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Nithyānandam!

Nithyanandam!

Question: One beautiful question about questions. "Why is it that we don't have questions? We missed something from the book. 'No questions only doubts.' There is a statement that says, 'As long as you have questions you will not receive the answer. A question is just defending yourself. It is just defending your prejudice, your understanding. Questions stay as a barrier between you and knowledge. Between you and the master.' Could you be kind enough to explain this?" Beautiful question.

Answer: See, before attending the Living in Ananda Gandha program, if you have a doubt it is not a doubt; it is a question. After attending the Living in Ananda Gandha, if you have a question, it is not a question; it is a doubt. The question which comes before your experiment, even if you ask it as doubt, even if you ask it in a very polite, humble and friendly way, it is not a doubt; it is a question. The mind goes on and receives information and it collects information. It just wants to update itself. Nothing else it needs. It wants some update. So as one more piece of information, as a few more words, if you want the answer, it is a question. That question will not help you. Already too many words are in the mind. If you ask a few more questions, a few more words will come and it will increase the emptying time. But after experimenting, after exploring something, because of that experiment, because of the very exploration, if you have some clarification, you will move ahead. Actually you need some clarification out of your struggle to understand, or out of some good experience. You want to clarify that and you want to move ahead. At that time, if you ask a question, that's a doubt. That's not a question. So doubts can be attended. Questions cannot be attended. That's why the master repeatedly says, "I never answer the question. I always answer the questioner." If the question is creating a doubt, he will receive an answer. If the question is just asking a question, it will get a small clap from the hands, that's all. So whatever question you ask is just defending yourself. It will not lead you to the truth. Actually it will take you away from the truth. These questions will take you away from the truth because whatever questions you ask are just from your prejudice. Just from your misunderstanding.

Before attending the Living in the Ananda Gandha program, if you ask a question, how can the question can be a right question? It cannot be. If you do this, what will happen? Whatever question you ask, it is just a question. A few popups of the mind and it will not work. So from the question, move towards a doubt. For this to happen, you have to become a scientist. Become an inner scientist. Use your inner space as a laboratory to work on your consciousness. Then you will get something to move further ahead. You will get doubts. You cannot create doubts. You can create questions, but you can't create doubts. Become a scientist. Use the laboratory and you will have the results.

Question: Can a person still be dedicated and devoted staying away from the master's presence?

Answer: One beautiful thing. If you become dedicated and devoted, if you are in that state, you will be blissful when the master is not there. Actually the answer is a little different. The question is, "If a person has both dedication and devotion together, in that time can he stay away from the master?" And how it will be? That should be the question. See, the presence of the master is like a battle place, where the war is happening. If you go and stay in the war zone, you can't be relaxed. You have to make yourself run on your toes just to manage the situation. The master simply creates the Mahabharata. When he is there, around him everything happens whether you are Dasaradha or you are Duriyodhana or whether you are Arjuna. He never bothers. Whatever state you are in, he never bothers. He simply creates chaos because we are chaos. He will create chaos and he will be the center of the chaos and happily clap his hands and enjoy.

Your dedication has its own mind channel. How your mental set-up is created - from that way only your dedication will come. Even if you are so much dedicated, that dedication has its own limitations. And your very devotion is like a small ball compared to the earth - a small ball and the earth - whatever devotion you have.

Dedication and devotion, both of which you have, are two beautiful inner feelings or two beautiful inner energies. These energies can work properly, can help you properly and can make you happy when the master is not there only. An Arjuna can be happy when

Krishna is not there. When Krishna is close to Arjuna, he will continuously give instructions to go and kill - go and kill! What is this instruction? He is a God. Krishna is a God and a compassionate guy and what is this instruction he gives to go and kill? Kill everybody.

And in the presence of the master there is so much need for maturity. To be around him, you need a very great deal of maturity which is beyond dedication and devotion. So, when you have both dedication and devotion and if you are away from the master it is good. You can sense his presence very clearly. And the master himself makes this statement, "My absence works better than my presence." This is because in his presence, things are different. Things are totally different and always the master is a master surgeon. That is his own job. So, the very activities which are going around him we can't even analyze and be aware of. So when you are away from him with both dedication and devotion, it will help you a lot and lift you a lot. So forget about this question and you will be happy when you have dedication and devotion.

