Key to Quantum Spirituality🔗

Q: You speak of god and the bliss of god. I don't believe in god. What do I do?

A: You and I are in the same space!

In a village, there were two leaders. One of them implicitly believed in the will of god. From morning till night, he would pray and never do anything without a nod from supposedly god.

The other leader was just the opposite. He was proud of his intellect and declared openly that all this talk of god was hallucination.

The villagers were tired of the arguments between these two. They told them to argue in public and settle this matter once and for all, so that the rest of them could rest in peace.

Both the leaders readily agreed. They came on stage and argued for three days and two nights. Toward nightfall on the third day, neither of them had any more arguments to present. There was silence. The villagers eagerly waited for one of them to give up.

The unbelieving atheist was first. He said, 'I now do realize that there is a god and I have been ignorant all this while'.

The villagers let out a collective sigh of relief.

The other leader spoke, 'No, you are wrong. I am now convinced that all along I have been hallucinating. There is no god. I am convinced now!'

This question 'is there a god?' has no logical answer. The concept of god is an experience; it is beyond logic. There is no way you can prove or disprove the existence of god to another person.

You can only experience god for yourself, if you are open and willing.

However, you can use your logic to understand and prove to yourself that you are not in control of your own life, let alone lives of others. You can, if you are honest, understand that this world and this universe operate in spite of you and not because of you.

You will realize, if you are observant, that whatever is spoken of as truth is replaced by a differing truth sooner or later. The truth that the Earth was flat and that the Sun revolved around the Earth was replaced despite all the aggression and violence of religion. Newton's truths were replaced by Einstein's discoveries and sooner or later someone will replace Einstein's truth as well.

There is a natural law beyond the law of man. There is an existential energy beyond the power of humans. This is what we can call god.

God is not an old man with a flowing beard. He is not an idol, nor is he the absence of an idol. He or She is the energy beyond and behind all our existence.

We give names to gods and fight with others saying that our god is bigger and better than theirs. We kill one another in the name of god, who we say is compassion incarnate. It is better not to believe in such a concept of god. There will then be less violence and bloodshed in this world.

Whether you believe in the concept of an external god or not, it does not matter. Believe that you are divine. That is truly important. You are a part of this Existence and you share the energy of this Existence. The same energy that makes the planets revolve around the Sun and the universe flows inside you also.

Just believe this, that is enough.

I am told that there is something called Pareto's rule: that 20% of our efforts result in 80% of results, that 20% of people upon this planet Earth hold 80% of its wealth.

I think Pareto overstated the 20%. I believe that less than 5% of your efforts end up as 95% of worthwhile results; I know that less than 5% of the world's population holds 95% of its wealth. If one applies this rule to enlightened masters, I say that one master for every billion people is enough to raise the consciousness of this planet! What is needed is just a very small fraction of the fountain of awareness to seed, catalyze and grow awareness in others.

The universe is not a democracy. It has nothing to do with socialism or communism. Its true nature does not discriminate, but Nature also does not distribute equally; Nature is random.

The question is, how within this random distribution of wealth, power, health and enlightenment, 'you' the individual can become the chosen recipient. That is your million dollar quest, is it not?

You are not bothered about anyone else – not your spouse, not your children, not your parents, not your friends. Especially in materialistic Western countries, you are focused only on yourself.

There is nothing wrong in that.

Unless you take care of yourself first, you cannot take care of others. When you take care of yourself with awareness, you will automatically, without being told, extend your care to others with awareness. This is a spiritual Truth.

So let us come to how you can be one of the chosen 5% or 1%, or whatever that minority is; how you can be wealthy, healthy, powerful and happy, all together, in what I term spiritual happiness and Quantum Spirituality.

Let me tell you:

There is no mystery, and there is no secret. It is not my discovery; it is merely my experience of the spiritual Truth. Great masters from over tens of thousands of years ago have experienced and expressed this Truth. Unfortunately, they expressed them as metaphors and the codes that have been lost. I shall now provide you the key.

What matters is your intent, that is all.

Your intent attracts wealth, health, power and happiness.

You will say 'I intend that all the time'. Unfortunately you don't. Along with that intent, you also think of a million other things in direct contradiction. So, your intents do not work for you.

No intent can work powerfully in the conscious state to materialize wholly. It requires extraordinary will power that only the 1% possesses; that is their secret. They focus so well on what they intend, with total exclusion of everything else, that they succeed. That is their secret.

There are methods in which they teach you to use your unconscious. These methods are truly dangerous, so please stay away from them. By whatever name they are called, if someone tells you that you can achieve what you wish to, through subconscious methods of self-hypnosis, relaxation, mind control and so on, just ignore it.

The problem is not that they do not work, they do, but you have no idea of what your unconscious holds and you have no control whatsoever upon what it holds. Hence, subconscious techniques that promise to deliver the world to you are extremely dangerous. Mind control techniques, these so-called visualization techniques that work on the unconscious, hypnotism, regression, and all such processes, release suppressed memories that can cause havoc, because you don't even know what those memories are and what they can do.

The saying, 'Be careful what you wish for, for it may come true', is far more truthful than you can imagine. When the wish comes true, when that wish from your unconscious comes true, it comes out with a load of unknown material. You don't even have a clue as to what is happening. It is only when these wishes start getting answered, you realize that you never wished for many of them, but then they are part of the deal you made.

A small story:

A man went to a bar and ordered drinks. After a few drinks, he became very happy. He now started ordering drinks for all the people around him. When he felt he could not drink any more, he got up and started walking out. The barman ran after him with his bill. 'Sir, you need to pay this for all the drinks you ordered', he said

'Whatever for?' the man retorted, 'I only ordered drinks. Did I order a bill too?'

