Essence of Living Enlightenment🔗

Living enlightenment is nothing but constantly expanding your inner space beyond whatever you know and feel and identify as YOU, by aligning with the flow of limitless expansion, inside you and outside you.

Understand, the natural flow of life is towards expansion. All you need to do is allow yourself to flow with that expansion. Living enlightenment is realizing and living at your peak in every dimension of your life, whether you call it material or spiritual.

When you start living enlightenment, you move into more and more expanded states or spaces, inside and outside you.

I can say, you will clearly experience four distinct spaces, four ways in which you experience yourself and Life.

• v You believe in you (Space of Positivity)
• v You expand beyond you (Space of Possibility)
• v You experience yourself as the source of all happenings in your life (Space of Leadership)

v You become a source of power in the life of others around you (Space of Enlightenment)

Each of these four spaces is governed by one spiritual principle which I call a TATTVA.

Understand, a tattva is not a commandment. Each tattva is a powerful key for again and again bringing yourself back to that space.

Tattvas: The Universal Principles

The Sanskrit word TATTVA (literally, 'thatness') represents an unchanging principle or an aspect of reality that forms the basis of our life experiences. Tattvas range from the purely material (eg. the principles of sight, sound, taste, etc.) to the purely metaphysical (eg. Advaita tattva, the principle of non-duality).

While some tattvas (like the material tattvas) are a part of the universal experience, others like the spiritual tattvas are experienced to the extent that we engage with them and allow them to govern our thoughts and actions.

In our context, a tattva is a set of words which can awaken a certain capability which is already in you, and make it into reality. When it becomes reality, it is known as satya. The words given to you by the master to awaken certain realities in you is a tattva (principle). When you use that word, and awaken certain realities, the tattva becomes a satya (truth) for you.

Listen: when a tattva is practiced sincerely, it becomes a part of your reality. Then the tattva is no longer just a tattva; it becomes a satya for you. You are established in it.

• INTEGRITY is the tattva that governs the space of Positivity
• AUTHENTICITY is the tattva that governs the space of Possibility
• RESPONSIBILITY is the tattva that governs the space of Leadership
• ENRICHING is the tattva that governs the space of Enriching

Each tattva is also the key to unlock the corresponding power in you.

• The Power of Words will be available to you when you practice Integrity.
• The Power of Thinking will be open to you when you practice Authenticity.
• The Power of Feeling will be possible when you practice Responsibility.
• You will have access to the Power of Living the moment you decide to Enrich others.

What is happening with you?

Even before we look at how the four powers can transform the way you experience life, let us first look at what is happening in your life right now.

Do you feel that you are living at your peak in the major areas of your life – like health, wealth, relationships, career, personal growth?

If you look deeply, you will realize that you carry a constant thread of discontentment in you – a sense of non-fulfilment, the feeling that something is missing. You do not know the reason for this discontentment, but you go on blaming life – everything and everyone around you - for this! It is so unfortunate – almost all of humanity carries this thread of discontentment. Even the so- called successful people – the rich and the famous, top celebrities, powerful statesmen, leaders, politicians – almost everyone suffers from this discontentment. It is a deep incompletion that you feel within you about YOU!

I tell you from my experience of working with more than a million people, a million minds, every year – almost everybody feels that they could have lived better, done more, reached higher.

So what is really stopping you from living your life at its peak? Where does this incompletion come from? It comes from the way you have lived your life so far – the way you understood life and responded to it.

The truth is, no matter what the unique experience each of us receives from Life, almost everyone has faced situations where we are left feeling powerless in the face of something larger and mightier than us.

Unfortunately, these are the very situations that gradually shape our beliefs about ourselves, our world and God - trapping us in self-fulfilling negative prophecies and an incomplete experience of Life.

Contrary to what we believe, we owe our life-experiences not as much to any external situation as to the unique way in which we choose to receive it and make it our internal cognition. Life is not just happening somewhere out there; it is happening to us inside us!

Each of us has blind spots - areas where we are 'stuck' in our relationship with Life. These blind spots (about which we are usually unaware), draw us again and again into making unconscious choices and creating a vicious a cycle of unfulfilled action, which we call karma.

As Life itself is ever-changing, any attempt to alter our life experience by altering our external circumstances is only bound to result in failure. But we can certainly be masters of the ways in which we choose to receive and engage with Life.

THE World & MY World

Life is continuously happening to you. As life happens to you, the experience of life is also happening in you! This is your personal experience of Life.

So there is Life that is continuously happening out there – let us call it THE WORLD. Then there is our unique experience of life – which is MY WORLD. My World is the filter that each of us applies to life as it happens to us, based on our past experiences, and which shapes our present and future experience of Life.

For example, suppose a snake suddenly enters this room! That happening would of course be in THE world. But each person's unique individual response to it would be part of each one's 'MY world'! Your response will be based on your cognition, which is the complex result of your life experiences and responses. Your fears and your expectations are the filters through which you receive Life.

Understand, at all times, there are two things that are happening constantly in your life – 1) A happening 2) The perception you carry about what is happening. There is always something or the other happening in your life, and you have your own perception or cognition about whatever is happening.

'The World' or the actual happening is just a set of facts. Your perception of 'The World' – which is your 'My World' - consists of judgments, labels, ideas, opinions, notions, interpretations, beliefs, experiences, expectations and memories which may be related or unrelated to the happening.

The perception you carry about what is happening in life is given by your basic cognition. Your cognition is nothing but the way you receive, process, interpret and respond to any information entering your system through your five senses. Unfortunately, you are never in touch with the actual happening in your life, because for you, your perception of the happening is the actual happening!

