7 January 2015 Morning Message Satsang Discourse from Bhagwan Sri Sri Sri Paramahamsa Nithyananda Swamiji Today, Nithyananda Brahmotsavam fourth day. All the Saptamoorthis are giving darshan today, the darshan of Kailasa! Ganesha, Kartikaya, Surya and Swamiji’s moorthi, and Nithyanandeshwara, Nithyanandeshwari, Nithyananda and Meenakshi and Venkateshwara with Sridevi and Bhoodevi, all the Saptamoorthis, giving the darshan as they are in the Kailasa. In Vedic tradition, six deities worshipped as the direct representation of cosmos: Ganesha, Subramanya, Surya, Shiva, Devi and Vishnu. And, Guru, your own Guru. So these are the seven major sampradayas in Vedic tradition. Six Sampradayas worshipping the six Gods, and seventh sampradaya, worshipping your own Guru. This six Sampradayas worshipping is called Shanmata. The Vedic tradition is the totality of this Shanmata, all the six Gods are worshipped as the representation of the Supreme Cosmos. See, like Mahadeva is worshipped as embodiment of all Gods and Goddesses, Ganesha, the Ganesha Purana says Ganesha created Brahma Rudra, and He is Brahmanda, the whole cosmos is in His belly. Same way Subramanya Brahmanya declares Him as superior, and Devi Ba as superior; Vishnu as superiors, same way, Guru Geeta declares Guru as superior, and Surya Purana, there are descriptions of Surya, and in Brahmanda Purana, describes Surya as everything. Typically these six Gods and Guru are worshipped as a supreme representation of the Cosmos, all the 7 are worshipped as the Poorna Brahman in the Vedic tradition. If you are a follower of any one of these seven, you are a follower of Vedic tradition, you are a Hindu. This wide variety provides choice, please understand. As I said, the choice is not because of confusion, but because of intelligence. But because of possibilities, looking at the possibilities. Let’s enter into today’s satsang, Upanishads. Upanishad. Still I feel I have not introduced 80% of what I wanted to say about Upanishads. Today I am going to look at Upanishads from various masters views, eastern and western. In the modern day, teachers, professors, translators, historians, they were all shocked to see Upanishads. Some accepted the greatness and praised; some tried to distort, reduce; some tried to say these are all written very recently, very recently, copying the theories from western spiritual books- no, some tried to say that! When something extraordinary, mind blowing, is in front of you, either mind surrenders, bows down to it’s glory and enjoys it’s presence and dissolves into it, or, tries to deny it’s existence to ascertain, tries to deny it’s existence to ascertain, to assert. So understand, Upanishads are too big, just by reading and understanding, it defines the sacred understandings, sacred sentiments, sacredness of your existence, please understand. There are some books which can refine your understanding, refine your sacred sentiments, but only Upanishads can refine your understanding, sentiments and your sacred beingness. Beingness means experiencing liberation as your existence of the future, present and past. Liberation as your future, present and past. Liberation as your future, present and past. Refining your being, please understand, the understandings which becomes part of your being, which stays in your being as cognition, which is a powerful existential... (buffering) ...that is one of the very fine, subtle, sacred experience you having about you. And same way, if you have that feeling connection “whenever I call upon my God or Guru, immediately He responds to me, He is available to me,” if you have that as a part of you, please understand, these are not myths or beliefs, no, these are more solid, more real than the so-called reality you are perceiving around you. If you feel the moment you pray, you call, your ishta or guru, ishtadevata or guru immediately responds, He is available to you, that is the most subtle sacred sentiment, and, ultimately, “I know I am going to be enlightened and relax into the cosmos, no question of suffering in the birth and death cycle,” sometimes people get this very strongly into them, it is not faith. Faith is which comes up and goes down along with the sun moon cycle. Anything comes up and down with the sun moon cycle is faith. But there are some things in you sun moon cycle cannot change; see, in the morning you feel “yes yes yes everything is great,” but evening “no,” that is faith. Poornima you feel everything is great, but moon fades, no, then it is faith. Which comes and goes with sun and moon cycle is faith. But sometimes, beyond this coming and going, certain understandings becomes part of your bio memory, it is just there forever. Through thick and thin, those things only I am saying, subtle sacred sentiments, understandings, and the truth of the being. Listen. Sacred sentiment. Truth of the being. And the sacred understandings does not change based on the sun and moon coming and going. If you have the understanding intellectually “anyhow, all this is going to dissolve into from where it came, that’s all, whether I had 2000 or 1000 acres and it is all dissolving, what matters?,” if this understanding does not change by the sun and moon coming and going, it is called Jnana. Sacred knowledge. Same way, “how much ever I have SDHD about me, self doubt, self hatred, self denial, the source from which I happened cannot have denial towards me. So if the source, today or tomorrow, I have to dissolve in Him only, He only has to protect me, dissolve myself into Him, so He is the ultimate.” If this feeling connection happens in you which does not change by sun and the moon coming and going, I call this as sacred sentiment, bhakti. And, being, “whether I feel now bound or liberated, ultimately I can never be bound, because I am the reflection of the Cosmos, neither Cosmos nor reflection can be bound; not only can you not bind the sun, sun’s reflection in the water, can you bind it? You can bind the water into the pot, but not the reflection.” If you have this understanding in your very core being, which does not come and go with the sun and the moon, up and down, I call this “Vignjana,” sacred cognition, cosmic cognition. Some books can awaken jnana in you. Some books can awaken bhakti in you. But only Upanishads can awaken Jnana, Bhakti and Vignana, all the three, in you. Upanishads, only Upanishads are capable of all the three in you; only Upanishads are capable of awakening all the three in you completely. As I said, it’s a gift of Ganga Mata and Saraswathi Mata. Between the Saraswathi and Ganga, in that valley, the civilization happened, the civilization which does not need to wage wars, defend, does not have enmity or possessiveness, which never bothered about the outer world or it’s comforts, I don’t want to say our ancestors are ignorant about the outer world, no- they did not bother. That great civilization which gave the tremendous gifts naturally by fulfilling all the needs, in that space, in that space, Upanishads have happened. Upanishads have happened in that space. Understand, the most important, ultimate, wealth you can accumulate in your life, important, ultimate, wealth you can accumulate in your life, is sacred knowledge, sacred sentiment, sacred cognition. Jnana, sacred knowledge, Bhakty, sacred sentiment, Vignana, sacred cognition. Jnana, Bhakti, Vijnana. Understand, the cognition you need to have to experience Upanishads is just Openness, nothing else, the Jnana, Bhakti, Vijnana, all the three can happen in you just by receiving it openly. That’s all, that’s all, that’s all. With this, (buffered past Swamiji’s blessing.)
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