We are all often in the same state! We believe we can ask for anything and get away with it. Unfortunately, often, there is a huge baggage that follows these wishes, especially ones that are unconsciously driven.

Visualizations of all forms are very powerful. We are not talking about day dreaming or fantasizing here. We are talking about deliberately visualizing what we would like to achieve. Imagination and day dreaming happen when your mind controls you. Visualization happens when you control your mind.

Conscious visualization does not work for most people, since you do not focus well enough; unconscious visualizations are dangerous. Super conscious visualizations are the most effective and safest.

Visualization needs to follow your intent, and both intent and visualization need to be in a meditative and super conscious level. This is crucial and this is truly the code that we had lost. You need to be in inner awareness and in touch with yourself, before your intent can become reality.

Let me now outline the pathway.

First, go into deep meditation.

Throughout this book, I shall suggest to you some simple and effective meditation techniques that you can use. They have been used for thousands of years safely and effectively. They are simple to use, and in most cases fun to practice. They use no audio or visual aids, no mantra and no images. They have no religious significance. The music that you may choose to play in the background has no effect on the meditation.

The most powerful meditations are formless meditations. All meditations I teach are formless meditations. These meditations raise you to the highest level of energy.

To be effective, any meditation must be carried out for 21 minutes, no more, no less. Twenty-one minutes is an energy cycle. You may need an alarm or you may use meditation tapes designed for this purpose.

At the end of the active meditation, you need to be in silence, a witnessing silence for about 10 minutes. Do not follow your thoughts; do not suppress them as they arise; just witness them as if you are watching clouds in the sky.

Each meditation cycle will therefore be about 30 minutes.

You must continue with the meditation for 21 days, which is your full emotional cycle. Once you do 21 minutes each day for 21 days, you will see remarkable results.

You can practice the meditation any time of the day, but on an empty stomach; do not go into meditation for 2 hours after a meal. Do not also meditate within 2 hours of your sleep time; the energy will interfere with your sleep.

The ideal time for meditation is early mornings, if it works for you, or early evenings.

You can meditate in any place; it is better you do it in the same place regularly as far as possible, so that the place gets energized. Wear loose fitting clothes. It is most important that you are comfortable. You can sit in any position, as long as your back, neck and head are in a straight line. Your eyes must be always closed, since 90% of your sensory perception is through your eyes, and you must not be distracted.

Remember, however, that when you meditate, you rise in awareness; so you can hear all that happens around you although your eyes are closed. Meditation does not make you deaf!

It is important that you are completely comfortable during all meditations. You must be relaxed, without stressing yourself. If you have recently undergone surgery or you have any health issues or if you are pregnant, please consult your doctor first.

These meditations are completely safe for any age persons and people in any health condition.

We recommend that you attend our Life Bliss Program (LBP) meditation courses to fully internalize these meditations. These are taught in over a centers in countries, by ordained teachers.

These may be initial problems. Soon, within a week in most cases, you will find you can meditate any time, any place, any how.

Second, set your intent. This intent must be positive, focused and with no contradictions. You can state that your intent is to be wealthy. It can be wealth, health and happiness. You must believe fully that your intent is achievable. You should have no self-doubts. The intent is a silent statement following the meditation.

Third, visualize. Visualize whatever you intended, intensely, deeply, in real terms, in color and in 3D. Visualize what you will do when you have that wealth, health and happiness; how you enjoy that state and how you help others enjoy. Visualization needs to be active and dynamic with action and movements. It must be real. Spend about 5 minutes in the visualization process or more as you need to.

Fourth, after visualization, let go the intent and visualization. Believe that what you intended and visualized has been achieved.

Fifth, thank the universe for listening to you and for having given you all that you asked for.

That is all you need to do.

This process is instant. But then, even instant noodles require you to buy it, open and heat it, and then eat it! Even instant food requires action from you.

This entire process needs about 45 minutes a day from you and for about a month to see results.

You spend so much time giving appointments to others. For a change, give yourself an appointment every day without fail and see what happens.

Meditation for Quantum Spirituality

By doing this meditation, your entire energy becomes centered on yourself. This technique is designed to make your whole body vibrate with the meditation process. It elevates you to the state of no mind.

Sit in a relaxed way, cross-legged on the floor on a mat or on a chair, with your hands on your knees, palms facing upward. Remove your watch and jewelry, as they disturb the energy flow.

Keep your spine erect. Your head, neck and back should be in a straight line. Close your eyes. Really close your eyes. Usually, when you close your eyes, it is just like putting off the television outside and switching on the inner television. So don't just close your eyelids, close the television screen behind the eyelids also! There is a good way to do this: for a moment, just imagine that your eyeballs have turned to stone. Immediately, your thoughts will also stop or at least slow down.

Now, with your mouth closed, inhale deeply. When you inhale, your stomach should move out, filled with air. Then exhale, and as you exhale, start humming with your mouth closed as the breath leaves through your nostrils. Your stomach will move in.

Just create the vibration Mmmm, as if you are blowing into a closed vessel*.* Imagine your body as an empty vessel. If you put your mouth to it and hum, what sound do you hear? Create that same vibration inside yourself.

Don't chant any other mantra, do not chant Om.

This humming should come from deep inside your navel, not from your mouth, not from the throat, not from your heart, but from the navel. Your belly should rise as you inhale and fall as you exhale while humming.

Each hum should be as long as possible, as deep as possible and as loud as possible, with all your focus and effort but without straining. When you cannot hum any more, when your entire breath is exhaled, inhale as much as your body needs. Let your body decide, do not control your inhalation or exhalation. Watch your stomach rise as you inhale and fall as you exhale.

