2nd Nov 2014 / Sunday
There was no live satsangh telecast on NTV today. Recorded satsangh of Friday, 17 October 2014 – “REVEALING THE MYSTERIES OF ANGKOR WAT” – was played. Here is the link to the transcript and the video: http://www.nithyananda.org/
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MORNING SATSANGH BY PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA – BIDADI, FRIDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2014 – NOTES
Nithyanandeshwara Samaarambhaam
Nithyanandeshwari Madhyamaam |
Asmath Aachaarya Paryanthaam
Vandhey Guru Paramparaam ||
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I was seeing in Cambodia....when we were presenting about the Inner Awakening, the moment I started the subject of Cambodia, I think many people who are watching the satsangh relaxed. Many who are watching the satsangh relaxed: ‘Oh, God! He is going to talk something about spiritual subject.’ Arrey, I am a spiritual guy! I do only my spiritual work. Only when I am dragged unnecessarily into the unnecessary wars I have to defend myself. Otherwise I am a guy, I will just be sitting and chanting Shivoham, Rama, Krishna, Govinda, and doing my work, and whatever I know as Advaitha, spirituality, Puja, Yoga, I will be doing my work and teaching people, and I will be leading my simple, humble life. And I am not interested in going around and attacking anybody or fighting with anybody. I am not interested in going out and....I don’t have any anger or vengeance towards these guys that I have to go out and fight; I don’t have that problem. That is a big freedom! Not having vengeance, not having violence, not having revenge, it is a big freedom! You can live your life so beautifully! Actually, vengeance binds the way you think and proceed in life. It curtails the opportunities and possibilities for you. When you don’t have vengeance, that is the biggest freedom. Such big freedom! Such great freedom! I am not even looking at non-violence, and not having the revengeful qualities, from the angle of morality. Of course, morality is one; I am looking at it from the angle of the tremendous freedom it gives you. When you don’t have vengeance, when you don’t have revenge, what a freedom it gives you! Kind of an unimaginable free space it gives you! You can go on be doing what your life’s purpose is. You can go on be fulfilling your life’s purpose. And you can go on be carrying on with your life’s purpose. That is a joy! There is no distraction.
Come on! Today I will expand on Cambodia. I wanted all of you to know, please listen, as some of the western historians are claiming, Cambodia temples are not nine-hundred or thousand years old. They are far more older! And the information now I am going to reveal, it will be shocking! Please understand, whatever information I am revealing to you all, it is all from Akashic Records. Now, may be, the historians have not found out what I am saying, but let me put it on record. Later on some historians will prove what I am saying. First thing I wanted to tell you, many of the temples in Angkor Wat were not carved and built in Cambodia or Angkor Wat! Please listen! Many of the temples which exist in Cambodia are not carved and built in Cambodia! You may think, ‘What is Swamiji talking?’ I want you to know, many of them were carved in Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, in Chennai! Many of them were carved and taken by ship, including the elephants!
Please understand, when, at first, the Pallava kings – the Pallava Kingdom is Kanchipuram, Chennai, Mahabalipuram; that whole area is Pallava Kingdom – when the Pallava kings were in their golden period, when they were travelling through the ocean and discovered the Cambodia route and the place, first it started more like trade relationship, then marriage relationship. The Pallava king married the Cambodian tribe’s head’s daughter. That time they were tribes. And, then, they were impressed by the culture of the Pallava lifestyle and kingdom. Please understand, we never used weapons and conquered or destroyed the people of the land and snatched the land from them. We never did that. It was a beautiful way of cultural spreading, or, I can say, cultures merging. So, when the whole Cambodia was celebrating, when the whole Cambodia started celebrating the Pallava culture, they requested Suryavarman (the Pallava king) to settle down there and build a kingdom. Please understand, Cambodia at that time did not have craftsmen and the whole technology of creating. So, at least the initial few temples were completely carved and assembled in Mahabalipuram, numbered, and dismantled. Please understand, when I am talking, I am talking with a lot of sense and responsibility. I will give some of the tips for the people who are in this field of archaeology and people who are doing research how these monumental temples were built.
Please understand, there are a lot of dilapidated stones, means, the temple stones which have fallen. If you take out the temple stones, on the top you will see a number, the identification number, not in the present Roman numbers (Roman numerals), but in the original Tamil numbers. It is like a few lines, this modern-day....what you call....“coding” which is done for all the products in the malls for books....bar-coding, exactly the science of bar-coding. Please understand, the science of bar-coding was used by the Pallava kings. You can see on top of every stone that bar-coding, that symbol is there. So, based on that only, the assembling was done. And, the whole Cambodia temples, many temples first got built here (in Tamil Nadu), dismantled, and then they have taken it through the ship. Please understand, they took the craftsmen to assemble, their families, all the tools required, and elephants to drag! In the initial level, the tribes in Cambodia, they were not that sophisticated that they were able to make the elephants work. They had some elephants just for riding; simple, tamed elephants they might have had. But they did not have elephants specially trained for assembling temples.
