What is Unclutching?🔗

What is unclutching?

When I type this word into my WORD document it immediately underlines it in red! When I looked up the Oxford or even Webster English dictionary they said 'the word you've entered isn't in the dictionary' or 'the word does not exist' or 'your search did not yield any results.'

Yes, it is true. This word does not exist in any of our literary bases. It does not exist in our logic as well. This word is about transcending logic.

This is a THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM word, a word of sheer energy. It has the power to change your life as it has done with many before you.

Once THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM told his disciples that all scriptures are expressed in many layers of energy, seven to be exact. He said that most of us were able to grasp only the first level literary meaning. They asked him to explain. The explanation on 'unclutching' was the result.

It was so simple and therefore so difficult for the rational mind to understand that it took a 10 day advanced meditation program with THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM for many of his disciples to understand what this word meant.

Unclutching is a process; it is a verb; it is action. It is the supreme action that Krishna describes in the Bhagavad Gita. It is delivered in a style and package that the present day human can accept, believe and practice it.

The core truth of unclutching is based on the fact that our thoughts are not connected to one another. Each thought is independent from a previous thought and displaces the previous thought in the mind. Our mind, however, links various thoughts where it perceives a connection. These links are either of pain or pleasure. The linkage that the mind establishes between unconnected thoughts creates what it sees as logic.

Whether of pain or pleasure, these linkages create fear and greed in us; they create expectations and regrets. Expectations too lead to frustration and regret. End result of this linkage is the suffering that Buddha talks about.

All suffering ceases once we understand that thoughts are unconnected. Yesterdays' pain is different from today's pain. What preceded whatever happened a year ago does not create the same result today. We are free from the bondage of our thoughts.

THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM says that it is this connection of thought that we indulge in which is our original sin. When we let go this connection, when we unclutch, we are free; we are liberated.

The first time THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM went into details of this concept of Unclutching was at the Nithyanandam program that he conducted at the Bidadi ashram near Bangalore. This program was held in the last fortnight of December 2005. About 200 people, all Nithya Healers, attended it from around the world. The program ended a day before the Jayanthi, birthday celebrations of THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM. The program ended with a fire-walk that every one who attended the program participated in.

For many who attended this program the memories are still fresh. THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM started saying that he had no idea what was going to happen in this program scheduled for 10 days. Many things may happen; and nothing may happen. He said to be prepared for anything. One precondition for this program, which was only by his invitation, was that the participants should agree to whatever THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM instructed during the course. They should come in a spirit of surrender. They may be asked to sleep outdoors under trees; they may be asked to go to neighboring villages and beg for food. In the end they were asked to walk the fire!

The concept of Unclutching was new to all who attended the program. There may have been other teachings that they may have had about witnessing thoughts and dropping the mind and so on, but no one had enunciated so clearly that thoughts were not connected to each other. This broke the foundation of any concept of logic.

Not only did THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM enunciate the concept to the participants, but he also made them go through exercises to realize this concept. He made everyone write down their thoughts as they arose in their minds without any editing. So, people hunched down for about 20 minutes and wrote reams as each thought rose up in their minds. He then asked them to go through what they had written.

It was a revelation to everyone. There was no connection between one thought and another. One's mind jumped from one thought to another totally different. Even if there was no outside disturbance in terms of noise or some one coming in, even when there was absolute quiet in the hall, thoughts were not logical sequences.

THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM says that our mind is a madhouse; it is an asylum. You may hear someone cough and that may remind you of a dog's bark. You then remember a dog that you had as a child. You then recollect friends you had at school when you were young. You start thinking about how you played when you were very young. Suddenly you remember how you hurt yourself while playing. You then feel sad.

There is no logical connection. We establish a connection. We then create pain or pleasure. What seemed mere theory just moments ago became a true reality as people went through these exercises. Soon it was no longer a question about whether thoughts were unconnected or not; it developed into a quest to understand how this can be internalized so that one can get out of the clutches of the linkage; so that we may be unclutched.

In the pages that follow we provide you content from various discourses of THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM where he has talked about this theme at greater length. You, the reader, can understand more fully the what, why and the how of this powerful concept of Unclutching.

When you put this into effect the results are nothing short of amazing. When one starts unclutching, one starts on a journey of disconnection from all sufferings, from all negativities.

You may ask, we will also get disconnected from all positive thoughts as well and may not be able to focus on getting things done.

In fact, you will be even more effective in getting things done. It is one's fear of what can go wrong that stands in the way of one's performance. One is always second-guessing about what all goes wrong and making multiple alternatives. When one understands the nature of one's thoughts, one can disengage from all these diversions and focus on the process of what needs to be done. The outcome depends on the process; it does not depend on what you think as you go through the process. It does not require your evaluation.

In effect, you let go of all obsessive fear and greed about the outcome. You no longer focus on the result, just the process. This is what Krishna says time and again in the Gita: Act without attachment.

When you know that thoughts are unconnected there can be no attachment. You are unclutched!

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