Allow the body to sway. If you feel that you need to cough or clear your throat, do that and continue to hum.

Do this for 21 minutes. If you are using the CD for the meditation, there will be music accompanying your humming. Else, you can hum without the music.

At the end of 21 minutes, the music stops and a gong sounds. Instantly stop your humming. A great silence floods your Being. For a moment, time stands still. Witness this silence. Experience the tremendous calmness in and around you. After a short while, thoughts will slowly start entering into this silence. Do not stop them, do not enter into them. Simply witness these thoughts. Focus on your heart region, your anahata chakra. You will feel completely centered and calm.

Stay in this state of silence for 10 minutes.

It is best to practice this meditation early in the morning. It generates a tremendous amount of energy in your body. If you practice it at night, it may interfere with your sleep.

This meditation is based on an ancient Tibetan Buddhist practice.

If you have any health issues, or have undergone recent surgery, or are pregnant, do not strain yourself. Please consult a doctor before you start the practice.

Quantum Spirituality Visualization Process

To summarize,

1. Practice the meditation for Quantum Spirituality.

1. Intend that you will be wealthy, healthy and happy with joyful relationships.

1. Visualize this state of intent as present reality and that you are wealthy, healthy and happy with joyful relationships now.

1. Having achieved what you wished, let go.

1. Offer your gratitude to the universe for what you are NOW and for what you have received.

May you be in Quantum Spirituality and in nithyananda, eternal bliss!

Choose Bliss, Wealth follows!

Beloved Master,

You have said often that it is possible to follow both the material path and the spiritual path and that there is no conflict between the two. I am confused. How can I focus on mammon and god at the same time? Jesus clearly said that this not possible.

A British lady and a gentleman were on a train traveling from London to Manchester. In the same compartment, there was a fellow passenger, an American.

The lady had brought her small dog with her. This dog kept making a nuisance of itself. It barked at the American and tried to bite him. Instead of correcting the dog, the lady was comforting the dog, 'Don't let that man worry you dear. He is not one of us!'

After a while of this trauma, the dog lifted its legs and soiled the American's trousers. Even for that, the lady comforted only the dog and did not utter a word of apology to the American. Next, the dog further soiled the American's trousers. This was more than what the American could bear. He lifted up the dog, opened the window and threw the dog out of the running train. The lady was too startled even to scream.

The Englishman who was in the compartment spoke for the first time, addressing the American. 'Sir, you Americans always do everything the wrong way; you drive on the wrong side of the road, you eat with the fork and knife using the wrong hands. Look at what you have done now. You have thrown the wrong bitch out of the window!'

All our choices in life create problems for us.

We suffer each time we make a choice. Each time we choose, we regret the choice. We feel we could have done better. Even if we benefit from the choice, we feel we would have benefited more had we made a different choice.

The grass is always greener on the other side. We are forever in confusion based on comparison.

If I ask you to choose between misery and happiness, you will say that I am crazy. Who will choose misery, you will wonder.

But your choice will always lead to misery, simply because you will never be fully satisfied. This is human nature.

There is no comparison in Existence. There are no conflicts and contradictions. Only humans perceive contradictions in Nature. The contradiction exists in us. We are unable to relate with Existence.

We are unhappy when we do not have a choice to make, we are even less happy when we do make a choice!

People ask me, 'Master, can we come and stay in the ashram?' Whatever I say, they will come up with an argument against it. If I say, 'Stay by all means', they will tell me why and how they cannot come to the ashram. The reasons will be they have their business, their family will suffer, their friends will miss them, ashram is too far and so on. There are a hundred reasons ready to be told. If I say, 'Please don't, you are not yet ready. When you are ready, I shall tell you, they feel hurt.'

I don't win either way. They make me a part of their dilemma. We always live in a dilemma. We live in a dilemma of choices that we do not wish to make.

It is true that life offers choices. There are many forks in the path of life, and we have the option to choose. That's the entire concept of free will and exercising our choice.

Though we are free, we rarely have the strong will.

We always think that no choice in life is without a cost. We feel, each decision to choose something necessarily costs us to lose something else. It is never so. It is just our understanding of 'choice' which causes us to think this way.

What happens is, in many cases, we choose wrongly and with the wrong perception of choice. Without the power of foresight, choice is a gamble. Also, combined with this, human nature is such that it remembers losses more clearly than the gains. As a result of the combined effect of these two points, we are mostly left with a feeling of discontent.

Why do we choose? Why don't we accept events as they happen? Why can't we accept the so-called contradictions as they exist in life?

Choices appear to give us freedom. In reality, however, they constrain us. They are not benefits. They are bondages.

We are like children in a candy store when it comes to exercising our choices in life. We get excited. We also get confused. The more options we have, the more complex our decision-making process becomes. If you have only two shirts or two dresses to choose from, the choice of selection is so easy. However, choosing a shirt or a dress in a specialty store becomes a nightmare.

The wisdom of the Tao is based on Yin and Yang – female and male, good and evil, light and dark, black and white. Interplay of these opposites is constant and certain. There can never be good without bad, no light is without shadow. We have no choice but to pick one without the other. That is the way life's cards are dealt to us.

It is our ability to work with the seemingly opposite qualities in life that leads to fulfillment and happiness, not the power to choose between one and another. There really is no choice.

Some people seek to give up material life in search of the spiritual Truth. They think that being with partners, children and possessions is what stops them from being spiritual and blissful. This is like some people giving up their jobs because they do not like their bosses. They move to another job and discover that they don't like their new boss as well! The problem is not with the boss but with that person.

