create more and more enlightened beings just because they held on to that one truth "Zazen".

Zazen means just sitting. It is so unfortunate even the priests in the South Indian Temples

are standing and doing Pooja. So this idea of sitting is completely lost. Above the Mahakal,

if you see all temples will be sitting and doing Pooja. Below Mahakal, all will be standing

and doing Pooja. It is unfortunate. You may think "What is there in sitting". You

don't know. I tell you. You don't know -- power of sitting. By sitting, sitting,

you will learn how to be sitting with aloneness "Rahasistitaha, Aatmanam rahasistitaha".

That is why, in Hindu tradition, the highest practice is called Upanishad. The highest

preaching is called Upanishad. Even the place where the teaching is transmitted is called

seat. Peeta. Understand. So much of importance was given to sitting. I tell you. If you learn

sitting, sitting, sitting, you will easily pick-up this sitting with yourself. The Upanishad.

If I have my own way, I will really tell all our Ashrams and centers, have furniture and

chairs only for the people who cannot sit on the floor. Elders or who are sick or handicapped.

Even to all our devotees, I give this as a spiritual instruction. Only when you are not

feeling well, when you can't sit on the floor, use furniture. Otherwise even in the

house have furniture for the visitors. But when you all guys sit, all you guys sit on

the floor. You don't know, this habit of sitting on the floor will slowly help you

to sit with yourself. Upanishad.

So in 11 days you can catch that Upanishad samyama. In Buddhism they have a very beautiful

way. They will just gaze at the wall, facing the wall they will sit and gaze. No thoughts

allowed. Just sit.

Bodhi dharma sat in Upanishad for 12 years gazing the wall. Now after all, all you guys,

Niraharis, you may need to move your head away from the wall may be 3 times a day for

juice.

I really wanted Hinduism to get back to that truth of Upanishad.

It is so sad when I went to Nepal this time, in Katmandu I saw 82 percent Hindu population,

only 5 percent budhist population but go in any street, you will find 10 buddhist monks

going around. You will not find a single Hindu monk. It is so sad. You guys lost all the

spiritual wealth, you inherited. Why do you think your next generation is not becoming

monks. Because it was never based on the spiritual inspiration. You can see those Buddhist monks

highly educated, cultured working on the spiritual truths. The few hindu monks you will see that's

also very few. One or two. Old beggars. In Katmandu, Pasupathinath temple asking for

few penny. That's it. I take a vow in the name of Maha Kala and Maha Kali. Just through

the akashic readings, inspiring and initiating I will create atleast 100 thousand sadhus,

sanyasis. I mean youngsters, celibates living enlightenment and spreading enlightenment.

Giving life to the vedic tradition. It is really unfortunate that these great spiritual

heritage. In Zen monasteries, Buddhist monasteries, you can see thousands of monks sitting in

Zazen for a whole day.

Hats off to ISKON movement for making ajapa japa as a life style. They atleast brought

that back.

But one of the greatest heritage of Hinduism, vedic tradition the Upanishad. Neither gurus

talk about it nor disciples practice. The general public do not even have confidence

that Upanishad is possible in their life. In Hindiusm if you are a monk, you can't

even survive unless you do some social service. I am not against social service. Just now

I blessed the people who gave the money. I am going to send this and going to do social

service. But that should not replace our mystical explorations. Unfortunately, in Hinduism the

mystical exploring has been replaced by running schools, colleges and hospitals.

Each person inspired about enlightenment is a diamond. His time and energy should be directed

towards achieving the enlightenment and radiating the extraordinary experiences and powers of

enlightenment. As a part time, second or third priority he can be doing some social service.

Nothing wrong. But it is unfortunate that social service has become a main stream religion.

I tell you even social service should be teaching enlightenment.

This is the priority list I am giving for my sanyasis. Understand.

First: Achieving enlightenment

Second: Radiating the extraordinary powers and experiences of enlightenment

Third: Social service along with the lines of enlightenment like teaching the science

of enlightenment

Only 4th : IS doing other social services. Because there are millions of people to do

that work

Whatever you think as best and you found as best in your life, share that with the world.

If you are a seeker, enlightenment is the best thing you found in your life, share that

with the world. You will have enlightenment you will give only Anacin, metacin to the

people, it is cheating. So the seekers even if you do social service in ordinary sense,

you are cheating the world. You are hiding the important thing with you and giving only

small things to the world. A seeker should give the science of enlightenment to the world.

That is the biggest gift.

