Part 2: Discourses from Nithya Dhyan🔗

When you decide, I have to suffer, then naturally you will see one or two simple teachings, your mind will start picking up and start practicing. Usually when people come and ask me, 'I am suffering too much, give me some way', if I give them some mediation, they will say, 'Oh! I don't know this meditation…' and if I give them some proper technique, after one month they will come and say, 'Now I have one more worry, I am not able to practice meditation.' They will only add more and more worries because their very tendency, their basic structure is to worry. Nothing can be done.

I tell them, 'Just suffer!' Then they start getting defensive, 'What! How dare he tell me to suffer! I will come out of the suffering.' I tell them, 'This is what I wanted. Please come out.'

You see, human beings have become such that if one has to do anything, it will start happening only with vengeance or with a challenging mood. We forgot doing something based on inspiration. Only with a challenging mood, violence, we even come out of violence! Even to come out of violence, we need a little violence. That's why I tell people, suffer, it is ok.

Sometimes, I make fun of people who are suffering. Then, immediately they come out of suffering. They just come out because they don't want anybody to make fun of their suffering!

Q: During your discourse, you said one can only reach the state of the fourth layer. Beyond that, one needs the presence of the guru. Why is it so? Is it possible for an ordinary person like me who desires to go beyond the fourth stage, even though I have mundane attachments?

What do you think you are doing? Have you given up everything to come and sit here? No! Now you can go into the fifth stage or beyond the fourth stage. See when I said that statement, it was a technical detail.

Sometimes, people think everything can happen just by their effort; just to tell that it does not happen that way I said so. But otherwise, you don't need to do much else. Just work on this fourth state, you will see the fifth state will automatically become cleansed.

Even before working on the fourth, they have already started worrying about the fifth. I've seen these people, they don't think about how to cleanse the fourth layer and work on it. The moment there is something which I said you can't do, immediately where does your attention go? No, I should do only that! That is why, many times I tell, you can't do meditation. That is only for intelligent people. Immediately they start doing, they just want to prove!

Anyhow…here is a question that I am not even able to read. It says, 'To seek…' after that I am not able to read.

There is a story I always tell:

One man gave an ad in the local newspaper, 'We need a person for the post of manager, who knows how to read and write French.'

One application came, 'I can write but I can't read.' The man who posted the ad was surprised, 'Who is this person who says that he can write but he can't read?'

He called that applicant for the interview. The applicant came.

The interviewer told him, 'I want a manager who knows how to read and write French.' The applicant replied, 'I already applied, I told you in my application that I can write but I can't read.'

The interviewer said, 'Please write'.

The applicant scribbled something on the paper. The interviewer saw the paper, picked it up but he was not able to understand anything. He said, 'What did you write? Read and tell me, I don't understand.'

The applicant who wrote said, 'I told you, I can only write, I can't read!'

So I think, somebody like that wrote the question. They can only write, they can't read!

Q: I don't know what the purpose of my life is, I feel good to bring smiles on the faces of needy people. But I don't know what the purpose of my life is. How can I know that?

I can tell you, first bring a smile onto your face. That is the purpose of your life. Then let that smile overflow, and bring the smile on every other person's face. Yes, if you don't have a smile on your face, and you are trying to bring it on another's face in the name of service, you will just be expressing and imposing your ego on others.

A small story:

An NCC teacher told all his NCC students, 'Everyday, you should do one good activity and come and report.'

One day, three boys stood up and said, 'Sir, today we helped an old lady to cross the road.' The teacher was surprised and curiously asked, 'Why do you need three persons to help one lady across the road?'

One of the boys replied, 'Yes Sir, it took three persons because she didn't want to cross!'

Understand, many times, your service ends up in imposing your ego. So, let you bring a smile on your face, let a deep contentment settle. I always tell people, if you can solve all the problems of your life, just by your knowledge-weapons, shaastra-shastraas, inner clarity, inner healing, then start doing service.

First thing you need to do is solve your life by having the clarity about jeeva, jagat and Ishwara. Jeeva is Self, jagat is world, and Ishwara is God, source of the world and self. Then start doing service. Work intensely for this inner clarity within yourself.

Q: How does one identify the self-healing clarity?

The self-healing clarity, the inner clarity is so powerful it will release so much peace in you. Suddenly you will see the problem on which you were pondering, worrying, planning and getting confused, disappears and you are in that restful awareness. You are in that deep state of rest. That is the way you can identify the inner healing.

Q: When I witness no thoughts, when the mind is thinking it witnessed, the mind can only do one thing at a time. How can I witness when a thought is coming?