If you have an inherent problem of getting along with people, wherever you go, the problem will follow you. The solution is not to change your jobs, but to change your attitude.

So it is with the spiritual aspirant who feels that he must give up worldly possessions to reach his spiritual goal. It is his attachment to material objects that causes him dissatisfaction. Even if he supposedly renounces the material world and becomes an ascetic, the attachment will follow him. It is the attachment that has to be dealt with, not the objects of attachment.

He will continue to have the same fantasies, except that now he may be wearing white, yellow or saffron robes instead of other colors. His real liberation lies in overcoming his attachment and desires. This can be done even while functioning as a husband and a father.

There is no need to choose between a material life of pleasure and spiritual satisfaction through renunciation. They are both perfectly possible to achieve together, as they can and do coexist. But of course, if married life does not pull you in any way, if it does not hold any fantasy for you, then you need not pursue it.

A story from the Hindu epic Mahabharata:

A young monk got up from under a tree after his morning prayers. A passing crane's droppings fouled him.

In anger, the monk looked up and the crane was burnt to ashes. Satisfied with his power, the monk walked to the nearest house and sought food. The lady of the house was serving her husband and made him wait. When she finally came out to give him food, he stared at her in irritation.

The lady saw him staring and asked, 'Do you think I am a crane that you can burn? My duty is to serve my husband first. I can feed you now.'

Startled, the monk asked her how she knew about the crane. She said she had no time to explain but that if he was really interested, he could go to a person in the nearby town, who would explain this to the monk.

After a long search for the person's house, the curious monk reached the town's butcher shop. Upon inquiry, he found out that the butcher was the person the lady was referring to. The butcher asked him if Kuppammal had sent him there.

The monk was startled again and asked the butcher how both he and the lady knew these things. In response, the butcher took the monk to his home, where he lived with his old parents, who he attended to with great love and respect. As the monk watched the butcher, he realized the sincerity with which he went about his daily chores.

The butcher explained to the chastened monk that he and the housewife both focused on their day to day duties, which they performed to the best of their abilities. They never sat for meditation, they did no rituals. Their work was their meditation. This they performed with no expectations. The mere performance of their own rightful work, their dharma, had made both of them enlightened.

To be enlightened, one does not have to choose between material and spiritual life. Leading a material life righteously and naturally leads to enlightenment.

All one has to do is to live in the present with no regrets about the past or speculations about the future.

Understand that there is no contradiction in Existence. Whatever is happening is always auspicious and according to the law of Nature. The contradiction is in our mind. If this is understood, you will realize that there is nothing called making a choice; automatically, the step you need to take is taken and you move on without getting caught with choices.

As I mentioned earlier, in science, before the concept of quantum was accepted, there was a conflict between matter and energy. Though Einstein had postulated the relationship between matter and energy clearly, that all matter possesses energy, one group said 'both energy and matter exist, but in different space and time'. Another group of scientists disagreed and said 'there is only time gap, no space gap; yet another had a different view: there is only space gap, no time gap'.

Once the quantum theory was accepted, which postulated the simultaneous existence of elemental particles as waves and packets of quanta, this conflict was resolved. It was agreed that matter and energy do exist together in time and space. There is now a concept of singularity of the simultaneous existence of matter and energy; that at the same time, it can be matter and energy, sometimes one and other times another, depending on perception. There are other theories such as string theory, which further confirm this non-duality of Existence.

The concept of singularity or non-duality is where the mind cannot penetrate.

In the spiritual zone, these controversies disappear; they dissolve in experience. Only when you play with words intellectually, you create conflicts and enter into a zone of confusion. When you enter into experience, you just know, that's all. Then, all conflict simply disappears.

As long as you feel you need to live two different lives, material and spiritual, you are only playing with words.

In material life, you are in search of satisfaction of desires. It is not just your basic needs, but also your wants that do not seem to end. While there is a way that your needs can be fulfilled, your wants keep rising even as they keep getting fulfilled and therefore never reach to a point of satisfaction.

Wants create regrets related to the past and greed creates dissatisfaction related to the future.

Spiritual life on the other hand is all about the present.

How can we link these two disparate lives and worlds, we wonder.

Let us think of normal material life as a horizontal line; let us think of leading a spiritual life, being in this present moment, as a vertical line. When we think of choosing between material and spiritual life, we are trying to choose between the horizontal and the vertical. Only when you understand that you can travel both horizontally and vertically, and even explode in all directions, will you understand that there are no contradictions. Till then, you will have the conflict.

This explosion in all directions is what I call Quantum Spirituality. By giving up the choice between one and another, between the material and the spiritual lives, with the understanding that you can travel both these paths and many other paths simultaneously, you enter into Quantum Spirituality.

Many people think that though material life represents all that they have in life, in terms of physical, emotional, economic and intellectual acquisitions, these also bring them unhappiness. As I said earlier, one reaches a stage in life when one has acquired everything one wanted. The question then is, 'Why did I acquire all this?' This is the 'depression of success' I referred to.

On the other hand, spiritual life is the greener grass that beckons, one that seems to have all that is missing from the current material life. Because you wish to possess what others possess, you seek blindly and land up not knowing why you sought all those things. They are not your own desires, so once they are achieved, you are left wondering why you achieved them!

Your entire life is wasted this way. You run all the time while staying in the same place. The more you acquire, the more you feel the need to acquire, and lesser you are happy with what is.

Whatever you choose, if there is no basic understanding, if there is no awareness, there is no use. Awareness is the door that opens to bliss.

When you are aware, you are in the present. To be in the present, you need to move beyond the mind. Your mind disengages from you, when you rest in the present. Thoughts are nothing but the mind's constant movement between past and future.

