The Ultimate Sutra
Understand: any thought which newly comes inside your inner space replaces the old thought, even if it was the worst fear or the worst depression or the worst suffering, or the worst attachment. It can be anything.
The new thought coming afresh proves that your inner space is now replaced by the new thought; the old thought has lost its power over your inner space.
Why should you be afraid of any thought that can lose power in your inner space? Why should you be afraid of it? Constantly we are carrying the fear that we will not be able to conquer the fear. We are carrying the fear we will not be able to conquer our attachment. We are carrying the fear we will not be able to go beyond our suffering.
Understand an important thing, this is what I call click, an initiation: if a thought can be replaced, if a thought can leave your inner space once, it means it can again and again be removed as many number of times as it comes. That's all.
People tell me, 'No, no, no, how many times can I replace?' Every time when it comes, have a cup of water in front of you, sip once, and keep it. Just play with your mind, tease your mind till it stops. Tease your mind till it stops. It might look very funny. You may say, 'No, no, no, it looks too simple. How can this be done? I might look like a mad person!' Nothing wrong! Looking mad is perfectly alright and better than being one!
Understand the simple truth, if a new thought can replace the old thought then naturally, no thought can occupy, possess and torture your inner space eternally. This is the click. This is the basic truth.
All you need is a cup of water to conquer your fear.
All you need is cup of coffee to conquer your lust.
Just a single thought of having a cup of water can replace the so-called powerful death fear from you.
But the mind says, 'No, no, no, it is not that easy. No, no, Swamiji, it comes back. What to do? It again comes back.' If it comes back you also again come back. You also again stand up. Understand, if you can replace the thought ten times, the eleventh time the thought will not come; the frequency will come down.
Fortunately, you have pure inner space which does not get corrupted by the flowing thoughts. That is the important thing.
Fortunately, you have a screen which does not get burned by the burning scene. If you project a burning scene on the screen through the film, will the screen be burned? No. In the same way, fortunately, you have a pure inner space, which does not get corrupted, polluted, or possessed by a particular idea or a thought.
Understanding this deeply can completely liberate you from all the sufferings you create for yourself. It can bring tremendous self-healing into you, tremendous freedom to you, and tremendous courage and confidence.
See, now, if any fear arises in you all you need to do is, have a cup of coffee!
And one more thing: immediately, the mind will question, 'No, if I handle all fears like that, what will happen if my property is taken away? Who will maintain my family?' Don't bother.
Your innate intelligence, which I call prarabdha, is powerful enough, capable enough to manage your life using your body and your mind.
All you need to do is stop creating the sufferings which you are creating, that's all.
Please be very clear, life does not happen because of you, life happens in spite of you!
Come back, unclutch again and again. Do not clutch the thoughts and give meaning to them. Unclutch again and again, come back and rest.
You may ask, 'How to unclutch? I don't know. I don't think I can unclutch from my mind.' This very thought when it comes, 'I don't think I can unclutch from my mind', you are already unclutched because the new thought can come only if the old thought can leave you!
Fear can come only if lust leaves. Lust can come only if the fear leaves. You can have a thought to have a cup of water only if the fear leaves. You can have a thought to have a cup of coffee only if the suffering leaves. The moment you are able to think that I should have a cup of coffee, already the so-called suffering has left. If that is sitting inside of your space how can you have a new thought? You can't.
Understand, handle the enemy one at a time. If you think, 'No, no, no, you don't know, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM. I tried one thousand techniques; I can teach you many more techniques, nothing works. And my mind is not as simple as you think. Maybe your mind is simple, and that is why it worked.'
Please understand, even in our foolishness, we are not at the peak. That is one of the important truths we need to understand. All of us have a very clear idea that we are in the worst ignorance. No, it is not so.
Just a simple truth, if a simple thought of having a cup of coffee can come inside, it means any serious thought, be it pain, suffering or whatever, has left. That is why the new thought is able to come.
So, as long as you have freedom to entertain a new thought, you have the inner space to entertain the new thought.
Be very clear, you cannot be possessed or tortured by any suffering, any depression, or any pain because you can just bring one thought, a new thought inside you.
The moment you bring the new thought, what happens? The old thought leaves you. Unless it leaves, you cannot bring a new thought.
Ability to Replace a Thought Vs Ability to Bring a Thought Back
Be very clear, your power to bring a new thought itself proves you have the power to drop the old thought. Instead of looking at the ability to replace, you look at the ability to bring it back. But you have both of these abilities.
If you are constantly looking at the ability to bring the old thought back, you will create suffering.
You think, 'Oh, it comes back, it comes back, it comes back…' If you are constantly looking at the ability to remove, you will feel liberation.