Motivation for NSP - Experience with Death🔗

See, the person who creates a formula, to re-create the experience of the outer world is a scientist. For example, Newton created the law of gravity. He had some experience. When he saw the apple falling from the tree, he had some experience. So, he created the formula to reproduce the same understanding in others.

A person who creates a formula to understand the experiences of the outer world or the things of the outer world is a scientist. A man who creates a formula to reproduce the experiences of the inner world is a Master. Person who creates a formula to reproduce the things of the outer world is a scientist. Person who creates a formula to reproduce the inner world experiences is a Master. This whole program is a formula created by THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM to reproduce the experiences which happened in the inner world. So, we will see how this experience happened and how this formula happened.

How the experience happened and how the formula will reproduce the same thing in you

First, we will see how this experience happened in Paramahamsa, and second, how this formula will reproduce the same thing in you. Unless we understand these things clearly we will not be able to work.

Death experience before enlightenment

The whole motivation for the NSP came out of two incidents in Paramahamsa's life.

The first one happened before enlightenment and He describes it as:

'It was around 1999, I was in Varanasi – Kasi. There was an elderly sannyasi – a very old sannyasi. He was suffering with cancer. He was in the hospital, in the ICU.

I had the great opportunity to take care of him. He was a great sannyasi, but not an enlightened person - a great tapasvi. Everyday I used to bring food for him and take care of his needs and stay in the hospital.

One day, the person in the third bed was slowly passing away, he was dying. I was staying in the ICU, he was dying. Doctors were standing around him, they were trying to help their best, but they were not able to do anything.

Even though I was not enlightened at that time, he had one of the most wonderful spiritual experiences, a beautiful experience, his own death experience. Because of that, he was able to see what was happening to him.

Slowly, the patient started suffering and struggling. First, he started suffering tremendous pain in the body. His face started showing the pain. Next, he became breathless. He started inhaling and exhaling seriously.

Then I was able to see very clearly, the pain and the agony, the suffering. It was like one thousand scorpions biting him. One thousand scorpions biting him at a time, and his whole consciousness was getting torn. For example, if we cut our finger with a blade half an inch, how much of pain do we experience? How much of pain do we suffer? It is like the six-feet body is being cut into pieces.

I was able to experience the pain, the agony, the feeling which he was undergoing. Of course, slowly, slowly, slowly, he started moving away from the physical body.

Even though it is a little difficult to receive logically, even though it is little difficult to understand intellectually, this is what happened. It is like a formula: X x 2 = 4. To understand the formula, to understand how to solve it, first we assume. First we assume that X = 2. Let us replace 2 in the place of X. Then we understand: 2 x 2 is 4. Once the answer is right, now we know X is 2. Till the calculation is done, we have to have a little patience. But when I say, let us assume X = 2, immediately if we start raising the question, 'No, why not 3? Why not 1? Why not 4?' we will not be able to proceed. Just see the result. When the formula is working out, naturally we will know that X = 2.

Even if we understand it as a hypothesis, that is enough. In the end of the calculation we will be able to understand how this whole thing happens.

I was able to see and experience the tremendous pain and agony of that being. It is almost excruciating, such a deep suffering. The being started moving from the physical body, then to the pranic layer, the second layer body. Pranic layer means our breathing energy.

All these 7 bodies are seven energies, energy layers of our being. When the being started moving towards the pranic layer, again a deep suffering! Our prana shareera is filled with all the desires. Our breathing and our desires are very closely related. If we change our breathing, our desires can be changed. If we change our breathing, our desires can change. Our desires and breathing are very closely related. When the energy was moving into the pranic layer all the desires of the being started coming up. The being started suffering with all the unfulfilled desires.

Then when the being started moving towards the next level body, all the guilt started rising- 'Oh! I should have lived in that way, I should have lived in this way.' Anyhow, slowly, the being moved layer by layer and died. I saw the whole death. How the death is happening, the whole process I was able to see. But I was not able to help, of course. I was not an enlightened man at that time; I was not able to help. Just I saw the suffering. But, the pain created in me, just seeing the suffering itself was too much.

I started feeling the pain; if we see an accident on the road, what will happen? Will we be able to eat for the next two days? If we see an accident on the road, will we be able to eat? No! We will not be able to eat for the next two days. It was the same. It is almost the same. And even in an accident we see only one body. Somehow I was able to see all the 7 layers, all the 7 bodies. What will happen to the suffering? It was so deeply engraved. It was recorded in my being so deeply. I was not able to eat or sleep for the next 3-4 days. It was suffering. Anyhow, after a few days, I Ieft Varanasi and went away. After about a year I continued with tapas and became enlightened. Then he came to South. He stayed there for 1-2 years. After that, maybe 2 years ago, again, once more he had the opportunity to see another death.

Second Death experience

I saw the second death in another ICU - Intensive Care Unit. This second person did not suffer though when he passed away. I started analyzing, 'Why did the first person suffer and why did the second person not suffer?' After analyzing or meditating on that issue, something came up as a formula it happened to me. That whole formula itself is this whole program of NSP.

I was seeing the first death in Varanasi, that was so painful; there is no other word to explain about it. It was so painful even to see, I was not able to digest the scene for the next 3-4 days. When I saw the second death, at that time I was enlightened. I saw slowly the life moving from that person.

I went to the hospital to heal one of our devotees. At the ICU I was healing our devotee. Again the next bed person was dying. I was able to see what was happening.

This time I saw, neither the person had pain nor he had suffering. Beautifully he was moving, from the first body to the second layer, second layer to third layer, third layer to fourth layer. Like how a ball rolls in the snow, just like that his being was moving. He was surprised. Suddenly his being slowly moved and just disappeared. He became enlightened. He was liberated.