Please understand, for assembling temples, a special type of training is given for the elephants, because the way they will have to move, the whole movement should be without damaging the stones; and a few elephants have to pull in the front, and a few have to push in the back. The elephants have to work as a team for building temples. Please understand, for cutting wood, transporting logs, elephants don’t need to work as a team. But to build temples, elephants have to work as a team. Elephants have their own language, you need to know. Each elephant has its own language. But these temple-building elephants, as a whole team they are trained in a single language. See, the mahout who brings up the elephant, in the course of growing together.... Usually, in Kerala and all, they will grow together. A child will be given to an elephant, an elephant will be given a child, and both of them will grow together. Both of them will grow together; that is the way usually in that field. Very rarely, after growing up, when the mahout dies or the elephant dies, the change of guard happens. Otherwise, they grow together. So, when they grow together only, the language gets developed, the command and the communication, the whole thing gets developed. Usually, all the elephants which do work like moving logs, moving wood, cutting trees, all this kind of work, one elephant will have one mahout and one language, communication system. But in temple building, a group of elephants are brought up with the same language and communication system. So, temple building elephants need a separate communication system, that team needs a separate knowledge, because, in temple building, one elephant alone cannot drag a stone; two-three have to drag in the front, and two-three have to push from the back. So, one command is given, and the whole team has to work together. It is a very systematic training that the elephants need to be given. The Cambodian elephants did not have this kind of a team work training. So, the Pallava kings had to carry even elephants, the trained elephants, from here all the way to Cambodia.
And, one more important thing you need to know. Not just tons and tons and tons, I don’t know how many, billion or trillion tons of material was transported those days, based on the available travelling technology. See, to travel in the ocean there is a separate science and technology: you need to know the season, you need to know the direction, you need to know the mood of the ocean, mood of the wind, you need to know everything! So, with the available technology and the available methods, the reaching ration was only sixty percent! Please understand, the reaching ratio was only sixty percent. So, if hundred trained elephants get into the ship here, only sixty will each Cambodia. So, the whole temple has to be carved twice, understand. The whole temple has to be carved twice! Only then one set will reach Cambodia!
And, whatever I am saying is not only from the Akashic Records; I will give you the references and evidences. Now whatever I described, the whole thing is carved in one wall of the pillar (temple pillar in Angkor Wat). Please understand, the starting port, and the work done in the starting port, those days it was called “Mylapuram”, Mylapore. The Pallava kings used Mylapuram as the headquarters, Mylapore, and Mahabalipuram as the port, and sometimes they used Kanchipuram also as the headquarters. The whole thing, please understand, how Mylapuram and Mahabalipuram looked, they carved! After the skilled craftsmen reached there, after they assembled the temple, one wall they dedicated there to describe and depict how the temple was built. Beautifully, they have described the whole Purana, how Suryavarman reaches, marries, and then orders to build a temple, and the temple gets built, the basic structure gets built in Mahabalipuram, and gets dismantled, and gets loaded into the ship. There are clear scenes of the temple getting loaded into the ship. How the ships looked in those days, all the clear descriptions are there, including the information that the elephants are transported.
Please understand, it took almost sixty days to anywhere around six months! Minimum sixty days, and maximum six months it took for them. Please understand, I am not talking about directly reaching Cambodia. They were stopping from place to place. Because the elephants need food, large amount of material to feed the elephants needs to be stored in the ship. So, on the way, they have identified a few islands where they will load the fuel. “Fuel” means, not for the ship, but for the elephants, the elephant food, and food and water for all the human-beings, whatever is required. So, between sixty days to six months. May be the journey would have taken six months, but every sixty days, they have identified some islands where they will stop and load the things. And, you need to know, in every island that they stopped, they built a temple! It is clearly recorded in the temple wall where they are describing, they built a temple! They assembled a temple, left a few hundred people there, who will the whole year be working, gathering the food and other materials required to support when the ships cross. It is an unimaginable task! And, finally, eating....