Question: Please define what you mean by devotion and also, what would devotion look like?

Answer: No matter how much you explain, and no matter how much you create visualization, a blind man cannot understand about light. Until he opens his eyelids, even a single ray of light cannot be explained. So the one and only solution is to open the eyelids. Opening the eyelids means just working on the logic alone. Move from the logic. As of now, you have logic for everything. For everything you have logic. When to get up. When to go to bed. How to relate? How to respond? Even how to ask a question? How to behave in the society? How much effort can you do? You have lot of limitations in whatever work you do. Cross all the limitations. Work without boundaries. Start relating without any hesitation. You will just see that the devotion is starting to happen. But still now these are all visualization techniques which are given to the blind. Whatever is now explained are visualization techniques given to the blind. So moving from dedication to devotion is a knack. No matter how much you explain, it cannot be explained. Even in a thousand page book you cannot explain. Devotion is like inner swimming so it cannot be explained actually. As a sutra it can be explained. It is illogically logical. As of now we are logically logical. How logical you are it is clearly illogic. The whole trouble starts because of our own problem. 'We are logical'. That logic is actually logical. So move from that and adapt yourself. Life is illogically logical. Chaos to chaos in order. In the whole universe there is one star and there is one universe and one galaxy. It is chaotic if you see it as chaotic, but all the chaos has its own order. So the devotion is such a state. It is chaos only. But it has its own order. So beyond this, no explanation can be given. Jump out from your logic and you will see that you have jumped into devotion.

Question: I have noticed that the Ananda Gandha just opens sometimes without me even trying. Can you explain?

Answer: After you get the initiation, your Ananda Gandha is always open. It is not that sometimes it opens. It is always open. Whether you are aware of it or not is the question. So when you have the question that sometimes it is open without you even trying, that means even in your conscious involvement you are becoming aware of it. So it is not that you are going and opening the Ananda Gandha. You cannot open it; only the master can open it and it is already opened. And maybe the clutchings to your mind nowadays are getting relaxed. So since the clutchings are reduced without even your conscious involvement, without even your decision, you are going back towards the awareness. This means the upward pull has started. As long as you have a downward pull, you have to consciously go to the Ananda Gandha and be there. So if you can make this statement, it means, be clear the upward pull has started. And at that time only these kinds of things can happen, "I suddenly found that I am in Ananda Gandha." If you are able to make this statement, it has started. Enjoy. Celebrate it.

Question: The scope of living in the Ananda Gandha seems vast and too much to go myself and start. It is easy to at least open up to 3 koshas. How can I practice?

Answer: When the master was speaking about astanga yoga he said, "In the scriptures when so many guys give comments about the yoga scriptures, they say, 'There are 8 steps in astanga yoga', but I say there are not 8 steps. 8 steps means you have to do the first step first and then the second step, then the third step, then the fourth step. No! There are not 8 steps. When you are centered in awareness, when you are centered in the super consciousness, all these 8 parts, the 8 steps of astanga yoga will radiate from you. They will happen from you. It will be happening from you. Even if one part is missing, be clear, you are not centered yet. Until you are centered, the astanga yoga, the 8 steps cannot happen. You cannot practice all 8 steps one by one. You have to practice the 8 steps together. Practicing all 8 steps together is possible only when you are centered. In the same way, you involving the awareness in 5 koshas is not possible until you are centered. Until you are centered in the Ananda Gandha, it is not possible. Go on and do this. Try. Have a trial. Go on living in the Ananda Gandha meditation. Go on and experiment with it and finally, one day, without your awareness you will be centered. When you are centered in the anandamaya you will see you are no more in the anandamaya; you are in nithyananda maya. All the 5 koshas will be inside and all the 5 senses will be inside. And all the activities will happen inside. And you will be centered; from the very center everything will happen. You will become the CPU (Central Processing Unit) of the universe. From you everything will happen. From you everything will be coordinated. It is not that you will go and coordinate; from you everything will be coordinated. That's the only thing possible. So initially this struggle is nice. Go with it. You will achieve it.