He started thinking, 'Why did the first person suffer so much while the second person did not have anything?' He enquired with his relatives, 'Was he a spiritual person?' First he thought that he must be a great spiritual person. He must have meditated a lot. But the relatives said, 'Meditation? Why? He would not even go to the temple. He was not even religious.' Then I started contemplating, 'Why did the first person suffer so much while the second person had such a beautiful and peaceful death?'

There is a beautiful website on near-death experiences. An American doctor did a research. He did an experiment. He started meeting people who had near death experiences. Near death means who are clinically declared dead and who come back to life after 3-4 hours. There are so many such cases. In our Hindu villages there will always be 4-5 cases. If we go to our native village, always we will hear 3-4 cases like this.

The other day a doctor was telling me, 'There are so many cases who are medically declared dead, who come back to life after 4-5 hours.' In some person's life, it happens 3-4 times; they come back to life. This doctor somehow got interested in this subject and he started going all over the world meeting these types of persons, who are medically declared dead and who came back to life. He met people. He went all over the world. years he did research. people he met and collected all their memories, all their experiences, memories of how they had their death experience.

After analyzing all their experiences, he makes a conclusion. He makes a statement, a beautiful statement. People on the planet earth, only when they live they are Christians, they are Muslims, they are Hindus, they are Jews, they are Buddhists. But when they die, all of them die in the way that is described by Hinduism. We maybe a Hindu, Muslim, Jew or Christian, but when we die we are a Vedanti.

In the Kathopanishad, there is a clear description of death. And he says, in all these people's experiences which he collected, everybody's experience matches exactly with what Kathopanishad describes.

Let us see exactly how death happens. First we move from the physical body. You may be thinking, 'I came to learn how to live but Master is teaching all about death!' But unless we understand the mysteries of death, we will not have a clear idea about life. Our concept about death totally changes our concept about life. Our philosophy about life changes when our philosophy about death changes.

See, in the East, nobody cares for time. Things will happen in their own way, things take their own sweet time. Why? Because all the eastern religions believe in many births. We have eternity in our hands! If not today, tomorrow. If it is not coming today, tomorrow, otherwise, next janma!

All western religions say only about one birth. They say, after death, we don't have any birth. That is why, western people are so time conscious. Whatever has to be enjoyed has to be enjoyed in these 70-80 years. Nothing else can be done. We have to finish it. That is why their life style, everything is catered around this time consciousness.

The idea of death changes the whole idea of life. So, never think learning about death is a waste. That is the basic lesson everyone has to learn. First a person moves from the physical layer, means this body which we are having, to the pranic layer, which involves inhaling and exhaling, the energy or the air movement, the prana movement inside our system.

When we move from first layer to second layer, all our desires, the desires, the unfulfilled desires, the way we wanted to live but did not live, all those things usually come up. It is almost like in a room 10 persons are standing and like a football, all the 10 people are kicking. What will happen? How the football is kicked from this corner to that corner, that corner to that corner and back from that corner to here. Same way, our consciousness is kicked from all the corners. It moves from all the corners because in each corner some desire is standing and kicking. All our desires are forcing us to enter into the body so that we can enjoy them.

Our desires will be forcing us one side to enter into the body so that we can live and enjoy. The other side, the body will say 'No! I am tired. I can't host you anymore; leave!' One side, the body will tell, 'I am tired; I can't host you.' The other side, the pranic layer, the desires, will force us to live inside the body. That is what is the pulling and pushing. Pulling and pushing is nothing but the fight between the desires and the body.

And somehow if we move from the pranic layer slowly, next we enter into the mental body. In the mental body, another one problem is that all the guilt rises. All the guilt is about the way in which we wanted to live, but we never lived.

See, desire is about the future, guilt is about the past. But both are one and the same. Same thing, when it is about the past it is guilt, when it is about the future it is desire. The way in which we want to live is desire, the way in which we wanted to live but didn't is guilt. I always tell, guilt is nothing but reviewing our past decisions with updated intelligence.

Our intelligence is continuously updated. With this updated intelligence, we review our past decisions. For example, at the age of 7, your mother comes and calls you to take food. She says, 'Enough you played with toys. Throw them, come and eat.' What do you say, 'No, I don't want to eat; I want to play'. If your mother comes and tries to snatch the toys, what do you do? You not only cry and maybe even curse your mother. Now you know that the toys are not so important as your mother. Your mother is more important. Now your intelligence is totally different. At that time, toys were so important for you than your mother. You started cursing your mother.

Now you know, mother is much more important. With this updated intelligence, we can't create a guilt, 'Oh! That time I cursed my mother. That time we had only that much of intelligence. All our decisions are made with the available intelligence.

If we start reviewing our past decisions with updated intelligence, we will always create guilt. All the guilt is nothing but trying to review past decisions with updated intelligence. All the guilt rises in the mental body. Then if we move a little away, a little deeper comes the etheric layer which is related to all our sufferings. Like this, each and every layer has got its own samskara.

Actually, traveling through these layers only is called hell. Really, there is no other place called separately as hell. Hell or heaven are not geographical, they are psychological. Please be very clear, hell or heaven are not geographical. They are psychological.

One more thing, when we enter into the dream layer, if we start dreaming, this whole world will become black and white. We forget this whole world and the dream becomes multi-colour. If we come out of the dream, this whole world is seen in 4 dimensions, like 4D.

The waking world vs dream world

Now, when we are in this physical layer, this whole world is seen as 4D. We experience this world as 4D, in multi-colour. When we are in the dream world, we experience that as 4D. When we are here, dream becomes black and white, and this becomes 4D. When we are there, dream becomes 4D and this world becomes black and white.

Same way, when we move away from this physical layer to the pranic layer, this whole world will become black and white. What for did we work? What all did we think as a base for our life? You see, we invest in our personality; we build our personality based on a few pillars. There are a few pillars, foundations on which we build our personality - money, name and fame, relationships and pride that I have a big community support. These are the few pillars on which we create our personality.