It is not the appearing of thoughts that prevents us from being in the present. It is our conditioning that connects one thought to another to form a sequence, a shaft of thoughts. For example, the pain we had 10 years ago, the pain we had 5 years ago and the pain we have today are all totally different unconnected experiences. They have no connection whatsoever. Yet, we connect them to form a pain shaft. And when we experience pain now, that shaft starts happening and magnifies the pain that we feel now. What pains us is not the pain itself but the pain shaft that is not real. There may be pain, no doubt, but the pain that you feel is not wholly from the present pain. It is from the unconscious shaft of pain from previous incidents.

To be in the present, one needs to reach the state of 'unclutching', a state where one does not connect thoughts to form these unreal shafts. When this happens, the contradiction about spirituality and materialism disappears.

When you are in this state of mind, of the present, of the here and now, you are in an 'unclutched' zone. I call this the 'Zero TPS state' – zero thoughts per second state. This is the state of ultimate liberation*, enlightenment, salvation or nithyanandam* – the eternal bliss.

In this 'unclutched', no mind state, you will have complete awareness and total consciousness, and you will not have any inner chatter. You will not connect one thought with another to form either painful or pleasurable shafts. You will witness each thought as it arises objectively, non-judgmentally, set it aside and move on. You become non-attached to everything around you.

The mind conditions you to make you believe that you can only travel in one way – horizontally or vertically, spiritually or materially. That is why you do not grow in many of the spiritual practices called sadhana, which forces you to choose between these two seemingly separate conditions, material and spiritual.

Instead of two axes, you now have multiple axes, infinite axes that offer infinite possibilities in the past, present and future, as well as across all points in space. Being in the here and now helps transcend barriers of time and space so that one can be everywhere at all times.

This phenomenon of singularity is what Hindu scriptures call Brahman and Buddhists call 'akashic record'. This is the state of universal consciousness – where one is simultaneously in a state of past, present and future. This is the state where time and space disappear into one continuum.

This is also the state of enlightenment, as the ego or mind breaks down when this state is achieved. It is an explosion within one's mind that is multi-dimensional in time and space frame, in the total absence of thoughts.

To reach this state, all one has to do is to stay in the present and suspend thoughts of past and future. As for the present, just focus on what you are doing at that time.

Buddhism refers to this as the mindful state. Techniques such as vipassana meditation seek to introduce us to this state of mindfulness.

Most of us, when we eat, do everything else but focus on the food. We talk, watch television or read books, paying little attention to the food that we eat. The food energy in turn pays little attention to us. It turns into garbage and sits on our waist and hips instead of being the energy it could have been.

And then what happens? Instead of being energized after a meal, you want to take a nap!

Stay in the present whatever you may do, when you take the next step, when you brush your teeth, when you smile at some one, just focus on what you are doing at that point in time. If other thoughts intrude, witness them as an observer without getting involved. Do not link one thought to another. Each thought is independent.

When you function in this way, there is no past; therefore no baggage of the past can be accumulated; you can be free from karma if you are in this state! Also, in this state, you will have an intuition about the future; therefore even as you focus only on the present, you are aware of the future and what you decide to do in the present is with complete precognition of what the future entails.

You are what the scriptures call a trikala jnani – one who knows the past, present and future, one for whom the universe holds no secrets. You are indeed a master of the universe.

This is the best meditation you can ever do. All other meditation techniques you can do once in a while to further cleanse yourself in many ways. People tell me after our LBP that they wish to do all the seven meditations taught in the program everyday. I tell them to do one to start with and slowly move to the next. They insist that they want to do all, I agree. After a few months I find that they have not even started with one! When I ask them, they say that they have a problem in finding time.

You have no problem giving appointments to other people for your time. However, when it comes to giving yourself an appointment with your own Self, you have a big problem with time.

Whenever you are in prayer or meditation, you are in a hurry to finish. Even when you are praying or chanting, you are constantly peering at your watch.

People come to me with guilt. I give them some ideas. They insist on learning meditation. Just to console them, I give them some meditation technique. After a month if I ask them, they would just have an added guilt feeling of not doing meditation!

We only wish to try to transform; we really do not wish to transform. You see, it is easy to keep saying that you are trying, because then there is no commitment from your side to show a transformation; trial has no commitment; you just keep proclaiming your wish to transform, that's all.

This is what is called holiday religion. We go to a discourse or a temple when we feel like relaxing. We practice part-time spirituality. As far as we are concerned, it is only skin deep. This fills us with hypocrisy and guilt. Understand that even meditation becomes a ritual if it is restricted to one part of your life at one time in a given space. The moment you associate meditation with a particular time and space in your house, it becomes a mere ritual, there is nothing spiritual about it. At least, that kind of meditation can never bring about the real transformation in you. In true spirituality, your life itself becomes meditation.

Meditation is not a quantity that is to be added to your life; it is a quality that needs to be built into your life.

Concept of Singularity in Quantum Physics is beyond matter and energy. Similarly Quantum Spirituality is beyond material and spiritual lives. You need to be in both the horizontal and the vertical lines simultaneously. What I wish to give you is an understanding, not a mere technique or an empty idea. If you go beyond mind, when you go beyond thoughts, you explode in all directions – vertically, horizontally and in all directions.

There is nothing you can ever do or attain that will get you closer to enlightenment than the technique of being in the present. You just need to be to be enlightened.

This may be hard to grasp for your mind. Your mind is accustomed to thinking that everything worthwhile is in the future or in speculating the past.

Don't blame your upbringing or your past for you being like this now. Anything that you ever did or that was done to you in the past cannot prevent you from saying yes to what is now. Take your attention deeply into the Now. Now never happened before; it will not happen again.