Question: I assume that one needs to be conscious about living in the Ananda Gandha initially but at what point would it become an automatic process? How would it become a natural automatic process?

Answer: Nice question. Your part is about being conscious about living in Ananda Gandha. Consciously again remember yourself and be aware in Ananda Gandha. You do this one part. Don't bother about the next step. As long as you have a little bothering about the next step, 'When will it become an automatic process?' then it will never become an automatic process. It will never become automatic. As long as you bother about this process today or tomorrow or this minute or next minute, be clear eternally it will not happen. So forget about these kind of conscious struggles. The instruction given to you is "Live in Ananda Gandha 24 hours". Do it, do it and do it. Don't bother about the results. Whatever results are going to come, let them come. And so many results, so many experiences which you are going to experience are not explained yet. And they will not be explained because each person's path and growth is different. So those things will not be disclosed publicly. Still so many mysterious and miraculous and blissful and wonderful moments are waiting for you. Just be in the Ananda Gandha 24 hours. Don't look for results. Whatever happens, let it happen. Finally one day you will discover, "Oh. It has become an automatic process." Until then, don't bother about the results. Just do it.

Question: When I am deep in the Ananda Gandha, loud noise or even a physical touch disturbs me. Why is it so?

Answer: That means you are not in the Ananda Gandha. You are in the annomaya kosha only. Since you are in the annomaya kosha, that is why it disturbs. Both of your problems are annomaya kosha problems. A loud noise and physical touch both are annomaya kosha problems. You are still not in the Ananda Gandha. If you were in the Ananda Gandha, you would enjoy that physical touch, and the loud noise would come as a blissful vibration because you would be hearing the sound from the Ananda Gandha. You would be receiving the touch from the Ananda Gandha. When your Ananda Gandha is touched, how will you be disturbed? You will be awakened because your Ananda Gandha is touched. So be clear you are not in the Ananda Gandha. You are somewhere and you are titling it as 'I am in Ananda Gandha.' Please be in the ananda gandha. That is the solution for you.

Question: I feel like my nerves are vibrating from my toes up to my head and fingers. Why is it so? What is happening? It seems all of my sensitivites are exaulted.

Whenever you do a meditation, if you feel these kinds of experiences, that your nerves are vibrating, be clear it is a nervousness problem. Do some yoga properly. Do nithya yoga or surya namaskar properly. Your nervous system is not able to tolerate high and rich energy. That is why it is giving these kinds of symptoms to you. It is not a very appreciable thing. 'My nerves are vibrating.' It is not that your nerves are vibrating. It is that your nerves are not tolerating. So do the surya namaskar properly. Do ashtanga yoga. Don't put on the TV or other stuff on and all. Take a few herbs. And do something which will strengthen your nervous system. If you do surya namaskar, that's enough. That's the first and last solution. Daily, properly, sincerely, do the surya namaskar. That is the solution for you. This is not a spiritual experience. It's a physical experience. Do the surya namaskar intensely.

Question: I felt very cool and relaxed. It seemed as if I was walking on the air relating with the people around me. I was joyful but now and then I have to remind myself that I am in the Ananda Gandha. At these times, thoughts disappear. Why?

Answer: Because you are in the Ānanda Gandha. If the thoughts are not disappearing then you are not in the Ānanda Gandha. Because you are in Ānanda Gandha, the thoughts are disappearing. It is good. Go ahead.

Question: Is it the lack of listening or not understanding or fear or what? I don't even remember anything of the program. Is it lack of awareness? Need to do it again and again. Explain.

