You see: As I said earlier, bliss is continuously happening in us. This is the basic Truth. But we continuously stop the flow of bliss, and this is what we experience as misery in our lives. Bliss is not something that you need to get from outside and keep inside yourself. No. It is your inherent nature. When you arrive in this world, you are in a state of bliss. As society conditions you, you become an expert at moving as far away as you can from this bliss and then start searching for ways outside of yourself to attain it.
These few days, we are going to see how to stop the stopping of this bliss that is continuously happening in us. When I say bliss, I don’t mean the ordinary happiness that we feel in our everyday lives. The ordinary happiness that happens in our lives is a result of something that happens outside - some happy occasion, some material benefit, some happy news, some relationship that worked out or something to do with a person or thing in the outside world.
This kind of happiness is purely dependent on the people and circumstances outside of us. And this kind of happiness leads us to sadness also, because people and circumstances keep changing. They are not the same. Their behaviour is different at different times. And when their behaviour changes, our happiness too is affected.
The bliss that we are talking about is different. It is purely a state inside yourself, which is in no way affected by outer world incidents. It is your core, your permanent state. And when you have found this, you will be a mere witness to the outer world. You will become a blissful watcher. You will participate in it fully but without losing your bliss.
A small story:
There was an old man in a family who could not be pleased at any cost.(Laughter!)
He remained stubborn and grumpy, no matter how much his family tried to keep him in good spirits.
His children and grandchildren would all come and visit him and try to cheer him up, but he would remain the same way.
Suddenly one day, overnight, he became very gentle and cheerful.
His family was shocked at the sudden transformation.
One of his grand daughters was courageous enough and asked him, “Grandpa, how come you have changed so suddenly?”
The old man replied, “All my life, I tried my best to get a contented mind, but never succeeded in getting it. So I have decided to be contented with it now.”
Everything is a projection of our mind! With the help of our mind, we have stopped the flow of bliss from within. We can never get bliss from outside. It is already there inside us. We just have to look in, that’s all.
Understand: There is a Universal Consciousness that fills the entire Cosmos and there is an individual Consciousness that fills us. Man’s whole purpose is to try to establish a connection between these two. When this connection happens, man is said to be Enlightened or in Eternal Bliss or in Nithyananda. Nithyananda means Eternal Bliss.
Through listening to all the lectures and practising all the meditation techniques, we become more and more aware of this connection and try to experience it with more awareness. This is the sole purpose of all our efforts.
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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.
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