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પર્યુષણ જૈનોને ધર્મનો એટેક આવવાની ઋતુ છે. એ અઠાઈ ઘરથી સંવત્સરી સુધીના દિવસોમાં જૈન જીવ સંસારમાંથી છટકી શકે છે, દુકાન કે ધંધો બંધ કરી દે છે અથવા બેસણું કે એકાસણું કરી નાખે છે અથવા માત્ર મિચ્છામિદુક્કડં બોલી લે છે અથવા ઉપાશ્રયમાં જ રહી જાય છે.

જૈન ધર્મ કે જૈન દર્શન વિશ્ર્વનાં મહાન તત્ત્વજ્ઞાનોમાં સ્થાન પામે છે. જૈન દર્શને વિશ્ર્વને ઘણું આપ્યું છે. ભારતવર્ષમાં જૈન વિચારધારાનું યોગદાન અમીટ છે: અહિંસા, વ્યાકરણ, દસમીથી બારમી સદી સુધીનું ભારતભરમાં પ્રકટેલું અદ્વિતીય જૈન શિલ્પસ્થાપત્ય, ગણિત, દેહદમન વિશેના આત્યંતિક વિચારો, ઉપવાસ, કૈવલ્ય, નવકારમંત્ર, સંથારો. આ યોગદાન ઈતિહાસની દૃષ્ટિએ અઢી હજાર વર્ષ જૂનું છે.

જૈન માન્યતા પ્રમાણે સહસ્ત્રો, ખર્વો, નિખર્વો વર્ષોનું યોગદાન છે. મને જૈન ધર્મમાં સંથારો એક અદ્ભુત વિચાર લાગ્યો છે, જ્યારે માણસ ઈશ્ર્વર બની જાય છે. હું મારી ઈચ્છા પ્રમાણે મારા શરીરને હોલવીને દેહ છોડી દઉં છું. જૈનોની જીવવાની રીતનું મને બહુ આકર્ષણ નથી, પણ મરવાની રીત મહાન છે. વિશ્ર્વના કોઈ ધર્મમાં આ નથી.

સંથારા પછીનો બીજો વિચાર મિચ્છામિદુક્કડંનો છે, મિથ્યા મે દુષ્કૃત્યમ્, ‘ભૂલો માટે ક્ષમાયાચના.’ ભાવકની ભાષામાં - મનથી, વચનથી, કાયાથી - અને વકીલની ભાષામાં - જાણ્યે કે અજાણ્યે... અમે સર્વ જીવોને ખમાવીએ છીએ એમ તમને પણ ખમાવીએ છીએ.

જૈન દર્શનનું મારે માટે એક આકર્ષણ છે: શબ્દો. આટલા તલસ્પર્શી, સ્પષ્ટઅર્થી, સૂક્ષ્મતમ્ શબ્દો અન્ય ધર્મદર્શનોમાં મને મળ્યા નથી. વિશેષણો અને સુપરલેટિવ્ઝની એક ભવ્યતા છે. પર્યુષણ ‘પર્વાધિરાજ’ છે, હેમચંદ્રાચાર્ય ‘કલિકાલસર્વજ્ઞ’ છે. આવા વિશેષતાસ્થાપક શબ્દો જૈન દર્શનનો જ ભાગ છે.

ગુજરાતી ભાષાને જૈનોએ કેવી રીતે સમૃદ્ધ બનાવી છે? એક પુસ્તકના આરંભમાં લખ્યું છે. દ્રવ્યસહાયક: યોગનિષ્ઠ આચાર્યશ્રી વિજયકેસરસૂરીશ્ર્વરજીનાં આજ્ઞાનુયાયિની પ્રવર્તિની સાધ્વી શ્રી ચંપાશ્રીજી મહારાજનાં શિષ્યા પરમવિનેય સાધ્વી શ્રી પ્રભાશ્રીજી મહારાજના શિષ્યા પરમવિનેય સાધ્વી શ્રી કુમુદશ્રીજીના સદુપદેશથી... પછી એ પુસ્તક માટે દ્રવ્ય સહાય કરનાર વ્યક્તિનું નામ આવે છે!

આજે જૈન વિશેષણકોશ ખોટા માણસો માટે ખોટી રીતે વપરાઈ રહ્યો છે. જૈન દર્શને ગુજરાતીમાં અને ભારતવર્ષની અન્ય ભાષાઓમાં શબ્દોનું જે અશ્ર્વમેઘી સામ્રાજ્ય પાથર્યું છે એની તુલના શક્ય નથી. અને શબ્દો કેટલા વિવિધઅર્થી છે, કેટલા સૂક્ષ્મઅર્થી છે. સ્વર એટલે જેનો ઉચ્ચાર સદા થયા કરે, વ્યંજન એટલે જેની અંદર સ્વર ન હોય, એટલે એનો ઉચ્ચાર પૂર્ણ ન થઈ શકે, શરીર વ્યંજન છે, આત્મા એનો સ્વર છે, સ્વર વિનાનો વ્યંજન ખોડો લેખાય છે એમ આત્મા વગરનું શરીર અનિત્ય છે, અશાશ્ર્વત છે.

જૈન દર્શનમાં દરેક શબ્દની ચોક્કસ ક્રિયા છે. ચોક્કસ અર્થ છે. વંદન મસ્તકથી થાય છે, પણ નમન મસ્તક અને હૃદય બંનેથી થાય છે. શબ્દ એ ચકમક છે, અર્થ એ ફલક છે, ચકમક ફલક સાથે ઘસાય છે ત્યારે તણખો પ્રકટે છે, જે ભાવ છે. ભાવરૂપ પ્રકાશ મનુષ્યને યથાર્થ જ્ઞાન કરાવે છે.

જૈન દર્શન શબ્દ સુધી આવીને અટકી શકતું નથી. વૃક્ષની જેમ, દરેક શબ્દને મૂળ છે, શાખા અને પ્રશાખા છે. ફૂલ ફૂલે છે પછી ફળ ફળે છે. જ્ઞાનપ્રાપ્તિ શ્રદ્ધાનો વિષય છે. શ્રદ્ધાની વ્યાખ્યા અપાઈ છે: શાસ્ત્રની અને ગુરુવચનની સત્યબુદ્ધિથી નિશ્ર્ચયપૂર્વ ધારણ કરવાની સ્થિતિ. જૈન દર્શનમાં આત્મવિકાસનાં બે અંગો છે; પુણ્ય અને નિર્જરા. પુણ્યથી સાધનો પ્રાપ્ત થાય છે, પણ આ સાધનો દ્વારા પતિત ન થતાં આત્મવિકાસને માર્ગે જવાય એ નિર્જરા કહેવાય છે.