If somebody asks you, 'Who are you?' What will you say? 'I am an engineer', 'I am a doctor', 'I am a lawyer'. Or you will tell, 'I am the owner of 4 houses'. Or 'I am such and such a person's husband or wife', or I am her husband, or somebody's son, somebody's daughter, somebody's wife. All these things, all these ideas we create, our personality is built on these few foundations.

When we move from the physical body, all these foundations will be completely shaken. We can't sign in our cheque any more. Our signature is not accepted. We can't sign our cheque. Our bank balance is no more related to us. We can't handle our bank balance. And our car will not be useful to us. At the most only the ambulance will be useful. And our house will not be useful to us. We can't even relate with our relatives, we can't talk to them. If we try, they will run away. Whatever is the foundation for our being, the whole foundation will be shaken. When the foundation is shaken, naturally we don't have anything to hold.

Understand this one thing, if we suddenly hear some loss in our business, we will feel that our whole body is suffering. The suffering will not be in one portion, the whole body will be suffering. It is almost like our being is crushed. We can see in our life, if we just sit in our office and worry about something, we don't have to do any work, just sit and worry and we will have shoulder pain. If we just sit and worry for 10 minutes, what will happen? We will have shoulder pain.

When something moves away from us, our whole body suffers. When we move from the physical body, the same suffering starts happening. Whatever we thought as a foundation for our life, the whole thing is shaken.

As of now, this whole world will appear in 4D. All this spirituality, meditation, growing the inner being, consciousness, all these will appear black and white. That is why, when I call people for meditation, they tell me, 'I don't have time to meditate.' Never say 'I don't have time to meditate.' Be very clear to yourself and say, 'I don't feel that it is that much important.' If we say, 'I don't think meditation is so important' then we are honest. But never say 'I don't have time.' Everybody has got the same 24 hours. It is not that the few who are meditating are jobless. It is just a question of priority, what we want in our life.

As of now, this world will appear in 4 dimensions, in multi-colour. That is the reason all this spirituality or the consciousness, spiritual experience, all these will appear in two colours. But, when we move away from the physical body, whatever we think, whatever we thought as 4D everything will totally disappear, it will be shaken. That time, we will not have any base. Or we will not have any space, where we can rest. That is the reason always death is suffering. At that moment, if we can have a conscious glimpse, or consciousness, we can consciously enter into death.

If we understand this completely, whatever we think as 4D will not be with us. Our personality will not be built on this 4D. When we are living itself we will create at least one foundation or pillar in the other dimension of spirituality. See, now we are in 2 dimensions, this world and the other is spirituality.

Now, if our being has got 10 pillars, all the 10 pillars are based on this world and this 4D. Not a single pillar is based on consciousness or the inner space. Our whole personality is built only based on the outer space - our name, our fame, what society speaks about us.

Our complete personality is structured only based on what society speaks about us. If everybody speaks that we are great, what do we think? We think, 'I am a great person.' If everybody says, 'You are useless', what do we start doing? We start getting depressed.

Not even a single pillar of our building is based on spirituality. The whole thing is based on outer space. Whole thing is based on our wealth, our name and fame, our social setup, our relationships, our family, our friends. That is the reason, when those pillars are shaken, we start suffering terribly. If we have only one pillar in the consciousness, we will not have suffering.

That is what the Gita says, what comes and stands in our mind at the time of leaving the body only will decide about our next birth or enlightenment. If we have only one pillar on the consciousness, naturally, we will not have the suffering when we leave the body. All the 9 pillars will become black and white. Even if the other nine pillars become black and white, the one pillar will be there to guide us. That one pillar will be there in the multi colour – 4D.

As of now, nothing exists. As of now, our whole personality is based on outer space. All our pillars are in this 4D. There is no inner space. That is why, like a ball, people can kick us from outer space. Anybody can just throw one word towards us, that's all, we are depressed. If somebody says we are mad, we shout at them and prove that we are mad! A single word is enough to make us mad. Nothing much is necessary. We see the street dogs - just if we throw one stone at the dog, it is enough to disturb that dog.

We are in no way better than street dogs. Anybody throwing one word on us is enough; we are already out because our whole personality is built on outer space. In the inner space we don't have strength. One more thing, as of now the inner space looks black and white. That is why we never give importance. But when we move from the body, the inner space will become 4D, the outer space will become black and white. Even if there is a single pillar in our inner space, naturally we will not have any suffering at the time of leaving the body. We will leave the body beautifully.

Four states of consciousness

Vivekananda says beautifully, even if we have only one single thoughtless awareness experience, means, single conscious experience in our life, that is enough. At the time of leaving the body it will come up and we will leave our body peacefully. We will just have awareness without thoughts.

The idea 'I' exists in all of us. In deep sleep do you have that? No. Same way almost every one of us has thoughts. In deep sleep do we have thoughts? No. There are two states of mind and two states of being. These two criss-cross each other and create four states of being in which we exist. First is to be with I, be with thoughts; this is what we say is the waking state. In Sanskrit we call it jāgrat state, jāgratāvastha, waking state.

The next, there will be thoughts, but there will not be 'I'. That is what we call dream state. You may ask how? How is it in dream we don't have 'I'?

Frequency of thoughts more in dream

See, in the dream, the frequency of thoughts is more than the frequency of 'I' consciousness. That is why you are not able to control your dreams. Now, if you want you can control your thoughts. You can suppress them, alter them, create in a different way, you can do whatever you want, because the frequency of 'I' is more than the frequency of thoughts.

