When you suppress an emotion or thought, the memories of these suppressions go directly to your manipuraka chakra. When the manipuraka is poisoned, your actions will have an unconscious violence like plucking at something, destroying things, misbehaving with your body, fighting with yourself and with others. The clinical name for this negative attitude is depression.

Some people are less depressed, some people are more depressed, that’s all. The more you allow this chatter to consume you, the more depressed you become. The people who are less depressed feel it only at times and that too to a lower degree whereas the people who are more depressed feel it most of the time in a severe fashion. But the current is always there for both.

So depression or negativity is nothing but a collection of negative thoughts, which you speak to yourself. And once you allow such thoughts to enter into your mind, the same thoughts will keep playing back every time you suffer a small failure. It will keep reinforcing this attitude. After all, worrying is only a highly reinforced habit. But it is a mere habit and so you can kick it like any other habit! But you don’t think that it is only a habit. You think that it is a solid and serious reality. That is the problem. That is why you are not able to kick it.

When I tell you, you can understand it only intellectually. When it becomes your own experience, when you have that clarity, you will go beyond worries. Then depression cannot touch you. You will go beyond misery. By thinking of worries all the time, what is going to happen? Nothing! With your ten worries, an eleventh worry called depression will happen, that’s all.

By worrying, you totally miss the beauty of the present. When you are in tune with the present, every moment will become a celebration and you will not be searching for past incidents to celebrate. When every moment is a celebration, you will continue to be in the present because you are celebrating every moment. You will never go to the past for celebrating. Then every moment will be golden, not just the past! Read more: Instant Tools for Blissful Living by Pramahamsa Nithyananda.

Renunciation is a beautiful word. People always come and ask me, ‘Master, should I renounce everything to achieve enlightenment? Should I renounce everything to realize the Divine?’

I tell them, ‘No, just renounce what you don’t have, that is enough.’

You don’t have to renounce what you have, just renounce what you don’t have. Fear, anxiety, unnecessary worries, unnecessary fantasies, excessive imagination – all these things are not really there in your real life. However, mentally you are living with all these things.

Ninety nine percent of your worries never come true. The one percent that does come true is always good for you.

Fear itself is nothing but negative fantasy. You are living with so many things that you do not really have. Just live with whatever you have and renounce what you do not have, that is enough. All these things exist only in the mind, not in reality. If you do not have Ms. Universe as your wife, but mentally, you have greed for it, renounce it, that’s all! That is what I mean when I say, renounce what you don’t have. Then you can live peacefully with what you have!

Entering into Ashtavakra Gita

Ashtavakra, the great enlightened master, gives technology created by him, to achieve the state of enlightenment. Let us digest the teachings and the technology of Ashtavakra. Ashtavakra starts the beautiful answer:

If you aspire for liberation my child, shun the objects of the senses as poison and seek forgiveness, sincerity, kindness, contentment, and truth as nectar.

You are neither earth, nor water, nor fire, nor air, nor ether. In order to attain liberation realize yourself as the knower of all these and consciousness itself.

These two slokas (verses), sutras (techniques) are beautiful. In the first sutra, he speaks about shunning the objects of the senses, seeking forgiveness, being sincere, being kind, being content and living with the truth. In the second sutra, he expresses the technology. He says that you are neither earth, nor water, nor fire, nor air or ether. In order to attain liberation, realize yourself as the knower of all these and consciousness itself. It is a beautiful verse. In the first part he gives a few disciplines, a few moral lessons. In the second part he gives the technology to achieve the state. This is the way they presented in those days. First, a little bit of discipline, then enlightenment! But I tell you, for modern men, unless the experience itself happens, we can’t even ask him to be disciplined. If you tell him, ‘Please shun the objects of the senses,’ he will ask, ‘What for? Why? What is the need? We are very happy. Why should we do all these things?’

Unless we can give one the direct experience, we cannot tell modern man anything. We cannot force discipline on anyone. We can only work towards the alchemy, the transformation of our being. We can only work towards enlightenment. Once that experience starts happening, automatically the morality will happen to us; the discipline will happen in us.

So I am explaining the second sutra first. Let us enter into the second sutra first. Then the first sutra will simply start happening in our lives.

Here Ashtavakra is declaring:

You are neither earth, nor water, nor air, nor fire nor ether. In order to attain liberation, realize yourself as the knower of all these and consciousness itself. He says that you are neither body nor mind nor any of these five elements. Your body and mind are created out of these five elements. You are filled with earth, water, fire, air and ether –your thoughts are comprised of ether. You are filled with all these elements, but you are not these elements. You are beyond them all. Understand yourself as pure consciousness. Realize that you are the knower of these elements and that you are consciousness itself.

