The SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM Introduces Shiva Sutras🔗

Let me give introduction about this book, just a few words. Then we shall enter into the sutras. We shall then enter into the Shiva Sutras.

Shiva Sutras is a five thousand years old book. It is the essence of inner science technology and the core of the science of Enlightenment. It is the essence of five thousand years of research and development by more than one million inner scientists and more than one million inner science laboratories. In Bharat, we have more than one million inner science laboratories, meaning temples and Ashrams that are alive, which are still maintained. More than a million temples receive everyday worship.

Please understand that I am not talking about the temples that are in the dilapidated condition. I am talking about the temples that receive daily worship, temples that are used by people. More than a million inner science laboratories and more than one million fulltime dedicated inner scientists worked on these concepts. Bharat even today has at least a million swamis who have dedicated their whole life to inner research and development. I am not speaking about the swamis who are living in the streets, in caves, and those who are not living in the monasteries. If you count them the number increases to something like ten million. I am referring only to the people who are staying in one place and dedicating their life for the research and development of this inner science. That alone is one million. We have a billion people following this technology. This is the strength of this great inner science.

This book is the essence of this inner science, the inner science that was developed over five thousand years by one million inner scientists in one million inner science laboratories and practiced by one billion people. It is the ageless truth and ageless wisdom that we call Sanatana Dharma, the eternal path. This book is the essence of that wisdom, essence of that technology. This book gives hundred and twelve meditation techniques to experience bliss, to experience peace and joy that reside eternally in every one of us. This book gives the ultimate techniques to experience the ultimate bliss that is inside our being, which is in our inner space. This book has so many beautiful meditation techniques.

Not only we will read and understand the sutras, but we will also experience the sutras. These are Shiva's beautiful techniques to enlightenment. Let's enter into the Sutras, and then we shall study their meaning.

Sometimes, I am shocked, how could this book have been written five thousand years ago. We have a solid record of this book existing at least for the last five thousand years. Of course, we don't know the age of this book. At least five thousand years old, that's what we know.

The story how this book was discovered is this. A great devotee of Shiva had the darshan of Shiva and Shiva guided that devotee to go into a cave in a hill. Inside that cave the all these sutras were written on the walls. Shiva told him: Just copy these sutras and give them to the whole world. Still the cave exists. The Sutras are still there on the walls of the cave. The devotee brings the sutras and gives them to the world. This incident happened at least five thousand years ago. We have a solid proof that this book existed at least five thousand years ago.

I was shocked how five thousand years ago somebody could have thought so practically and so clearly about all modern day human problems. All our problems such as fantasies, phobias, fears and depression, each one of them is answered in this book. For every problem, Shiva gives solution. That's why I say this book is not just a book. It is the essence of five thousand years of research and development. The Hindu Vedic system is at least ten thousand years old. I can't say it is ten thousand years, at least ten thousand years. We have solid records to prove that the system is at least ten thousand years old. This book is discovered five thousand years ago. So, five thousand years of R & D expressed itself in the form of this book. Otherwise, it is impossible to give so many practical techniques.

It is very easy to hand out philosophy. It is very easy to deliver teachings. It is very easy to say what should be done and what should not be done. That is not a big thing. Very easy to tell people, 'Do this, don't do that'. It is very easy to create a philosophy.

To create a philosophy, you don't need anything. I can tell you three simple ways by which you can become a philosopher from tomorrow. All you need is to just criticize anything and everything. Whatever you see in front of your eyes just criticize. Do not bother about what you are criticizing. Second way is that never create a system that people can understand. Third way is that make things as complicated as possible. That's all. Nothing else is necessary. To become a philosopher is very easy. Finally the fourth way that is an important footnote, never give any solution.

Shiva is not creating philosophy. Creating a philosophy is easy. He is not giving you philosophy. He is giving you the techniques, technology, the 'how to'. He is not telling you what to do and what not to do. He is telling you 'how to do'. Straightaway he is giving you the technology to experience the inner consciousness, to experience the ultimate consciousness, to experience the Shivatvam, which means the consciousness of Shiva, the experience of Shiva. He is straightaway teaching us the techniques, not just words. That is why I say, this is the ultimate and amazing book that gives straight teachings and techniques to experience the ultimate consciousness.