Let there be spiritual revolution. I give this as a spiritual instruction to all our

devotees. If you want to have two children, go for 4 and handover two to the Dhyanapeetam.

Bring them up with a spiritual culture from the beginning and reach them to Dhyanapeetam.

We need thousands of sanyasis to revive the vedic tradition.

People sometime ask me "why don't you adopt all the orphans and bring them up swamiji?".

I tell you no, only if the kids grow in the happy family they live as a true sanyasis.

Not otherwise. Not otherwise. Otherwise they become cunning, cheats.

I know our devotees are the happiest families on the planet earth. The best possible happiest

families. There may be some fights one or two days, here and there. Whatever it may

be, but best possible. Especially if both of you are connected, husband and wife both

are connected means that is the best possible in the kids growing.

Only when I remember all these great truths, I feel Oh god, how did we lose this concept

of Upanishad when Buddhists are able to retain their zazen. Why Upanishad did not become

part of our common man. Go to any poor, poorest villager in Tibet. He will be doing ajapa

japa with a rosary. Drivers who drive our vehicles during the Kailash Yatra will be

doing ajapa japa with the rosary. When Tibetian Buddhism is able to retain ajapa japa, when

Japanese Zen tradition is able to retain Zazen, how did you idiots loose Upanishad. No, really.

These are such a beautiful, simple, non-expensive life style based great truths. To experience

Upanishad, you don't need to be rich, you don't need any pre conditions. You don't

even need a special place. These all life style based truths.

Sometimes I feel so much of pain Oh God, how did , why did these fellows lose all these

basic truths. I tell you I have been to village to village of India. Only in North India that

also in few, only very few parts of North Indian villages, the ajapa japa is retained.

Other than that, throughout India nowhere I see this core spiritual concepts are alive.

At the most what we know as Hinduism is going to temple once in a while and putting few

coins to the priests, putting few flowers on the deity, and showing a camphor and coming

off. That's all.

The first word you will hear when you want to learn about Hinduism is Upanishad. May

be second word. First word will be Vedas and second word will be Upanishad. Sometime Upanishad

will be the first word, because Upanishad is the essence of Vedas.

Even if you want to jump start learning Hinduism, first thing you will learn is Upanishad. How,

how did the main stream Hindus do not even know Upanishad. I tell you guys, main stream

Hindus do not even know Upanishad.

Unless there is a spiritual revolution, where millions of, not even thousands, millions

of youngsters take up the sanyas life and study the spiritual truths day in and day

out, start living it, there is no hope for Hinduism. There is no hope for the spiritual

tradition. If only millions of youngsters realize this truth, science of enlightenment

and bring it to their life and radiate it to others. Only then this great spiritual

truths can be revived. Again life can be breathed into these precepts.

I lived in so many vedantic monasteries. As an insider I tell you, even the great vedantic

monasteries, Akadas which represent Hinduism do not know Upanishad. You will not find any

of them sitting. Some of the biggest Missionaries, the Hindu Missionaries, their total spiritual

practice is 108 times repeat the Mantra morning.

Upanishad Samyama. Sitting with aloneness. It is a beautiful word.

Ekaaki yata -- citaatmaa niraasheera -- parigrahaha: Just sit in aloneness with yourself and connect

with yourself by unclutching.

Even such a simple thing like Upanishad has to be taught by an incarnation. See the damage

done to the vedic tradition. This should have been told to you by your mother. At the age

of 5 your mother should have taught you this and told you "Upanishad means, sit, my child,

sit without worrying and thinking. Sit without being bothered. This is the way you will grow,

not only physically, consciously". How you have. See when a mother talks to a child she

tells " Hey, eat only then you will grow like your elder brother. You will become stronger

like your father". Same way in each house you should have one example of enlightenment.

She should tell, "Sit in Upanishad. Only then you will become like your grandfather.

See how graceful he is. Established in peace and knowledge. You will become like that".

I will make enlightenment as a household subject. Even this middle class women, middle aged

middle class women, they are the atom bomb of India. No. I tell you. They are the atomic

energy of India. Middle aged middle class women of India. They are the atomic energy.

Either they become electricity and useful to the society or they will become atom bomb.

My success was I hit that crowd. See the India's hands were youngsters, legs were retired people,

eyes are politicians, brain is bureaucrats, body is middle aged middle class women. That

is the most unused resource of India. The only thing they practice, the religion of

the middle aged middle class women of India is TV soaps; TV serials. Upanishad should

have been their religion. Unfortunately, never they were given the understanding, nor the

technique or the inspiration. So their life is wasted in front of the TV. I really wanted

to start a TV channel just to make all these as a main stream life style. We will do it.

