Thursday, May 28, 2015

The SELF, the EGO AND the NEW EARTH by Atman Nityananda


The SELF, the EGO AND the NEW EARTH
by Atman Nityananda
That which is perfect ( Self, Atman, Brahman, God, Spirit etc.) is eternal, indestructible, timeless, formless, self-luminous, self-existent, peace, freedom and bliss without limits.

All egoic expressions are an imperfection total. It is a collective disease which nowadays has been developed excessively. That’s why humanity is moving quickly towards its destruction and will disappear very soon by nuclear missiles, earthquakes, floods and the immersion of great parts of the continents into the oceans.

Only those who will dissolve a great part of the ego will survive this catastrophe and will be the nucleus of the new humanity and the new great civilization on earth. This New Earth will be an era of peace, unity and fraternity.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

THE REAL JOY by Atman Nityananda





THE REAL JOY
by Atman Nityananda
 
While the ego remains in our psyche, to enjoy life as remains just a wish but not a reality.

The ego, of which the main aspect is lust and desire for pleasure and its nature is rajasotamásic, does not allow us to have a clear perception and a natural enjoyment of life.

The ego, distorts every experience and projects in them his expectations, beliefs, preferences, passion, likes and dislikes etc.

Only a pure sattvic mind free from the ‘Iness and ‘Mineness, lust and passion can enjoy life and be free from suffering.


We can transform and purify the mind by being constantly alert and self-conscious, by continuous spiritual practice (mantras, kirtan, prayers, pranayama, meditation, self-enquiry etc.) and by focusing the mind within the heart.

It is possible to establish our mind in its source within and enjoy the atman-ananda by dedicating our live to truth, by abandoning willingly the sensual pleasures, the harmful habits and by leading a sattvic life-style and applying systematically a daily program of spiritual practices.


WHAT IS MEDITATION - Atman Nityananda

My beloved teacher, Shri Haidakhan Bhole Baba (Babaji), in deep meditation.
 WHAT IS MEDITATION

Meditation is the effortless absorption of the mind in the inner space of silence.

Meditation is the spontaneous absorption of the mind in its source which is the silent self-conscious emptiness.

True meditation is not an action but it is Being yourself in the deepest sense.

When we meditate deeply comes a point where we do not perceive or concentrate in the silence but we are the silence itself.

For a pure-sattvic mind meditation is easy, natural and spontaneous but for a impure- rajasotamásic mind is exceedingly difficult, it is rarely achieved and for a short tim.

The mind that is free from ego is spontaneously absorbed in the luminous silence. But to free our mind from the ego and to achieve this state of effortless meditation, it takes a lot of practice for a long time.

He who wants to live wholeheartedly the peace and the joy of Being there is no doubt he will achieve it in this very life.



Peace, Love, Harmony

MEDITATION on peace, love and light- Atman Nityananda

MEDITATION

Oooommm, Oooommm, Oooommm.

I am peace, love and light,
Everything is peace, love and light,
Only peace, love and light exist

Ooomm Peace, Ooomm Love, Ooomm light
Ooommmmmm, Ooommmmmm, Ooommmmmm

We feel that we are light, peace and love when we say these words and at the same time we are aware of the silent space within.
After repeating this formula we keep silence just for a while before repeat them again.
We do this meditation for 15 to 20 minutes and after that for 10 minutes we remain aware on the silent space within. According our capacity and time we can prolong the time of meditation, (both parts).
If thoughts arise we can repeat mentally for sometimes slowly only the Om, paying attention to the sound and also to the space where Om disappears.
It is important to repeat these statements from time to time throughout the day.

Saturday, May 23, 2015

PLEASURE is SUFFERING by Atman Nityananda



PLEASURE is SUFFERING 
by Atman Nityananda

Someone may ask: can I experience pleasure without experiencing suffering?
The answer is definitely No! It is impossible to avoid the psychological suffering while you want to experience pleasure. Possibly you can reduce the suffering somehow but you cannot avoid it.

You may ask why not?