As a very young child, you did not have this separation from Life. Your life was not fractured into THE World & MY World, because you did not have any incomplete cognition, any fears or any expectations which stopped you from absorbing life as it happened.

As you grew older, especially after you developed the abilities of language and cognition, this separation and distortion gradually happened in you.

Language is a tool which tries to arrange Life neatly into boxes! These boxes are the thoughts and words you create inside and outside you, which define the way you understand life. Since each person experiences a unique MY world, we are all ultimately living in different worlds, created by our own fantasies, that are likely to be quite disconnected from THE world – which is Reality, which is Life!

All your expectations from life are built on 'My World', because you rarely contact 'The World'! Expectations are nothing but the fantasies you carry about life. Based on your fantasies, you constantly relate with and try to chisel people in your life. Your cognition is the filter which is responsible for the way you relate with life and with people in your life.

The day the world ended for you

Why do we start applying our own filters to life?

What is it that first makes us separate life into pleasant and unpleasant, known and known, welcome and unwelcome?

As an infant, the only thing that existed for you was yourself. There were no two separate experiences identified as 'me' and 'not-me'. Everything was part of the same undivided experience of reality. An infant knows only one world - no separate outer world or inner world. Then, slowly, you started learning the signs of communication as a baby. With this started the world of duality for you – the experience of what is you and what is not you. When there is no cognition of separation, you always experience life from a state of completion.

But for most of you, SOMETHING happened one day in your life that caused a dent in this completion. It could be as small a happening as a harsh word from a parent or teacher, or a fight with a friend. Or it could be a shattering event like a loved one's death or childhood sexual abuse. When it happened, it felt as if death was happening to you. It simply shook your whole world.

Such events are the defining moments of your life. Those are the moments when you created the deep-rooted instinctive cognitions or root thought patterns that control you for the rest of your life without your knowledge. For example, you decide: I can't trust anybody, so I have to be strong and protect myself. Or – I am going to become wealthy so that nobody ever disrespects me again.

Even all your so-called strengths come from such weak moments of your life. No wonder, even if they give you success, they cannot give you completion.

And this doesn't happen just once. As you move through life, different situations, different cognitions, create more such 'holes' in you, draining your life energy. The holes become the breeding ground for your depression, your mood swings, your addictions – all your incompletions.

You are living with a constant hangover

Listen: any action that is unfulfilled as per your expectation, either because of a hindrance outside or a hindrance inside, forms an incompletion in you.

Let us take an example. As a child, you would naturally have longed for your father to be loving and caring, but for whatever reason, let us suppose he did not honor that expectation. From this experience, you create a casual cognition or idea about yourself – I am not lovable! This may have been your experience only with your father, but the cognition settles as a strong experience in you, leaving you incomplete. It leaves a hangover in you.

And you carry the hangover of this cognition all your life! - I am not lovable! This becomes your experience of you - not just with your father, but with life itself! You create, act and respond to life from this incomplete cognition you have about you – I am not lovable!

So you will find yourself constantly attracting people, places, events, circumstances and situations that strengthen this wrong understanding in you, this wrong cognition in you - I am not lovable! Again and again,

your experience of life will be this – I am not lovable! This becomes a dangerous pattern in your life – a root pattern that governs your entire life!

Ironically, your entire life is a struggle to fulfil that incomplete part of you – but because it is an unconscious effort, what happens is exactly the opposite. You continue to make important decisions in your life based on this root pattern, and end up attracting more such situations into your life. It becomes a vicious cycle! This will continue until you become aware of your pattern and break it.

So, how can you turn this vicious cycle into a virtuous circle - where you attract the best people, places, events and situations you want, to create the life you truly desire – to create fulfilment in you? It starts with completing all the incompletions inside you.

In our programs, through a process of 'conscious past life regression', you are helped to identify the incomplete cognitions that have created the root behaviour patterns governing all your responses.

Because you enter into the past from a state of high awareness, you are empowered to alter your past cognitions and liberate yourself from the pattern.

Once you find your root pattern, you will complete with that pattern, so that you are released from its influence over your life.

By living these four tattvas – the sacred principles of Life – you will not only become aware of your patterns, but you will develop the tools, techniques and intelligence to break free of your patterns.With completion, life be freshly experienced again.

Right now, you are nothing but a bunch of programmed actions and patterns that never let you contact Life as it happens. So question all your ideas, all your responses. Don't even bother about whether that belief has served you well in the past or not. Continuously break free of all your beliefs, all your patterns.

What is a Root Pattern?

Any cognition you make out of unawareness, which comes back to you again and again in some form or the other, is a pattern or samskara. A cognition is any idea, perception, understanding, opinion or statements you create inside yourself.

If you look in, you will see that your life is nothing but a bunch of patterns. From waking up in the morning to working in office to meeting people to going to sleep, most of your actions are pre-programmed ! There is very little space for Life to happen to you spontaneously, because you start defining the boundaries of your life with your patterns.

For example, if you feel you lose your patience very quickly, that is a pattern. If you feel you have stage fear, that is also a pattern. If you feel you always fail in everything you do, that is also a pattern. Anything that stops you from expanding and making progress in the inner world or the outer world, is a pattern.

Tonight, before you go to bed, take a few minutes to make a list of all the patterns with which you have responded to life today - where your immediate response to a situation or an event was unconscious and coming from a pattern. For example, when you wake up in the morning, you want to sleep an extra hour! Or when you are under stress, you feel angry or tired.

Repeat the process tomorrow night. When you do this for three or four days, you will start becoming aware of the patterns defining your life.