Quantum Bliss
A housewife has sent all her children to school and is cleaning her house. She hears the door bell and opens the door. Two preachers are at the door and asked her whether they can have a few minutes with her to teach her how to live her li fe eternally. She says no, I don't think I can stand any more of this life, forget about living it eternally, and slams the door shut.
We all feel life is a curse and is a result of our past karma. Again and again people ask why our life is like this; please teach us a way not to have another birth. You feel life is suffering, punishment, an effect of past karma. There are only two groups in this world, wise and otherwise. The wise ones feel that life is ananda, bliss, that their being is bliss, their consciousness is ananda. Thousands of enlightened masters have said this time and again. When you ask them how, each one offers his own method. One says you be a vegetarian, another says you fast, another says you practice this meditation or that, another says you marry; another says do not marry and so on. If two rishis say the same thing, it is said, one is a fake. Each expresses in his own way the path to enlightenment and bliss. But they all concur that consciousness is bliss. If all agree it means that this fact is essential.
In daily life we find that it is misery, it's a punishment. There is a gap between our experience and that of masters, between the wise and otherwise. Somewhere we have lost the essence of life. We have misunderstood the basic principle of how to live.
In science conclusions change, in spirituality conclusions can not change, only expressions can change. One can not rewrite the Upanishads, only add commentaries. In science with a small torch of intellect man searches in nature finding newer and newer things. In spirituality you see things all at once in a flash of lightning. First science said matter and energy exist in each atom. Later they said these two exist in the same space but at different times. A third group proved later that energy and matter exist at the same time and in the same space. Now every one agrees that energy and matter are the same, there are no boundaries in between. Whatever exists is energy. This is what Isavasya Upanishad said 5000 years ago. Isavasyam idam sarvam.
Said Einstein, the last word of science is the first word of spirituality. The latest findings of science were the first verses of the first Upanishad. He said where science ends spirituality starts. Like there is no gap between matter and energy outside, inside us there is no gap between your body and mind. When you see a difference, body is roga mayam (diseased) and mind is soka mayam (suffering). Spiritual seekers suffer more than ordinary people. Ordinary people identify with their body and mind. Spiritual seekers lose this clarity. They know that they suffer through identification with body and mind, and this increases their suffering. There is one more suffering, how to disconnect, how to reach liberation etc.
What is quantum bliss? Not only are you not body and mind, but there is no need to disconnect from body and mind. There is nothing you need to do. Bliss is continuously happening within you without gap of time and space. As long as you associate your bliss with a particular time or a particular space you will lose the bliss. The gap between sufferings becomes bliss for you. As if the gap between two wars becomes peace. In life we seem to experience happiness only in gaps between sufferings; this is just suka, periodic bursts of joy, not eternal bliss.
If you associate pleasure with a particular space, say a fantasy home, you feel happy. Or you associate happiness with an object such as a car or a person who you feel you love, and you feel you are happy. You crave to be around that space, object or person. The moment your unconsciousness feels that association with someone brings you happiness, it takes revenge and initiates a feeling of dislike and hatred. Possession starts, and possession is revenge by owning the object or living being as another object. You reduce energy to matter. Whenever you try to keep someone around you and therefore under you, your mind moves towards hatred. Your unconsciousness knows that you are getting yourself bound by attachment and desire and takes revenge.
Associating bliss with time leads to suffering. When you try to bring back that time you felt happiness to experience the same happiness, you find somehow that happiness is no longer the same. The joy is lacking. After a few attempts and being unsuccessful you feel depressed and sick. You don't feel the energy of happiness.
When you understand that happiness does not depend on time and space you enter the zone of quantum bliss. When you associate happiness with time and space you stay within boundaries of suffering.
You have a great desire to eat a sweet. When you eat that sweet you feel joy. If you associate that feeling of joy you wish to eat more of that sweet. If you keep eating more and more of it, at one point in time after some sweets you feel revulsion not joy, you can not eat any more. Your joy is not associated with the sweet. What is it that gave you joy?
When you feel that you are enjoying an object, the moment that object is near you, number of thoughts in your mind reduces, and a feeling of peace and joy expresses itself. You associate this feeling due to the reduced thoughts in your mind, the subject, instead to the object, the sweet. Whenever frequency of thoughts comes down you experience bliss.
