The Essence of Living Enlightenment

Your space has a ripple-effect

Never think that you are so small that your personal integrity is not going to have a big impact on the world! All the poverty, corruption, calamities - whatever you see around you today - are the ripple-effect of some individual's lack of integrity. There is no such thing as 'group integrity'. The integrity of a group can be only as high as the integrity of the least integrated person in the group.

Listen: even others' lack of integrity cannot be the reason for you not being in integrity. In fact, when someone else is being non-integrated, that is the time for you to raise them with your own integrity.

Only when you bring integrity, your relationship with another starts. Whether it is with God, your Guru, or your family and friends - the relationship starts only when you bring integrity, not before that!

You can receive all the boons you want to receive from God, only when you maintain the bridge of integrity. You can receive all the blessings you want from your Guru, only when you maintain the bridge of integrity. Otherwise, it is impossible!

Even if two people are sitting next to each other, God can reveal

Himself to one person and not to the other - because He reveals Himself in Space, not in Place!

Make a list of 5 significant issues the world is facing today, like tsunamis, corruption and so on.

Identify how you have been responsible for causing each of them. You will understand what a powerful role you play in the world!

Just one declaration is enough!

The space you create inside is so powerful that it can straightaway affect the way you experience life and others experience life. The space you carry inside is not an effect of the happenings outside, but the order you give to the Cosmos!

The space you are in is the order you give to the cosmos to prepare your future. Whatever you carry in your inner space is a possibility. If you are carrying sadness, you are ordering the cosmos to bring greater sadness into your life. If you are carrying joy, you are ordering the cosmos to bring bigger joys into your life. If you are carrying completion, you are ordering the cosmos to bring more completion into your life. Even your powerlessness is an order to the cosmos! When you say, 'Yes, yes, I want to transform, but I don't know how to transform,' you are ordering the cosmos to keep you in a state of confusion and powerlessness.

The good news about your inner space is that you can change it this moment if you wish! Space is not gross; it is subtle. Gross things take time to clean. Subtle things can be cleaned immediately!

See, it takes just one thought of danger to unsettle you. Just one thought of lust is enough to excite you. Just one thought of your enemy can bring up anger in you. The same way, just one thought of completion can purify your inner space! One thought of completion is enough to transform your space.

But somehow, we don't believe the last statement! You say, 'No no. You are an enlightened being. It is easy for you, not for us.' Whenever you are cornered into transformation, you use this excuse to run away. Many people use devotion to escape my teaching! Understand: even devotion has to be for the right reason! It has to be for the purpose of raising yourself to my space.

Your inner space is nothing but the words you repeat again and again inside you. Now decide consciously that you will repeat the right words. Your inner space is such a subtle thing – one right declaration is enough, and you are free. One completion is enough, and you are out of conflict. You are out of the low mood you are carrying. You are out of the deep negative cognition you are carrying.

For the next few days, consciously repeat the words that you wish to carry inside you. Keep reminding yourself throughout the day. If you feel sadness coming back, be aware, and replace it with joy. Do this till you experience a lasting change in the quality of your inner space.

Transform your inner space: Awareness exercise

Now I will guide you into a very simple process to transform your inner space.

Sit straight and close your eyes.

Just take a few moments and look in. What kind of a space are you in?

Is it peaceful or sleepy or dull or agitated?

Be sensitive. Be aware of that space.

Just for two minutes, close your eyes and try to be aware. Bring your awareness to your inner space.

Take a few moments to understand your inner space through deep awareness and listening.

Whatever you resist persists!

Please understand that only what you resist persists in your life!

If you look inside, the reason for your powerless inner space will be some root pattern that you have not cleared and completed with.

Your inner space carries the DNA of Aham Bramhasmi – I AM God! All you need to do is trust this. Your inner space is so powerful, but you never looked in even once. It is an undiscovered territory for you. Many times I express mystical powers, not to show you that it is possible for me, but to show you that it is possible for you also!

To learn swimming, you just need to cognize, 'When he can do it, I can do it.' It is just a knack. It Is just a skill. There is nothing wrong or less about you. It is just that there are some skills you need to learn. In the same way, the space of possibility is just a knack. You need to know that space of courage and possibility, 'When he can, I can!' That is the first step.

The next step is, 'Let me jump into the water and do what he is doing.' But then you get scared and start crying, 'Oh, no, no, how can I jump?'

A small story:

Once a disciple and his guru were walking near a river. The disciple fell into the river and started shouting in fear, 'Master, please save me! I don't know how to swim! Save me! Save me!'

The Master said, 'Save yourself.'