You do not have to think that you are the body to be alive. Be very clear, you do not have to think you are the mind to think.

Someone approached Ramana Maharshi and said, ‘Bhagavan, six rupees (a few cents) is more than enough to live in Tiruvannamalai for one month.’ Ramana’s ashram is located here. In those days, the cost of living was very low. Bhagavan replies, ‘To live, even body and mind are not necessary. Why do you need six rupees?’

Understand, even our body and mind are not necessary to live. When we understand that we are beyond our body, our body becomes graceful. When we understand that we are beyond our mind, our mind becomes intelligent. We start radiating grace and intelligence when we understand that we are beyond body and mind.

When you understand that you are not this body and mind, you will start respecting the body and mind. You will start living with your body and mind blissfully. You will not abuse your body. You will not disrespect your body intelligence. You will let your body live naturally and blissfully. The body has its own intelligence.

The Sutra to Freedom – Detach from the Body and Rest in Intelligence.

Read more: Guaranteed Enlightenment – Ashtavakra Gita  by Paramahamsa Nithyananda.

A: In the real 0 TPS state, you will be most productive! That is the truth. You will be highly productive because you are not wasting energy in unnecessary jumping between past and future. Your decisions will be very sharp. 0 TPS is the high energy zone; you will never become mentally fatigued. You will never say, ‘I am done.’ You will be so joyful. You will become more productive in whatever you are doing.

Productivity is never disturbed by the 0 TPS state. To tell you the truth, you guys do not spend time on showing productivity. You spend time only on selling yourself. What do I mean by ‘selling yourself’? You sit and spend all your time on project plans, deadlines, projections and fooling the bosses. When you are in the 0 TPS state, you will excel just out of your ‘quality’, not out of your ‘marketing ability’. When you excel out of ‘quality’, you will feel so fulfilled. Dharma or righteousness always gives fulfillment. The person who can sell himself can get into politics or a high posting in an organization, but he will never have fulfillment. The person who is dharmic, is the one who will be productive and fulfilled. He will attain levels out of his own quality, not out of his marketing. Excelling without selling yourself always gives fulfillment. Put your energy more on being; you will see that you become more productive. Apart from just becoming more productive, you will feel deeply fulfilled in your personal life. You will start living a beautiful life. A real 0 TPS person will be dharmic and productive.

Read more: Follow Me In! by Paramahamsa Nithyananda.

Krishna is complete fulfilment. His very life is a technique! The very life of Krishna is a technique that leads you to enlightenment. The body language of an enlightened person is a sutra, a technique. Krishna is the person whose body language straightaway leads you to enlightenment. Understand that Rama will lead you to dharma, righteousness. If you follow what Rama did, you will have dharma, but with Krishna, you will straightaway have moksa, liberation!

When we experience the being of Krishna, when we understand Krishna, His very being is a technique. His very life is a technique. That is why there is a word in the Bhagavatam (ancient Indian epic) called ‘lila dhyana’. Just remembering the lila, the playful pranks of Krishna, is dhyana, meditation.

No other incarnation is given the word lila dhyana. No other incarnation is praised like this. Just remembering His acts is meditation!

The great sages were once disturbed by the singing and dancing of the gopikas (cowgirls who were Krishna’s playmates). So they went to Krishna’s birthplace, Vrindavan, to see what was happening. They just wanted to see for themselves.

They thought, ‘Why are the gopikas so happy and always singing and dancing? We sages are sitting with closed eyes trying to meditate with long faces and nothing is happening. We have been meditating for a long time, but these gopikas are always happily singing and dancing! What is really happening in that place?’

A small story within this story:

A man was sitting on the riverbank trying to meditate. He heard the sound of anklets. He opened his eyes and saw a young woman walking towards the river to fetch some water. He asked, ‘What is this? What kind of disturbance is this?’ Then he closed his eyes and started meditating again.

The next day, at the same time, he heard the sound. Unconsciously he opened his eyes, saw the girl, and asked her, ‘What kind of disturbance are you creating?’ Again, he closed his eyes and started meditating. On the third day, he became anxious when the exact time came, and started waiting for the sound of the anklets!