You do it now or not at all.

There is no starting point to worldly life; there is no end point to spiritual life. Enlightenment is not an end, it is a new beginning. An ultimate experience is not the last experience. It is just the greatest experience till that point in time, that's all.

Someone asked me, 'How can I retain the bliss of your meditation program?'

The moment you wish to retain something, be sure, it will escape from you. If you choose to have bliss, bliss will escape. Like how water flowing in a river stays in your open palms but escapes when you try to close your palms to catch it, when you are in bliss just enjoy the bliss without trying to hold it.

You can never possess nithyananda, eternal bliss. It has to possess you.

Perfectionists like to choose. Life is not perfect, only death is. One who does not make mistakes, or believes he or she makes no mistakes, does not respect others. Do not try to be perfect; do not choose.

People ask what they have to renounce to be spiritual.

I say, 'please do not renounce anything. Do not renounce what you have; renounce what you do not have; renounce the fantasies that you do not have'.

When you are with your wife, do not allow your fantasies to come in between her and you. When you have a home, do not allow a fantasy home to come in between. Enjoy what you have.

Living in the present moment is the missing link that helps you traverse the horizontal and vertical lines at the same time and space. Every moment is a possibility in which you can explode in all directions. In Quantum Spirituality, there is no attachment or detachment. If you are not in awareness, you detach and attach. If you are in awareness, you are just blissfully immersed in the moment with neither attachment nor detachment.

Be aware of what you are and where you are. When we are in one place and one time, we always think about another time and another place. Our body is never where our mind is. When we are in the office physically, our mind is having a vacation; when we are at home physically, our mind worries about work in the office. We invite maya, illusion, into our lives. We invite suffering into our lives. When we learn to live in the present, our mind stays where our body is. Yet, we find that there are no boundaries; time and space are no longer constraints.

As in the story of the American and the dog, in life we constantly make wrong choices and throw the wrong things out of the window. We do not have the intelligence and awareness to flow with the right choices most of the time. Decisions we make are made by our unconscious mind. That is the problem.

This unconscious mind absorbs almost 90% of all our sensory inputs and takes 90% of the decisions. The unconscious mind can operate at lightning speed. Biologists say that while the conscious mind can only operate at about 60 bytes per second, the unconscious can process 60 million bytes of data every second.

One part of our brain is called the reptilian brain. Biologists say that this is the carry over from our evolution. It is a carry over from the time we were aquatic and amphibian creatures. Nature stores our prehistoric memories in this part of the brain so that we can survive. This reptilian brain is all about our life and death decisions.

Nature programs us in such a way that all life and death decisions are made by the unconscious. Whether to run away from a life-threatening situation or whether one should stay and fight is a decision that is always made unconsciously. The conscious mind, the conscious brain is too slow to react to such emergencies.

Unfortunately, this programming extends to non-emergency situations by default. The unconscious mind is full of past experiences and memories, value systems and beliefs that interfere with our thinking process and our decision-making process. It is these embedded or engraved memories that decide for us, almost always unconsciously.

All the talk about 'I think, therefore I am' is just talk, not reality. Most of the time, you do not even know what you think. Most of your mind is a black box to you; as I have said before, in fact it is the Pandora's box.

People come to me and say that things are not working for them. They give their own reasons as well. They would say that what happens is destiny; that it was meant to happen. Please understand as far as you are concerned that there is no destiny at work. What works for you is pure and simple free will. What you think, what you say and what you do have an effect. That effect arises out of free will.

The problem, however, is that while you are truly free you have no will to speak of. Your will, your thoughts about what you wish to happen keep changing all the time. Very often they are self-contradictory.

Take a very simple example. If you wish to rid yourself of a headache, you keep thinking that you should not have a headache. How will this work? As long as you think of a headache, the ache will continue. If you wish to be rid of headache, visualize good health, comfort and so on, not headache.

As long as our expression and desires are contradictory, visualization cannot work. They need to be in convergence. We teach simple visualization techniques in our various programs. You have been introduced to one already. People marvel at how effective they are. They are amazingly powerful. All that you need to ensure is that there is no self-contradiction.

This contradiction is what happens when you try to combine materialistic benefits with spirituality, based on understanding through your past conditioning.

Most people see spirituality and materialism as mutually exclusive and contradictory. When you try to meet two contradictory qualities, you will always land in trouble; you will be in dilemma. Either you feel you need to sacrifice or compromise and neither of these appeals to you.

What matters is whether you are happy, by being spiritual or material. The state of mind within you is what matters, not the external milestones of your spiritual or material accomplishments. Your inner happiness is not dependent and should not be dependent on what the external states are.

The contradictions that you perceive will automatically resolve themselves once you are able to integrate them into inner happiness.

If your inner nature is one of happiness, you will be happy in whatever state you are. You do not need company, you do not need relationships, you do not need status and you do not need possessions to make you happy. Wherever you go, in whatever situation you are in, you carry your happiness with you. Your happiness is not dependent on external factors, you are liberated.

People who think they are spiritual, get dependent too. Instead of name, fame, wealth and relationships, they get hooked on to aspirations of salvation, sacrifice, renunciation and enlightenment. Sometimes, they seek all – enlightenment as well as wealth, name and fame.

No problem at all, but then when you have inner contradictions based on your past conditioning that all these do not go together, you create problems for yourself. Things become difficult to cope with.

You asked, 'How can I focus on god and mammon at the same time?'

The only reason you cannot is that you have been taught you cannot, that is all.

