Sat-Chit-Ananda🔗

There are three levels of Truth. All the three put together only enriches your life, it leads to enlightenment. All your desires, greed, fear or guilt, let them be flooded with one idea; you will be established in Truth. This is the scale to find out whether what you are thinking, saying, living is Truth or not: does it add more awareness to you? Does it add more consciousness or 'chit'? Does it make you more comfortable or at ease with yourself – 'sat'? Does it give you unending joy or bliss, without depending on something?

Anything which is satya, sat will create chit and ananda in you. Chit means consciousness, ananda means bliss. If there is something that you feel is sat, Truth, but it is not creating consciousness and ananda in you, be very clear, it is not the ultimate Truth. It is not the reality.

In the same way, if something creates consciousness in you and it is not creating sat feeling or ananda in you, it is not the Truth.

We had a radio show today morning in which I was being interviewed. The interviewer has become my devotee. He was asking me, 'Swamiji, I am seeing especially in the West many people receiving spirits and they become hysterical and shout. But the Upanishads describe that when a person becomes spiritual, he is not supposed to become hysterical. What is the Truth, Swamiji?'

Please understand, when you really receive higher consciousness or the divine spirits inside you, you will radiate ananda or bliss. You will become more and more peaceful. You will never get hysterical. If you are, then it is not superconscious energy, it is unconscious energy. That is not enlightenment, it is not spirituality.

Sat has to be chit, chit has to be ananda. If any one dimension is missing, it is not Truth.

Analyze all your desires. Does it add more and more honest feeling inside you? Does it add more and more awareness to your being? Does it make you more and more conscious? Does it make you more and more blissful?

Manana means filtering, clearing, contemplating every thought with Truth. Flood your whole being with Truth. Whatever is washed away, whatever disappears, is better for you. It is better the earlier they disappear from you.

Whether you leave your job or relationship or love or home or your car or whatever you may leave, it is perfectly alright. You will expand. You may think, 'What Swamiji? You are making us swamis?' No. If really Truth works on you and expands you, wherever you go you will feel only health, bliss and joy.

One more thing, many time people come and ask me, 'Swamiji, as you said, I was thinking, contemplating and I felt so high, so inspired and took some major decision in my life. Now I repent. What to do? Now I am feeling I took too many big steps. I renounced too many things. Now I am feeling little lost. Now I am feeling I have done things little quickly. I should have waited.' Understand, even if you feel later on that you have done something in a hurried way, do not bother about your steps.

One more thing, you are not able to keep yourself constantly in that high space of inspired energy. It may come down once in a while, that's ok. Do not count the moments of coming down. Count the moments you experience when you are high. That is why in Jainism and all Vedic traditions, anybody who feels inspired is allowed to take sannyas that very moment. All you need to do is inform your Master or the traditional acharya that you are ready for sannyas.