Yoga Sutra says that you never experience joy because of something outside; your prana reaches a rhythm that gives you joy. When you get to reproduce this state of prana, energy within, to this rhythm you feel joy. This is pranayama.
Yoga Sutra says that when a person learns how to produce a prana flow to a particular rhythm he is in continuous bliss; he is liberated from the five senses; he needs no particular space to be happy. This is Pratyahara.
Yoga Sutra says that if a person can maintain this flow continuously he is liberated from time and he is liberated from all outwardly objects. This is Dharana.
You no longer are restricted by time and space to experience bliss.
Scientists are very practical, mystics are poetic. Patanjali is more practical than modern day scientists even though he is a mystic.
Q & A:
Q: Is bliss the same as the movement of prana?
A: Bliss is not movement of prana, but bliss is caused by movement of prana. It's like tuning your TV to receive signals. Same way you need to tune your prana to receive the bliss that is always there. Prana does not create bliss. Proper alignment of prana helps to experience bliss.
Q: When we deal with worldly problems, hundreds of them, can we achieve bliss through pranayama, without solving these problems?
A: Wonderful question. Someone asked me: to achieve bliss do I need to give up everything. I said: just give up what you do not have; there is no need to give up whatever you have.
Suffering is created by desiring what we do not have, through fantasies. You have a hundred problems, how can I be blissful, you ask? Let me ask you, can you solve these problems by suffering. We think that by worrying we can solve problems. Actually more you think, more you worry, you create more problems. 99% of your worries never come true. The 1% that does is good for you.
I asked people to write down all their perceived problems. After 6 months I called them again and asked them to say which of them came true. Less than 30% come true.
If you look around there is continuous intelligence and energy that is there to solve your problems. If you have lived for 50 years and still have problems, in spite of the experience you have, you are just disturbing yourself. You can live another 50 years based on your experience without worrying.
Prana, when regulated, creates bliss, and makes your intelligence work much more powerfully. Research shows that chemicals such as dopamines are released while you are in bliss, with or without reason and you come out of depression and rejuvenate yourself. Bliss provides energy to face and solve problems.
First when you are not blissful your energy is used to create more problems. When you are blissful you disconnect from worries and also use the energy to solve problems. When dopamine is released, the frontal lobe which is responsible for decisions, mind body wisdom starts working far more efficiently.
Boss has a meeting. Staff is preparing a farewell. He says this is an employee who does not know the meaning of disloyalty and tiredness. What should we give him? Someone said give him a dictionary.
If you want to solve problems you can try with logic. If you wish to dissolve problems for all times you need intuition. If you associate bliss with time and space you are in pravritti (bound). When you are outside of it, you are in nivritti (unbound). For 48 hours get out of pravritti. Don't think of your problems. Relax. I have worked with people over the last two years and seen this to be so. You will see a new understanding come up within you. You have never given a chance for bliss to enter your life.
Bliss attracts fortune says Tantra. When you are really blissful you work in intuition, with higher intelligence. Decide you are not going to think about any problems, and not work on solving any problems, and you will see that a higher intelligence comes into play. Just do this for the next 48 hours. One lesson you will learn: without your awareness existence comes in to take over and help you. You will take a quantum leap in your awareness that you do not need to work on your problems to dissolve your problems.
Your question arises from the assumption that you do not have enough intelligence to solve your problems spontaneously, that you do not have the capacity to produce that spontaneity. However much you try with your intellect instead of intuition you will still struggle. Drop your intellect.
People come to me for support and consolation, not for solution. I now offer you a permanent solution. I ask: have you felt disturbed that you have lost your toys? Not now, you do not need them anymore. But when you were 4 or 5 years old you would have seriously suffered. Similarly you can drop all other desires as well.
Q: By being blissful can body be healed and how?
A: Ramana was asked when he was suffering from cancer: do you have suffering? Bhagwan said: I have pain, but no suffering.
When you feel bliss, your mind relaxes and allows your energy to fill your body and mind. When the energy fills you, you get recharged. We have seven energy centers accepted by many cultures, Sufis, Chinese, early Christians. These are proved by Kirlian photography. Chakras expand 60 to 70 times more with positive emotions. It can predict disease through diminished aura. There are also seven glands in our body that regulate our health. When chakras are disturbed through negative emotions that abuse our chakras they give rise to disease. Fantasies lock the muladhara. Fears lock Swadishtana. Worries lock Manipuraka. When you get shocking news your stomach gets a blow. Anahata chakra is related to love and so on. Uneasiness between you and your chakra causes diseasiness and then disease. When you are blissful your chakras are energized and heal you.
