Tag: Upanishads
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Three components of Mind
Bhagawan SPH Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam defines the mind as having three primary components, which are essential for achieving liberation and understanding the self. These three components, named chit, jata, and chit-jada granthi, are also referred to using the classical terms buddhi, chitta, and ahankara (ego). Clarity about these three components is said to liberate you.…
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Never work out of greed because whatever we achieve is going to be taken away at the time of death. Never become silent and inactive out of fear because there is really nothing to lose.
The question concerning Karma and Sannyāsa, responsibility and renunciation, has been asked from time immemorial, and each time it has been answered. Yet this question remains. Somebody asked me, ‘Why is the Gītā still relevant today?’ I said, ‘Because we never learned it.’ Although Gītā was uttered at least 5,000 years ago it is still…
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Only an enlightened person who is a king, or a king who is an enlightened person, can know the totality of spirituality.
You need to understand that Kṛṣṇa is just thirty-two years old when He makes this statement! Physically His body is only thirty-two years old. But He says, ‘I gave this imperishable knowledge to Sūrya, the Sun god – imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam (4.1).’ Of course, this is very difficult to understand! With logic,…
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Till you are enlightened there can never be Complete Completion, but your Completion is more stronger than your small incompletions, so incompletions become irrelevant, is Completion
I’ll recite 7th, 8th , 9th verses. Please recite along with me : yatccakṣuṣā na paśyati yena cakṣūṁṣi paśyati tadeva brahma tvaṁ viddhi nedaṁ yadidamupāsate || 7 || Eighth verse: yatcchrotreṇa na śṛṇoti yena śrotramidaṁ śrutam tadeva brahma tvaṁ viddhi nedaṁ yadidamupāsate || 8 || Ninth verse : yatprāṇena na prāṇiti yena prāṇaḥ praṇīyate tadeva…
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When your ability to see and visualize fails, your ability to think, talk, verbalize fails, your ability to connect the memory and make meaning out of it fails, when all these fails what can hold you, you should be putting all your time, life, energy to build that chamber in your life, that safe chamber is what I call Nirvakalpa Samadhi
The 3rd and 4th verse of the Kenopanishad: na tatra cakṣurgacchati na vāg gacchati no manaḥ na vidmo na vijānīmo yathaitadanuśiṣyāt || 3 || anyadeva tadviditādatho aviditādadhi iti śuśruma pūrveṣāṁ ye nastad vyācacakṣire || 4 || Listen, the literal translation of the verse. Where the eyes goes not, the speech goes not, nor the mind and…
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Your own Existential experience is only one, your ātman, self. Everything else is your perceptional experience. If you remember in the dream, is this perceptional reality or existential reality?, you will wake up. In the waking state, if you remember, is this perceptional reality or existential reality?, you will be awakened.
Kenopanishad. The sacred secrets revealed in the Kenopanishad. The 3rd and 4th mantra in the second khanḍaḥ of Kenopanishad. yasyāmataṁ tasya mataṁ mataṁ yasya na veda saḥavijñātam vijānatāṁ vijñātmavijānatām || 3|| The 4th verse recite along with Me: pratibodhaviditaṁ matamamṛtatvaṁ hi vindate ātmanā vindate vīryaṁ vidyayā vindate ‘mṛtam || 4 || I’ll read out the…
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Breathing is not about blowing your nose, it’s about experiencing LIFE!
yad-vācānabhyuditaṁ yena vāgabhyudyate tadeva brahma tvaṁ viddhi nedaṁ yadidamupāsate || 5 || yanmanasā na manute yenāhur-mano matam tadeva brahma tvaṁ viddhi nedaṁ yadidamupāsate || 6 || yaccakṣuṣā na paśyati yena cakṣūṁṣi paśyati tadeva brahma tvaṁ viddhi nedaṁ yadidamupāsate || 7 || yacchrotreṇa na śṛṇoti yena śrotramidaṁ śrutam tadeva brahma tvaṁ viddhi nedaṁ yadidamupāsate || 8…
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Find that existence of you which gives you a complete feeling that it cannot be changed, it cannot be questioned, it cannot be taken away from you.
Lets have Mahaganapati’s blessings and enter into the Kenopanishad 4th verse. I will continue of expand on 4th verse of the Kenopanishad. pratibodhaviditaṁ matamamṛtatvaṁ hi vindate ātmanā vindate vīryaṁ vidyayā vindate ‘mṛtam || 4 || It is truly known, when the Self is consciously cognized and subjectively known to oneself, pratibodha in each state of…
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All that exists is energy, declares the first line of Ishavasya Upanishad!
What is this world made up of? Our five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch are our gateways to perceiving this world. They tell us that this world is made up of matter or objects in various forms, shapes, colors and qualities. We see ourselves living in a three dimensional world fundamentally made…
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Swamiji, ‘‘Whatever you are saying is correct, but…’. The moment you say ‘but’ to Me, you have missed!
When I told the story of Satyakama to a group of people, one person asked me, ‘Maybe these techniques are for highly evolved souls. In that story, the disciple gets enlightened when the master just blesses him. He must have been a highly evolved soul for that to happen. I told that person, ‘No, it…
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Bholenath is the one whose pure innocent inner space creates the bliss and causeless auspiciousness wherever He is, wherever He happens!
In the Shiva Sutras, Shiva gives us techniques to achieve this innocence. If you follow Shiva’s life as is described in the Hindu mythological stories, you will not be able to see any social or traditional innocence in him. But there will be the pure and ultimate innocence. The place where he lives or the…
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Bholenath is the one whose pure innocent inner space creates the bliss and causeless auspiciousness wherever He is, wherever He happens!
In the Shiva Sutras, Shiva gives us techniques to achieve this innocence. If you follow Shiva’s life as is described in the Hindu mythological stories, you will not be able to see any social or traditional innocence in him. But there will be the pure and ultimate innocence. The place where he lives or the…
KAILASA's Words of Eternal Bliss, Nithyananda! 