જ્ઞાની ભેદ સમજે છે, જ્ઞાનીને નિર્જરા થાય છે. ભેદ સમજવા એ પણ જ્ઞાન છે: પેય અપેય, કર્તવ્ય અકર્તવ્ય, સેવ્ય અસેવ્ય, હિત અહિત, લોક અલોક, સત્ય અસત્ય, દ્રવ્ય અદ્રવ્ય, કારણ કાર્ય, જ્ઞાન જ્ઞેય, સમ્યક્ અસમ્યક્, સ્વભાવ પરભાવ, જ્ઞાનમાં શ્રદ્ધાનું બહુ મોટું સ્થાન છે.

જ્ઞાનની ભૂમિકાઓ છે: મતિજ્ઞાન, શ્રુતજ્ઞાન, અવધિજ્ઞાન, મન: પર્યાયજ્ઞાન, કેવળજ્ઞાન. જ્ઞાન શુદ્ધ હોય તો સજ્જ્ઞાન કહેવાય. અશુદ્ધ કે વિપર્યાસવાળું હોય તો અજ્ઞાન કહેવાય. મતિજ્ઞાન, શ્રુતજ્ઞાન ને અવધિજ્ઞાન અશુદ્ધ હોય તો મતિ અજ્ઞાન, શ્રુત અજ્ઞાન અને વિભંગજ્ઞાન કહેવાય છે. કેવળજ્ઞાન પછીનો માણસ સર્વજ્ઞ કહેવાય છે. કર્મનાં સંપૂર્ણ આવરણો બળી ગયા પછી એ પ્રાપ્ત થાય છે. ભગવાન પાર્શ્ર્વનાથનો કાળ પ્રાજ્ઞકાળ હતો.

જૈન શબ્દકોશ જેમ જેમ સૂક્ષ્મ બને છે એમ એમ ધર્મ શુદ્ધ દર્શન કે તત્ત્વજ્ઞાન બની જાય છે. અહીં ‘આત્મવીર્યોલ્લાસ’ જેવો શબ્દ છે. ‘શ્રેણિચારણ લબ્ધિ’ નામનો એક શબ્દ છે. એનો અર્થ: અગ્નિની બળતી જ્વાલાઓ ઉપર ચાલે તો પણ અગ્નિના જીવોને પીડા ન ઊપજે એવી ચાલવાની શક્તિ!

એક જૈન શબ્દ કદાચ જૈન દર્શનનું સાચું પ્રતિનિધિત્વ કરે છે. એ શબ્દ છે ‘અનભિગ્રહીક’. એનો અર્થ જરા વિચિત્ર છે: બધા જ ધર્મો સારા છે, બધી જ ફિલસૂફીઓ સરસ છે, સૌને વંદન કરીએ, કોઈની નિંદા ન કરીએ, ઝેર અને અમૃતને એકસમાન ગણીએ. મિથ્યાત્વના પાંચ પ્રકારોમાંનો આ એક પ્રકાર છે...!

જૈન દર્શને જે ઝીણવટથી શબ્દોનો ઉપયોગ કર્યો છે એવો અન્ય કોઈ ધર્મે ભાગ્યે જ કર્યો છે. એક સ્થાનથી બીજે સ્થાને જતા જીવોને દુ:ખ ઉપજાવવાના પ્રકારો ઈરિયાવહિયં સૂત્રમાં વર્ણવ્યાં છે. સામા આવતાં પગથી હણ્યા હોય, ધૂળમાં કે કાદવમાં ઢાંક્યા હોય, જમીન સાથે મસળ્યા હોય, અંદર અંદર એકબીજાનાં શરીર મેળવ્યા હોય, સ્પર્શ કરીને દૂભવ્યા હોય, દુ:ખ દીધાં હોય, મરણતોલ કર્યા હોય, ત્રાસ ઉપજાવ્યો હોય, એક સ્થાનથી બીજે સ્થાને મૂક્યા હોય, પ્રાણરહિત કર્યા હોય, એ સંબંધી મને પાપ લાગ્યું હોય તો એ પાપ મિથ્યા થાઓ-

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Integrity,Authenticity,Responsibility,Enriching with Enlightenment - by Paramahamsa Nithyananda

