuktha, never forsaken. Yes, you will never be forsaken as long as you maintain the umbilical cord. But if you pull that cord out, how do you think you will never be forsaken? Because, only through that cord you are protected! When you pull the cord out, you tell Mahadeva, ‘No, no, no, don’t help me. Don’t interfere in my life. Don’t interfere with me.’
Listen! In your life, so many times, you are playing with exponential logic, instead of looking at experiential logic. One of the unfortunate things, whenever you had pain and suffering, you will always feel your whole life is going to be like that, because, with the pain and suffering, exponential logic works more. That gets more strengthened. With the joy, experiential logic gets more strengthened, understand? This whole story of Nakkeran is all about exponential logic and experiential logic. Mahadeva speaks from experiential logic. Nakkeeran spoke from exponential logic. Nakkeran is highly integrated, but not authentic. When he uttered the word, ‘Women don’t have natural fragrance...’, he is integrated. When he uttered the word, ‘All women......’, he became inauthentic.
Now, I want you to look in and do an acid wash of your belief system, whatever belief system you carry about you. For example, morning four o’clock you will be tired, sleepy, not feel like getting up and doing yoga. If it was your experience for one day, you will make that into exponential and start living that forever! ‘Morning four o’clock I cannot do anything. By morning four o’clock I will be tired, and no yoga.’ Same way, Satsangh, ‘I don’t understand what Swamiji speaks in English...... .’ One day if you make that as experience, you don’t just hold on, ‘May be in the next few days I will understand.’, you don’t keep that opening for life to happen, you burn the whole land with exponential logic. So, the possibility never grows, understand.
A burnt land, unless it is ploughed again, no seed will grow. “Burnt land” means, became like brick, the surface is like brick. On that brick nothing will grow, unless it is ploughed again, and it becomes loose, or it rains. When you burn your future with your exponential logic, the possibility seed never grows, enlightenment fruit never happens. Yes, no doubt, till yesterday you didn’t experience Shivoham. Yes, no doubt, till today, when Mahadeva gave initiation of Shivoham, it came this side and went that side (went in one ear and came out through the other), and sometimes it did not come inside, it took diversion and went that side (over the head). Yes, no doubt! But, you don’t have to make that experience into exponential logic. ‘Oh, forever it is going to be like this only. So nothing to be done. Just give up. Eat, drink and be merry.’ But the funny thing is, just by eating and drinking if you can be merry, I will also be happy! But you will not be! Next second itself you will think, ‘Oh, today I got to eat and drink. Tomorrow I may not get. Let me take it from others.’ Already you created conflict! Just eat and drink and be merry. If you can, great! But you won’t! So, “Eat, drink and be merry” is an illogical statement promoted by materialistic people. “Be merry” never happened! It is like “happily married ever after”! See, these are all Maha Vaakyas: “Prajnaanam Brahma”! “Aham Brahmasmi”! “Tat Twam Asi”! Eternal truths! “Shivoham”! Now I am giving a new Maha Vaakya: “Nithyanandoham”! All these are eternal truths. Same way, there are some eternal statements, eternal laws: “Happily married ever after”! Happiness can be brought into marriage when you have a beautiful image about the other person, and beautiful idea about the other person and life. I am not saying happiness and marriage don’t go together; I am saying it does not go together “naturally”. It has to be done “consciously”. That way, even sannyas and enlightenment don’t go hand in hand “naturally”. Just because you are a sannyasi, you cannot be called enlightened. Even that way, enlightenment has to be built even in sannyas. Of course, for my sannyasis I have given a boon and commitment, ‘When you guys leave the body, I will liberate you.’ That is totally different! Once I give sannyas, I cannot forsake anybody. I don’t want to tell more secrets, but the truth is I cannot forsake them. Once sannyas is given in front of Agni, the Viraja Homa Agni, the commitment, the declaration is done, I declare you as Swami so and so....over!
Listen! Whether it is building happiness in marriage, or bliss in sannyas, you have to build it, you have to make it happen. You can’t say “naturally”. Just like these few statements – “happily married ever after” – these are all eternal false!
Listen! Listen! Measuring your life with exponential logic is what I call “illusion”. Because I didn’t experience Shivoham yesterday, tomorrow also I may not, is “illusion”. Yesterday does not make tomorrow. Whoever believes yesterday makes tomorrow is not living. They are called “dumbos”! Whoever makes today, whoever understands that today makes tomorrow, only they will live. Blessed are those who believe, cognize, that today makes tomorrow. Fools are those who believe that yesterday makes tomorrow. Let experiential logic be alive in you more and more for your cognition and running life, not exponential logic. Not exponential logic, but experiential logic. With experiential logic, you will always remember the possibility, you give the space for more and more possibility. Till yesterday it didn’t grow does not mean tomorrow it will not grow. Shivoham can happen even today, even tomorrow, even next moment. Keeping the possibility alive, listen, keeping the possibility alive is what I call “being a seeker”.
I am defining who is a seeker. Seeker is not the man..... In the modern day, being seeker is a fashion. Pick up your handbag, and without losing the lipstick touch up, go to the nearest big guru, and shake your handbag, and do some social service. In-between make a few phone calls and say, ‘I am doing service. Do you want to listen to my guru? He is giving satsangh: “Life is giving. Karma is giving”.’ Then coming out and having some friends and saying, ‘See, I am a seeker for the last thirty-five years!’ They don’t even know this is a defamation for their guru! No, if you tell you are a seeker for thirty-five years, it is a defamation for your guru!
I am defining being a seeker. Listen! Whoever moves in his life with the cognition of experiential logic, keeps the possibility open, alive, in his beliefs about himself and life, he is a seeker. Keep your possibility alive. Only then you are a seeker. I am neither a guru who makes you seek for years and years, nor the guru who promises everything quicker. No! There are “quicker” gurus. Just go in the internet, “tak tak”, swipe your credit card, enlightenment parcelled! In e-Bay you receive the enlightenment! I am neither the Quicker Guru nor the Seeker Guru.
Keep your possibility open. Keep your possibility alive. And, I tell you, I am really telling you, life simply flowers into Shivoham when you keep the possibility alive. Move with experiential logic, not exponential logic.
The essence of today’s satsangh, the punchline for Facebook Status for all of you today:
Move life in the space of experiential logic, not in the space of exponential logic. May be, in the outer world, exponential logic will be useful for something, but that does not mean that is the complete life solution. Brick can be used to build buildings, not for breakfast! Gas cylinder is useful for cooking; that does not mean you will make your body into gas cylinder. Yes, you need to carry it wherever you go, but not inside the body; but separately. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
With this, I will move to the next segment of the morning satsangh – Dial-the-Avatar.
DIAL-THE-AVATAR IN PROGRESS...........
Blessings to all you guys!
With this, I bless you all! Let you all radiate with Integrity, Authenticity, Responsibility, Enriching and Causing eternal bliss, Nithyananda! Thank you!
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