We will do it. We will do it.

Upanishad can do so much good. I tell you Hinduism is yet to be discovered in India.

We lost it 500 years before and we are still yet to discover it. I really feel sad to teach

such simple things. I should be teaching how to materialize, how to express extraordinary

yogic powers, how to initiate others into Kundalini awakening, but instead I am sitting

and teaching you how to sit.

No, in Buddhist families, by the time you are 10 you know Zazen, you know ajapa japa.

You better know about death. They will teach you. If I am allowed, I will make a law that

from every house one person should become sanyasi. We need. We need large number of

monasteries. Sanyasis. Spiritual education centers. Universities. Theology seminaries.

Spirituality teaching organizations.

Aatmanam rahasistitaha: Sitting in aloneness with the self. One side I am feeling so joyful,

I had the knowledge and opportunity and the possibility to experience, practise all these

at young age. Other side I feel so much of pain that why did all these not become main

stream life style. What is the risk in people just learning to sit in the young age. Why

was neither parents nor social leaders or spiritual leaders are even aware of these

basic simple truths and not reaching it out to the main stream people. Why did our thinking

trend become sopolluted and corrupted by these paid news bribery media? Why should we bother,

if some bollywood star is living in some relationship with somebody and that actress's dog has

a chickenpox and that dog's girl friend dog is having a cancer and that pissed on their car.

No, really it is sickening. What informations are becoming our life style. Because you consumed they give,

because they give you consume. Everybody bothers about the economical, political, social corruption.

Nobody is bothered about the conscious corruption. They think this does not need to be a first

priority. Conscious corruption happened and happening to the vedic civilization.

I vow to teach all these simple basic truths as a life style, by creating millions of sanyasis.

This is the "guru vak" for all my sanyasis and sadhus. You live and radiate such peace

and joy and understanding and capacity. So anybody who comes in contact with you feel

jealous of you and takes up the life style you are living. I gave up eating solid food

not to prove anything to anybody. I don't need to prove anything to anybody. Just to

inspire. Inspire the next generation. I am making you all "Niraharis" not to save

the food cost for the planet earth or this country. To inspire millions.

From now, I am not just going to tell people to do Inner Awakening, to live enlightenment.

I am going to straight tell "become a Sanyasi". India needs. India now really needs millions

of sanyasis and rishis. People are so insensitive. They care only for their career, foolish career,

which will lead to only more and more depression and suffering.

Its time that all you sanyasis and sadhus, rishis who are living in the ashram create

the ambience for the next generation to come inside. You all grow to accommodate them,

to live a happy life, and train them by the example. Not by bullying but by nandheeing.

Nandhi teaches by example. I create a new word. Nandheeing is the opposite word of bullying.

Nandhi is one of the greatest guru in saiva tradition. In saiva tradition, four are considered

as guru. Devi, Nandhi, Subramanya and sanakadi rishis. These are the four major sampradayas

in saiva tradition. We belong to Devi's tradition because as we follow the shiva sutras.

Live this Upanishad samyama and reach out to the whole world all these great truths.

Such a simple no- risk process all these. Will do only good. Will never do anything

bad. Let's reach out to the world with these beautiful simple to practice samyamas and

revive the vedic tradition. Revive the Upanishadic tradition.

Q&A

Q: Respected Swamiji, Tourism in India has great potential. Recently Karnataka Govt has

received 35 thousand crores of investment bids to develop tourist infrastructure in

heritage site, Hampi. Swamiji, what are your comments on developing tourism in India, especially

spiritual tourism and yet retaining the sanctity and sacredness of the places.

A: Beautiful question. Understand, what is retaining the sanctity and sacredness of a

place, spiritual place? If a person sees that deity or a place with feeling of sacred, the

place's sanctity is maintained. If the person does not see that place or the deity with

the sacredness, the place does not retain its sanctity and the sanctity is disturbed.

Please understand, I strongly condemn the pseudo Hindus stopping Westerners, other religious

people into Hindu temples, not allowing them having darshan of the deities. Please understand,

I wanted to make this very clear. Even in all Indian temples, I tell you, millions of

Indian atheists and the fellows who don't have any respect, does not carry any sacredness

for the deity enter and have darshan. They are the fellows who are disturbing the sanctity.

Millions of westerners come, carrying so much of sacredness are not allowed to have the

darshan of the deity. It is strongly condemnable.