Q: What is deeksha?
A: Deeksha means transmitting the experience that happened in me as a master, to a disciple, without any technique. Our ASP and NSP programs are teachings. But during the healers' initiation, I straightaway transmit the experience to people. It means: transmission of a lamp. A living lamp gives light to another lamp. Until then, you get the teachings and a little energy to practice the teachings in life, that's all. Once the deeksha is given, the assurance of enlightenment is given to you. Once the fire is given, it has to burn some day. Depending on the stuff you have collected, it may take time. But it will happen.
When you do my work, you make mistakes and that is punya or merit. I fire you because you have the merit. I will not give firing that easily!
Q: What is the relationship between God, Man and guru? Who is guru and who is God?
A: All three are one and the same. It is foolishness to try and differentiate between them. The fellow who can convince other people that he is much more than others is guru. The fellow who thinks that he is inferior to others is man. When both realize that they are playing only roles, they become God.
Q: How can I strengthen my connection to you?
A: Get Fevicol adhesive glue and patch it! Relax and imbibe my teachings; the connection will get strengthened automatically.
Q: Is there is a specific relationship between each guru and disciple?
A: The very idea of guru and disciple is itself an illusion. The one who wants his business to run is the guru. The one who is postponing his own enlightenment is the disciple!
Q: How does a disciple find his guru? What qualification should he look for?
A: What qualification should he look for? The disciple doesn't even know what qualifications he has himself. How then will he look for any qualification in the master?
Q: Does a guru treat all his disciples equally?
A: Pseudo gurus treat them equally. The real ones treat them uniquely. The former does it for reasons of social etiquette, more for business. The latter does it for individual flowering of each of his disciples.
Q: The 5 different relationships you mentioned with a guru may come intermingled over life. How does the disciple handle this?
A: Not only over life but every month, and each day, the relationship may change. The guru will never allow a disciple to be caught in any one relationship. He will bring him out of it immediately. The disciple has to manage. He either copes with it or he jumps into the Ganges river!
Q: How does the guru lead his disciple to enlightenment?
A: Through the highways. Just relax.
Q: Why is a guru higher in status than one's father or mother?
A: Gurus themselves position these statuses. They naturally position themselves higher! When the entire legislature wants a pay rise, they pass the law, that's all!
Guru is the only person who does not have a vested interest in you and who can liberate you from bondage completely.
Q: What specifically do you do to raise the consciousness of your disciple?
A: If you are really my disciple, you do your work. Don't ask about my work. You are suspecting whether I am doing my work or not. I did not put the mangal sutra (bridal necklace) on your head. You signed on the register on your own and you are now chasing me; dangerous fellow!
It is only when you do not have trust on the master, that you will ask such type of questions.
Q: How do you help those who are away and see you rarely? I feel it is better to be in your presence?
A: If you see me rarely, you will be helped more because you will see me in a motherly loving way. If you come often to see me, I might not fit into your frame and the problem starts for you and me!
Whether you are near or far, the work on you goes on. In fact, if you are far from me, you will not take me for granted.
Q: If a disciple moves from one guru to another, how does he cope with the guru conflict?
A: Suffer and die in the conflict, that's all.
If you don't allow trust and faith to happen in you, you have to suffer.
Q: How does a guru detect negativity in a disciple? How does he correct it?
A: Disciples themselves are pure negativity, so there is no need to separately detect it. If you have fever or something, I have to detect it. In any case, just my presence corrects it.
Q: How should we move with the guru all the way?
A: If you are a disciple, you will not have this doubt; you will have clarity. Otherwise, go and do your work.
To be a disciple means to go with the flow of the master with utmost surrender.
Q: How does a disciple know what type of relationship he should follow with his master?
A: You don't have to know. It will happen.
Q: Is it possible to make a total surrender without any special experience happening?
A: No special experience can make you surrender. Only deep trust can make you surrender. If you wait for a special experience, you will never surrender.
Q: Is the master capable of knowing and feeling unsaid thoughts of the disciples?
A: How else do you think I am able to manage all of you?
Q: How do we understand the master's blessings?
A: Just be; nothing needs to be done.
Q: What is the best way to approach the master?
A: Be an idiot. If you are not already one, become an idiot!
Q: Does the master-disciple relationship have to be silent? Or can it be discussing various aspects that come to the mind and answered?
A: Better be in the silent way. Keep your frame and live as you want. You are so afraid to drop your frame.
The idea of guru and disciple is only a psychodrama. There is no specialty about the guru or is there anything less in the disciple. The fellow who understands he is playing a drama becomes God. Those who don't understand are stuck in one role or the other. Just because someone is a disciple, it is not that he cannot grow spiritually more than the guru and that the guru is always spiritually more qualified than the disciple. If the guru is stuck in his role, he will be lower than the disciple who has not understood that he is playing a psychodrama. I have understood that I am playing a drama and so I am God. You have not understood that you are playing a drama and so you are not God.
All of us come from the same dimension. We are therefore the same. When we are born, our mind acts as a barrier in knowing what our source is; it fragments us between who we are and what our origin is. We are here for a purpose and get attached to that purpose, while forgetting what we are. The actor becomes the character and forgets who he really is. That is the psycho drama. The disciple can be the guru if he realizes that he can be the guru. The master realizes that and is therefore the master. The master can therefore become a perfect disciple as well. The opaque glass that fragments us is illusion and ego.
So long as we are in touch with the original memory of who we are, we are above the attachment in this drama. We are clear we are playing a role and can drop that role anytime. We are then man, god and guru all rolled into one.
The only block to our awareness is this illusion, maya. We are not aware we are playing a role in a drama. We are not in control; that is the problem.
