Uncover Your Enlightenment | Nithyananda Satsang | 06 Jul 2012

TALKS FROM MORNING SATSANG ON JULY 6 2012 AT MADURAI AADHEENAM, INDIA Bhagavad Gita (Song of God) is a timeless treatise on the essence of living enlightenment. The Gita was imparted by the enlightened Hindu incarnation Sri Krishna to the warrior-prince Arjuna over 5000 years ago. Amazingly, the spiritual wisdom and life solutions offered in the Gita are so universal and current that even today it is used as a personal transformation guide. In today's talk on Bhagavad Gita, chapter 5 verse 16, Paramahamsa Nithyananda unveils the sacred secret of this verse. Enlightenment shines like a bright sun within each of us. Many of us mistake the pursuit of knowledge for the path to enlightenment. Some traditions have actually abandoned their quest to expand their inner space, turning instead toward the acquisition of knowledge. This distraction creates a cloud that covers our essential brilliance. We need only to remove the cloud, and our spiritual light blazes forth in radiant glory. TRANSCRIPTIONS:- Today I'll enter into the satsang Jnaanena tu tadjnaanam Yeshaam naashitam -- aatmanaha Teshaam aadityavat jnaanam prakaashayathi tatparam The translation : On the other hand they, whose ignorance of the essential nature is destroyed by the consciousness, thereafter illumine and manifest the sacred knowledge like the Sun. Nothing compared to Krishna to be a orator. If it is Shiva's word, I have to add two words extra or reduce few words. Shiva's language is a very common man's language. Of course mass can understand. Common person can understand. That is the specialty of Shiva. Great philosophies he will express in common man's language. Krishna, even a simple instruction he will sing in poetry. Even a very simple thing, he will say it in such a sophisticated way. The King, the King's language training which he went through, you can see in every line, every word he utters. After all he was trained in Gurukul, polished, prepared to be a King. So naturally his language, body language, life style, skills, everything is of king's. Can see very clearly how beautifully he puts the whole thing. On the other hand they, whose ignorance of the essential nature is destroyed by the consciousness, thereafter illumine and manifest the sacred knowledge like the Sun. One of the best entertainment, time pass I have is just read the Gita verses. Nothing else! I won't even get into the explanations, stories and all that; just Sanskrit verse and English translation. I tell you guys, Gita is not just philosophical book. It's a very powerful entrainment. The sacred secret you need to know from this verse is - You don't need to gain knowledge, you don't need to gain enlightenment. Please understand, it is there like a sun. It is shining always. All you need to do is work on removing the ignorance. The biggest problem is, please understand, this one small understanding. Shifts the way you put your efforts. If you think knowledge needs to be gained, you will continuously spend your time only in reading, accumulating knowledge. No! That is why yesterday when somebody asked, what is the importance of knowledge in the spiritual path, it's like reading a Manu card. That's it! See, once you have the basic principles explained to you, now your effort has to be only in the line of destroying the ignorance, not gaining knowledge. The enormous amount of literatures produced. In course of time, the gaining knowledge itself takes 200 years and people forget gaining knowledge is not achieving enlightenment. It is like a menu card. Knowledge is like a menu card. You can't go without reading it and you can't be just sitting and reading it. Once you read it plan to eat. You need to have the book. It is not that you will scramble around. It is not that. You can do without menu card. But continuously reading the menu card is not going to work. Jnaanena tu tadjnaanam Yeshaam naashitam -- aatmanaha Teshaam aadityavat jnaanam prakaashayathi tatparam Bagavan is very clear. 'prakaashayathi tatparam' - It just illumines like the sun. So understand this example. Sun covered by the cloud. Now the cloud needs to be dispelled. But ordinary way you understand knowledge as, you have to make one kilogram gold, then two kilogram gold, three kilogram gold, four kilogram gold, you have to acquire, accumulate, accumulate. Unfortunately ordinary human mind understands achieving enlightenment as in this line. One kilogram gold, two kilogram gold, three kilogram gold then there will be one time you will have all the gold in the world. You will be owner. Then you are enlightened. No! That is not. It is like you are a sun shining. Cloud has covered. Destroy the cloud and you will shine again. Understand the big difference between these two examples. The attitude with which you start is going to play a major role in your journey. Please understand. It is very important. The attitude with which, the understanding with which you start your journey,