Please understand, the description also says that the elephants cannot be just allowed not to do any work for six months; then they will become lazy and forget the work. So, even when they are being transported in the ship, they will do the work, and exercise will be given, so they are constantly active and they don’t forget the whole communications method, the whole communications system. And they are also describing some of the major accidents which happened. When the elephants are kept in the ship for a long time, sometimes they get agitated and start fighting with each other, kill the mahouts, and jump into the ocean. Those were some of the major accidents they faced. And sometimes some disease spreading in the whole ship, the other ships have to sink and kill the whole team! No other way! Because, they don’t want the disease to spread to the other ships! When the disease catches one ship, when the animals and the human-beings are suffering from the disease, the commander of the whole ships, may be they travel at least two-hundred ships together, so, the commander of the whole team takes a call, and then they decide to sink the ship. It is like sacrificing! Nothing can be done! Otherwise the disease will spread to the other ships, other animals, other human-beings. Sometimes they are left in the nearest island to take care of themselves.
I could not comprehend when I was studying the whole history, how they built the whole temples. Especially when I started looking into the Akashic Recordings..... In the Akashic Recording I can see the whole live audio and 3D video. Literally I can walk into those ships and come out! See, in Akashic Records, when you go in and back, you get the freedom to get into the time and walk into the whole scene and come out! I can see some of the internal fights, some of the diseases, and what not, and the way the whole thing reaches Cambodia. And, one more thing you need to know, after reaching Cambodia, only then they realize now only twenty-five percent work is done. Because, assembling is the real work! Assembling is the real work! Then they make the foundation, find the proper land and assemble. After assembling, the final carving, the fine carving. Always the fine carving was dedicated to the local tribes, the local king. Means, the dress, hair-style, lifestyle, jewels, everything was honouring the local lifestyle. Otherwise, if you see the whole carvings....
See, when the Ramayana and Mahabharata was described, those scenes are described in those temple walls, all the carvings are like typical Pallava carving of Tamil Nadu – the face, the way they look, the size. The Pallava people are a little short. Pandya people are big, tall! Pandya people are around nine feet tall. Please understand, average height, Pandyas’ height was around eight to nine feet; but the Pallava people, their average height was about five to seven feet; that was the Pallava height. The Pallavas are very heavy people. The Pandyas are very lean people. Pandyas are very beautiful people with all those so-called “anga lakshanas”, the well-defined masculine, muscle, all those cuts; Pandyas are that kind of people. Pallavas are more like village people, naturally grown body; their body is not cute, or toned, or well-built, conscious; they will have big belly, that kind of a people. So, the whole body structure, jewellery structure, and the way they have described, everything is typical Pallava style. But when the human-beings are described – like the dancers, the priests – everything was in the honour of the local Cambodian people, their dress, jewellery, everything was as per the Cambodian lifestyle. So, Suryavarman was able to amazingly merge, bridge both the people by giving them amazing respect, understand.
When the Europeans, the British brought something to India, the Portuguese or British or French, all these fellows they only tried to destroy ours and force theirs. But here you will see the beautiful way; even though those tribes are not powerful enough to fight, or powerful enough to stand the Pallava King, the kind of a mental setup and personality he had, the Pallava accepts all their lifestyle and culture and honours them, and they take the best of both and enjoy, take the best of both and enjoy them. Life is with choices. The more choices, more life! That was the principle with which the whole Cambodian civilization evolved. May be, after one generation, thirty years, in Cambodia itself they started developing the intelligence; means, the craftsmen who went from here they started training and teaching; and the elephants which were taken from here, through them the native elephants got trained. So, by one generation, they are all well settled and well prepared. After that only the temple building spree started. They were just enchanted, enthused, excited! The whole Cambodian population started building temples! And, it must have been an amazing thriving civilization! Because, one temple was dedicated to market life, city life of Cambodia, the whole purchase, selling, literally on one full wall the whole shops are carved – the grain shops, food shops, clothes shops, footwear shop, and the ornament shop, how the market was happening, buying and selling was happening, the whole thing is carved in the wall!
And, I tell you, apart from the spiritual feast, the Inner Awakening in Cambodia will be just a cultural feast! It will be a cultural feast for you guys! How it is going to be a spiritual feast, I will explain, I will expand, in further satsanghs. Today I just wanted you guys to understand, with so much of struggle what was the inspiration for those kings to do that work, unending enthusiasm and excitement and inspiration. Arrey, we are building one small temple; even though I should not use the word “small”, it is our own temple, of course, with all due respect, it is not small as far as spirituality is concerned, but as far as the size is concerned, I can’t even use the word “small”, I will have to use the word “tiny” if I have to compare with Cambodia temples, based on the size I am saying. And, we don’t have to carve somewhere and bring it by ship and all that. Just under our nose it is getting carved, above our nose it is getting built! We know how much struggle we have. Some workers ran away. And even if they are working, they are demanding that they will drink every day. And in the ashram we cannot allow them to drink. And they go out and drink. And even if they drink and keep quiet we don’t mind; but they don’t do that. They go out and drink, and when they come back they are completely different people! And when they come back in the evening, the way they fight and shout! These fellows fight and shout with everybody whom they see! And when they drink and come, we will know whether they are drunk or not, because, before even entering the gate itself, they will start fighting with the watchman! And if you tell them, ‘Don’t fight, don’t shout, don’t drink’, they will run away and we won’t have workers.