People who wish to control you through fear and greed have dinned it into you that you cannot be wealthy and spiritual at the same time. Jesus is reported to have said, 'It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to go to heaven.'

What Jesus said has to be viewed in context of having to drop your baggage, your samskara – deeply engraved past memories – before you can be liberated. Wealth is energy, and not a burden, when it is appropriately used.

Once you believe that you can be wealthy and happy, rich and spiritual, and there is no inner self-contradiction, you will become wealthy and happy. Your belief will generate your thought, your thoughts will generate your actions and your actions will generate wealth and happiness. This is a spiritual truth.

Nature sees no contradictions. To man, Nature is full of apparent contradictions: good and bad, pleasure and pain, loss and gain, name and shame, all these are man-made contradictions.

Your ability to live with, and enjoy opposites, makes you comfortable with choices. If you are the kind of person who lives amidst great material comfort and can afford to demand the best of everything and yet can do with two simple meals a day, by choice, then, you can carry that comfort with you anywhere!

But, however, you may be someone who has decided to renounce material comforts for the sake of renouncing. So, instead of Mumbai or Delhi, you decide you will go to the mountains, the Himalayas perhaps. Perhaps, you have heard me say that there is something in the Himalayan environment, the very air, which inculcates spiritual evolution. So, you go there hoping, expecting that something will happen. You sit cross-legged with your eyes closed for hours. You do pranayama and asana.

Only time will pass. Nothing else will happen. So, you get bored with the mountains and return to Mumbai or Delhi. Again, you are unhappy.

This cycle continues because of your expectation with which you make the choices. Sitting with just your eyes closed makes you only dull, not enlightened. Even with eyes closed, you can have a television running within the closed eyes. All that you refuse to see outside will be playing inside. Instead of reality, you will live in fantasy, that's all. Consciously, you may refrain from seeing something. But unconsciously, there will be so many things surfacing which you will not be able to control.

When we operate in the unconscious zone, we operate out of our instinct. The reptilian and some other parts of our brain control our emotions and autonomous nervous systems without even a conscious effort from our side. If they do so, we will not survive. Our system will shut down when we sleep.

The problem that arises is one of our wanting to be in control. The truth is we cannot, as long as we work through our mind. At the very best, we can try and activate our conscious brain as much as we can and hope for the best to take what we believe would be rational decisions. Since the conscious part of the brain is a mere 10% of the total brain, this possibility is limited.

In order to move beyond this dilemma, we need to understand how our mind works. How do we get out of this dilemma? How do we regain our freedom?

Our thoughts are the constant movement of our mind from past to future and future to past. This is the constant inner chatter that manifests itself as worries, desires, anxieties and so on. There is nothing we can do with the past, it is history. Often, we cannot even learn from it. Yet, we constantly dwell in the past, in regrets and guilt. We spend hours rehearsing how we could have done better by having said what we forgot to say.

Of what use is it? The moving finger never returns having written.

The future is even more uncertain. We don't know a thing about what can or will happen and we have no control either. We do not even know whether we will breathe the next breath. How then can we determine the future? Trying to determine the future by trying to learn from the past is as foolish as trying to drive a car by looking at the rearview mirror. We just cannot do it.

The only way we can accomplish anything is by doing whatever we can in this present moment. What is the present moment now is the future. By doing things correctly now in the present moment, we can certainly influence our future.

The interesting thing is that once we focus on the present moment, once we focus on what we are doing at this moment in time, our thoughts reduce and stop. When we are totally in the present, in what I call the time shaft zone, thoughts cease. One falls into a no mind zone. In this zone, one sees the past, present and future, all as one; one sees the future clearly.

This zone is the zone of intuition. Many of you would have experienced the feeling of having been in a place before. You may have identified the caller just as the phone rings, without knowing who it is. You would have at that moment unknowingly fallen into the time shaft zone. You become intuitive. You foresee the future.

You can develop this faculty knowingly. You can learn how to do it. The process to achieve this is 'meditation'. Meditation is turning inward, becoming aware, touching your consciousness; touching it at the point where thoughts cease and you reach the no mind zone. Then, you are in a state of intuition.

Getting into the state of intuition need not be a spiritual exercise. You will benefit enormously through this skill in the material plane. You will be able to decide rapidly and rightly and above all, intuitively. As your intuition grows, you evolve spiritually.

Spirituality is the integration of all your physical, mental, emotional, material and relational well-being, taking into account the well-being of others also. That's all. As long as you wish well for others while you wish well for yourself you are in a spiritual plane. There is therefore no need to separate spirituality from materialism. There is no conflict.

The conflict arises when greed overwhelms you to the extent that you are ready to harm others. The conflict arises when mammon blinds you to the suffering of others and you rush to acquire. The rich man that Jesus refers to who He says has less chance of entering heaven than a camel passing through the eye of a needle, is one who gains through the suffering of his fellowmen.

I say, 'Do not renounce what you have; just renounce whatever you do not have!'

Do not worry about the evils of materialism or whether a rich man can enter the gates of heaven or not. First of all, heaven and hell are states of your mind, not locations that you will be dispatched to when you die. You live in hell in this life when you live in sorrow, and you live in heaven when you know how to live in bliss.

If you have the attitude of a miser who acquires ceaselessly but does not know how to enjoy, you will be in hell even when you are living.

As long as you are satisfied with what you have and do not keep wanting more out of fear and greed, you are alright. You need not renounce anything that you have today. Be happy with life that you have, your spouse, your children, your house, your car, your career and whatever else that you have. Enjoy what you have acquired, fully.

The problem that all of us have is that we chase acquisitions; but once we acquire, we lose interest in what we have acquired and we are off to acquire something else. This attitude truly lands us in hell, even as we live.