Back to the story, the singing and dancing of the gopikas around Krishna disturbed these sages. They wanted to know what was going on in Vrindavan. They came down to see the gopikas, but the gopikas did not receive them properly, nor did they care to listen to what the sages had to say. They were happy, completely fulfilled, and in total contentment in their reminiscences with Krishna.

The sages asked, ‘What is this? We are great sages. We have come all the way to see you and you are not even receiving us properly.’ One gopika asked, ‘Sages? Who are they?’

‘We meditate on His feet in our heart,’ explained one of the sages.

The gopika said, ‘Meditate on His feet? Come, we will show you. We are playing with His entire form! You are meditating on Him. Why? Come, we will show you how we are playing with Him. You say you are trying to remember Him. We are trying to forget Him! He is so much in our being. We are unable to forget Him. We are unable to do our work. He has completely filled up our inner space!’

Many people ask, ‘Swamiji, should we remember you? Should we take you as our master?’

I tell them, ‘Never make that mistake. If I am going to help you, if I am your master, you will not be able to forget me! That is the real scale to know if I am your master or not.’

If you must remember me with effort, then I am not your master. Forget me. Carry on doing your work. Carry on with your life. If you must remember something consciously, with effort, it is ugly. Only when you can’t forget, only then, devotion happens in you. These gopikas say, ‘We are unable to forget Him.’

Krishna appeals to the being level people. They are continually aspiring, seeking an experience straightaway. Just by His will, He can give that experience to them. He can give experience of enlightenment to Arjuna, by just showing him His cosmic form, Visvarupa darsan!

Krishna shows that He is in everybody, that everybody is in Him. Just by will, Krishna is able to give an experience of the Divine, eternal bliss, to Arjuna. Whether we are intellectually oriented, emotionally oriented or being level oriented, we can find our fulfillment in Krishna.

Krishna can give us fulfillment. When intellect ripens, it becomes intelligence; when emotion ripens, it becomes devotion; when our being ripens, we become enlightened.

All these three enlightenment modes – being, devotion and intelligence – express at their peak in Krishna. Hence, Krishna can fulfill every being. That is why He is called jagat guru, master of the whole universe. Read more: Bhagavad Gita – Demystified Vol. 1 by Paramahamsa Nithyananda.

We are built upon our identities. We feel lost without them.

In truth, we are all, each one of us, a part of the collective consciousness that unifies the entire universe. Clutching to the individual identity compounds our problems. When we cling to the idea of being separate, we invite problems.

If we think we are physically separate from nature or the universe, we will attract disease.

In our mind, at the mental level, if we think that we are unconnected, then, we are sowing the seeds of violence. We turn selfish, dogmatic and violent. In other words, we become terrorists.

Unity happens when we work within the spirit of collective consciousness. When we work from the level of individual consciousness, we dissect. Logic always breaks things down whereas intuition always unites.

At the spiritual level, collective consciousness operates to unite. If we think we each are individuals, there is no room to grow. Spiritually, we cannot even take the first, baby steps.

Let us look at ourselves this way. At the physical level, we are not individuals. Our body and nature are much closer than we think is possible. For instance, the sun and our body are deeply inter-connected. A small change in the sun triggers a variation in our body.

Similarly, any change in our body reflects upon the moon.

We are all connected by thoughts. A thought from somebody’s mind comes and touches us. Similarly, a thought created in someone’s mind travels to touch another mind. A thought sown by someone else, can touch us. Anyone’s thought has power to affect us.

Thoughts are like ripples on the waters of a lake.

If our ripples are strong, like a wave, we create a surge. We will be leading and inspiring others by our thoughts. If our thoughts are not from our depth, others’ thought waves will impress upon us.

However, there is no need to fear that other people’s thoughts will affect us. If we work towards deepening our connection with Existence, if we remain with supreme faith on our connection with Existence, nothing can ever touch us. Only a weak mind is vulnerable to negative thoughts.

So understand: we can be either a leader or a follower. We always think, ‘I will not be a leader. I can’t do that much. I will not be a follower either. I will maintain my own stance.’ This is impractical. Either lead or follow. You cannot stay in-between. Whether you lead or follow, if your connection with Existence is strong, there will be only bliss in your life.

So let go of your identity and lead from the depth of your connection with Existence. Read more: Bliss Bytes – Vol. 1 by Paramahamsa Nithyananda.

