Love Amongst Nithya Disciples🔗

That morning at Joshimath was a sight to behold. We sat on the terrace of the hotel with the mountains all around us. It was quite early in the morning and the sun was just rising. The orange glow that the rising sun cast on the master dressed in his usual saffron, presented a surreal spectacle. The master was transcendental;, he was glowing.

The rising sun seemed to be a kind of signal. He started very gently talking about the kind of relationship, the love that he would like to see amongst his disciples. He said, 'To show love towards me is easy; no effort is needed on your part, but to love your neighbor is what you need to learn.'

He moved on to a subject that we had never before heard him speak on. We could feel his anguish as he raised his voice in a declaration, 'Once you accept me as your master, you shall not talk about other masters in the presence of my disciples.' The Joshimath declaration had been made.

I looked into myself and reflected on the transformation wrought by the master. People whom I could not have tolerated in earlier times, evoked in me a feeling of kinship borne out of a shared understanding that had not been there before. The bond of a family was so strong that earlier relationships paled in comparison. The synergy of the Nithya family was truth, not merely fact. I wished that all those present would take this declaration in the spirit meant. The declaration was meant as a protection for the immature minds that needed the guidance of a single master and a single ideology until they attained spiritual maturity.

The master said, 'Spread love among devotees, care among disciples. See the Divine among devotees. Krishna is the person, the first one, who ever spoke about the idea of seeing the Divine everywhere. Before him, it was not given as a spiritual practice or technique. A few rishis spoke about it but they also expressed it as an experience not as a technique.

Expressing it as an experience is one thing but giving it as a technique is different. Krishna was the person who designed and delivered it as a technique. He said, 'See me in everybody.' He said, 'My devotees who continuously think about me, speak about me, and see me in everybody living, in the end reach me alone.' It was Krishna who gave this as a technique to us. It is one of the most powerful techniques that you can practice twenty-four hours with open eyes. Seeing this as one big family - Vasudeva kutumbaha universal Family. It is a wonderful technique.

Sahaja samadhi means always being in s*amadhi;* always being in the mood of bliss, the mood of love and mood of the Divine. Enlightened masters live in that state all the time, forever connected with the Divine. Not only that, but seeing the Divine in everything, in everyone around them.

It is said that whenever Ramakrishna saw someone from the enlightened master Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's place, he would fall at their feet. People asked him why he fell at such ordinary mortals' feet. He said, 'Whether they are ordinary or extraordinary, I don't know, but they are from the place Baanigaati, where Chaitanya did one important sankeertan (concert*)*. The moment I hear that they are from there, the very name creates memories of Chaitanya in me and I pay my gratitude by falling at their feet. If I had not met them, in those moments, I might have been thinking of something else. They are therefore instruments through whom some good memories and ideas are kindled in me.'

There are so many thousands of things I feel like telling you. This is such a wonderful subject – seeing the Divine in everyone. The ultimate aim is to see the Divine in the whole world. Now it will be difficult because we feel people may cheat us. At least we can start with a small group which is in tune with this one concept or idea. We can then naturally expand.

Let us see the first few difficulties in not being able to see the Divine, not being able to reflect in ourselves the same Divine, not being able to represent the Divine to others. This is a sensitive subject but I have to speak on it.

These window shoppers, they are the first idiots who create trouble in every spiritual group. They go from master to master, guru to guru, and don't learn from anybody. If you learn from everybody, you can go to all the masters; there is nothing wrong. In my Healing Initiation book, there is a clear note that you can go to many gardens, pluck the best of flowers and make a bouquet for yourself. The problem is, these people pluck thorns instead of flowers and hurt themselves and others. I think I am going to ban window shoppers from here on.

Some masters ban their disciples from going to anyone else. Now I understand why they do that. See, the great enlightened masters Buddha and Mahavira had a very close relationship. They would bow down and touch each other's feet when they met. But Buddha gave clear instructions that none of his people should go to Mahavira and Mahavira also did the same thing. Someone asked why they did that. They said, 'Out of your immaturity, when I do an operation, you will escape from here and go there and if he does an operation on his disciple he will escape from there and come here and in the end, you will be dangling and losing both masters.'