In the dream state, the frequency of thoughts is more; that is why they just flow. You can't do anything about it. You can't control your dreams. If at all we have the opportunity to dream what we want, we know what type of dreams we will be having. Dreams are not under our control because the frequency of thoughts is more than the frequency of 'I'. Dream state is when you don't have 'I' but you have only thoughts.

Third, neither you have 'I' nor you have thoughts. That is deep sleep, sound sleep.

There is a fourth state that we never experience. There, we will be having 'I' but not having any thoughts. This is what we call turīya or meditation or samādhi or ātmajñāna, nirvāṇa, self realization, experience, what ever you want you can name it. This is what we call samādhi. This is the state where you have 'I' consciousness but no thoughts. This is what I say 'thoughtless awareness' or 'consciousness'. Even one glimpse of this state is enough, even one experience of this state is enough, when you leave your body you will have your result, you will have your lounge there!

As of now, this turīya state or samādhi state or consciousness, all these things will look like black and white. We will not give that much importance to all these things. It will be very difficult to surrender to this turīya state. It will be very difficult to work for this consciousness as of now, because it appears to us as black and white.

Even if you understand it intellectually it is only a faith. You must be thinking, 'Who knows what the truth is? This Master must be telling something to do his business!' See, these are all usual things. I always tell people, it is not so easy to understand all these things. It is not so easy to surrender. It is very difficult to surrender, as of now.

The moment you hear the words your consciousness or surrender or samādhi or meditation and all those things, immediately what do you think? 'It is all a very difficult thing.' And not only that, we will always have the fear, 'You may now tell me to surrender, tomorrow you may take away my property or you may take away my husband or you may take away my wife. You may take away my kids. Or, I myself may get inspired and go behind him.' There are so many doubts; there are so many troubles, so many problems.

It is very difficult to trust somebody, it is very difficult to enter into this fourth state or very difficult to enter even close to it. It is very difficult because now all these things are only in two colours – black and white. But when you leave the body, what ever you thought as 4 colour – 4D, it will become completely black and white.

When you are leaving, everything in this world becomes valueless

Now let us see how the second death happened so peacefully. Now the statement which I am making is a little difficult to understand but again I have no other way, because truth has to be explained. Truth has to be expressed. Only then you will be able to enter into the formula. This is the way the formula has happened to the person. When the second death was happening, the moment the person left the first layer body, because an enlightened being was standing there, because of his presence, somehow he was able to catch a glimpse of that consciousness. He was able to catch my presence.

At this time, I had become enlightened. But at the first death, I was not enlightened, I was doing my tapas. I was wandering all over Bharat. The second death, at that time already I had my enlightenment. Somehow because of that he was able to catch a glimpse of consciousness. The moment he left the first layer body, he was able to feel me or experience me. The moment he started experiencing me simply his whole consciousness was centered on me.

See, usually what are the things that stop you from surrendering to the Master? Your bank balance, your house, your car, your relationship, your wife, your own insecurity about your life. If I surrender what will happen, I may start becoming a servant for him. There are so many other things.

All these things are only stopping you from surrendering or entering into the consciousness. Surrendering and entering into the consciousness, all these are one and the same. But for that person all these things have already become valueless. When he has left the first level body, naturally all these things have become already valueless. So, whatever is catching or pulling, whatever strings are pulling him down are already cut, disconnected.

As long as you think the outer world is worthy, it has got value, you will have the fear that somebody may take it away, somebody may snatch it from you. As long as you think whatever you collected in your life is valuable you will have tremendous fear. That is why I tell people, as long as you think these things are valuable, you will never be able to experience fearlessness. There will be continuous fear. The more you have more the fear. Continuously your being will be shaken. Every moment you will be waiting afraid what will happen. But at that moment, whatever can be taken away from that person has been taken away. Now there is nothing to lose. Trusting the Master is very easy at that moment.

Somehow, fortunately he had my presence there. Simply he could see, when he understood that all the other things are valueless, when the physical body things were taken away from him, his whole consciousness without any doubt, without any difficulty, was centered on me. Naturally, when he was centered on the enlightened being or conscious being, he simply dissolved into the enlightenment without any suffering.

What ever is stopping you now will not stop you at that time. At that time you don't have to practice renunciation, everything will be taken away from you by force. See, as long you have a choice only you have to practice this vairāgya, renunciation, dāna, dharma all these things. That time you don't have to practice all these vairāgya, renunciation because everything will be taken away from you. What is there to practice? You see, even to renounce you don't have anything.

So, there is nothing that can stop you from entering into the enlightenment experience. There is nothing that can stop you from entering into the conscious experience. But only one thing you need, when you leave the body, you need a conscious being around you. Without that, it is not possible. Now what to do? I can't go and stand in all the ICUs and ask people 'Hey, when will you die? When will you die?'

Leaving the body peacefully - the greatest gift anybody can have

From my experience I tell you – leaving the body peacefully is the greatest gift anybody can have. If you have got that gift, you achieved whatever has to be achieved. You have lived your life; nothing else needs to be achieved. If you have not achieved that, nothing is worth achieving.

After seeing this second death, I started seriously contemplating - how this can be reproduced? Or, how can we help people to leave consciously? And as I was telling you, I cannot go and stand in all the ICUs. That's impossible.

And one more thing, energy is not bound by space or time. Energy is beyond time and space. All we need is a set-top-box, that's all. See, if you have a set-top-box in your house, you can just tune your TV to some channel. If you tune to BBC, you will see BBC. If you tune to CNN, you will see CNN. Whatever channel you tune you can see that program.

Same way, at the time of leaving the body if you can tune yourself to consciousness, if you can tune yourself to thoughtless awareness, conscious experience, simply you will see your life is a conscious experience. You will be able to cross this ocean of saṃsāra or this ocean of saṃskāra, ocean of all these 7 layers, beautifully and peacefully.