Tension or restlessness in our body is removed when we care for somebody, when we smile at somebody, when we express love in our body language. In fact, you can try it out. At the time you feel tense inside your body, just decide consciously and melt with love towards somebody. That very moment, the tension will disappear! For example, you may be lying down feeling unwell. If some friend visits you at that time or when somebody you love visits, you immediately sit up and talk to them and feel better, is it not? You feel instantly rejuvenated. When you really love somebody, you express your energy. Even a simple smile can cause this switch this to happen if that smile comes from our heart. This is why they say, ‘When you meet someone without a smile, give them yours!’

There are four things we need to understand: love, intelligence, energy and bliss. All these four feelings are four sides of the same pillar. When we express a feeling through our head, it is intelligence. When we express through our heart, it is love. When we express through our being, it is energy. When our being just relaxes without any reason, it is bliss! All the four are the same phenomena, expressed through four different names.

So whenever we express love, we express energy also. Love is concentrated and caring energy. So naturally, whenever we express love, we become a channel for energy, and when we are a channel for energy, we not only help others, but are also helped ourselves. Any mental restlessness can be healed by love. When we care for pets or play with children, we can avoid heart attacks; these can postpone any fatal disease. Pets release tension. They do not talk back to us. They just listen and express love. Their energy heals us. The next type of restlessness is the restlessness of emotion. Mental restlessness is different; that is intellectual. Emotional restlessness means the restlessness which cannot be controlled by a few words, just by consoling oneself. It can be healed only when we express love. When we start radiating love, it floods our being with energy. Our being is opened to the higher energies. This heals our emotional restlessness.

Ultimately we come to spiritual restlessness. Just the pure love for your teacher or master can heal spiritual restlessness! Many people come and tell me, ‘Master, just by being in your presence we are able to meditate. Why are we not able to meditate at home?’ The reason is, whenever we meet great people – swamis and saints – we start relating with them, we start expressing our love towards them. This heals our spiritual restlessness completely. What do I mean by ‘spiritual restlessness’? It is the inability to sit comfortably with oneself, alone, in silence.

In Vedanta we say, ‘shravana, manana and nididhyasam’ to describe this process of calming down. It is listening, meditating and practicing. If our minds are calm, there is no need to meditate separately. The very listening can create the same experience, can become the experience; ‘shravana’ – listening, can lead to experience. According to me, if our ‘shravana’ is not proper, even ‘manana’ – meditating, cannot help; contemplating silently cannot help. J.Krishnamurthi says that listening to God – deep, total listening without restlessness, is divine. That itself is God. If we look deeply into our being, the very presence of a master heals the spiritual restlessness. Love towards the master heals spiritual restlessness.

So our love, even if it is simple and normal love, heals all five aspects of restlessness.

Read more: You are no Sinner by Paramahamsa Nithyananda.

A small story:

Once, a disciple went to his Master’s cottage and came out crying.

The disciple who was waiting outside asked him what the matter was.

The first disciple replied, ‘I asked Master if I could smoke while meditating and he beat me up.’

The second one entered the Master’s cottage and came out after a while laughing.

The first disciple was surprised and asked him, ‘What happened? What did Master tell you?’

The second disciple replied, ‘I asked Master if I could meditate while smoking! He praised me and sent me!’

Just see the different attitudes, which resulted in one disciple getting beaten and the other getting praised! The second disciple is the intelligent one who understands that everything can be done meditatively, that every moment can be a meditative moment, that everything is whole and integrated. Now don’t think that I am advocating smoking as a meditation! Our people will correctly draw the wrong conclusion from what they hear. They will catch the words and miss the truth; that is the problem.

Just understand that the attitude with which we choose is important and not what we choose. If the attitude is right, then even if we choose to exclude certain things in our life, it will not be out of deliberate exclusion, it will be because we are simply flowing with the truth that’s all. When this happens, we will not feel any misery. When the attitude is not right, we choose deliberately and end up excluding things deliberately and fall into deep misery.

With the right attitude, work becomes worship. With the wrong attitude, even worship becomes work. People go for vacation to exotic beaches and try to enjoy. But, if you carry the same mind, the same attitude of postponing enjoyment, the same attitude of compulsively choosing, how can you enjoy the vacation? You are always planning for the next moment and miss the present. If you are at work, you think about your evening plans at home. But, when you reach home, you are already caught up in worrying about the next day’s work at office. I always tell people, ‘If you are worrying about your wife or children, you call it home. If you are worrying at office, you call it work. If you are worrying on the beach, you call it vacation! That is the only difference you are experiencing. You carry the same mind, then how can you change the experience?