Why are you creating a problem? If you say you witness there are no thoughts, just celebrate you are in a thoughtless state. Enjoy that you are in a thoughtless state.

Why do you think you should have thoughts and you should witness? You are only creating more problems. If you think when you witness, you don't have thoughts that is what we want. Just be relaxed, do not bother about thinking. Let you be constantly in the witnessing mood.

Q: How do you practice these three techniques? In order, how long do you practice them everyday?

A: Both the technique which I gave yesterday, and that which we are doing today, you can use when needed. But the technique which we are going to do tomorrow, is what I recommend for you to do everyday.

Q: A lot of what you speak and demonstrate is true, and sharply laser-like. However, in the Hindu context, when you speak of tradition or a lack of practice of tradition, don't you think we have not understood tradition? Also, is there not a misuse of the outer systems of tradition that has rendered our psychology disempowered?

A: First thing, I don't think the outer systems of tradition have been used or misused for power as much as you are told. Maybe, any system, when it is used by an uninspired personality, the system will be misused but that applies for any system. So, maybe in the spiritual system, one or two uninspired people entered, and the system might have been misused by those people. But that does not mean the whole system is a failure! And you have been told too many times about those one or two mistakes.

You see, any system, whether it is social, political, or economic system, you don't go for an alternative even if you know the amount of abuse and misuse happening.. And you are told very little about the mistakes and abusive happenings in those systems. But unfortunately, about spirituality and tradition, I think you've been given too much information about small things. And you start thinking of replacing it, you start looking for an alternative. Do not think so many problems have happened, as you have been taught or told.

Q: Your teaching focuses on the divinity inside each one of us and you teach that each one of us can connect with our consciousness. How is it that your followers chant your name? How does that help?

You have to ask them, not me! At least I don't chant!

Two things, there are so many things related to this question. First thing, I don't feel connected to this name. That is the reason I don't bother, or I don't feel pride when they chant, or I don't feel anything fulfilling when they chant. Second thing, maybe my name has become a brand name for my philosophy.

It is like, if you remember a particular shop's name, you remember all the products inside that shop. In the same way, for my disciples, maybe my name has become the center word for all the teachings which they received from me. To remind themselves of all the teachings they received from me, maybe remembering my name will be useful sometimes. That's the reason they may be using it. That's all the reasons I can find or analyze. More than that, only they can tell.

If my teachings, if repeating my name helps you to remember my teachings, then it will be perfectly alright, otherwise don't do it. Otherwise better remember your name. That is good for you. If it helps you, if it inspires you to remember my teachings, and experience, then you can remember my name. And another thing, if you feel like remembering my name, then remember, otherwise don't bother; don't worry about why they are remembering. It is their headache; they may be feeling helped; so let them remember.

There is a beautiful incident in Ramana Maharishi's life:

Every Saturday, in his presence, his disciples would chant 'Ramana Satguru' - Ramana Maharishi's name as a song. He himself would sit and enjoy. Somebody asked him, 'What kind of an enlightened being are you? You are enjoying your own name being chanted.' Ramana Maharishi says very beautifully, 'Why are you reducing such a great power Ramana to this 6-foot body? Why are you reducing that great Ramana to this 6-foot body?'

He says it is a great power, it is a great energy. Just like you are all enjoying the name, I am also enjoying the name. So, you don't have to reduce that name to this 6-foot form.

In the same way, you don't have to identify. Still I don't sign my name. When people ask for my autograph, you will see I will only be writing the mantra which I used before my enlightenment, because I don't feel physiologically connected to my name. From a young age, I had so many names. Parents called me by one name, friends called by another name, a nickname, and now the disciples are calling me by another name. The Master who initiated gave a different name. So many different names! Somehow I do not feel psychologically connected, that's why when people ask me to autograph, I only use the mantra which I used before enlightenment.

I think it is time we enter into the meditation because many of these questions will disappear in the process. Understand, we are going to do two things. First thing we are going to do is re-living. Second, we are going to do the meditation technique.

What do I mean by the word 're-living'? Consciously enter into the memories which you don't want. Consciously enter into your guilt, your pain and the many suppressed desires, which you don't want to remain as part of your inner space. Whatever you are avoiding, just consciously re-enter into them.

People get frightened when they hear this and ask me, 'If we enter, will it not become strong, will it not become reality?' Fortunately, you are not that powerful to make your thoughts into reality. So, don't bother. When you consciously enter into them, those engrams, if they are in some way going to be good for you, will become part of you.

Nithya Dhyaan - Day 3