Part 5: Why Meditation
Understand, what you mother, that you hatch.
The hen mothers the egg and gets the chicken out. Just a chicken comes out. If you are mothering the thought that you can replace any suffering, you will bring that into reality. If you are mothering the thought, 'No, no, whatever I replace will come back,' you will bring that in your experience.
Where you put your awareness, where you put your attention is the important thing. Understand, your very ability to get a new thought shows your ability to discard the old thought. Any thought can be discarded by If you are mothering the thought that it is going to come back, it will come back. If you are mothering the thought that it is going to go out, it will go out. any simple thought. This simple understanding is more than enough to unclutch and to rest.
One important thing: whenever any fear, any unsolvable problem comes, all you need to do from today on is, have a cup of water, that's all! And just say, 'Ey! (You are just a thought.)' That's all. Your mind will get a little perturbed and shaken.
Understand, your suffering can rule you, just because you are afraid of it. Have you seen when these underworld dons (godfathers) get created? They too will have the deep fear; but just your fear towards them will empower them. In the same way, your mind too has fear about you; but your fear towards your mind just empowers your mind.
All you need to understand is: even once, if you can replace the depression from your inner space, you will have the confidence. 'I have replaced once, I can do it again'… that's all. If it comes back ten times, let me do it ten times, that's all.
This is the initiation.
There is a very beautiful story in Buddha's life:
Buddha says, 'Whenever I said in meditation, 'I am going to get up after a few hours,', I never became enlightened. Once I decided, 'If I am not going to become enlightened, I am not going to get up from this seat. Let this body dry up in this very place (idam aasanam shushyate shareeram in Sanskrit). Till I become enlightened, I am not going to move.'
Buddha says, the moment he created that strong clarity, the authentic sankalpa (vow), the next second he became enlightened!
When you replace your suffering, if you are thinking, 'No, no, today I can replace ten times. If it comes back the eleventh time, I can only try tomorrow,', then nothing will happen. Decide very clearly, 'Till it stops coming, I am going to replace.' That is what I call courage, dheera. And once you have replaced it, you can start laughing at it, 'I was afraid of you for so many years, I was getting shaken by you for so many years! All it takes to push you out is a glass of water, a cup of coffee, nothing else!'
A thought to have a cup of coffee, a thought to stand up is more than enough to remove the worst suffering from your inner space. The problem is it looks too simple! People come and tell me, 'No, no, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM, it cannot be so simple; I think you missed somewhere…!' People really think, I am too young; that maybe I know only a few things and that is what I am teaching.
Understand, the truth is simple.
There is a beautiful traditional song, 'O, so difficult to be a devotee of Shiva!'
Ramana Maharishi sang a very beautiful song, 'O, so easy is enlightenment!'
Unclutching – Your Very Nature
I tell you, it is neither difficult nor easy; even if I say 'easy', there is a little difficulty. It is not even easy. It is constantly happening in you! Every moment, a new thought is replacing the old thought.
Why are you afraid that you will bring your old thought back? It is like trashing your e-mails and bringing them back from a trash can. You just deleted it and it is gone; now you are again going to the trash can and trying to bring that e-mail back! Relax.
Constantly your thoughts are getting replaced. This itself shows, nothing can possess your inner space. Nothing
You have independence, and the intelligence to replace any suffering; you have freedom to replace any fear, you have freedom to replace any negativity. can overpower you, nothing can overrule you.
Understand, it is a very simple truth.
If you can understand this one truth of unclutching and connect with this, if this one Truth clicks, this can destroy the root of ignorance, the root of the mind. Nothing else is needed.
Understand an important Truth. Do not try to create one more shaft. Just realize that the shaft which you believe exists, does not exist. That's all you need to do. That's all you need to understand, and then rest in that unclutched awareness, nirvikalpa satya.
Witness and Unclutch
Let me explain exactly what unclutching is. When you sit for meditation, when you sit silently, you will see so many thoughts coming up. Do not connect all of them, and give a meaning to it. The moment you give meaning to the words, either you will try to suppress or you will try to execute. Either you will try to go beyond them, or you will try to suppress them.
Understand, creating a thought is Brahma's work, maintaining a thought by going behind it is Vishnu's work, destroying a thought is Rudra's work. If you stop doing all these three, you will become Parabrahma, that's all.
Relax from all the three - creation, maintenance and destruction. Relaxing from all the three is what I call 'unclutching'.
When a thought arises in you, instead of giving meaning to it, just unclutch, just relax into the source.
Let me give you one more detail, a very strong truth.
When a thought arises, if you start giving meaning to it, what will you do? Either you will try to do what the thought says, or you will try to suppress it, 'Don't come, wait. I am going to meditate'. Don't do either; instead of paying attention to the meaning of the sound, just see the source of the sound, that's all.
Then your mind will say, 'No, I am feeling bored.' 'I am feeling bored' is one more thought. Why are you clutching? You see, why will you have the idea that you are feeling bored? The boredom which you experienced 10 years ago, the boredom which you experienced 9 years ago, and the boredom which you experienced yesterday are independent experiences. Why are you connecting all of them and giving the idea of boredom? Only when you connect all of them and give the idea, 'This is what is boredom', you will think, 'Yes, I am having the same experience, I am having boredom.' Do not connect. Unclutch and see.
Just see, if your mind says, 'I am feeling bored,' just say, 'What is boredom? Let me not give some meaning out of my past clutching. Let me see what you mean by the word 'boredom,' let me see what it feels like.'
Face Your Mind One Thought at a Time
Attack your enemy one thought at a time. If you think all thoughts put together is your enemy, you empower your enemy. Always understand, when you work with your enemy, divide and rule! If you think all your enemies are gathered together, you will start having all unnecessary fears.
Your enemies are not as intelligent as you always think. This is one of the important sutras. Understand, even in your life, your enemies are not that intelligent, cooperative and understanding as you might think. Just like you, they will also have problems among themselves.
If you think your mind is your enemy, do not empower it by saying, it is one single huge organism. No! Handle it one thought at a time, because in your hand, you have only one weapon, you have only one thought. One thought is one weapon. With one weapon, one thought, how will you handle ten thousand thoughts? No, you can't. So, break your mind also. Tell your mind, 'Come one thought at a time. We will see face-to-face...' Face every single thought. Unclutch from every single thought.
Your mind will say, 'No, no, no, half an hour I have unclutched. Now again thoughts are coming.' The unclutching that happened 30 minutes ago, the unclutching that happened twenty minutes ago, the unclutching that happened 10 minutes ago are totally different individual experiences. Why are you connecting all those unclutching experiences and feeling that this unclutching and that unclutching are the same? No!
This moment, what is happening in you is an independent experience.
Please understand, you need to put your whole attention, your whole energy, your whole awareness, only then the click will happen. If that click happens, you are blessed. Because this single click can be used as a key for so many difficulties and problems in your life. It will revolutionize the way in which your mind functions, the way in which you make decisions, the way in which your fears strengthen you, the way in which your desires drive you crazy. The whole thing will be reorganized. The whole thing will be revolutionized.
Chapter 20