• Integrity:
• Integrity means having completion with oneself,integrity in words you utter to yourself and others,integrity in thinking and integrity in actions.Whatever commitments one gives must be followed to completion to avoid spiritual ‘hangover’.If a promise is made and circumstances interfere with keeping it,the promiser must give back the commitment consciously and take responsibility for not achieving the desired result.Then the process is complete.
• Integrity in thinking is more important than integrity with words. Integrity with words brings lot of awareness to the words you utter. Integrity in thinking brings tremendous awareness to your thinking. When tremendous awareness comes to your thinking two things happen 1) Your thinking reduces and 2) What ever you are thinking becomes creativity because every time you complete one statement one sentence thinking you will also verify whether that sentence is aligned to your life’s existence,purpose.When you infuse integrity into your thinking when you complete a thought you will be very clear will I be able to honour this,commitment to me.If you can’t at least you will tell yourself,No I am not going to honour this commitment to myself and completing,please leave me, relieve me! That is what conscious unclutching.So you will make less commitment and more completement.You will commit less complete more.You will be very clear about every commitment you make. When you are very clear about every commitment you make,that commitment owns awareness and integrity opens the path to fulfillment.
• The moment even the last person this part of the Sanga declares his integrity with the words he gives to others and the words he gives to himself I will feel as a mission and complete.As a mission the responsibility lies with you.It is you who need to give me the last fulfillment.So my fulfillment is in your hands.
• Do not believe in Past records.Believe only in Possibility.All great things are created by people who believe in possibility.The man who perceives the possibility is a Theist, creator.Man who constantly looks at the past record is Atheist.Integrity is life.It is life breathe.Live with integrity.
• Swapoornatwa means completion of yourself.Try this any of you have knee pain,back pain,cant sit straight,cant sit in vajrasana,do this swapoornatwa,sitting with  mirror and completing with you.Next  day you will sit with out pain.Because every pain you carry inside you as  different parts of your body is nothing but not completing with you.Let me describe the technique.Comfortably be seated in front of the mirror.Have deep eye to eye contact with the body and reflection.Please understand both put together is you.I will call as Kaya and Chaya,both put together is you.Let the kaya and chaya have a deep eye to eye contact.The moment you have deep eye to eye contact.First thing you will have is ripples.You are waiting to cry yourself.You are waiting to cuddle and cry yourself. Cuddle yourself and cry yourself for so many things you did to you or others did to you.The injustifications you did to you and others did to you ,waiting to cuddle with you and cry.Cuddle your chaya ,hold your chaya and cry.Nothing wrong.Complete.Just this Swapoornatwa eases so much makes the miracle space available in you.Ananda Ghanda is what I call miracle space..Complete, complete it with yourself.Let you talk to your shadow , your chaya .You will be surprised ,your shadow will start talking to you., advise you..Listen to you.Will relive you from fear, relive you from many of your lust patterns , relive you from many of your attention need , will relive you from many of your quilts.
• The next process for all of you is today all the words you uttered to yourself with integrity and all the words you said to others you will do with integrity..This is today's assignment.Look into your life and identify at least 10 areas of life  you have given your word, you have given promise to fulfil some thing , you might have fulfilled or you might not have fulfilled , that is a different thing.First pen down , you gave the word , second pen down the areas , you did not fulfil the word, third  pen down how you can repair all those areas and restore your word.

• Authenticity:
• The Ahamgara,the Identity you project to the outer world is one extreme,one pillar,the identity you feel as you is one pillar, Mamahara.You oscillating between this two is inauthenticity which is your life.Authenticity is Courage to face when your identity melts down and courage to stand up when your identity upgrades itself. When you do not have courage you hold on to the old,past and never allow the natural evolution.
• Authenticity means keeping the ahamkaara, mamakaara, anyaakaara in tune being integrated.Being established and respond to life from ahamkaara what you believe as you,mamakaara what you project yourself to others,anyakaara what others believe as you which is independent of what you project as you.You are responsible even for anyaakaara.Only when you feel responsible even for what others hold you which is independent of your projection or your feeling.You may feel how can I be responsible for how others perceive me? Only when you feel responsible, you will feel powerful, empowered, responsible.You will not feel powerless. Life cannot bring any surprises to you.Feel responsible and live with integrity with all the three – ahamkaara, mamakaara, anyakaara.Take responsibility even for anyakaara so that we can solve it, we can align it. We can complete it. We can fulfil it.
• Mamakara is how one perceives oneself; ahamkara is how others perceive one; annyakara describes what others expect from one, based on one’s self-expression. It is the obligation of every human being to extend himself to meet the expectations of all he encounters and to willingly take up the responsibility of fulfilling those expectations. Always meeting the peak of one’s possibility in life completes the annyakara.
• My message on this 12/12/12 to the humanity is “Have courage, Authenticity to face when your identity which you are carrying inside you-Mamahara- melts down,when that gets upgraded,when that evolves have authentic courage to face it.Because from today the number of thoughts is going to drop,straight away that is going to melt the identity you are carrying inside you as you,the Mamahara is going to melt understand when the thoughts are dropping the first impact is going to be the melting of Mamahara not Ahamgara.Because Ahamgara is based on your actions. Mamahara is based on your thoughts.There is going to be vacuum in your Mamahara.If you face it you will become enlightened.If not you will become depressed.The deep depression or the highest enlightenment is your choice.
• Each aacharya, each ashramite, each one of my disciple, organizer, Satsaghi, samaaji, follower, devotee wherever you stand, what ever you do, your Ahamkara should tell, make a statement to everybody , I am possibility for Co-existence. If your Ahamkara says, I am the top, you are not the possibility to Co-existence, if your Ahamkara says I am the bottom, you are not the possibility for co-existence. Who will want to live with the fool.Understand, when ever you deal with people see whether he is standing on Mamakara or Ahamkara or Anyaakara.Because there are three personalities in each one of you.Handle him based on that.Nachiketha takes the responsibility even for his Father's inauthenticity and he doesn't want Father to fall out of integrity also.

• Responsibility:
• Only with Responsibility you become a soul,you become a Being. What enters into your body when you come out of your mothers womb is Prana,energy.What enters into you when you take responsibility is Atma,Soul.If you take Responsibility for yourself you become man.If you take Responsibility for a family you become Head of the family.If you take the Responsibility for a Team you become a leader of the Team.When you take Responsibility for others you become an Incarnation.When you take the Responsibility the way you expand completely disconnects you from the source you happened,that is what is Sanyas.
• Seed is a seed is a seed is Dharma,when the seed becomes tree it is the Natural Growth Law,that is what I call Responsibility.When the seed becomes tree what is the end it goes on becoming seeds that is what is Moksha.Bring Integrity and Authenticity to you and take Responsibility to multiply you.That’s all is the essence of Enlightenment.