We are going to work with that formula in this program. Please understand, if you work with the theory of gravity, you can always understand completely what Newton experienced. Same way, work with this formula, you can simply experience what he experienced. What has happened in my consciousness can happen in your consciousness also. All you need to do is, work with this formula intensely. Just go with this formula as intensely as possible. Nothing else needs to be done.

Going beyond saṃskāras - engraved memories

Another important question, 'Master, leave about dying, what about living?' Now comes the important question, please understand – as of now, all the 7 layers are not so clear as you think. It is like 7 coats that you are having. If you are wearing the 7 coats properly, you can remove them whenever you want and hang it on the wall. As of now, you are not wearing these 7 coats properly. The first coat button is hooked with the seventh coat. And the third coat is put with the first coat. The first coat third button is taken and put with the fourth coat. You see, if you can remove the coat whenever you want, it is a coat. If you can't remove, it is not a coat, it is bondage.

If you have had a single conscious experience, you will not be continuously tortured, pulled and pushed by your saṃskāras or engraved memories. Your whole life if you see, you will be able to understand. See your whole life with a little intelligence, you will be able to understand, really you don't live. Only your engrams are living. Only your saṃskāras are living. For example, suppose you have created a saṃskāra that in the morning at 7 o'clock you need coffee. The moment it becomes 7 o'clock, you don't have to even see the watch, from inside the bell will go, 'Coffee'!

For example, morning 9 o'clock you will start worrying about your office. Evening 6 o'clock you will start worrying about your house. Night 8 o'clock you will start worrying about your kid's education. If this becomes a routine, even on Sunday you will start worrying about your office, at 9 o'clock. Even if you don't have to go to office, you will start worrying about this. Suddenly you will remind yourself – no, no, no today is Sunday don't bother we don't have to go to office. Even then you will have that same low mood. You will have the same low mood. Even your worry, your mind, is nothing but recorded samskara.

Never think you are living. Just your samskara are living. Your samskara are living. Samskara are recorded in all the 7 layers. Only when you cleanse your samskara – your mental habit – you will start living.

Just the saṃskāras are living your life. And if you watch a little deeply, if you observe a little deeply you will understand, even your worries are recorded engrams.

For example, in the morning at 9 o'clock you will start worrying about your office. Evening 6 o'clock you will start worrying about your house. Night 8 o'clock you will start worrying about your kid's education. If this becomes a routine, even on Sunday you will start worrying about your office, at 9 o'clock. How many of you have experienced this?

Even if you don't have to go to office, you will start worrying about this. Suddenly you will remind yourself, 'No; today is Sunday. Don't bother; we don't have to go to office.' Even then you will have that same low mood. You will have the same low mood. Even your worry, your mind, is nothing but recorded saṃskāras. Never think you are living. Just your saṃskāras are living. Your saṃskāras are living. Saṃskāras are recorded in all the 7 layers. Only when you cleanse your saṃskāras, your mental habits, you will start living.

When you can't sit with yourself, you miss a major dimension of your life. Your samskaras are only living, you are not living. Your engrams are only living, you are not living. That is the reason you can't sit with yourself. You can't sit with yourself, continuously you have to do something. When you go and sit in front of the TV, in 15 minutes you will go around in a circle. We can't sit with ourselves because of these engrams.

These 4 days, all we are going to do is only one thing. Work intensely and cleanse the samskaras and have the conscious experience. At least one glimpse of thoughtless awareness. One glimpse of thoughtless awareness. I request all of you, please put your complete effort. Have one glimpse of conscious awareness, nothing else. As of now, whatever you think as 4D will lose its value. Your whole being, the root, will be shaken the moment you move from the physical layer. It is almost like you are building your own resort there, in the inner world.

The way in which you enjoy your whole life only will decide how your last moment will be.

One more important thing, please understand – it is very shocking information, but truth. Only after seeing the first death I was able to experience this: even your paapa (sin) or punya (merit) doesn't come with you. Please understand, even your sin or merit doesn't come with you. Don't think your sin or merit comes with you. Don't think if you do some charity here, if you give some money to some temple and get a receipt here, there you will be given a VIP pass.

Then the next question comes – 'Then, can I do any sin?' Understand, if somebody commits 100 murders, that attitude of doing murder goes with him. The exact number does not go with him, the attitude goes with him. And one more thing, never think you commit sins and then go to hell. You commit sins because you are in hell. A person who is happy will never be violent. If you are happy, will you torture others? If you are happy, will you be violent? Actually, if your mood is nice even if your staff or employee does a mistake what you will say? Alright, leave it! If your mood is not alright, even if they do a small mistake what do you do? You jump and bite them!

Never think you will do sin and go to hell, you do sin because you are in hell. Same way, never think you will do good things and reach heaven. You do good things because you are in heaven. The mind setup which you have when doing an activity is what is called hell or heaven. When you do a wrong thing, what mental set up you have, that suffering only is hell. When you do a right thing, what mental setup you have, that is only heaven. So, don't think your sins or merit comes with you. Only one thing comes with you – the conscious experience.

The whole humanity can be categorized into just two categories: people who had conscious experience when they were living and people who did not have conscious experience, that's all! All other concepts of hell and heaven are just beautiful stories. Please be very clear – there is no hell or heaven as you understand.

No paapa or punya comes with you. If at all you can carry, you can carry only one thing in your life and that is this conscious experience. Either you can become enlightened or you can come down according to your choice. If you don't have that conscious experience, nothing is going to come with you. Not only the outwardly properties, even your sins and merits are not going to come with you.

Please be very clear – there are many people who are thinking, 'If I give this much money to that temple, that God will be standing there to take care of me.' or 'If I give this to that temple that God will be standing there, waiting there with a special VIP pass. Nothing like that will happen. People are thinking, if I give this much of money to Venkateshwara Swamy, he will send a special flight from Vaikuntha.