You experience what you are, be very clear. Don’t blame the place or people or circumstances around you. Even in the worst of situations, you can enjoy yourself, only if you are enjoyment yourself. If you are enjoyment yourself, you enjoy everything around you because you are enjoyment and you know to experience and exude only that. On the other hand, if you are misery and worry within, everything will seem miserable and worrisome to you. Whatever you are filled with inside is what you will experience outside. It has nothing to do with the outer world things. Read more: Bliss is the Goal and the Path by Paramahamsa Nithyananda.

Neither are you in the world nor is the world in you. The very idea that you are in the world makes you materialistic. The idea that the world is in you, makes you spiritualistic. Both are ideas. Please be very clear that if you think you are in the world, you become materialistic. You run behind the world. You just run behind it. You want to have it. You want to possess it. If you think the world is in you, you run behind your being. You want to possess it. It is the same running, just that it is diverted a little bit inside. The running for spiritual progress or running for some spiritual experience, we call mystery mongering. Even the running for mystical experiences is nothing but mystery mongering. Both are actually concepts; both are ideas. When you understand both are just ideas, you start allowing the spiritual experience to happen in you, and this cannot be done by words.

For example, take the river Ganga. Suppose a small bamboo stick is floating on the Ganga. Considering the bamboo as the center, if you think that the Ganga has been split into two halves, right-side Ganga and left-side Ganga, would you be right? Can you say the Ganga has been divided? No, in reality Ganga is never divided. Because you have taken the bamboo as the center and divided the river for the sake of utility, for the sake of your understanding, you have labeled it as right-side Ganga and left-side Ganga. In the same way, just for the sake of utility, you name this as the body and that as the world. It is just a naming, a labeling.

Just look in; look into yourself. Why do I say, ‘Look in’? You know that for a long time you have only looked out. That is the reason I ask you to look in. When you look inward, you see there is really no boundary between this and that, between you and the world. If you perceive one boundary as stronger, you will feel that you are in the world. If you perceive the other boundary as stronger, you will feel that the world is in you. The worldly people and the so-called materialists say, ‘We are in the world.’ People who close their eyes and sit in the caves in the Himalayas say, ‘The world is in us.’ But both are just concepts. If you feel this boundary is stronger, you think you are in the world. If you think that boundary is stronger, you think the world is in you, that’s all.

Once you drop both concepts, you will see simply that you are, and wherever you are, you are joyful. Generally the great saints and enlightened people teach you that the world is in you. Do you know why they teach you that way? Because you are already addicted to the opposite idea, that you are in the world. Just to bring you out of that idea, they teach that the world is in you.

Actually to remove one thorn from your foot, you need to use another thorn. But once you have removed the thorn, you need to throw away both. The idea that the world is in you is only another thorn to remove the thorn that is already piercing you. In the ultimate sense, both are just concepts. When you drop these boundaries, you understand reality; you understand what the truth is. It cannot be expressed by either of these concepts.

If you remove that bamboo from the Ganga, can you say Ganga has become one? No, because it was always one. The very word ‘one’ exists only if you say there is ‘two’. If there is no ‘two’, how can you say it is ‘one’? Is it clear to you? The word singular exists only as long as the word plural exists. When the word plural is lost, how can you say this is singular? That is why the rishis and sages called this philosophy advaita.

Dvaita means plural – duality. But advaita cannot be translated as singular – because that would imply the presence of a plural somewhere, which advaita does not acknowledge. Advaita can be translated only as non-dualist.

It can never be expressed as ‘single’. It can be expressed only as ‘where there is no duality’. Dvaita means duality. Advaita means where there is no duality, that’s all.

If you say you are in the world, you are expressing duality. If you say the world is in you, you are doing the same thing. Only if you experience the fact that neither is true, do you experience the truth. The truth cannot be expressed with dvaita, it can only be expressed with advaita.  Read more: Uncommon Answers to Common Questions by Paramahamsa Nithyananda.

There is a beautiful website on near-death experiences. An American doctor did this research. He started meeting people who had near-death experiences. ‘Near-death’ means those who are clinically declared dead and who come back to life after three to four hours. There are many such cases. In our Indian villages there will always be four to five cases.

The other day a doctor was telling me, ‘There are so many cases of those who are medically declared dead, and who come back to life after four to five hours.’ In some persons’ lives, it happens three to four times even, and they come back to life. This doctor somehow got interested in this subject and he started going all over the world, meeting these types of persons. He met 10,000 people from all over the world and collected all their memories and their experiences of how they had their death experience. He did research for 30 years.