Q: I heard an Upanishad explanation linking cosmos with collective thought?
A: That is upassana. Upassana is worshipping something outside; vipassana is worshipping inside. I link bliss with vipassana. When you create an ideal and worship it is upassana. If you consider that ideal as a root within and go inside it is vipassana. The idea that you and God are one and the same is a technique; if you say that you and god are different that's also a technique. Both are techniques, not truths. The truth is beyond your understanding now.
Q: Are happiness and bliss different? How can we differentiate? Can one stay in bliss forever? Have you attained blissful state?
A: yes, I have attained blissful state. If bliss is contained between two sufferings it is only happiness. Happiness is momentary, it is fenced in bliss. It is a difference in time not space. Bliss bound in time is happiness. Not all benefits of bliss happen with happiness. If your headache is cured through happiness it can return tomorrow. In bliss it will not.
Man asks two questions, and when I finish answering his first question, he forgets his second question. Arjuna asks Krishna a series of questions. Krishna says you do not want the answer; without getting the first answer you can not ask the next question.
As long as you do not try to hold bliss it will continue. If you hold it, it will only be momentary happiness. It's like keeping your hand in flowing water. If you close your hand the water runs out. If you try to retain bliss it will disappear. Bliss is choicelessness. The moment you choose it will go. Bliss is a process. It's not a noun it's a verb. It happens. If you try to possess it, it will go.
I have experienced bliss. I have created a formula to reproduce that bliss. A scientist creates a formula to reproduce an external phenomenon. A mystic creates a formula to reproduce an inner world phenomenon. These formulae are meditations. The formula is important not my personality. Drop THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM. Hold onto nithya ananda.
Q: How does the Ananda Spurana Program deliver Bliss?
A: Man stays in the seven chakras. If you are in the lowest level, that is the muladhara chakra, you are caught in lust and desire. You worship a God who can grant all your boons. That is why God is understood as a giver of boons throughout the world and is very popular. People are caught up in fantasy, expectations and desires and whoever fulfils these becomes their God. The moment they miss giving a single boon, the Gods will get dethroned!
Next is the person who is caught in the Swadhisthana chakra (fear). You worship the God who gives confidence, who you believe will take care of you - you go behind the idols that have many weapons and many hands. You experience God as a protector.
The third level person stays in the Manipuraka chakra (worry). You continuously worry and remain confused. You worship the God who gives clarity and peace. You will want idols that radiate peace.
Next is the person who lives in the Anahata chakra (attention need). Here, you are attracted towards the God which showers love on you. You worship the God who gives emotional fulfilment.
Next, if you are raised to the level of the Vishuddhi chakra (the urge to be unique), the God of creativity or Energy appeals to you. You experience God as the creator.
If you are centred in the Ajna chakra (Ego), you are locked in ego. Somebody in the egoless state attracts you – Rishis, Seers, Sages, Prophets and Masters attract you. The egoless man becomes your idol.
That is why I say - Man creates God in his own mould! You simply relate to God or the Masters from these six levels; a relationship doesn't happen - you simply reduce them to mere mortals. You have a concept in your mind and you are demanding from them that concept - it is simply a monologue.
In the Ajna chakra, the dialogue starts. Only in the Sahasrara chakra (gratitude), the communion happens! If you understand that you are actually relating to your Gods and Masters from these chakras and that you need to go beyond this and catch the transcendental expression of the Divine, all your problems will dissolve!
When you are in the Muladhara chakra, the Master drills into you, like a crowbar. At a little higher level, he is like a knife penetrating you. At the level of the S*ahasrara chakra*, he is like a fragrance! If you are alert and aware, the Master can transform you. Allow me to enter into you like a fragrance when you are established in the Sahasrara chakra. You just need to be passive for the alchemy to happen. I am not going to give you any rules or restrictions. I am going to radiate ecstasy, bliss and fragrance. If you are alert and aware, you can catch the smell and experience it!
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Satsangatve nissangatvam nissangatve nirmohatvam nirmohatve nischalitatvam nischalitatve jivanmuktihi
Through the company of the good, there arises non-attachment; through nonattachment, there arises freedom from delusion; through absence of delusion, there arises steadfastness; through steadfastness, there arises liberation in life.