In a way, these idiots are so unconscious that they don't learn from anybody. They just see where their ego is mostly satisfied; whether it is being an organizer or a coordinator, they deserve a round with a big broomstick. They choose an institution where they can go near the master easily, or one who has a big institution. These things play a role in their heads.

The other day a lady came to the ashram. She wanted to go to another master. I agreed and arranged for it. But I have seen people: when they go to other masters' ashram, they speak about me and when they come here, they talk about those masters and confuse people. I think I should ban this from happening. I always tell people not to preach our teachings in another camp. They don't do this properly and end up confusing others. They are the first and the last problem creators in all spiritual groups. Sincerely follow whomsoever you are following.

I am so open that people immediately talk to all my disciples about other masters. Once a plant has become a banyan tree, you can even tie an elephant to it and it will not be shaken. But a small plant – even if a goat is tied to it, will be destroyed. So hereby, I declare that none of my people in my campus will speak about any other master in whatsoever form. This is the Joshimath declaration!

I am not against any of you learning from anybody. But they should not come and confuse the people who are living here, who are already practicing and growing slowly. They will not disturb the ones inside our camp. Many times people have asked me to declare this. Now I have a set of young devotees. When their faith is growing, they should not be confused by these old window shoppers, the so-called seekers going around for years and not getting anything from anybody; those who have brutal fights with organizations.

Those who cannot stay with one master cannot stay with any master because they all possess the same setup. They see these masters in their young days; they get to spend a lot of time with the master. After some time, the institution becomes big. Even when they were close, they would not have made use of the energy. They would have been bragging etc. Once the organization becomes big, they start saying that only rich people can spend time with the master and such things.

What did they do when they had the time with him? At least let those who want to learn, learn. They will say, 'We don't have time now like before.' Did they accomplish what the master told them when they had the time before? No! If you are really honest, it is too much time taken with even one master to be able to flower. So much can happen with one master. If you miss once it is ok, but if you come and say, 'In those days etc.', it is not going to help.

My disciples tell me, 'Master, please be strict and tell the people that they are not meant to do these things. They might even keep another's photo before you come and then change it when you come.' These fellows don't even preach the other master's teachings properly. They bring their ego here because it would have gotten bashed there! They show that they have experience in the field – like experience in another hotel!

I tell you, blessed are the people who came to me fresh! If you have gone to any other master, there is nothing wrong. Don't bring your story here, that's all. If you had been really successful, you would not have left. That itself shows that you were a failure with that master. But you will tell, 'No master, we found something extra in you and so we came.' You were not feeling fulfilled with him; you were a failure, so please drop the whole thing. Don't confuse my people with whom I am working.

Slowly I am making them grow. When I do the operation on them, they will be in depression. You immediately try to console them and tell them that you will take them to another master. You are actually disturbing them by doing this. Hereby I declare to all my devotees to all my people that, in our space, in our programs, camps, branches, and centers, no other talk, no other ideology, no other expression will be entertained except through this form and this name.

I don't want to dilute any message of mine. These people dilute the feeling of a family. They go around and talk about someone else. They are not honest here and dilute the whole feeling. One drop of poison is enough to spoil one pot of milk. There is no need to talk. It is confusing. When you are there, don't talk about me and confuse them. I have never told you to go and preach about me. Let everybody grow in his or her place. All we need is the person flowering.

Each master has created his own space and way for people to flower, according to his experience. Each one is trying to create a lab and when you bring another chemical inside, you disturb the whole process. The whole intensity is lost. If you are with some other master, don't wear my mala. Live totally with them. If I see that my disciple will grow with some other master directly, I will boldly send them there. I have sent my working hands and also people whom I have worked on for many years to other masters.

When I find that they have love for another master, I give them money and support them, and tell them to live with them. I tell them that when they are not able to adjust, they can come back at any time to me. But I clearly tell them that they cannot wear my mala, they cannot use the name I have given them. They should not tell them that they have lived with me; there should be no ego nonsense.