I don’t know why this whole field is suffering with this alcoholism! No, I wanted to tell you, these temple arts people, not even eighty percent, I can say almost ninety-five percent of people, whether it is a wood carver, or the stone carver, or the metal carver, I feel deep sympathy for them why they are getting addicted, why it is being passed on from generation to generation. BAPS – Bhagawan Swaminarayan’s organization, they are successfully making their temple carving staff addiction-free. Hats off to their great work! No, I went and saw their workshop. Please understand, I am not lying; I am telling you the truth. Each team has around three-thousand people working. Three-thousand people working! At any given time, they are building around sixty to seventy temples. Each team, three-thousand people working! And the first thing I asked, because this is the biggest problem I am facing, the first thing I asked that in-charge Swami, that Mahant Swami, ‘Swami, how are you managing these people?’ He said, ‘No, Swamiji, my staff don’t drink!’ I said, ‘Okay, staff don’t drink, but what about the workers?’ He said, ‘Both together! Come on!’ He was so sure! ‘My staff and workers’, he says, ‘to the last person who is whole day in the fire, beating the iron, sharpening the tools, till the last person to the top guy, nobody drinks in our unit, Swami!’ I was shocked! Oh, God! Is it possible? They made it possible! No, I am telling you the practical problems we face when we build temples. I also came back and tried it with our workers. I told them, ‘See, why do you need to drink? All the money you are given, I will directly send it to your wife, your family. Whatever you need, food, clothes, everything I will give you. Don’t ask for money.’ They said, ‘No, no, Swamiji, unless we drink, we cannot work. Because, the whole body will pain. Next day we cannot work.’ They give their own reason. But still I am not able to hundred percent stop them from drinking. A few people who are a little sincere, having a little spiritual understanding, devotion, a few of them stopped. But a few still secretly go out, drink, and when they come back if they don’t fight, they don’t get caught; if they fight they get caught. And, what to do? Nothing can be done. This is their lifestyle. Anyhow we don’t allow them to drink inside; that’s all we can feel a little satisfaction.
It is not easy to handle such vast craftsmen, artists, skilled labour. It was too much! And I am really surprised, what was the way their wages were paid? If they fall sick, what was the way they were treated? And if there is some dispute and problem among them, how was the court, and what was the judiciary method to solve their problem? How did they get married? What was their social structure? How was the housing done for all those thousands and thousands of people? God! Because, almost at least sixty days they have to be in the ocean, bit by bit, even bit by bit if they travel. What was the entertainment for them all the sixty days? How did the elephants not go mad being confined to just one ship? Thousands and thousands and thousands of questions! Surprised, if not shocked, when I was visualizing – I should say “visualizing” is not the right word – “seeing” the Akashic Record file by file, how they built the first few temples. See, after the first few temples, then the people in Cambodia, they learnt the whole science. How the tools were created? How the transportation was done? How the stones were assembled one upon the other? The amount of ropes required to move the temples, how were they made? The tools and accessories. God! I can go on and on and on for days to sing the glory of Suryavarman. All the major temples were built during the period of Suryavarman I and Suryavarman II!
I think today is over just by describing what is Cambodia, introducing Cambodia. And the Inner Awakening in Cambodia I will introduce in further satsanghs. It is just mind-boggling, please understand! And, still, nobody is able to break the record! Still this (Angkor Wat) is the world’s largest religious structure! This structure was built before even the religions today which claim they are the world’s largest religions were created! Before even those religions were created, these structures were built! And, even now, this stands as the world’s largest religious structure! World’s largest religious structure! (Video of Angkor Wat is shown). You are now seeing the world’s largest religious structure, understand? No, you can’t understand. Even I can’t understand. Forget about understanding. Let us see and enjoy! Let us see and enjoy! It is mind-boggling! It is mind-boggling! Mind-boggling!
So, with this, the essence of today’s satsangh:
Nothing called “impossibility” exists in possibility! Life is “possibility”! Universe is “possibility”! There is nothing called “impossibility” which exists! This is the essence of today’s satsangh.
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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