May all beings live happily!
Tiruchirappalli!
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The eternal boon and the unique great knowledge
In the ocean of Shiva, the truth is the work, the infinite achievement and pleasure
The ability to be enchanted has become fierce
The perfect form is swollen and rises above
The aura is complete
The aura is complete
The true wisdom that moves in the midst of my knowledge
The true knowledge that is alone is the essence of Sachidananda
The essence of the fruit of true happiness
The essence of joy is the essence of the light of grace
The essence of the philosophy that is not self-existent
The good light that gives a new state
The soul that is concentrated in the state of Shiva alone
The essence of mercy and virtue that does not lie
The great God who does not touch the sky
The inner and outer inner and outer outer
The essence that is raised in the four appropriate places
The essence that has removed the snow Amude
The only one, the one and only Amude
The one who has the whole world, the Amude
The one who is the most wonderful Amude (Information: 1255-1290)
May all beings receive the Amude of Shiva and become Shiva, without asking for anything else,
I do not ask for anything else, O Parasiva Guru!
I take refuge in the Guru…. Long live the Guru…….. The Guru is my helper!
We offer our humble obeisance and blessings to all the wise souls who are waiting to join our platform and taste wisdom.
The topic we are going to talk about today is how to swim perfectly in the river without anything. Let’s have a pleasant conversation. Let’s start with a short poem on nothingness.
In emptiness, there is no form
No emotions; no powers to know it
No inspiration; no self-awareness
No eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, mind
No forms, sounds, smells, tastes
No manifestations of the mind
No objects of vision
Nothing like this exists
Until we reach the unadulterated state of self-awareness
No ignorance
No destruction of that ignorance
Nothing like this exists
No destruction; no death
No destruction and death are never destroyed
No suffering; There is no origin
There is no standing; there is no traveling
Therefore there is no path to go
There is no knowledge; there is no attainment
There is no non-attainment
Therefore there is nothing in the universe
Nothingness is always the sweet fragrance of something greater. When we go beyond it, it opens our heart. It is like the blossoming of a lotus flower with 1000 petals. That is also the destiny of man. When man comes to this fragrance, when he comes to this state of absolute nothingness within his consciousness, when his nothingness permeates him completely, when he is a pure sky without clouds, then he is complete.
This nothingness is what the Buddha called Mahanirvana. We must first understand how this nothingness really is. It is not simply empty. It is completely full. It is overflowing.
Do not think for a moment that nothingness is a state of absence of negativity. Nothingness is simply nothingness. Things disappear. At the end of it, only essence remains. Forms disappear. Only the formless remains. Explanations disappear. Only the inexplicable remains.
So, nothingness is not like there is nothing there. It means that there is no reason to explain what is there. Don’t we have various kinds of furniture in our homes? When we didn’t take them away, they were there. After we put them away, they are not there. Someone who sees this would say, “There is nothing here now. It is empty and clean.” As long as there were clouds in the sky, the sky was cloudy. When the clouds cleared, the sky would be empty and simply nothing. The sky would be clean. It would also be simply an existence.
Those who can only see things would say, “What is there? There is nothing.” But those who have the ability to see that nothingness would say, “Everything is here. The reason is that nothingness is here.”
The secret of nothingness is the oneness of ‘yes’ and ‘no’. That is the approach of the Buddha. Nothingness is not completely identical with ‘no’. Nothingness is the oneness of ‘yes’ and ‘no’. There are no opposite poles there. Opposites are not always opposites.
When you experience pleasure in a man or a woman, the highest ecstasy of that pleasure is the state of nothingness. At that point a woman is not a woman. A man is not a man. Those forms disappear. There are no polar differences between man and woman. There is no agitation. It is completely peaceful. Man and woman are merged in each other. They forget their forms. They go into a state that cannot be described.