I tell them to empty their cup here and go there fresh. If they go with all these ideas there, the same drama will happen there too. It will be like having another master in your head to protect yourself, a helmet to protect yourself when I hit you on your head. Your head is already thick; you are already a hard nut to crack. So drop your helmet and come inside. I am going to put up a board that says, 'No helmet area!' When you are here, drop everybody and be here; otherwise don't come.

Go to all the gardens and pluck flowers, but when you come inside my garden, pluck only my flowers. I will not allow any others' flowers. I think you would not have plucked any flowers elsewhere, otherwise you would not come here. You would have plucked thorns thinking that they were flowers. You will then plant these thorns in my gardens and create trouble.

Just as in the US they put up a board, 'No other product allowed here', we should also put up a board! In the US, they caught me for wearing the rudraksha beads because they are seeds and there is a possibility that they might grow. I told them that is the seeds are worship material and that they are drilled and therefore cannot grow; they then allowed them.

It is actually you bringing the thorn inside that is really disturbing. Every moment, some dropouts from my movement create trouble elsewhere. Troublemakers are everywhere you go. If you send them to heaven, they will make it hell in just 21 minutes – one cycle!

I was thinking of this subject for a long time; now I have spelt it out clearly. In our healing centers, ASP, LBP and other programs, neither our teachers nor our healers nor organizers are allowed to speak about any other system or master. No criticism of anyone is allowed. This is the rule from today. It is a strict instruction to be followed.

I am not banning you from going anywhere. Complete freedom is given even for our teachers. But you have no right to corrupt the next generation disciples when you are here. You are like a vagabond so I allow you here – you are already spoilt. I allow you to stay here. But I want my next generation to be taken care of and protected and made to grow properly. So I am creating this new rule.

In the future, our healing system should not be mingled or practiced with any other healing system. The other day I saw one of our healers doing a mudra, a hand gesture which is part of Pranic healing. It is your choice to do pranic healing, but not in our camps. I ban all other healing systems on my devotees in our camps. I was surprised when I saw it. A person who is really devoted to another master will be really devoted to me also. It is the same energy in different forms.

I never accept people who escape from another master and come to me or who hate another master and come to me, because they would do the same thing with me also. Judas (the disciple who betrayed Christ) is always Judas wherever he goes. They are not created by any one master. They have actually escaped from one master to another. It is the attitude. You need to change the mental setup not the master. By marrying 10 times you will understand that changing the outer wife will not help; changing the inner only will help.

In those days, it was a sellers market, but now it is the buyer's market. Every street has a Jagat Guru - master of the world - not even a 'street'! That is the problem. But there is nothing wrong in it. Just stick to one person, that's all. Sometimes you want to update or upgrade, but when you do it, drop the old product completely. You cannot do a mix masala (hotchpotch), a little from each model. You can then never become anything. You can become one more system and a guru but not a disciple! If you are interested in growing, following, achieving something in the inner world, flowering, follow any one thing intensely so that you can reach it.

Above all, it is time we solidified our movement. It is time we created a fence to protect the saplings. Otherwise, unnecessarily, goats will come and disturb the saplings. People would be surprised as to how I watch someone doing Pranic Healing amidst all the activities!

It is time we protected our youngsters. Only then can we create a clear and intense group which will follow a single ideology. The people who are already going around being helped are great. For those who are going around and not being helped, nothing can be done; they will not stop doing it. But for the ones who are growing, we need to give enough protection from the outer unnecessary forces.

When my people come here, I tell them, relate and give respect to everybody. Everybody is Divine. People start giving their ideas to everybody and others listen. Give respect, not your ideas. Take the idea only from the master. If you hear some idea that is not from the master but from someone else, immediately question it. Unless you read and hear it, don't believe it. I am alive here, so ask me. I am continuously writing books. Directly get the details about my teachings from them.

