Living Enlightenment
When you live the Master's body language you live enlightenment. Whenever any thought comes into my body or into the space, first thing I would think, 'How will he behave?'
Anything, whether it's related to clothes or food, if I feel a little lazy to meditate or to walk I would think, 'How will Annamalai Swamigal think? How will he handle this situation?' Naturally he will not bother about this laziness. He will just get up and meditate, that's all. So just do that. So he became the scale, these masters became the scale from morning until night. Morning till night, constantly they became the life center.
I asked Annamalai Swamigal once about my dream and asked him what he saw in his dreams. He replied, 'No I don't have dream.' I was shocked, 'You don't have dream! Then how can I have dream?'
That night I said 'Now, no dream. Annamalai Swamigal said 'No dream' so I cannot have dream.'
You will be surprised, that night when some dreams started happening I said clearly from inside the dream, 'No! Annamalai Swamigal doesn't have dream so how can I have dream?' That dream disappeared. Just the dream disappeared.
The inner space was so thorough, so innocent, so direct it just happened. It just happened. Even if I feel cold or anything, I would remember, 'How will Annamalai Swamigal behave? He won't bother. Then don't bother. Over.' There were no further questions or arguments inside.
In your life also, to get out of the kaarana shareera, this is the most direct, powerful technique. In any situation, think 'How will Master respond? How will Master face this situation?' Simply you will see, a new door opens. This is what I call 'Living Enlightenment'.
You don't need anything else. This one thing is enough. Even if you are sitting, if thoughts come up, think, 'If Master is sitting what will be coming up? Naturally silence. Then why are you thinking? Silent!' Over. Nothing else. That's all! If your mind says, 'No, no! I know it's true. I know this but it is too much.' Then think, 'If Master's mind says like this how will He behave?' He would have finished the mind that moment! That's all; nothing else. That's all!
Just be very clear. Take this one message and let this message become life in you, the message of Living Enlightenment. Actually this is what I call relationship with Master. Relationship with Master is not just doing some pooja or putting some flowers or worshipping him once in a while.
Relationship with Master is being thoroughly impressed by him. Anything comes up – fear or insecurity or greed or anger, just see, 'How will He behave?' Simply it will disappear. It will just disappear. A simple understanding: Living Enlightenment.
Feeling connected to Master means just living Him. When you live the Master, then you feel connected to Him. Only then you are expanding. Only then something is happening to you. Otherwise, you are a schizophrenic. You have ten different faces. Sometimes you behave nicely. Sometimes you behave rudely, sometimes with lust, sometime with worshipping mood.
Integrate. No kaarana. And just let the whole body and mind imbibe the energy and spirit and inspiration of the Master.
It should go so deep into your inner space while dreams start coming in you you'll say, 'Would Master have dreams? No. Then relax.' It should go so deep into your inner space! And it can go. Many times you can see you will be aware inside your dream itself. You'll be aware inside your dream itself.
One person came to me and told me, 'Master, I had a dream that ghost was trying to catch me. Inside the dream I remembered you and suddenly the ghost left.' Means inside the dream also, the faith that Master will save me has gone inside. When that can go inside, this can go inside! Not that in the dream a ghost will catch you. Dream itself is a ghost which will catch you!
Carry this one message: 'How will Master behave?' Any problem can be solved with this one thought. Anything in the internal world can be solved, because THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM is a person who has seen all experiences. He only is called Paramahamsa. If he has not had some experience, Existence makes him goes through that experience so that he becomes Paramahamsa. So whatever you go through, went through, or are yet to go through, I went through already. So there is no space that you can say I have not gone through.
Meditation Instructions
Now let us enter into the layer of darkness.
Sit straight. You need to throw out all the other colors of your mind. You need to chant OOOOOO , you will continually push the air out as much as possible, don't bother about breathing in, continuously push all the air out as deeply as possible. Then again, pushing the air out, the body will breathe by itself. Take a small breath in, then chant oooooooooo. In the small gap which I gave the body took the air by itself. So you put all the effort to just throw out the air, throw out everything with the oooo sound.
Throw the things out totally, I'll just guide you into the meditation. You will be made to meditate in a cave. You will visualize a cave, a dark cave inside which you will be sitting and meditating, you will be made to meditate in meditation. Then you will be able to enter into the layer of darkness. So please sit with your eyes closed. (All lights switched off.) Now you can tie the headbands. Start chanting "OOOOOO"
Put your whole effort, only exhale, just exhale. All your prana, life, everything, throw it out. (After 20 minutes)
Stop.
With all your effort, keep exhaling through the nose.
(After 5 minutes) Stop.
Visualize a deep forest, a big deep forest, there's a deep dark cave. You are sitting inside the cave, visualize all the 4 walls of the cave, it's a cave in one rock, the ceiling of the cave is also rock. Just a deep darkness soothing, relaxing, joyful darkness, comfortable darkness.
Totally comfortable and secure with the darkness, you are alone, sitting and meditating. Feel the darkness, it is covered by darkness. Just darkness is covered in darkness. Darkness is totally drowned in darkness.
You are just in your mother's womb. The same comfortable darkness. Feeling of utter relaxation , utter rest, no responsibilities, total comfortable peaceful darkness, you are sitting inside the dark cave and meditating on the darkness. Feel the cave, visualize yourself inside the cave, visualize you are comfortably sitting and meditating on the deep darkness. You only know one word, darkness, the darkness, the darkness.
Inside the cave you are sitting and meditating on darkness, you are just connected to the darkness of the universe. The darkness from which the universe was born, the darkness of your mother's womb from which you were born. You are just filled with that alive darkness, comfortable, joyful darkness, peaceful darkness.
No other thought, just darkness. Become the darkness, feel the whole thing is just darkness. Your body has disappeared in darkness. Penetrate into the deeper and deeper layers of darkness. Just become thick dark, pitch dark, except darkness nothing else.
Total dark the whole space is filled with thick darkness. It is much more intense, it is much more dense than earth itself. Just taste the experience of deep, peaceful darkness. Om shanti, shanti, shantihi.
Relax. You can open your eyes.
Please this next half hour only, carry the darkness with you, the soothing peaceful darskness, the darkness of the mother's womb, the darkness of the deep comfort. Rest , relaxa, rest in the darkness of no responsibility, of freedom. Carry this darkness of rest with you, until the next session. Try to avoid speaking, do not look more than 4 feet in front of you, look to the ground. Carry this peaceful darkness with you.