Then the man will not call himself a ‘man’. A woman also does not call herself a ‘woman’. There they are not ‘I’. The feeling of self-centeredness ‘I’ does not exist there. Because there is no ego, such a bond has developed between the two. They do not have any fight, quarrel, or disagreement. In their peak of bliss, all these egoistic feelings are flying. That is why these feelings of ecstasy are always so beautiful. Even in Samadhi, these feelings of ecstasy remain. It is sensual ecstasy; it is blissful ecstasy.
The state in which these two types of pleasures are mixed together is an expansion in nothingness. There is no yes or no there. It may even be the secret of emptiness, nothingness, nirvana; it is. Emptiness does not simply mean being empty. It refers to a state of being. It is a very strong state of being. It does not push out its opposites. It takes them with it. It is full of them. It is full of emptiness. It is overflowing with emptiness. It is alive, with too much alive, with an immense alive.
That is why we say, never let these deceive you for a moment. If you do, you will not become a Buddha. The one who sees himself in himself is a Buddha; the one who sees himself empty in himself is a Buddha; the one who does not react when his life blossoms is a Buddha; the one who sees his life face to face, even that, is a Buddha.
We want all of you to know this sutra for Buddhahood. Then you will overcome many situations in your life to enter. There you will see the body and the soul meeting each other face to face. You will also see your life and God meeting each other face to face. Then there will be no opposite poles within you. You will be empty within you. There is nothing but nothingness there. That is the self of the self.
When there are no clouds of thought within you, then this nothingness will blossom. Those clouds are the obstacles to the vast space within you. Those clouds are the obstacles to your crossing the sky.
In the summer, the sky is clean, clear, crystal clear without any clouds. When the rainy season comes, thousands of clouds come from everywhere and cover the entire sky so that the rays of the sun do not reach the earth. When you are covered by clouds, you cannot see even a pulse of self-awareness there. When the clouds part, you will see the sun pouring out its rays in millions of brilliance. Are the obstacles there the sky? The clouds? Think, dear ones. The suns have always been there in the sky. Shouldn’t the sky be clear and clean, without clouds?
Can you know this? Or can you accept it as knowledge? Is there any connection between this power of knowing and the knowledge of knowing? To tell the truth, when you perceive through knowledge, you do not perceive the right thing in the right way. All learned knowledge, that is, knowledge, only creates a screening of yourself. Education is based on the mind. Knowledge is a false opinion. Knowledge is decision-making. Before you go into it, you decide about it and enter into the decision that this is how it can be.
Let us tell you an example. If you go to a guru with a decision already in your mind, that decision may be in favor of the guru or it may be against the guru. It is not a big deal. But, if you come to the guru after making a decision, then it means that you come with a cloud. Then you will start seeing your guru only through those clouds. The shadow of your clouds will surely fall on the Guru. Is the Guru here the shadow of a cloud? Or the sky? Is this the act of knowing? Or the act of knowledge? Or the act of seeking to know through knowledge?
If you come with a pure thought, that is, without the clouds of your ego, that ‘this Guru is the right person’, you will find some wonderful things in yourself according to your pure thought. If you come with these clouds of thought that ‘this Guru is wrong, dangerous, bad’, then you will find some things in the Guru that support your clouds of thought.
Whatever thought you bring before a Guru, if it automatically, eternally, remains, it will keep finding proofs for it. Also, if you come to the Guru with wrong thoughts, you will have to go with your wrong thoughts in fear. Such people will never go to a true Guru.
To come to a good Guru, it is very, very important that one comes without clouds, without wrong opinions, for or against, without any preconceived ideas.
Come with nothing and empty to see what the Guru has. When you meet the Guru, do not bring any ideas, knowledge, or teachings.
You may have known many things from the Guru; you may have heard; you may have experienced many things. But do not bring any of that when you come before the Guru; do not believe in them.
Come with nothing to see the Guru’s heart with your own eyes. Come with your whole heart. That is the respect you give to your life; that is the gratitude you pay to your Guru. From today on, may this nothingness become your nature. We bless you with kindness.
Also, if you want to know the truths and realities about the Guru, we request you to completely abandon all kinds of learning and opinions that you have accumulated over many, many births.