The other day, someone asked me, 'I heard that you got married and became a master!' My biography is clearly written; my parents are here; find out! Some window shopper would have told him these things. This is just a small example of how wrong ideas are spread and fresh minds are spoilt. A few healers mix Pranic, Reiki and my healing system and make a combination and end up in trouble. Don't do this masala process. Follow any one system completely.

I now declare very clearly: people who are going to realize through me, if they are my disciples, will not even feel like going to other masters. They will not even have a trace of attraction for any other form or technique. No other form will rise in them. This is a bold declaration, the ultimate truth. Be very clear about it if at all you wish to be helped by me.

Unless we remove these thorns, we will not be able to gather flowers. These are the thorns which create disturbances, hurdles for gathering people into one group. People have been telling me to talk about this.

My people will not respect anyone who speaks about any other system. If anyone talks, simply tell them, 'Stop it! Enough; I don't want to listen; this is not to be entertained here.' Be free and clear. Until now I said it was alright, but now I find it is disturbing the younger generation because they have started thinking that it is my teaching. No one knows who is senior and who is junior. They don't know who is more spiritually grown. They judge you by the number of malas (necklaces) that you wear.

Those who claim that they have two years of experience in spirituality are complete idiots. If they have not grown in two years, where will they grow? Nothing is going to happen to you. It is just foolishness. People take it lightly. They don't dig deep in any one place. They don't go deep into any one system. Let us eliminate these kinds of persons. This is the place only for THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM. Keep all the outsiders outside. When you come in, be an insider or behave as an insider, enjoy and go out.

You may ask, 'How do I intensify this feeling of connection?' Every one of you, whether you believe it or not, carries THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM in you, especially the healers. You connect every day to the same source of energy. It is like all of you are living in the same house. It is from the same center that you are all getting energy - the Ananda Gandha center.

When everyone connects to the same source, brings that energy and uses it, how can you have a conflict amongst yourselves? You cannot because you are connected to the same source of energy and on the same route.

Unless you believe that healing initiation is the ultimate meditation technique to reach enlightenment, you cannot have it. That is why I am doing it as a two-day program. I let you analyze it intellectually and then let you decide to take it up. Old healers who took it don't respect it much. Now I tell you, all the old healers who took it as a single day initiation must do the two-day program at some time. It is the technique-less technique to enlightenment. Spiritually, you are all connected to a single source. How do you think there can be any contradiction or conflict at the upper level? It only means that the spiritual practice is not perfect. Your life is not in Nithyananda - eternal bliss. You are not a real devotee; you are here still like an outsider. Whosoever creates a conflict is an outsider. You should not only 'not create conflict' but also feel a deep gelling bond.

When you are in the same energy, won't you feel that the other person is your own? Anand's mother was telling me that in Singapore she met a lady who was wearing my mala. She struck up a conversation with her and felt one with her simply by seeing the mala round her neck. Here you have live devotees sitting with you. How can you then miss this? That is why I emphasize the mala – it is a good ID. When people can feel deeply connected with just the mala, can't you feel deeply connected with live devotees around you? I cannot explain this feeling of deep connection in words. It should automatically come from within.

When you really open your energy centers, when you really feel like giving attention to others, naturally you will feel connected. I always told people in the early ASPs to follow a technique for just those two days: Don't bother about yourself; take care of others. I want all the teachers who do the ASP as a two-day program to make people practice this technique. Make each participant take care of some other participant who is not related to them in any way. Let them enquire if they are comfortable, if they require any assistance etc.

Thinking that the devotee is God Himself is a wonderful technique. When breakfast is ready, don't grab a plate for yourself. Offer it to others and then help yourself. Only a dog will put its mouth into the food straightaway. Man will always share and eat. The wild animals like the lion will kick out all the other animals and eat. A dog will straight away put its mouth to the food. Find out if you are a lion or a dog or man.

Why don't you guys come out and speak about what feeling connected is all about.

Actually, in the normal world 1 person + 1 person = 2 people. In the spiritual world, 1 person + 1 person = 100 people. We become a force, a power when we unite and stand.