• Enriching with Enlightenment : 
• This year's mahavakya , the core message with which we all work is Enriching with Enlightenment.Enriching with Enlightenment  has many layers of meaning.Enriching with enlightenment means enrich yourself with these great four truths of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching means not giving up on people.
• Enriching others with these four things integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching by not giving up.Enrich them so that they also enrich others.Let the whole universe be enriched with enlightenment.This four words  are the keys how to  enrich enlightenment. First word - Integrity 2nd -Authenticity , 3rd- Responsibility  4th- Enriching.First integrity in the words and thoughts means integrity in the words you utter to others and to yourself,stand by the word.Bring authenticity in the way you hold yourself for others  and the way you hold yourself for others to perceive you to hold yourself.Responsibility , 3rd word.Feeling responsible for every thing happening.Responsibility empowers you. Every time a problem is brought to me , when I take responsibility, I feel empowered.I am responsible for every thing happening in and around me.It is a very powerful strategy for victory and success. This is the strategy.Feel empowered  and responsible.
• Life happens to you out side.Please understand  life  happens to you with others not you. Inspiration is life.Dont give up on people,this is the first step to feel responsibility.Dont give up on people,people are life.People around you are life happening to you.If you give up on them , you are giving up on life.
• The damaru of Shiva is the symbol of not giving up on people.Fire is integrity and authenticity,Trishul is enriching.Dont give up on people. Enrich,enrich people., enrich people.If you give up people, you will give up on your self, you will loose your confidence. You will give up on yourself. Dont give up on people.Dont give up on others. Not giving up on people is life.That is maths of  your life.The number of  people you have given up  is  a loss  and the number of people have not given up is  gain.This is the profit and loss account statement,find out which list you are in.Go on, enrich every body with enlightenment.Enrich yourself continuously with enlightenment.
• Bring integrity into your words which you utter to others and to yourself.Bring authenticity to the way you hold yourself for your self and the way you hold yourself for others to experience yourself. Bring responsibility in your inner space for every happening,every thing.Go on enriching others ,enriching every one,don’t give up on people.
• Drop the past records.Past track never gives you the confidence the possibility.Unless you see the possibility ,life does not flow in you. Excitement does not happen in you.If you are seeing the past records there will be a deep sorrow.Always past records bring deep sorrow,because past records by nature is death.Possibility by nature is life.Forget about the past records.Look at the possibility.Who ever interested in life should look at the possibility not the past record. Past record is neither as bad as you remember nor worthy of remembrance being remembered.

• Complete the complications of the conflicts :
• If you are not serving others you are harming - that has to be very clearly internallised. Life happens to you from outside,you may perceive it inside but it happens outside. Please understand if you don’t enrich you will harm,it is the law of nature.You are constantly living with people.Every interaction with your boss either you make him a better boss or a bad boss.Every interaction with your employee either you make him a better employee or a bad employee.Every interaction with your spouse either you make a better spouse or a bad spouse.First everyone need to learn Authenticity and Integrity, learn to commit to life,when you commit ‘I will make difference to others’ that is the way the difference is going to happen in your life.Only by contributing to others life by enriching others life you complete the complications of conflicts otherwise you go on complicate the conflicts.The essence is contributing to others life is the only way to complete the complications of conflicts.

• Negotiation with Natural Laws :
• Whole life is negotiation.If you know how to negotiate with the Natural laws I tell you, you will be successful in all negotiations in your life.Everything,every conversation is negotiation.Every inhaling and exhaling is your negotiation with natural prana.Every disease is a failure in negotiation.Every healthy day is a success in negotiation. Everything is negotiation in the life.
• The Fear in you is the representation of Mahakala.If you negotiate with your fear and settled you have settled with Mahakala.Every force you see in you is a representation of Natural Law.The anger you see in you is a representation of a Natural Law.If you can negotiate and come to terms with it you will come to terms with all the natural calamity happening in the planet earth.My Gurukul is nothing but it is the place where I teach how to negotiate with Natural laws before they start their life.Without knowing the negotiation with Natural laws - if you decide to become a celebate, useless; you decide to get married,dangerous; if you decide to live neither this nor that, bored.
• The source for everything is in one seed.When that seed starts expressing in you learn to negotiate with it.What exactly need to be done with negotiation? Be Authentic and Integrated.With Integrity and Authenticity face it.Don’t go on hiding your anger. Hiding your anger is guilt.Hiding your lust is fear.When you can negotiate with the energy which keeps you intact you can negotiate with the energy which keeps the world intact is the essence.

• Integrity:
• Integrity means having completion with oneself,integrity in words you utter to yourself and others,integrity in thinking and integrity in actions.Whatever commitments one gives must be followed to completion to avoid spiritual ‘hangover’.If a promise is made and circumstances interfere with keeping it,the promiser must give back the commitment consciously and take responsibility for not achieving the desired result.Then the process is complete.
• Integrity in thinking is more important than integrity with words. Integrity with words brings lot of awareness to the words you utter. Integrity in thinking brings tremendous awareness to your thinking. When tremendous awareness comes to your thinking two things happen 1) Your thinking reduces and 2) What ever you are thinking becomes creativity because every time you complete one statement one sentence thinking you will also verify whether that sentence is aligned to your life’s existence,purpose.When you infuse integrity into your thinking when you complete a thought you will be very clear will I be able to honour this,commitment to me.If you can’t at least you will tell yourself,No I am not going to honour this commitment to myself and completing,please leave me, relieve me! That is what conscious unclutching.So you will make less commitment and more completement.You will commit less complete more.You will be very clear about every commitment you make. When you are very clear about every commitment you make,that commitment owns awareness and integrity opens the path to fulfillment.
• The moment even the last person this part of the Sanga declares his integrity with the words he gives to others and the words he gives to himself I will feel as a mission and complete.As a mission the responsibility lies with you.It is you who need to give me the last fulfillment.So my fulfillment is in your hands.
• Do not believe in Past records.Believe only in Possibility.All great things are created by people who believe in possibility.The man who perceives the possibility is a Theist, creator.Man who constantly looks at the past record is Atheist.Integrity is life.It is life breathe.Live with integrity.
• Swapoornatwa means completion of yourself.Try this any of you have knee pain,back pain,cant sit straight,cant sit in vajrasana,do this swapoornatwa,sitting with  mirror and completing with you.Next  day you will sit with out pain.Because every pain you carry inside you as  different parts of your body is nothing but not completing with you.Let me describe the technique.Comfortably be seated in front of the mirror.Have deep eye to eye contact with the body and reflection.Please understand both put together is you.I will call as Kaya and Chaya,both put together is you.Let the kaya and chaya have a deep eye to eye contact.The moment you have deep eye to eye contact.First thing you will have is ripples.You are waiting to cry yourself.You are waiting to cuddle and cry yourself. Cuddle yourself and cry yourself for so many things you did to you or others did to you.The injustifications you did to you and others did to you ,waiting to cuddle with you and cry.Cuddle your chaya ,hold your chaya and cry.Nothing wrong.Complete.Just this Swapoornatwa eases so much makes the miracle space available in you.Ananda Ghanda is what I call miracle space..Complete, complete it with yourself.Let you talk to your shadow , your chaya .You will be surprised ,your shadow will start talking to you., advise you..Listen to you.Will relive you from fear, relive you from many of your lust patterns , relive you from many of your attention need , will relive you from many of your quilts.
• The next process for all of you is today all the words you uttered to yourself with integrity and all the words you said to others you will do with integrity..This is today's assignment.Look into your life and identify at least 10 areas of life  you have given your word, you have given promise to fulfil some thing , you might have fulfilled or you might not have fulfilled , that is a different thing.First pen down , you gave the word , second pen down the areas , you did not fulfil the word, third  pen down how you can repair all those areas and restore your word.

