What is Intuition? More Than Just a Hunch

Intuition, in its purest form, is not merely a gut feeling; it’s a profound connection to pure consciousness. It’s a state where your senses record everything presented in front of them without any prejudice, biases, or personal commentary, allowing you to understand the “secrets of everything”.

Bhagawan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam teaches that the human body itself is an incredible mechanism, built for “all possible things” – whether it’s flying, living underwater, existing without cooked food, or drawing energy directly from the sun (prana). These possibilities are inherent in us, much like intuition, which he likens to the “most endangered species” on the planet – the enlightened being. It is always there; we just need to learn how to access it.

The Barriers to Intuition: Fear and Greed

If intuition is so readily available, why is it so “untapped”? The primary culprits are fear and greed.

• When intuition arises, our natural human tendency is to question it, to crisscross it with our logic: “How will this happen? Will it become reality? How should I react?”.
• This immediate internal “judging” or trying to “assess” the intuition, akin to “shouting ‘silent, silent’” when one is trying to experience silence, effectively kills its purity.
• The desire to “catch” or “bottle” intuition, driven by either fear or greed, makes it disappear, much like trying to grab the scent of a flower carried on the wind.
• We constantly ask, “What is the use of intuition if I shouldn’t have fear or greed?” – this very question is why it remains unutilized. Our minds often prefer “heaviness” over the inherent simplicity of life, creating problems through desires and fears.

How to Awaken and Live Your Intuition

Bhagawan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam offers powerful insights and practical techniques to awaken this inner wisdom:

• Embrace Simplicity and Fearlessness: The only difference between an enlightened being and an ordinary person is the absence of fear. Being simple means not carrying fear. Brief moments of fearlessness – experienced with great wealth, deep relationships, or intimacy – can offer a glimpse into the zone where intuition awakens. The goal is to cultivate this fearlessness continuously.
• Trust Yourself Above All Else: This is a cornerstone of awakening intuition.
  • Shiva’s Sutra 137 states: “Knowledge Reveals All and the self of all is the knower contemplate on the knowledge and the knower as being the same“. This means deeply trusting that whatever comes as intuition is reality, without needing to analyze it with your logical mind.
  • Do not trust anything outside of yourself more than your own intuition. Relying on external sources like astrology, tarot cards, psychics, or oracles will prevent you from awakening your inner intuition, as your attention and trust are diverted. As Bhagawan explains, you must “stop belief or faith on anything outside” and bring yourself back to center.
  • Your capacity to bear suffering (your “maximum bearing limit”) is “much more than you always think,” often “a few hundred times more” than your perceived limit. Trusting this innate capacity is crucial.
• Take Complete Responsibility: Intuition awakens when your “whole energy [is] centered on you, on you alone”.
  • This means neither blaming others nor blaming yourself when a crisis occurs. Taking responsibility without engaging in blame leads to growth and freedom.
  • Bhagawan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam emphasizes that a guru or master’s ultimate compassion is to show you that “you have to save yourself”. This echoes Buddha’s final statement: “Let you be light unto yourself”.
• Cultivate Courage and Be Ready to Fail: The “wrong idea about intuition is the major impediment”. You need the “courage to fail in your intuition”. A person who doesn’t carry the “idea of failure” never truly fails. In the initial stages of awakening, you need the courage to make mistakes.
• Practice with Your Bio-memory:
  • For the next 10 days, decide that anything coming from inside you is intuition and act on it. Even if you think it’s just your mind talking, accept it as intuition and “live it”. This practice, though it might not eliminate all mistakes, will “surely make less mistakes than the past 10 days”.
  • When an intuition happens, move your “bio-memory” (your physical and energetic being) according to it.
  • If you experience heaviness or fear (which indicates the bio-memory is carrying fear or greed, thus twisting the intuition), instead of resisting, “ask for more suffering,” “ask for more fear”. Bhagawan explains that “unattended greed cannot survive” and “when you just ask for more fear cannot survive”. This intense confrontation leads to healing and clears the path for pure intuition.

The Clarity of Sarvajna (Omniscience)

A common misconception is that an “enlightened being knows everything” (like dynamic science or how a steam engine works). Bhagawan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam clarifies that the meaning of “Sarvajna” is “pure consciousness,” which through the senses records anything presented in front of it “without any prejudice, without any bias, without any foot note”. An enlightened being does not carry the fear of not knowing something because of this profound clarity. Anything presented to their senses, they will know.

This pure, unbiased recording is crucial. The moment we start adding “foot notes” or marking things with “fear” or “greed,” we create problems and lose access to the “archive” of complete knowledge.

Conclusion: Intuition as a Foundation for Life

When pure intuition awakens, there’s no heaviness in your bio-memory or mind; it flows “very smoothly” without fear or greed. It simply “rolls itself” into the future. Bhagawan also reveals that intuition is the “base of everything in Vedic tradition,” whether it’s the science of politics (Arthashastra), wealth (Arthashastra), intimacy (Kamashastra), Dharma (Dharmashastras), or architecture (Shilpashastras).

To truly live a life of intuition, Bhagawan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam advises us to embrace three core ideas:

1. Have the right understanding about intuition.
2. Be free from the fear of failure.
3. Deeply trust that the knower (you) and the known (the world, your self, God, humanity) are one and the same.

By healing the fears that separate these elements through constant analysis and self-inquiry, you naturally awaken the deep intuition that serves as your ultimate guide. Live your intuition; it is your ultimate trust in yourself.

source: Nithyananda on Intuition (Part 1 of 2): Ultimate Trust in Yourself