Answer: Actually if you are able to remember about the program, something is seriously wrong. See, if you are able to remember the program it means, first of all, you are a clear intellect. Only a great intellect can receive this kind of high program. But Living in Ānanda Gandha you can't remember. If at all you remember you are a clear intellect. And the second thing, if you are able to remember, then the experience has not happened yet. Because if the experience has happened, you will have so many things to tell about the experience that you will not find any time to remember about the program. So if you are not able to remember about the program, it is good. And something good only is happening and don't bother about all those things. But the feeling you have that you have a lack of listening or a lack of awareness - all these are good signs towards growth. Only the idiots will have the courage that they are moving on the right path. Intelligent people always doubt. 'Is my step right? Is my step right?'Always the intelligent people doubt. So 'Whether I am aware or whether I am listening properly' is a good doubt. This doubt has come because you are experiencing something. You are experimenting with something. So this is a symptom of experimenting. So go ahead. What you are doing is right. Don't bother about these problems and all. This is good. Go ahead.

Question: Could you please sum up everything that you have explained in the class?

Answer: 'Be blissful where you are blissful'. That's all. And bliss will be radiated. See, since you are not blissful where you are blissful, that's why you are given five different techniques to radiate it. So if you are able to be blissful where you are blissful all these things will be a radiation from you. So you will radiate bliss. So sum is, 'Be blissful where you are blissful.'

Question: How is that we slip out into the Ānanda Gandha?

Answer: See these and all are very big questions. You are asking something beyond the Living in Ānanda Gandha program. How to slip inside the Ānanda Gandha. I think in future the master has to design a course for this. 'How to slip out into the Ānanda Gandha'. I think this can't be explained. It only can be experienced. Go for the experience and you will experience it.

Do you have any more questions. The questions are over?

Beautiful question. Amma is asking a beautiful question. Amma is telling a beautiful experience as a question. Beautiful experience.

She is saying that after attending the Living in Ānanda Gandha program, within one or two days her relations and especially the continuous speech with others was reduced. She was not able to speak with everybody. Earlier she used to talk with everybody. Now her talk is reduced a lot. She is not able to talk. And continuously from the inside a signal is coming and saying, 'Please be silent. Please be silent.'And she wants the silence. She doesn't want to talk to everybody. If at all anybody is asking a question she answers perfectly. That job she does. But she doesn't want to talk unnecessarily. She doesn't want to relate with everybody as in the earlier way. It is one of the very sharp signs that she is practicing the Living in Ānanda Gandha program. We are trained to relate with everybody because we are not able to be the silence. We are not able. That is why we are relating with people. It is not that we are going and relating with the people. No, it is the totally opposite thing. You cannot be silent. Your engrams which are inside will not allow you to be silent. They will go on giving some instructions and will tell you to go and relate with everybody; go and talk. Say 'bye', 'hi', this and that nonsense, it will give. Continuous instructions the saṃskāras will give. And there is one more type of people who are closed but these people are not silent. These are our dangerous volcanoes. This also happens because of engrams only. These engrams will not allow the people to relate with others. These people will say. "aang.. nonsense. What kind of guy he is. I know him. I don't want to relate." Like this and all he will give different types of comments and it will not allow the person to relate with others. It will not allow him to open. So too much of relating without your awareness and not relating with others without your awareness - both are wrong. If you start living in the Ānanda Gandha, the first thing that will happen is these kind of nonsensical engrams will be burnt out. When these kind of engrams are burnt out, this is the first sign - the very first sign. You will want to remain in silence again and again. You will like it. You will love it. And after some time you will reach a different level where a voice or a noise or the silence nothing will disturb you. You will become a paramahaṃsa. When you become a paramahaṃsa, if you want to be in silence you will be in silence or you will even be in samādhi. Or if you want to relate you will relate like a child. You will jump, run, shout, crack jokes and you will do anything. And nothing will bother you. Nothing will touch you. Both the silence and the vibrant relations, vibrant expressions will not touch you at all because you will be in the Ānanda Gandha continuously. So living in the Ānanda Gandha continuously leads you to become a paramahaṃsa. As of now, we are paramahiṃsa (ultimate violence). Paramahiṃsa means we torture others and us also. Even our little humour, even our small small fun, even our small small cracking jokes always hurts others. It has a little hurting tone because it is coming from ego. And even though we relate, we are not able to satisfy others. Because of that we are not able to satisfy ourselves. Continuously we are in discontentment. So practice being in the Ānanda Gandha. If at all it puts you in silence, it's good. It's a healthy sign. Good - go with it. Then you will move from paramahiṃsa to paramahaṃsa. And you will get it.