• Authenticity:
• The Ahamgara,the Identity you project to the outer world is one extreme,one pillar,the identity you feel as you is one pillar, Mamahara.You oscillating between this two is inauthenticity which is your life.Authenticity is Courage to face when your identity melts down and courage to stand up when your identity upgrades itself. When you do not have courage you hold on to the old,past and never allow the natural evolution.
• Authenticity means keeping the ahamkaara, mamakaara, anyaakaara in tune being integrated.Being established and respond to life from ahamkaara what you believe as you,mamakaara what you project yourself to others,anyakaara what others believe as you which is independent of what you project as you.You are responsible even for anyaakaara.Only when you feel responsible even for what others hold you which is independent of your projection or your feeling.You may feel how can I be responsible for how others perceive me? Only when you feel responsible, you will feel powerful, empowered, responsible.You will not feel powerless. Life cannot bring any surprises to you.Feel responsible and live with integrity with all the three – ahamkaara, mamakaara, anyakaara.Take responsibility even for anyakaara so that we can solve it, we can align it. We can complete it. We can fulfil it.
• Mamakara is how one perceives oneself; ahamkara is how others perceive one; annyakara describes what others expect from one, based on one’s self-expression. It is the obligation of every human being to extend himself to meet the expectations of all he encounters and to willingly take up the responsibility of fulfilling those expectations. Always meeting the peak of one’s possibility in life completes the annyakara.
• My message on this 12/12/12 to the humanity is “Have courage, Authenticity to face when your identity which you are carrying inside you-Mamahara- melts down,when that gets upgraded,when that evolves have authentic courage to face it.Because from today the number of thoughts is going to drop,straight away that is going to melt the identity you are carrying inside you as you,the Mamahara is going to melt understand when the thoughts are dropping the first impact is going to be the melting of Mamahara not Ahamgara.Because Ahamgara is based on your actions. Mamahara is based on your thoughts.There is going to be vacuum in your Mamahara.If you face it you will become enlightened.If not you will become depressed.The deep depression or the highest enlightenment is your choice.
• Each aacharya, each ashramite, each one of my disciple, organizer, Satsaghi, samaaji, follower, devotee wherever you stand, what ever you do, your Ahamkara should tell, make a statement to everybody , I am possibility for Co-existence. If your Ahamkara says, I am the top, you are not the possibility to Co-existence, if your Ahamkara says I am the bottom, you are not the possibility for co-existence. Who will want to live with the fool.Understand, when ever you deal with people see whether he is standing on Mamakara or Ahamkara or Anyaakara.Because there are three personalities in each one of you.Handle him based on that.Nachiketha takes the responsibility even for his Father's inauthenticity and he doesn't want Father to fall out of integrity also.

• Responsibility:
• Only with Responsibility you become a soul,you become a Being. What enters into your body when you come out of your mothers womb is Prana,energy.What enters into you when you take responsibility is Atma,Soul.If you take Responsibility for yourself you become man.If you take Responsibility for a family you become Head of the family.If you take the Responsibility for a Team you become a leader of the Team.When you take Responsibility for others you become an Incarnation.When you take the Responsibility the way you expand completely disconnects you from the source you happened,that is what is Sanyas.
• Seed is a seed is a seed is Dharma,when the seed becomes tree it is the Natural Growth Law,that is what I call Responsibility.When the seed becomes tree what is the end it goes on becoming seeds that is what is Moksha.Bring Integrity and Authenticity to you and take Responsibility to multiply you.That’s all is the essence of Enlightenment.

• Enriching with Enlightenment : 
• This year's mahavakya , the core message with which we all work is Enriching with Enlightenment.Enriching with Enlightenment  has many layers of meaning.Enriching with enlightenment means enrich yourself with these great four truths of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching means not giving up on people.
• Enriching others with these four things integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching by not giving up.Enrich them so that they also enrich others.Let the whole universe be enriched with enlightenment.This four words  are the keys how to  enrich enlightenment. First word - Integrity 2nd -Authenticity , 3rd- Responsibility  4th- Enriching.First integrity in the words and thoughts means integrity in the words you utter to others and to yourself,stand by the word.Bring authenticity in the way you hold yourself for others  and the way you hold yourself for others to perceive you to hold yourself.Responsibility , 3rd word.Feeling responsible for every thing happening.Responsibility empowers you. Every time a problem is brought to me , when I take responsibility, I feel empowered.I am responsible for every thing happening in and around me.It is a very powerful strategy for victory and success. This is the strategy.Feel empowered  and responsible.
• Life happens to you out side.Please understand  life  happens to you with others not you. Inspiration is life.Dont give up on people,this is the first step to feel responsibility.Dont give up on people,people are life.People around you are life happening to you.If you give up on them , you are giving up on life.
• The damaru of Shiva is the symbol of not giving up on people.Fire is integrity and authenticity,Trishul is enriching.Dont give up on people. Enrich,enrich people., enrich people.If you give up people, you will give up on your self, you will loose your confidence. You will give up on yourself. Dont give up on people.Dont give up on others. Not giving up on people is life.That is maths of  your life.The number of  people you have given up  is  a loss  and the number of people have not given up is  gain.This is the profit and loss account statement,find out which list you are in.Go on, enrich every body with enlightenment.Enrich yourself continuously with enlightenment.
• Bring integrity into your words which you utter to others and to yourself.Bring authenticity to the way you hold yourself for your self and the way you hold yourself for others to experience yourself. Bring responsibility in your inner space for every happening,every thing.Go on enriching others ,enriching every one,don’t give up on people.
• Drop the past records.Past track never gives you the confidence the possibility.Unless you see the possibility ,life does not flow in you. Excitement does not happen in you.If you are seeing the past records there will be a deep sorrow.Always past records bring deep sorrow,because past records by nature is death.Possibility by nature is life.Forget about the past records.Look at the possibility.Who ever interested in life should look at the possibility not the past record. Past record is neither as bad as you remember nor worthy of remembrance being remembered.