If you come to the truth with learning, you will never be able to see it. You will be blind to the truth. Because your learning has always made you blind. This is the truth. If you want to have clear eyes to see the truth, then throw away all your learning. The power you perceive has no connection with learning.
Truth and learning are never together. Education cannot contain all the characteristics of this life and nature. Learning is very small. But this nature is very vast and expansive. Can nature be completely learned through learning, tell me. The enlightened Guru is the Lord who is spread out and spread out as this nature, the universe, the universe.
Can we completely learn the 1330 Thirukkurals, the 310 Avvai Gnanakurals, the Thiruvasakam with 51 Padikas, the Thirumantra with 3000 Venpaks, the Thiruvarutpa with 6300 songs, the Kaivalya Navaneetha, the Suddha Sadakam, the Thevaram, and the books of the Siddhas? Ask yourself. If this is the case, where can learning teach such vast wisdom that is hidden in nature?
And if you put this nature in the category of your learning, you will destroy its beauty. If you turn this life into learning, then it will not be life at all. It is like a man holding a map of India in his hand and thinking that he is carrying India. Can India be included in any map, what?
Will the image of the moon become the moon? Will the word God become God? Will the word love become love? No life can contain the mysteries of life. Education is nothing but words and words and words. Learning is a great illusion. That is why our Satguru Sundarananda Maharishi always said that let the state of nothingness remain within you, and he kept sowing seeds in my life. During the time I lived with him, he never tried to sow or harvest. He was only sowing. Today, the worldly beings have begun to enjoy the fruits and the yield of that in full.
The state of nothingness is the state of not knowing anything. It is a state in which no cloud floats in your consciousness. Only when your consciousness is free from clouds will you be in nothingness.
Nothing else goes perfectly with truth. Only nothingness goes perfectly well with truth. Knowledge cannot encompass the mysteries of consciousness; knowledge is the opposite of something mysterious. ‘Something mysterious’ means something that we do not know, that we cannot know, that is fundamentally, intrinsically, and essentially unknowable. That is, it is not only unknowable, but also unknowable. How can something unknowable be reduced to knowledge?
Knowledge is like picking up pebbles on the bank of a river and missing the diamonds there. Knowledge is second-rate, authentic, and never original. To know the truth, you need an introspection, a genuine introspection. You need eyes that see from beginning to end; you need a clear vision.
So, the mind comes to know only when it is completely naked of learning, empty of education. When there is no learning, there is knowing. Because, when there is no learning, there is knowing.
When the mind is completely naked without learning, with nothing on it, quiet, doing nothing, the mind is waiting, without even a thought of what we are waiting for, just a pure waiting, without any expectation of what, without any thought of the guest, when you leave the door open and the guest knocks, without any thought of who the guest is, then you can have clear vision. How can you know that in advance?
If you carry the map of God, you will keep missing God. Because you did not know God before. There is no possibility of knowing. Yes, others know about Him. But all they are telling you are only maps.
I can only give you a map. All education is a map. Don’t start worshipping that map. Don’t start building a temple around that map. That’s how temples are built. One temple is dedicated to the Vedas. The next one is dedicated to the Bible and the next one to the Quran. These are all maps. These are not real countries. They are just maps. If I want to tell you something, I have to use my words. The words come to you. You sit on the words. You start hoarding the words. Then you start thinking you know. The mind is a great hoarder.
This is not the way to know the truth. The way to know is to throw away all education. And throw it away all at once. Don’t throw it away slowly or gradually. If you can find out what you know, it can happen right this moment. In fact, finding out is the way to do it. You don’t have to do anything in particular. You don’t even have to give up learning. When you simply see that learning cannot make you a knower, that it is actually a hindrance to you, a revolution takes place within you to remove the cloud of change. When you see that, change begins to happen within.
So when the mind is naked, quiet, not working, completely waiting, then the truth comes there. Then the truth is there. It doesn’t have to come from anywhere else. It is already there. But because you are so full of learning, you go on missing it.