There is a beautiful story in the Upanishad, called Jadabharatha story. One rishi called Jadabharatha, somehow he was attached to a deer. From morning till night he was spending his time taking care of that deer. And when he was dying, he was not able to forget that poor animal. He started worrying about that animal. 'Oh! Who will take care of the animal? What will happen to it after my death?' He started worrying about all these things, because he was continuously bothering about that deer. When he died, in the next janma, he became a deer. Beautifully the shloka says, what ever you think in the antima kaala, in the last moment, you become that!

Some people think very cleverly, 'Whole life let me live the way I want, in the last moment I will tell Hare-Rama Hare-Krishna or Govinda-Shiva.' Please be very clear – what you thought in your whole life only will come up when you leave the body. Don't think at that moment you can play the game. Actually, when you leave the body, your whole system will be in such an agony, that 80 or 90 years of your life will run in fast-forward. The whole thing will be seen in fast-forward. Whatever experience you had intensely, or what ever you enjoyed intensely, that only will come up in multi-colour. All the other things will run as black and white.

If you have lived throughout your life only eating, naturally that will come up and stand. What will you decide? After all I am going to eat, let me take pig janma. Why to take some other body? And if you spend your whole life sleeping you will decide, why unnecessarily take human body and go to office and all, let us take 'buffalo birth.'

Actually, based on the way in which you enjoy your whole life only you decide in the last moment. In the last moment, the whole thing will come up in fast-forward. What you enjoyed deeply, what is the experience that happened in your life intensely, that will come up, like a popup. That will come up and appear in multi-colour. All other things will be black and white, it will be in the background. So, naturally, based on what comes up only you will decide what birth to take. If you had a single conscious experience, means, thoughtless awareness in your life, naturally when you leave your body that will come up. That is the strongest experience anybody can have.

Please understand, thoughtless awareness is the strongest experience you can have in your life. All other three are only shallow. All other three are only shallow. Thoughtless awareness is the strongest experience you can have in your life. Even for a single moment if you had that experience, that is enough. Naturally, when you leave the body that will come up. That will come up and simply you will move into the light. That will act as a light and you will be able to move into the consciousness.

Whether it is accident or suicide, if you have not had conscious experience before your death, please be very clear, you have to wait to get next body. For example, when you came down, when you took this body you decided to live in this body for 90 years and suppose you committed suicide in 60 years. Next 30 years you have to struggle, waiting for the next body. They will not have the next body. If it is a natural death, then there is no problem. Of course, disease is natural death. Murder and suicide, these two, they have to wait with a lot of suffering.

Please be very clear – never contemplate suicide. What for do you think we contemplate about suicide? Because this life becomes a torture, a suffering. But if you commit suicide, only then you will understand, it will be a much worse torture. Never ever contemplate suicide. It will be a much worse torture.

One important thing – it is like you will have sweets in front of you but you don't have a tongue to taste or hand to take it and put it into your mouth. How much of suffering it will be! Same way, the whole world will be in front of you but you will not have the body to enjoy it. That is why never contemplate about suicide. Never think of suicide.

Now the latest research, beautiful research – if a mother dies at a very young age that child is prone to paralysis attack. If the mother dies at a very young age, that child is prone to paralysis attack. Because, that part of the energy that is given by the mother is not nourished. It is not nourished by her presence, by her nearness. That is why in our ancient system, till the age of 14 kids were kept always in our nearness. They should sleep in your lap. Till the age of 14 you should hug the kids, they should sleep in your lap they should be always around you. Never put them in boarding school. Please be very clear, if you put the kids in a residential school before the age of 14, get ready to go to old age home. They will put you in old age home. If you put them in boarding school before the age of 14, they will put you in old age home. No other way because there will be no relationship. They will put you in old age home. You need to give your nearness to them.

Actually, if the father or mother dies, the part that is donated to you by them, that part will also face the depression. So, to give energy to that part only you chant the mantra. It is actually not for them, it is for you. Within three kshana of the death, the person takes another body. Please be very clear, within three kshana. And one more important thing you should understand, kshana does not mean 'second'. Kshana does not mean 'a second'. Kshana means, in Vedic mathematics or Vedic time-set-up, the gap between one thought and the other thought.

If you have lived a peaceful life, your kshana can be even two months. If you have lived a restless life, your kshana will be a microsecond. If you have lived a restless life hurrying, worrying, your kshana will be a microsecond. If you have lived a peaceful life, a relaxed, especially a conscious life, if your life was with a conscious experience, your kshana will be even 3-4 months. It can be extended to even one year.

Chronological time and psychological time

There are two things – chronological time and psychological time. Understand, there are two things, chronological time and psychological time. If you are sitting with somebody whom you really love or who cares for you or your friend, your close friend, even if you sit for 3-4 hours, you will not know how time has passed. And if you are sitting with somebody who is boring, torturing, after every 5 minutes what will you do? You will see the watch. Still time is not moving. You will feel really bored.

If the number of thoughts is too much you will feel time is not moving. Your kshana will be a microsecond. If the number of thoughts is less, you will have, you will feel, 'Oh! Time is running.' And your kshana will be more than 2-3 hours. That is why we always tell, if the number of thoughts is less, the person is in heaven. See, for devatas (heavenly beings), our whole one-year is one day for them. Have you heard this? Our whole one-year is one day, why? Number of thoughts is less. So, they don't even know how the time is running.

That is why Nataraja will have only 6 abhishekams in a year. He is worshipped by devas. See, usually we do 6 poojas per day, for Nataraja only 6 poojas per year. Because, the calendar of devatas is totally different. The number of thoughts for them is less, they are in heaven. So, naturally their kshana is more. This concept of kshana should be understood, this idea of how our one year is only one day for devatas. The people who are stuck in the sixth layer, the spiritual body, they are called devatas. That space only is called heaven.