The disciple panicked and screamed - 'No! No! No! The water is up to my head. I don't know how to swim. I'll drown if you don't help me now! Please save me, Master!'

The Master again calmly instructed the disciple, 'Save yourself!'

The disciple flopped around in the water, screaming and crying, while the Master stood on the bank waiting for him.

Finally the Master shouted at the disciple: 'FOOL! JUST STAND UP!'

The disciple was so startled by the Master's voice that he immediately stood up - and realized that the water was only waist-deep!

I tell you, all your problems are just like this. It is just your decision to stand up in your inner space. The fears you are carrying look so real to you. You are afraid of your fears! The negative commitments that you have cultivated in your inner space are like the river that only comes up to your waist!

Instead of following the master's words, you offer, 'I will listen to you, I will worship you also, but I cannot stand up! I am too weak, too ignorant, too stupid!' You believe that you are powerless, and so

you want to settle for the easy way out – pseudo devotion.

Understand, the master will always point out exactly what you don't want to do - because that is the spot where your inauthenticity is hiding!

Only what you resist persists in your life.

Your inner space can change the world

You always feel powerless in front of your patterns, because you have never known the immense power of your inner space.

If you trust your inner space with the same intensity that you trust the power of your patterns, you will see miracles happening in your life!

Start with small things that will build your courage in yourself. Today, just tell yourself, 'I am declaring and creating the right space for my spouse to listen to me. I am creating the space for my boss to be happy with me.' Try it. If you try ten times, at least eight times you will see miracles happening. Only then you will understand the power of your inner space.

Only a banyan tree seed can become a banyan tree. Don't plant a mango seed and expect a banyan tree to grow from it! Carry the right seed, the right space, where all the root thought patterns are destroyed, where your inner space is prepared for experiencing the space of positivity and possibility.

If instead you have the attitude of failure, 'I will go with this space, but still I will be a failure,' then that is the miracle you will create! The Cosmos is always saying, 'Tathaastu! So be it!' You held the space of failure and attracted failure!

Understand, your inner space is no different from hiranyagarbha – the cosmic womb where whole worlds get created! You may be an individual, but your inner space is well-connected to the whole cosmos. Anything you carry in your inner space becomes a reality in your life. It is a cosmic law.

So create the right inner space, and you can change the world through your word.

Your cognition creates your muscle memory

Listen: every action that you perform, based on a certain cognition, is going to add a certain layer of muscle -memory in you. Even if you want to move out of that cognition later, the muscle memory will not allow you to move out. That is why you always struggle when you want to change your lifelong cognition.

For example, if you have lived your whole life with the cognition that there is no rebirth after death, even if you come to know later that rebirth happens after death, you will not be able to accept it. You will keep the old cognition alive in some part of your mind, and you will be stuck in that conflict.

Or suppose you live fifty years of your life supporting a certain principle like atheism, and in your old age you realize that it is not right, it is not the truth. But you know that your whole life has been you built on that theory - your social relationships, your actions, your personality - you have invested too much in this belief. So, even when you know, you will try to keep a certain ambiguity alive.

Listen: your beliefs form a deep layer in you. If you retain confusion and ambiguity as your belief, that becomes independently alive in you. It is going to keep you in confusion forever, so that it can continue to flourish.

I tell you, this is the worst miss a human being can have - forgetting the long-term possibility. Throughout your life, if you have believed that there is only one birth and no life after that, even after your death you are going to be lying down in your tomb waiting for Judgment Day, when God will call you. You will actually remain stuck like a stone in your dead body for ages, and you will not be able to move to the next body, because all your beliefs and cognitions have been based on that. You are caught in the causal layer – like the traffic in Kolkata! - you can neither go forward nor backward.

Causal body is like that – you can neither move further nor go back, because of the cognitions with which you held your body while you were alive, and all the actions you performed based on that cognition. You are not going to give up your beliefs so easily, because you lived with them all your life.

So before you perform actions, be clear about the cognition from which you are performing them. The ordinary man who builds muscles will not become enlightened, even though he may develop a yogic body. Only the man who does body-building listening to the truths for the sake of enlightenment is going to achieve enlightenment.

That is why Nithya Yoga is not just a body-building workout. It is also a muscle-memory, bio-memory and bio-energy workout! Blessed are those who get these great tattvas as a parental cognizance. Blessed are our gurukul kids who get conscious cognizance as parental cognizance!

When you are about to perform an action, stop for a few seconds and think about the intention of your action. Is it coming from the correct cognizance? If not, change the cognizance.

For example, if you practice yoga, then set an intention for your practice, such as health or bliss. As you practice yoga, keep reminding yourself of your intention. That is all - you will see that intention will manifest itself into reality.