Only in nothingness can you know the truth, the truth. Because in nothingness the intellect works fully. It is in nothingness that our intelligence functions fully.
That is why children are so intelligent. But look at the old people, little by little they become very dull. That is why children learn things very quickly. It becomes very difficult to learn as they get older. If you are old, it may take you 20 or 25 years to learn German, Chinese or Urdu. But, there is a miracle that a child can learn the above languages in a maximum of 3 years.
No matter how many languages you teach a child, when he is a child, he can learn them very easily in a minimum period of time. This is a minimum. It is still under research to know how many languages a child can learn at one time. If you just expose a child to that language, the child immediately starts learning and learns it intelligently. There is a situation where older people take more time to learn a language because the ability to learn, that is, the ability to absorb and assimilate, decreases with age. But it does not have to be like that. If you are in a state of nothingness, then this situation will not exist. Because you will have become a complete child for the rest of your life.
Here is a real historical example. You must have heard a lot about the Greek philosopher Socrates. Even though he knew that he was going to die, he remained a child without any regret or fear. Even when he was about to die, he remained a child with a flower-like mind, open-minded and eager to learn from anything and everything.
Socrates was lying on his bed. He had been sentenced to death on the grounds that he was misleading the people of Greece with his intellectual discourse. For this, poison was prepared to kill him. On the day of the execution, the sentence was to poison him and kill him at sunset. On the day of the execution, Socrates was very excited, inspired and active, like a child. But, his disciples, that is, the students, who were watching all this, kept crying, thinking that the teacher was going to die. But, Socrates was very excited. The disciples could not bear or accept this.
Socrates looked at his disciples and said, “Disciples, is the poison still coming? Why is it taking so long? Go and ask, is the poison ready? Or not? When will it be brought? Then tell the poison maker to prepare it quickly and give it to you. Do you understand? Go, quickly.”
The disciples did not move. They kept crying right there, looking at Socrates. “Go and see, why are you crying so much before I die?” he said.
Seeing that the disciples did not go, Socrates himself went to the place where the poison was being prepared and said to the poison maker, “Sir, why are you taking so long to prepare the poison? The poison must be wonderful. Its killing power must not decrease, do you understand? Prepare it quickly and bring it to me yourself. I am very eager and excited to drink the poison you prepare.”
The poisoner, thinking to himself, “What kind of man is not at all afraid of dying, not being discouraged, but eager to die like this?”, became upset and got busy with his work.
The disciples said to Socrates, “Master, why are you so excited and happy? We do not understand anything. You are going to die? Have you forgotten that, Master? Please tell me the reason for your position, Master.”
Socrates placed his hand on the head of the disciple who had asked the question and stroked his head very gently, saying, “Now that I am stroking your head, look carefully to see if there is any anxiety, fear, or trembling. I have lived my life to the fullest. I am still living. In all my life, I have never been within myself. I have been breathing in every moment with deep love and understanding without any expectation. No attachment or bond has ever troubled me. In the direction of the river, I will become the river and flow; in the direction of the wind, I will become the wind and fly; when I see flowers, I will smell their fragrance”.
“Whatever the circumstances, I will keep passing through those circumstances with empty thoughts. I will not associate the events that circumstances give with me. If life is real, then death is also real, right? We cannot separate life and death. That is why I say this. Having experienced everything in life and lived it fully, this death, death, is a new feeling and event that I have never experienced before. I am waiting to welcome this too with the same enthusiasm, inspiration and understanding as a child. Do you know the reason, Seetha, I have now prepared myself to know this death, to know how death comes, and to learn the wisdom that this death gives completely. This death is also a wisdom, Seetha. How can I react to it when my situation and my perception are like this? Tell me,” he said.
Do you know what the lesson of this historical event is, dear ones. For someone who is like a child, with nothing in his mind and no deceit or deceit, even death can only be an event of life, what else can I say? For them, death is also a blessing. Is it that easy to conquer death? Think about it. That Greek sage Socrates lived like that and proved to the world that he had conquered death. The reason he was able to reach this state was because of the power of nothingness in his soul. Socrates lived like a Buddha.