• Complete the complications of the conflicts :
• If you are not serving others you are harming - that has to be very clearly internallised. Life happens to you from outside,you may perceive it inside but it happens outside. Please understand if you don’t enrich you will harm,it is the law of nature.You are constantly living with people.Every interaction with your boss either you make him a better boss or a bad boss.Every interaction with your employee either you make him a better employee or a bad employee.Every interaction with your spouse either you make a better spouse or a bad spouse.First everyone need to learn Authenticity and Integrity, learn to commit to life,when you commit ‘I will make difference to others’ that is the way the difference is going to happen in your life.Only by contributing to others life by enriching others life you complete the complications of conflicts otherwise you go on complicate the conflicts.The essence is contributing to others life is the only way to complete the complications of conflicts.

• Negotiation with Natural Laws :
• Whole life is negotiation.If you know how to negotiate with the Natural laws I tell you, you will be successful in all negotiations in your life.Everything,every conversation is negotiation.Every inhaling and exhaling is your negotiation with natural prana.Every disease is a failure in negotiation.Every healthy day is a success in negotiation. Everything is negotiation in the life.
• The Fear in you is the representation of Mahakala.If you negotiate with your fear and settled you have settled with Mahakala.Every force you see in you is a representation of Natural Law.The anger you see in you is a representation of a Natural Law.If you can negotiate and come to terms with it you will come to terms with all the natural calamity happening in the planet earth.My Gurukul is nothing but it is the place where I teach how to negotiate with Natural laws before they start their life.Without knowing the negotiation with Natural laws - if you decide to become a celebate, useless; you decide to get married,dangerous; if you decide to live neither this nor that, bored.
• The source for everything is in one seed.When that seed starts expressing in you learn to negotiate with it.What exactly need to be done with negotiation? Be Authentic and Integrated.With Integrity and Authenticity face it.Don’t go on hiding your anger. Hiding your anger is guilt.Hiding your lust is fear.When you can negotiate with the energy which keeps you intact you can negotiate with the energy which keeps the world intact is the essence.

Awareness is the way out of pain --- Paramahansa Nityananda

A man used to complain bitterly about the lunch he brought to work every day. He would open his lunch box and look at its contents and complain. His friends one day finally asked him why he didn't ask his wife to cook something he liked to eat, rather than suffering this way.He replied: What wife? I am not married. I cook my own lunch.

We all live our lives much the same way. Through lack of awareness, we invite pain upon ourselves, complain about it and resort to painkillers. We fail to identify ourselves as the cause of the problem. Responsibility for the pain is always some else's, never our own.

Pain is caused by absence of attention. It can be relieved by our attention. Pain is a negative energy; it does not exist by itself; it is the absence of a positive energy.

How to get over pain?

Next time you have some pain, just try this small exercise: Lie in a dark room with eyes closed and focus upon the area of pain to the exclusion of everything else. As you experience the area of pain, drop the notion of 'Pain' from your mind. Focus all your attention on this spot; soon you will find it shrinking. Concentrate further and you will find that the pain disappears and in its place you experience pleasure; pain and pleasure are the same sensation with different tags. Your awareness of pain causes it to disappear and bring in positive energy of pleasure.

When you feel hurt and angry through other people's actions, you need to watch these emotions without judgement of who is right or wrong. Suppressing these emotions can cause harm to you. Enter the feeling of hurt or anger; just watch it; don't feel sorry for yourself; do not direct the anger against another person. This awareness itself will simply transform the negative emotion to a positive one.

You have no control over when, how and why things happen. All you can do is to choose whether to suffer from it or learn from it. If you use the opportunity of that pain experience to look inside you, you will discover that you are the cause, and that only you can be the solution.

Awareness is the way out of pain and suffering. Suffering is important in life for growth. But when you understand suffering, you will realise how unnecessary it is and you grow!Be Blissful!

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Be Careful Of What You Wish For

Hari goes to a bar and orders drinks for everyone around. He has a great time with everyone backslapping him and telling him what a great guy he is. As he is about to leave, the bartender gives him the bill. Rattled, Hari says, I only ordered the drinks. I didn"t order the bill. Most of us live our life like Hari, just as foolishly, just as brainlessly. We have no recollection of asking for the bill as we go about acquisitions and expectations of acquisitions. When the bill does finally arrive we are startled, and depressed as this is not part of our expectation. There is a saying: be careful what you wish for, for it may come true. We are driven all our lives by our samskara. These are our unfulfilled desires that are deeply embedded in our unconscious mind. Most of the time, we are not even aware that these samskara exist. However, they are what determine what our decisions will be. They become our will. They drive us into illogical and irrational decisions, even decisions that are harmful to us. When you drink or smoke once in a while you enjoy them. As long as you have the freedom to drop them you enjoy them. When you get addicted to them they enjoy you. Addiction is when you do not enjoy the habit but cannot do without it. You can get addicted to food, TV, newspaper, gossiping, so many things. When you are addicted, food eats you, cigarettes smoke you, and liquor drinks you. When you do not have the freedom you are used; you are not in control however much you believe you are; your desires control you and lead you into a vicious cycle of suffering. Often people tell me that they have good samskara. These memories help them improve their lives. As long as you live in the past you cannot improve your life. You cannot drive forward by looking backwards. Meditation is the path to dissolve and burn your samskaras. Meditation leads you into a no mind state where samskaras cannot exist. Meditation brings you into the present, the here and now, where you are aware of what is buried in your unconscious and have the energy to destroy your samskaras. You become liberated. We can live our life in joy, without the fear of having to pay the bill.