Q: You spoke about psycho drama…
A: All miracles that happen around me are because you expect them to happen. If I am really a master every one should always feel I am a master; that is not so. Just take yourself as an example. You don't feel consistently towards me at all times. You harbour different types of feelings towards me according to the situation and your mindset.
Your expectations are fulfilled through me, because you feel I am your master. There is no master - no disciple; just pure energy, that's all. One who understands that all this is drama is God. Otherwise you are trapped as a guru or disciple; as a disciple you are only cheating yourself; as a guru, you are cheating others. Of course, real masters have merged with God so they play the game in super consciousness. Theirs is the ultimate game to take each one to the same ultimate state.
If you want to postpone enlightenment, you become a seeker, a disciple. If you are a real seeker, a real disciple, you straight away see the drama and start playing it intelligently. The, the growth starts happening.
Only when you understand that it is all a psychodrama will you have respect for me, real love for me, gratitude towards me; till then it is hypocrisy. I do not believe anyone who respects me without any benefit. I am frightened of such people. I do not believe people who believe me right away. I would rather they do not believe me. By believing me no one is doing me a favor. They just want me to be responsible. They call me God; after a few days they will dethrone me.
Only when you understand this drama will you be liberated and have guru bhakti (true devotion towards the master). And only when this happens, the divine master-disciple relationship starts; all belief that I am superior to you is nonsense. It is your projection; you create a drama with that theme. You and I are one and the same.
Take the example of fear. A disciple is one who does not know how to handle his fear, so he is fearful of fear itself. A master is one who knows how to handle the fear emotion, so we can say that there is no fear. The infinite intelligence at the disposal of the master handles everything effortlessly. If you have fear, face the fear. If you are not able to face the fear, accept it!
Q: You make it sound so easy.
A: Why not? Accept and if you cannot accept, you accept that you cannot accept; tat tvam asi - Thou art That!
Surrendering your senses to your guru means seeing as the guru says you should see. Now I say you are enlightened; see it that way. If you cannot, it means your ego is not letting you surrender.
I am shaking what you feel is reality; all your reality you should collect and bring out. I am shaking the roots.
Only when you realize you are THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM, can I be THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM to you; otherwise I am just nithyananda - eternal business. And until you realize that you are THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM, all your words of praise and devotion for me are not real. They cannot be real because you as yet don't know THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM through experience. I always say,' I am here not to prove I am God, I am here to prove you are God.'
Paramahamsa is Paramahamsa by his own authority. I will be in the same ecstasy with or without disciples. Disciples do not make a Paramahamsa. People make politicians, cine stars and other stars. If there are no people, there will be no star. But a Paramahamsa is a Paramahamsa with or without people because his is a 'state' not a 'status',
Q: I think I understand what you are saying. I still want you to touch my ajna and make me enlightened. How do I get over that?
Stop hearing and start listening. I am speaking to you, not to others. Master touches the ajna but only when the disciple starts listening. And when you really listen, no one needs to touch you! The very idea that some one has to touch you to be enlightened is the attitude of a beggar. If someone can give you, he can also take away what he gives; it's not yours. Even if I do not take it, you may lose it; just stand up; let whatever happens happen. When I touch your ajna, I am creating a space for that to happen. Even as I say this, I am creating the space for that possibility in you! I am giving to you even as I utter the words, 'It cannot be given'. Understand that there is the possibility it can be given. I need to feel the trust.
As you are, your lust will become love, your anger; compassion, your whole being will radiate a different aura. When you stop fighting with yourself, your whole being begins to flower. You fight with others only when you fight with yourself. When you have no enmity to yourself no one will feel enmity to you.
If you believe I am giving when I touch your ajna, you are a beggar. It can happen even now. You don't have to wait; you are postponing your breakfast expecting your dinner; you are expecting something and postponing what is in front of you.
That is not the only way I do things. I have one thousand ways. This is just one way.
Q: If I am compassionate, people take advantage of me.
A: That means you are not compassionate. All that you are doing is trying to be a goody goody and expecting a 'compassionate' label for it.
Q: Improving yourself means seeing yourself as you are and trying to remove where all you are stuck. Is that right?
A: Yes, you got it.
Q: Can I accept I am enlightened?
A: Yes, you can. As long as you don't believe, my business goes on! It is up to you.
When you tune your awareness to this acceptance, suddenly something will open up; all the conflict within will stop. You will feel, 'Oh God, something is happening in me. I am working, it's a great thing; this is what initiation is.' Allow this to happen again and again. Allow these words to be heard again and again. Allow this initiation to happen again and again. The mood will be there for a few hours or for a few days or whatever. When this happens deeply and the experience leaves you, it is called satori; the permanent state is enlightenment.
The master is the first dream; he reminds you that you are dreaming. The master is the last nightmare; he awakens you from that nightmare. You will wake up in both cases at the peak. Whether sweet fantasy dream or a nightmare, it is only when you wake up that you realize. Until then you do not know. You think you know me. I am only an idea, a concept to you. It is alright to start with. masters show themselves to be ordinary with a lot of difficulty so that what they want to do can happen. Then you think, 'If he can be enlightened why not me?' For you to start thinking on a comparative note, the master shows himself to you like yourself
Q: Can I do it as an intellectual exercise?
A: As of now you are nothing but an intellectual exercise. Do it as an intellectual exercise; as you understand it in your dictionary. Drop your guilt. Why should you give reasons for what you do? Be as you are. Don't you have the freedom to make mistakes?
Q: Guilt arises if our actions hurt someone.
A: If someone wants to get hurt, they will get hurt not just through you but through so many other ways; just relax.