After analyzing all their experiences, he reached a conclusion. He made a statement, a beautiful statement that people on the planet earth, only when they live, they are Christians or Muslims or Hindus or Jews or Buddhists. When they die, all of them die in the way that is described by Hinduism. We may be a Hindu, Muslim, Jew or Christian, but when we die we are a Vedanti (person who seeks the Truth).

In the Kathopanishad (ancient vedic scripture), there is a clear description of death. This researcher says, in all these 10,000 people’s experiences which he collected, everybody’s experience exactly matches with what Kathopanishad describes!

Let us see how exactly death happens. First, we move away from the physical body. You may be thinking, ‘I came to learn how to live, but he is teaching all about death!’ Understand: unless we understand the mysteries of death, we will not have a clear idea about life. Our concept about death totally changes our concept about life. Our philosophy about life changes when our philosophy about death changes.

The idea of death changes the whole idea of life. So never think that learning about death is a waste of time. It is the basic lesson everyone has to learn.

First, a person moves from the physical layer, that is the body which we are having, to the pranic layer, which involves inhaling and exhaling, that is the energy or the air movement, the prana movement inside our system. Prana refers to the life force that is

brought in by the air into our system when we breathe. It is the life sustaining energy needed for us. Air is just a medium to bring prana in. Prana is what is needed to sustain life.

When we move from the first layer to the second layer, all our desires, our unfulfilled desires, all the ways in which we wanted to live but did not live, all those things usually come up. When this happens, it is almost as if in a room, ten people are standing, kicking a football around. What will happen? Just like how the football is kicked from corner to corner, our consciousness will be kicked from all corners. In each corner, some desire will be standing and kicking it. At the time our consciousness is trying to leave the body, all our desires will be forcing us to enter back into the body so that we can fulfill and enjoy them further.

On one side, our desires will be forcing us to enter into the body again so that we can live and enjoy, while on the other side, the body will say, ‘No! I am tired. I can’t host you anymore, just leave!’ On one side, the body will say, ‘I am tired; I can’t host you.’ On the other side, the pranic layer that houses our desires forces us to live inside the body. That is what causes the pulling and pushing at the time of death. Pulling and pushing is nothing but the fight between our desires and the body.

Somehow, if we manage to move away from the pranic layer, we enter next into the mental body. When we enter into our mental body, all our guilt rises! All the guilt that we had about the way we felt we should have lived our lives but never lived, all the mistakes that we committed, all of our regrets, etc.

Please understand, desire is about the future and guilt is about the past. But actually, both are one and the same. The same thing, when it is about the past, it is guilt, and when it is about the future, it is desire! The way in which we want to live is desire, and the way in which we wanted to live but didn’t, is guilt. I always tell people, guilt is nothing but reviewing our past decisions with updated intelligence. Read more: The Door to Enlightenment by Paramahamsa Nithyananda.

If you try to search for aloneness, you get into one more bondage. Just let it be. When you feel lonely do not resist. When you are alone you will try to relate mentally with others. Drop that. Do not blame others for your loneliness.

Allow the loneliness to happen to you without resistance. You will then feel alone even when you are surrounded by people. To start with, you need to experience physical loneliness. Once the joy of aloneness happens, it stays with you even when you are not physically alone.

To have aloneness you need to do nothing; it’s your reality. For material comforts you need to work and struggle.

A disciple asked a Zen Master, ‘How long does it take to achieve enlightenment?’

The master replied, ‘Just the time it takes to blink your eye. You are already enlightened. You only need to declare it.’

The disciple asked again, ‘What happened when you attained enlightenment?’

The Master replied, ‘Nothing, I decided that from that day I shall live my enlightened state.’

People often ask me, ‘What will happen to my children, what will happen to my business when I get enlightened?’

I tell them, nothing will happen; however; you will be better than what you are in whatever you do. You will not go to an ashram or to the Himalayas and run away from your life commitments. Do not be afraid of your own transformation!

A Man who was blind from birth went to a doctor. The doctor told him, ‘I can give eye sight and you will surely walk without a stick.’ The man replied, ‘I understand all you that say, but how will I walk without a stick?’

The blind man can never understand how he can walk without a stick till he regains his eyesight and can see for himself what it is to see.

You can keep going round and round with no understanding happening. It is not something that you understand with the intellect; you have to experience to realize it. Read more: So You Want to Know the Truth by Paramahamsa Nithyananda.