What is no-mind?

People ask me, 'Swamiji, do enlightened persons have thoughts?' Please understand: if you have 10 acres as your mind, if your inner space is 10 acres, all 10 acres is filled with thoughts. In my inner space I have 10 million acres and some 100 acres filled with thoughts, negligible yet much more then you.

Please understand: for the inner space I have, the space of thoughts is negligible. That's why we call no mind, but if you see the number of thoughts, the actual, factual space, it is much more then yours. When it is compared to the empty, vast inner space, the space in which thoughts are there is very less. That's why we call it no mind. 10 million acres, just only 100 acres is occupied by thoughts. Will you even remember? No! Negligible.

So, what you understand as mind I don't have; that is not there. But it does not mean there are no thoughts, there is no process. The process is hundred times more intense than in you but the background and the canvas on which the process is happening, the space in which the process itself is happening is so vast, the process is negligible.

Living in ecstasy

Having a deep connection with Existence

God designed this world with only one purpose  to make you experience His love. Just like a lover wants to bring the moon and the stars for his beloved, the Divine brings you the moon, the stars, the whole sky and beyond. All He wants to see is a smile on your face and a blissful overfowing in your being, as you enjoy these wonderful gifts He has made just for you.

There is no other purpose to life. It is a straight and simple universe inviting you to play with It and experience the joy of pure romance with It.  Even what you think of as your problems and sufering are nothing more than a hard hug from life! Life is simply revealing itself in one more way to you, but when you resist, you experience that dimension of life as sufering. If we look without judgment, we can see the truth of this.  By nature, each of us has as much bliss energy inside us as a nuclear reactor! All we need to do is allow that energy to fow beautifully through the body-mind. Just remove the dead blocks of ego that are now in the way of the laughing, gurgling river of bliss fowing through your being.

Every moment is a gift from the Divine. The only way to ofer your gratitude for this gift is to be intensely alive in this moment, living and radiating enlightenment.

- Nithyananda

Did you know you can change your world, by the very power of your thoughts and words?  Different experiments show that your thoughts can affect the world around you.

The Power of Words on Water

There is an interesting research by Japanese scientist, Dr. Masaru Emoto who has studied the effects of thoughts and words on water. He collected water samples from different sources and exposed them to various kinds of thoughts. Then he froze the samples and studied their crystalline structure through a microscope with the help of high-speed photography. Thousands of these crystals were studied under tightly regulated conditions of temperature, cooling time and lighting.

He did various experiments on these water samples, playing different types of music to the water, talking to the water, reading out from ancient teachings, praying with a certain intention, etc. He found that when the water samples were exposed to healing music, the water crystals that formed were very beautiful and graceful. The water exposed to negative feelings or thoughts did not form crystals but rather an irregular structure which reflected the emotions of the person handling them.

For example, water exposed to

Two types of action

Karma means action. But action can be of two types. It can either be a reaction or it can be a response. When somebody insults you and you become angry, he has made you behave the way he wanted. Now if he apologizes, your mood suddenly changes. So he is the master. You are behaving like a slave. You are a victim having no control over the situation. When somebody insults you, you are immediately reacting out of your past experiences. This reaction is karma. It is a binding force. It creates chains for you.

Respond don’t react

But a response is totally different from reaction. When someone insults you, you don’t need to give in to the emotion of anger rising inside you. You can listen to