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Shift The Doors Of Perception

All our thoughts are centered on our own ideas of life. We only see what we wish to see. Most often we have already made up our minds about what we wish to see and we see things only how we want them to be. When we meet a person, we form a judgment about the person and then we collect facts in support of our judgment; facts in support are retained, others are rejected. We modify facts of our observation to suit our perception. Our preconceived notions of life distort our actual vision of what life is about. This leads to suffering. Children on the other hand have no fixed ideas about life or how it ought to be. They are therefore full of joy. They never take things for granted; everything is new for them; each sunrise, each tree and each flower. They are spontaneous, living fully in the moment. They see life as it is. A Zen master had to choose his successor. He called all his disciples together and drew a small black dot on a white board. He then asked his disciples to tell him what they saw. Almost all saw only the black dot. One disciple alone said: What I see is a huge expanse of white, in which there is a small black dot. He was chosen as the successor. The disciple chosen as the successor saw the whole picture as it was. The rest saw just the black dot. They saw only the dot because of their preconception. We need to drop all our prejudices of others and ourselves, of events, time and places and live and enjoy life as it is. As long as happiness is bound by time and space, it does not last. Our perceptions limit us or liberate us based on whether we perceive things as they are or as we want them to be. All we need to do is to deal with things as they are. What we need is an internal cognitive shift: from seeing things as we want them to be seen to seeing things as they are, and enjoying life as it is. For this transformation to happen, we need to be in awareness all the time. If we are conscious of our thoughts and actions every moment, we will never slip into forming judgments. Meditation can bring tremendous awareness into us causing the cognitive shift to happen.

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Responsibility is the way to go!

When you live with the attitude that you are responsible for everything, your whole life will change. When you take up responsibility for everything that happens around you, you will start expanding.

Expansion is the only growth; contraction is death. The more responsibility you take up, the more you will expand and grow. You will become a leader.

Most of us wait for the status to descend on us and then take up the responsibility. Be very clear: Only if we take up responsibility, the status will come! People who wait for the status will not take up responsibility even after they get it. They will simply find another reason or excuse, that's all. The person who passes the buck and relaxes will never progress in life.

Responsibility is consciousness. The moment you feel responsible for what is happening around you, that moment the divine energy will rush into you! These are all basic secrets of life that I am giving you.

As long as you are self-centered, you will be nothing more than a blocked bamboo stick that serves only to carry the corpse. When you shed your ego and stand up with responsibility, you will become the hollow bamboo that serves as a flute! Like how the air that enters the flute leaves it as music, the air that enters you will flow as energy! When you work with no feelings of responsibility, you will work and feel like a slave.

When you work with responsibility, your capacity will expand and you will flower and radiate energy. Your worries and sorrows will dissolve and all unfinished work will get finished. Umpteen excuses can be given for dodging responsibility, but they will remain poor excuses.

With responsibility, a new kind of joy will engulf you. You will become a natural leader and life will become a celebration! There is a beautiful story on Buddha: It is said that when Buddha goes to beg, he would appear as a King and the kings who gave him alms would appear as beggars!

Seeming like a beggar or a king is not in the wealth that you hold but in the state that is within you. When you take up responsibility for the entire cosmos, you will expand and look like a leader!

Feeling that you are responsible is the greatest quality you can possess. When you stand up with a sense of responsibility, a new intelligence will awaken in you!

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Ananda yoga – the path of ecstasy!

Nanda means something that can reduce in quantity. Ananda means that which cannot reduce in quantity. Ananda means bliss! It is not joy. Ordinary joy brings suffering with it. Ananda is beyond joy. It comes without a reason. It just is.

Joy is what you feel through your senses, based on an outer object — music, a fragrance, a beautiful sight, physical touch. When you feel joy without sensory inputs, not even inputs of forms of God, just from your inner core, your soul, it is bliss! There needs to be no reason. It simply comes from within. That is ananda. Yoga is not physical exercise or breath control; these are just parts of yoga. Yoga literally means union; the union of the self with the divine; union with the cosmic power. It is the cessation of the mind, to take it beyond the mind, to be one with existence. The blissful technique to unite your self with the divine is ananda yoga. It uses bliss itself to unite.

Ananda yoga is the path of ecstasy, not the path to ecstasy. The very path, the very travel itself is ecstasy. Life has no goal, it has only purpose. It is not something you find at the end, you find it all along the way. Living has a purpose. If life is a goal, it's a rat race. In the rat race, even if you win you are only a rat!

The very living is bliss when you go without a goal; only with the purpose of enjoying the path.

You cannot look at God as a goal. You cannot run towards God. In the inner world, the logic is very different. Goals are not reached by running towards them. Zen masters say: When you stop seeking, you will find it. Seeking makes you tense; it makes you miss your purpose.

Just look at all your guilt, mistakes, and failures; just look with deep acceptance. Even if you cannot accept, accept that you cannot accept. You will then relax; guilt will drop from your mind. If your mind is tense, it can never stop. Only when you relax it can cease.

You have to drop being goal-oriented. If you accept what you are, what is, the mind will lose its roots. Mind and bliss cannot stay together. When mind is, bliss is not.

It is either mind or bliss. So drop your mind and simply decide to walk the path of ecstasy!

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Why we cannot tolerate criticism 

A lady came to me complaining that she is hurt by even small criticisms coming from others. She said she was very sensitive. 
I asked her to stop using that word. I said, 'You are not sensitive. A really sensitive person will be porous; she will allow the words to pass through her. Only arrogant people get hurt. If you are hurt, please understand that you are arrogant. You are strong like a stone, which is why words come ,and hit you.

A sensitive person would have allowed the words pass through her; she will never suffer. Even if someone is deliberately rude, a sensitive person understands where such a person is coming from and is not defensive. 

Suffering is always from arrogance, never from sensitivity. A person who is sensitive will never suffer. A sensitive person will suffer on account of another person in distress, not for oneself. 

You suffer from words when you stop them, when you resist them, when you create your own meaning out of them. When we do not create our own meanings out of words, we do not suffer. We play with words. We always choose nice words to support our ego. We do not say, 'I am hurt because I am arrogant.' We always use polished words such as, 'I am hurt because I am sensitive.' Please don't cheat yourself with words. Let your words be unfiltered by your ego. 

Let me tell you a small story: 

Once, a contractor wanted to donate a sports car to an official. The official refused, saying, "I am an honest person and I cannot think of accepting this gift." The contractor asked him, "In that case how would it be if I sell you this car for Rs 10?' The official replied immediately, 'In that case, I will have two cars!' 

When an untruth is wrapped in gift packing, you forget you have a problem. You accept it without a murmur. However, when truth is presented bare, you do protest. Presented bare, truth hurts; ego cannot tolerate truth easily. 