Simply because the suffering that usually takes the form of anger, depression, hatred, anxiety, fear, disappointment, envy, greed, impatience, attachment, addition, aversion, disgust, etc. is a product of desire. All forms of suffering (some of them mentioned above) are modifications of the of desire- energy. The desire itself is transformed as anger, hatred, disappointment etc. under certain circumstances. Thus while the desire- energy remains in us suffering it is inevitable.

Then you may ask: If we eliminate desire can we enjoy objects?

IMPORTANT NOTE: I give to the words and pleasure and enjoyment a distinct meaning of what is given to them by the majority.
Enjoyment is the natural pleasant sensation that we experience while our mind comes into contact through senses with an external object.
Pleasure is a hedonistic sensation which is produced by the lust-energy (which is only a modification of sexual energy) and is crystallized in our vital body and manas.
 
To enjoy the sense objects such as food the desire or lust it is not necessary. Unlike to experience pleasure the desire or lust-energy is indispensable. And that happens because pleasure, lust and desire are the same energy. The desire-energy which like a strong vital-impulse drives us toward an object transforms itself as pleasure at the time we are experiencing the object.
Thus the pleasure we experience when we are in contact with an object has nothing to do with the object. It's just a projection of lust-energy on the object. This lust-energy is only modified and crystallized sexual energy in our energy field and Manas (external part of the mind in Sanskrit).

The lust-energy operates in us continuously and modifies itself in the twinkling of an eye as the impulse of desire, as pleasure and passion, like, dislike, attraction, repulsion or aversion and as all egoic defects such as anger, fear, impatience, depression, frustration, discontent, uneasiness, envy, greed, etc.
This happen in the same way the water can take the form of water, ice, snow, steam, humidity, clouds, mist etc.

Let’s take the food and sexuality as examples because these two are the objects that lust or desire-energy is expressed mostly  

The enjoyment of the food and the experience of pleasure through food are two completely different things.
When we experience a food-object we can have:
Only enjoyment
Enjoyment and pleasure
Neither enjoyment neither pleasure

We can enjoy our food (have pleasant sensations) although it has certain limits and this enjoyment it is related to the qualities of the food and the nature and the conditioning of the mind. We cannot enjoy the same food when for example we are sick.

We can also enjoy the object and at the same time to experience pleasure (this is the common experience of the majority) which is a sensation created by the lust-energy which is crystallized in ourselves and which is activated every so according its strength and the conditioning of the mind. In the experience of pleasure are involved the identification, the projection, the imagination, the memory of previous experiences, the mental-sensory-vital conditioning or patterns stored in the subconscious.

The same happens with sexuality. We can only enjoy the sexual energy or we can have both at the same time, the enjoyment of sexual energy and the experience of pleasure.
Attention! In the case of sexuality we can say that the enjoyment is identical with the pleasure. The sexual energy is the only one which produces a real pleasure experience.
But I want to distinguish with emphasis the natural sexual pleasure from the distorted pleasure which is a product of the lust-energy. In this distorted experience of pleasure created by the lust are involved the mental and vital processes of identification, projection, imagination, memory etc.
The sexual dreams shows us that the distorted sexual pleasure is a product of the lust-energy and not an experience created by the actual contact of the physical bodies. When this sexual-lust energy is not satisfied during the waking state then produces sexual dreams in order to produce an experience of imagined pleasure using the capacities of the mind. Due to the fact that the astral body is connected with the physical body this imagined sexual pleasure produces a physical orgasmic experience (wet dreams). He who has eliminated the lust has not any more sexual or wet dreams.

This unnatural pleasure created by the lust-energy is the cause of our bondage and suffering. This lust-energy is the original cause of attachments, addictions, passions, mental confusion, mental dullness lack of discernment, mental and emotional diseases, and the mother of all egoic defects such as anger, hatred, fear, impatience, depression, jealousy, avarice, greed, etc.
Conclusion:
Psychological pleasure and pain are two sides of the same coin, always they go together and can not have one without the other.

Peace, Love, harmony