You choose your body, your birth

If you have lived restless, continuously worrying, bothering life, the moment you leave the body you will feel so restless; within 3 kshana you will take the next body. You cannot be without body because you are so dependent on the body.

See, all along your 10 pillars are in the outer space. So, naturally you are dependent on the body. You can't be without body. What will you do? You will run to take another body. You will not even be bothered which train is coming, which side it is going, which platform, nothing, simply you will jump into it and take another body. If you have lived a simple life, peaceful life, if you have had one glimpse of consciousness, single glimpse of this turiya state, when you leave the body you will leave beautifully and you will have a VIP lounge there.

You will not be pushed and pulled by desires, guilt and painful experiences of your life. You will not be pushed and pulled; you will not be kicked this side and that side. You will not be forced to take one more body. You can have a beautiful relaxed way of living. You can wait and decide whether to take another one body or to wait. It will all be under your choice. All you need to do is one conscious glimpse.

NSP - The formula to reproduce the conscious experience

After seeing this second death, I started seriously contemplating how this can be reproduced. Or, how can we help people to leave consciously? Energy is not bound by space or time. Energy is beyond time and space. All we need is a set-top-box, that's all. See, if you have a set-top-box in your house, you can just tune your TV to some channel. If you tune to BBC, you will see BBC. If you tune to CNN, you will see CNN. Whatever channel you tune you can see that program. Same way, at the time of leaving the body if you can tune yourself to consciousness, if you can tune yourself to thoughtless awareness, conscious experience, simply you will see your life is a conscious experience.

You will be able to cross this ocean of samsara or this ocean of samskara, ocean of all these 7 layers, beautifully and peacefully.

The moment I got this understanding, like a lump, like a conscious ball something landed in me. A formula happened in my consciousness. This formula only I call the Nithyananda Spurana Program. These 4 days we are going to work with that formula. Please understand, if you work with the theory of gravity, you can always understand completely what Newton experienced. Same way, work with this formula, you can simply experience what I experienced.

What has happened in my consciousness can happen in your consciousness also. All you need to do is, work with this formula intensely. Just go with this formula as intensely as possible. Nothing else needs to be done.

Conscious experience is all you can take with you when you die

As of now, whatever you think as 4D will lose its value. Your whole being, the root, will be shaken the moment you move from the physical layer. Please understand, I am not telling any story, I am telling history which is going to happen in your life. The root itself will be shaken. If you have a single conscious glimpse, thoughtless awareness, you will have some space in which you can rest when all these things are taken away from you. It is almost like you are building your own resort there, in the inner world.

Can you enjoy your bank balance in your dream? No! In the dream state nothing is valuable. When you are here, dream is not valuable. When you move away from the physical body, whatever you think as you will become valueless. So, now itself create wealth that will come with you forever.

Throughout the house, all your relatives will stand and weep when you die. Till the road, your wife will come and stand and weep. Till the burial ground your son will come to do the last rites and rituals. Who will come till the end? Nobody. Nobody can come. Only the conscious glimpse can come with you. This will be if you had a conscious experience of thoughtless awareness when you are living, means, for a moment you learn to live without body and mind.

If you have learnt to live without body and mind for a moment, that is what is thoughtless awareness. You will have the same thoughtless awareness at the time of leaving the body also. So, already you have mastered the art of living with body and mind. So, naturally you will not be suffering. Whatever is taken away from you will not be you. You will have your inner space safe. It will not be with suffering. As of now you don't have inner space. As of now, all we think as 'we' is based on the outer space. That is the reason I request you, work intensely these 4 days. Throw away the outer space. Forget about the outer space for the next 4 days. All your profession, your life, your regular work, your everything.

And all of you have decided to be here for 4 days, am I right? When you have decided to be here for 4 days physically, why not mentally also?

Be in the present

Ramakrishna says beautifully, if you put a little curd into milk and keep it in a corner for 2-3 hours, it will become curd. Then you churn or shake or do whatever you want. You will have only butter, nothing wrong will happen. But immediately after putting curd if you keep on churning, you will never have curd. The curd will never happen. So, now understand: these 4 days you need to keep yourself away so that the curd can happen. Once the curd has happened, you can go into the world. Whatever can be done, nothing will shake you. But in these 4 days when the process is happening, please cooperate. We will be working here intensely, please, if you go out and pick up something.

Even if you get some information, whether it is good or bad from your office, the whole office mental setup will come back. And in just 10 minutes you will come down and become just a normal person, as you are now. For example, even if you see a single hoarding in a street that is enough to create a chain of thoughts. So, please understand, in the next 4 days, even though it is a little difficult, try to avoid cell phone conversations, try to avoid even the mental chatter, the mental thoughts about your office, house.

Whenever you become aware, bring back your mind and consciousness to your present – you can watch your breath or you can feel your whole body. Continuously come back to the present moment, just for these 4 days.

Falling into conscious state with anesthesia

Around the world thousands have worked with this formula and really they are successful. And one more thing I will tell you, it is a truth which I discovered after working with this formula with thousands of people. Not only at the time of leaving the body you become conscious, if you are successful in the NSP, if you have a conscious glimpse, not only at the time of leaving the body, even if you are given anesthesia for some surgery, you will enter into the conscious state.

After NSP, for some reason some people went to hospital for minor surgeries, when they were given anesthesia automatically they fell into the conscious state. Full anesthesia, even with full anesthesia they fell into the conscious state. They say, 'We didn't have pain, but are seeing clearly what is happening. We are aware of the whole thing. And we are able to experience very clearly the whole thing.' Not with one or two persons, hundreds of experiences I am hearing. And even if you feel giddy and fall, you will not enter into the darkness, which you usually enter, the unconsciousness. You will enter into light. You can fall and see by yourself! After the NSP, try to fall and see by yourself.