Any questions?

And one more thing amma is saying, "Even though you explained and answered my question, I am not able to understand it properly. In the whole class also I was not able to follow properly since because I am not well versed in English. I am not able to follow but somehow I did the meditation and I got it." So that is why the master used to say that if you don't know the language which he is speaking it is good. Something can be conveyed to you. So living in the Ānanda Gandha is the ultimate technique. All the words so far explained are different ropes given to you to come out of inner world ditches where you are staying - to come out of it. So she is not able to understand many of the words. No problem. No rope is needed. If you are able to live in Ānanda Gandha, that's all that is required. And somehow repeatedly that one instruction she understood - live in the Ānanda Gandha, live in the Ānanda Gandha and she did it. Because we guys are so complex in nature, we are not able to receive the instruction; live in the Ānanda Gandha. We started analyzing about this and all. 'What is devotion?' 'What is dedication?' 'I am able to travel up to the third kośa.' 'I am able to do this; I am not able to do that.' So the complex guys are caught in the rest of the things. The simple folks caught the thread. So living in the Ānanda Gandha happened in the very depth for amma.

Any more questions?

Question: I feel pain in my legs, my knees, my foot and at the same time I try to live in Ānanda Gandha all the day and it is marvelous. Is there a link between this and the state?

Answer: Nice question. Earlier I made one statement; "If you travel on this path you will meet so many mysterious, miraculous, wonderful and blissful experiences." This is what I meant. "I feel pain in my legs, my knees, my foot." Actually it is intolerable for her. It is painful but yet it is marvelous. She is saying it is marvelous and she is able to live 24 hours with that experience. So even though it is painful, it is marvelous. The experience gives something. So don't bother about the pain and all. Pain is like deep tamasic energies; the deeply imbedded negative energies. Those energies are coming out because of this meditation. Don't bother about that. Go ahead. Don't bother about it. And the effect which you are describing as marvelous will increase and this will decrease. Your pain will decrease and what is 'marvelous' will increase. Proceed.

— Any more questions. So all are living in Ānanda Gandha? No questions means all are living in the Ānanda Gandha. Ok. Live in the Ānanda Gandha. That's all. Nothing else is needed. Everything will be done to you. Live in the Ānanda Gandha.

Appendix

Some research has been done which recently which corroborates some of the statements about healing which appear in this book. At the Institute of Hearth Math, some experiments have been conducted on the effect of emotions on various biological parameters ranging from heart rate variability (HRV) to DNA structure.

In one experiment, some human placenta (the most pristine form of DNA) was placed in a container from which they could measure changes in the DNA. Twenty-eight researchers were each given a vial of DNA. Each researcher had been trained in generating and experiencing feelings. The researchers introduced various emotions into the DNA and found that the DNA changed its shape according to the emotions expressed. When love, gratitude and appreciation were expressed, the DNA responded by relaxing and the strands unwound. The DNA became longer.

When the researchers felt anger, fear, frustration or stress, the DNA responded by tightening up. It became shorter and many of the DNA codes switched off!

The shut-down of the DNA codes was reversed and the codes were switched back on again when feelings of love, joy, gratitude and appreciation were introduced. This experiment was later followed up with HIV positive patients. Feelings of love, gratitude and appreciation increased the resistance in these patients significantly.

The research that is happening in this relatively new field of epigenetics goes on to prove what the masters and ṛṣis discovered and gave to humanity in their research reports thousands of years ago: in the Upaniṣads and other scriptures. Emotions have a higher value that the intellect and bliss is much higher in value than other emotions. Positive emotions have a huge impact on health and bliss is the ultimate healer of them all!

Living in the Ānanda Gandha will work beyond the emotions. It will not only relax the DNA, but will rejeuenate, reshape and rebuild the DNA towards divinity. That means, it will change your whole physiology and psychology towards the permanent state of bliss. It will not only take you to a different timeline, it will take you beyond time itself.