We are so concerned about politically and socially correct statements, it seems no longer acceptable for anyone to speak the truth. But it seems to be perfectly acceptable to lie in a politically correct manner. 

Ramakrishna says beautifully, 'Let your words and mind be straightened.' Whatever is, let it be offered straight without filtering. Learn to accept truth bare. At least you will know you have a problem that you can solve. 

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Is suffering necessary?

One of the most deeply hidden reasons for suffering is that you may be enjoying it. For example, falling ill can become a source of pleasure if it gets you the attention and care you have been craving.

In the same way as a seed has to rupture before a plant can grow and blossom, intense suffering can rupture your ego and leave you open and vulnerable to transformation. In Mahabharata, there is a beautiful quote by Kunti, the mother of the Pandavas. She prays to Krishna, the enlightened master, 'Oh Krishna! Let pain and suffering come from all sides in my life. They will constantly remind me about You, my Lord.'

Suffering has tremendous potential to integrate and transform us. Start to witness your experiences without judgement. See with clarity where you are suffering at the gross and subtle levels. If you are just aware, the suffering itself can open your eyes to the unreality of suffering. It can teach you how unnecessary it is to suffer at all. This is what I call 'necessary suffering'! Once you learn your lesson through necessary suffering, you will handle suffering in a more mature and beautiful way.

One important thing we need to understand is that while pain might be inevitable, the suffering that comes from the pain is not. For example, if you get hurt, there is definitely pain, but how much you choose to suffer from that pain is really your choice. A small story:

Once a man was seriously injured with multiple fractures and injuries. His friend came to visit him at the hospital. He saw the state of his injured friend and didn't know what to say. So he asked his friend, 'How are you feeling my friend? I guess it must be painful with all those injuries. Do you suffer a lot?' The man replied, 'Not much — only when I laugh.'

It is a question of attitude! Pain is inevitable, but suffering is your choice. Suffering is not a state of life. It is a state of mind. It is not an event in your life. It is your response to an event. Never curse the pain or the person, inflicting the pain on you. Instead, take the opportunity to use it as a blessing, watch objectively, and cut the root of the pain.

Pain can be a great teacher if you allow it to be. If you properly research the cause and effect of pain within you, it can turn out to be the biggest turning point in your life. The Master Bodhidharma says, 'Every suffering is a Buddha-seed.' Suffering can propel you to become a Buddha. He says, feel grateful to suffering and pain because they create the situation for you to search for the truth.

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Each individual is unique

Why exactly do we compare ourselves with others? We compare ourselves because we have never understood ourselves and are not aware of who we are and what we have. It is also because society has conditioned us from our birth to evaluate ourselves based upon others.

Buddha says, 'Nothing exists except in relationship.' Suppose you were the only person on a new planet, how could you compare yourself with anyone? Could you call yourself tall or short, ugly or beautiful, rich or poor, intelligent or dumb? No! When there is no one to compare yourself with, you just are!

Understand, there is no scale to compare you with anybody. Each individual is unique. Can you compare a lion and a horse? Do we ever compare ourselves with flowers or birds or mountains? Then why do we have to compare ourselves with other human beings? Just see nature: the rose plant and the mango tree grow in the same garden and prosper because they use all their energy for their own growth instead of using it to compare themselves with the other.

Comparison leads to jealousy. Comparison is the seed and jealousy is the fruit! We always compare ourselves with others in various fields — looks, wealth, knowledge, name and fame and friends, etc. When we compare ourselves with others we feel that somebody else has something more than what we have and, we get caught in jealousy.

We suffer and constantly fight with others openly or inside ourselves. We are just waiting for someone to hurt us. Don't throw the responsibility of your suffering on the other person. Be very clear, nobody can hurt you without your silent permission.

You are made to believe only by comparison you can grow. No. Through comparison you will grow only to the extent of the person with whom you are comparing yourself, not to your own unique level. The whole spiritual knowledge or experience is nothing but realising you are unique, there is nothing to compare. Comparison is societal. Realising your uniqueness is natural.

Comparison happens because you feel that you are somehow lacking. But you have no idea of your true, unique potential! If you did, you wouldn't spend one second looking outside yourself for answers about how to live a creative, fulfilling life. All the confidence, intelligence, and vibrant energy that you need already exist inside you. You have the potential to live like god on planet earth.

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Life is beyond your logic

Most of us unconsciously believe that life is filled with incidents that are under the control of our logic. But life again and again reminds you of the truth that life is beyond your logic. You are reminded of this fact, especially when some near and dear friend dies or when something unexpected happens.

If you lose your job, suddenly you see that life is not under your control. You wake up to the reality that life is beyond your logic. Then you start seeking the Truth.

Especially if you live in the city, your routine is almost fixed. From morning until night, you know exactly how your day will unfold. You know where you will go, what you will do or not do, and what and when you will eat. Practically, your ego gives an idea, your logic gives you the feeling that your life is under the control of your logic.

That is why whenever some incident happens that is beyond your logic that is not under your control, you are totally shaken. You are not able to handle it. You don't know what to do. Either you fall into depression or you just suffer.

There is an important truth, an ultimate secret that you must understand. Never think things are going smoothly because of you. In spite of you, things are going smoothly! This is one of the important secrets. As long as you believe it is because of you that things are going smoothly, you will be constantly suffering with ego.

Death clearly shows that whatever mind you lived with has no real existence. The moment you experience that there is nothing to be achieved, that the diamonds you are protecting are not diamonds but stones, and that all your valuable possessions in life are mere toys, you will understand the purposelessness of life and a new consciousness starts blossoming in you.

The genuine purpose of life cannot be understood without dropping our ego. Understand the divine purpose of life, the leelas or the Divine play; you will enjoy the drama. If you keep thinking that life has a purpose and wait to achieve something, you will miss life itself.

Life itself is the path and the goal. When you have a goal, you will run; your feet will not touch the ground and you will miss the beauty of Existence or nature. When you drop the goal, the emphasis will be on the path.

The meaning of living is the meaning of life or Existence. Drop the goal and enjoy life.

Meditate on this teaching again and again. The Truth will dawn on you and the nithyananda (bliss) state will flower in you, the state that is the very meaning of life. 

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