Understand, this is not the experience of one or two persons. Hundreds of people experienced the same thing. One devotee from Mysore, she had anesthesia, again she says, 'I was completely conscious.' Even a single conscious glimpse, single thoughtless awareness can change you whole way of thinking and living, can change the whole way of your life.

Diseases rooted in mental setup

All your major diseases are rooted in the mental set up. Please be very clear, all your major diseases are rooted in mental set up. If you don't change the mental set up and just the healing is done, what will happen? You will get the same disease in 10 days and come back. As long as you have a knee, you will have knee pain. When you have a conscious glimpse no karma can touch you. Your frequency becomes much more than the frequency of karma. See, karma can work on you as long as you have thoughts. In conscious awareness you go beyond thoughts. So, naturally you will start ruling karma.

Meditation is like exposing your film directly to sun…expose your consciousness

That is why they say, meditation is like exposing your film directly to sun. For one moment, for one second if the camera shutter opens whatever is in front of the camera will be recorded in the film. If the shutter is completely open what will happen? If the sun's rays directly fall on the film what will happen? Whatever is recorded will be erased.

Now, when you took birth, for one moment the camera shutter opened, the life entered into your body. So, whatever was there in the scene it is recorded. Means, whatever grahas (planets) were there at that moment is recorded. That is why the birth time is very important. Based on that only your consciousness functions.

Now, consciously I am keeping the shutter open for quite a bit of time. So, naturally whatever is recorded, what will happen to that? It will be erased. That is why, when you take birth, for one moment the shutter opens, that is a birth. When you are initiated, the shutter is completely open once more. Naturally the sun rays enter and all your karma are wiped. That is why when you are initiated you are called dvija – you take the second life, a new life. And the man who operates your camera holds the shutter open for one more second is called Guru. He is the person who is called Guru.

Prarabdha karma

Be very clear: Only when the mind is like a fertile land, the seeds of karma will sprout.

If the soil is ploughed and fertile, if you put in a seed, it will sprout.

The unclutched mind is like the hard ground. The seed of any karma you put in it cannot sprout, it will die.

Please understand prarabdha is also nothing but your thought. Even prarabdha, for it to act on you, you need to cooperate. It is like always the TV waves are there, relay is happening. Only when you tune in you will see the program. If you don't tune your TV, you will not see the program. Same way, if you have the conscious glimpse, you will not tune in yourself to the prarabdha. You will never have the experience.

Conscious awareness is the only way to escape from any karma. Consciousness is that which erases the samskara.

Sanjita karma is like a big bank balance, and prarabdha karma is one which you brought. You see, files which are in the archives is the sanjita karma, the files which are on your table is prarabdha. The files which are in the archives is the sanjita karma. The files which are on your table is prarabdha, that's all. But you can escape from both, you can alter both, you can handle both if you have had a conscious experience.

You choose your next birth based on your 'best' experiences in this birth

When you leave the body you get all the intelligence, and you decide what type of body you want to take based on your past life. From the past life file you see the whole file, 'What is the best experience that I wanted to have in my life?' And then you refer your past life, what all experiences you have had in your life. Whatever you think as best, to repeat the same type of experience what type of place is good? What type of father and mother are needed? Which country is good? You decide and you go and take birth, that's all.

Even poverty is a conscious choice

Even poverty is a conscious choice! Please understand, poverty is a conscious choice. It is very difficult to understand but it is the truth. When you don't want to take the responsibility of having money, you choose to be in poverty. Because having money means lot of responsibility, you need to protect. You are always in a danger, anytime you can be harassed. You can be kidnapped, they can take away from you. There are all these risks. Even this poverty is a conscious choice.

Anubhava versus anubhooti

Experience does not mean the number of incidents that happened in your life, the number of lessons you learnt from that incident.

A small example: there are people who touch the gas fire and say 'Oh! Gas fire will burn.' Then they will touch the match stick fire, 'Oh! Match stick fire will burn.' Then they will touch the cigarette fire, 'Oh! Cigarette fire will burn.' Then they will touch the charcoal fire, 'Oh! Charcoal fire will burn.' Then they will touch the fire from wood, 'Oh! Fire from wood will burn.' By the time they touch all the fires and understand that all fires will burn, their body will be ready to be burnt! This is called anubhava - one kind of learning. One by one by one by one they will learn. This is called anubhava. Second thing, this is called anubhooti. The moment you touch the first fire, you will understand the meaning that all fire will burn. This is called anubhooti.

There are two kinds of persons – one who touch every kind of fire and then realize finally that all fire will burn. By the time they realize, they will be ready to go to the burning ghat. They will be ready to be burnt. For the other kind of people, the first fire itself will give them the intelligence that all fire will burn. You see, there are people who think, when they are studying, 'If I am in college, my life will be very joyful.' When they are in college, they think, 'If I get a job I will be independent, I will have enough money, I will be jolly.' When they are having the job, they think, 'If I am married I will have a beautiful life, it will be joyful.' Then they think, 'If I have kids then life will be ecstasy.' Then, after kids, 'Oh! If they grow and become independent I will have no responsibility and life will be happy.'

After every desire, you understand that no desire is going to give you happiness. For some people, when the first desire is fulfilled but has not given joy, immediately they understand, all desires are going to burn. They are only called people who had anubhooti. Some people will touch all fires and understand that all fires will burn.

There is another group. They will see somebody touching the fire and getting burnt, immediately they will understand, 'Oh God! It is going to burn' and they will escape. They are only called 'Paramahamsa'.

It is the individual's devotion. That only makes the person to have the vision, darshan and all those things. This is like the etheric body darshan. If they are intensely devoted, the etheric body can appear wherever it wants. The etheric body has no space or time. It automatically appears and heals people.