Ramana Maharishi says that till the moment we acquire something, what we wish to acquire looks like a mountain; but once we acquire it, it shrinks to the size of a mustard seed!

We are forever running; we are never comfortable being still. Look at everything that you have achieved in life. Just look back and consider whether any of it made you truly happy. If it had, you would have stayed where you were and enjoyed what you acquired. You would not have reason to keep running to acquire more and more.

People, especially those on corporate or business life, believe that they should set goals only to exceed them. You set a goal, achieve it and set a higher goal, and so it goes on, never ending. You call it ambition. But along with this ambition, comes fear. Fear is what drives the greed. Fear of the fact that you may lose all that you have acquired drives you to acquire more and more. That is the problem with your ambition. It is driven by fear.

When you know that your own life is impermanent and that when you die there is nothing that you can take with you, where from do you get the idea that what you acquire is permanent? ```

We keep acquiring, and then move on, as though what we have acquired is of no further use. This is what leads to the contradiction of forever being dissatisfied with what we have while constantly fantasizing about what we do not have.

That is why I keep saying: do not renounce what you have. Enjoy what you have. Enjoy your wealth, enjoy your health and enjoy tour relationships. You don't have to have a whole load of these things to enjoy. You may not even have some of these things, but that is not the point. The point is, whatever you have, just enjoy it with deep fulfillment.

Being fulfilled with what you have is the corner stone of all your happiness; your possessions, your relationships and what you do day to day should fulfill you. When that happens, you are in the present moment of being happy with what you have here and now.

Once you have developed the mindset for being happy with what you have and what you have finished acquiring, you will stop reaching out for more acquisitions.

But this should happen in you as a natural happening, not as a compulsion. Without conviction, if you adopt this attitude, you will continue to suffer with suppressed fantasies. If you give yourself time, it will happen. And you won't even know when it happened.

A monk who sits with closed eyes and still visualizes women in lust is in far worse a state than the playboy who lusts openly. The monk has renounced whatever material possessions he had but is yet to renounce his fantasies!

You may have seen old pictures of heavenly damsels dancing in front of meditating sages. At one time, especially in South Bharat, every single calendar used to have these kinds of pictures. The sage will have one hand raised as if to drive the woman away and another hand across his eyes as if he is peeping through his fingers at the woman! The woman would be highly sensual, and it was believed that Lord Indra sent these women to test the meditating sages. One can see this especially of sage Vishwamitra.

If this were to be true, if Indra would be sending celestial maidens, apsara, to disturb meditators, then all men will start meditating right away! Actually, no such thing really happens. The celestial maidens are nothing but the depiction of the fantasy within the sage. The fantasy thoughts that arise while practicing austerities such as meditation are depicted by these celestial maidens. It shows that while the sage thinks that he has conquered lust and sex, his fantasies are still to leave him completely.

When you renounce all that you do not have, you no longer live in fear and greed. You can no longer be fuelled by fear and greed because you have renounced all the fantasies! You live a fulfilled life. You live a liberated life. You become a true renunciate without having to renounce anything that you have. You are at ease. You reach the cross roads of both the material and spiritual planes. From this point, you can explode in any direction. You have infinite choices.

In fact, you reach a point of choicelessness.

When you decide to be choiceless, when you renounce all that you do not have and you live in the present moment, the universe showers upon you all that you need. You do not have to ask, it will be given. The mere decision to be content with what you have and the awareness in not grasping through fear and greed ensures that you live in bliss.

This state is what Krishna constantly refers to as the state of being non-attached. He says again and again, 'Do whatever you have to do with no expectation of what is likely to happen, with no expectation of and with no attachment to the result of your actions. Surrender the results of your actions to Me, to Existence. You will be liberated; you will be in bliss.'

The greatest master of them all, Krishna, the Jagat Guru – master of the world – says this, time and time again. The renunciation we talk about here is not of actions, but of desires, expectations and results.

When I say renounce what you do not have, many of you ask me, 'How can I pay my bills, especially in a country like the United States where there is no one to support me?'

Understand that I am not saying that you should sleep all day doing nothing. You need to do what you need to do in the material plane. But, you can do this without getting obsessed about the end result, without worrying and planning again and again about the outcome of every passing minute. You can do things without asking for more and more. That is what I am trying to say.

The problem is, you have needs as well as wants. Needs are basic to you. you need them to live your life. On the other hand, wants are not your needs nor are they your own desires. They are borrowed from a thousand other people, sometimes many whom who have not even met, about whom you have learnt from the media, from magazines, television, movies and so on. Their possessions become your obsessions. Their beauty becomes your inferiority complex. Their possessions spur your greed and make you unhappy.

The minute your neighbor centrally air conditions his house, the temperature in your house goes up, you start sweating from jealousy.

The renunciation I have talked about is what Krishna talks about. It is nothing but giving up jealousy, greed, fear and lust and to continue to do what you need to do to carry on with life blissfully, with no concern about whether your efforts will succeed or fail; in fact without even knowing what success and failure are, with just the knowing of doing and being.

It is only when you become goal centric, you have the problems of success and failure. When you do not have any specific goals, any thing specific to achieve, how does one define success or failure? Whatever happens is ok. You live life as it is, as it happens. It is a state of being comfortable with whatever happens. In that state, whatever that is good for you happens.

This is the state of renunciation, where the past and the future are renounced in favor of the present. In this state, when you live in awareness of the present without having to choose the past or future, when you live in the knowledge that whatever you do will result in material, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being bliss automatically happens in you.

You need not ask for anything; when you are in the present moment of awareness, Existence showers upon you!

Visualization to ground you in reality