Buddha has said that nothingness is what allows intelligence to function.
All the people around you today live in fear. Are they good or bad? It is not necessary for us to ask. When you live without fear, the ego hidden within you disappears. Then there is no use for fear.
In the state of nothingness there is no fear. Therefore there is no greed. There is no violence. The state of nothingness does not know anything beyond the truth. Meaninglessness does not arise there. There is no foolishness. When nothingness arises, heaven and hell are not visible there. Then intelligence begins to shine and manifest itself there. This is the greatest truth to remember. This truth is what will begin to make you divine, full of divinity.
If you want to face a state of nothingness, you too must exist in that state of nothingness. Then that nothingness and you will become one. There is no difference between the two of you. When two identical people meet each other, only happiness is playing there. That is a beauty of the wild; that is the beauty of the breeze.
Here we want all of us to pay attention to one thing. When you are in a state of nothingness, you will do an action. Action against nothingness is never an anti-action. It always contains truth in itself. You have to be ready to travel through truth. That is the authority. It is always simple, without deceit. Such actions never create any karma within you.
Karma means action, deed, significant action. We have to understand very well that not all actions create karma. Buddha took 42 years to attain enlightenment. During that time, Buddha was not just sitting under the Bodhi tree. He was doing more than a thousand actions for enlightenment. But Buddha was not creating karma anywhere. No matter what one does or is trying to do for the sake of Brahman, no karma is created there. Since karma is not created, you will be free there.
Just imagine what this action would be like. A bird in the sky is flying with its beautiful wings spread in joy. But it does not leave any footprints in the sky of its flight. A person who lives in the sky of nothingness does not leave any footprints, any karma, or anything left behind. This is because all his activities are complete. Moreover, when that activity is complete, it is finished, completed. A completed activity does not hang around you like clouds. Complete activities shine like a clear sky. When your activities are not complete, your karmas hang around you like clouds.
Buddha says that when an action comes from nothingness, it never creates karma. Then that action is so complete that the circle of that action is complete and finished. Then you never look back on that action. You should not look back. When an action is complete, it is finished. That is, the whole thing has been achieved. Learn to always act from nothingness, my dears. Let each of your actions be complete, both physically and mentally.
Only when an action is completely complete, will you be completely liberated from it. Just as a snake sheds its old skin after a certain period of time, so will your complete actions be. The snake never seeks its old skin. Similarly, the results of complete actions will be the same. Everyone should understand very well that it is your incomplete actions that become karma, not complete actions.
For this, we need to know a little about the level of awareness that we should have within ourselves. There are three levels of awareness.
1. Awareness of the self,
2. Awareness of the world,
3. Awareness of the imagination that intervenes between the self and the world
First, we must accept that this self-centeredness of ‘I’ is not a reality. It is simply a thought, nothing more. When you are born, you are not born with this self-centeredness; you do not take it with you when you leave this earth. It is never a part of your consciousness.
You cannot become complete without this ‘I’ self-centeredness disappearing. The wise say that there are seven gates through which this ‘I’ functions. They are
1. The development of a distinct idea that there is something inside me
2. Self-identification
3. Self-esteem
4. Self-expansion
5. Having a self-concept
6. Life is the rational self
7. Work for merit, the goal of life, and being ambitious
The reason why we have mentioned these seven gates here is that the ego of ‘I’ keeps gaining strength through these seven gates. If these gates remain unblocked, this ego of ‘I’ will continue to grow uncontrollably. If we understand this correctly, we can expel our ‘I’ feeling, our ego, from our body through these seven gates. When this ego of ‘I’ leaves our body, observe it carefully and finally, at some point, shake hands and say, “Go away, ego of ‘I’” and let it go.
Okay, shall we also say goodbye?
From the Brahmanical Golden Assembly Gurukul
Your Rudra Shivata, Brahmanical Golden Assembly Gurukul, Salem.
May all beings live happily!
Tiruchirambalam!!
