Completion Leads to Expansion | Nithyananda Satsang | 18 Aug 2013

17th August 2013 TRANSCRIPTIONS:- I welcome all of you with my love and blessings. Today, Mahadeva is gracing us in the form of Chandrashekhara, the Leela of "PROTECTING THE MOON". Once, Prajapathi Daksha (son of Lord Brahma, the God of Creation), whose twenty-seven daughters are married to the Moon, Chandra; the Prajapathi Daksha got angry, because Chandra was more attracted towards Rohini, and Daksha cursed Chandra, his own son-in-law that 'Let you lose all the glory and luminescence of sixteen parts!' (The sixteen parts refer to the waxing and waning of the moon. The moon goes through a fifteen-day waxing period; on the sixteenth day it becomes the Full Moon -- "Poornima" in Sanskrit, or "Pournami" in Tamil. Similarly, it goes through a fifteen-day waning period; on the sixteenth day it disappears from sight -- No Moon or New Moon day -- "Amavasya" in Sanskrit). So, when Chandra started losing all the parts and was dying, he ran to Mahadeva and took refuge under Mahadeva asking for protection. Mahadeva put the Moon on his head. The moment Mahadeva put the Moon on his head, the Moon's curse disappeared, the curse cannot come to Moon anymore and thus he protected Chandra and the world. Because, without Chandra, the Moon, many herbs cannot grow. See, the medicinal properties in the herbs are because of Chandra's light, the Moon's light in the night. And the herb survives by the sunlight. But it acquires the healing properties by the moonlight. When the moonlight is not there, all the herbs started losing its healing quality. So, by saving Chandra, Mahadeva becomes not only "Chandrashekhara" (one who holds the Moon in his hair) but also "Vaidyanatha" (Lord of Physicians). Today, Mahadeva is gracing us as the protector of the Moon by wearing the Moon on his crown. You can see the Moon on his crown. Close up... Moon on his crown, you can see the Moon on his crown. Yes. Today Mahadeva is gracing all of us as Chandrashekhara, but Mahadeva's duplicate forgot to wear the Moon as per the tradition. As per the tradition -- it is a tradition in Madurai, because Mahadeva came in the human body and did all his Leelas (divine play) there -- one child from the Pattar family, the Madurai Pattar family, the child will be decorated during each Leela (to represent Mahadeva/Mahadevi). There are some Leelas which are a little complicated; so the Pattar himself will be decorated as Mahadeva, and they will enact the whole Leela. So, as per the tradition, we also follow that. One Krama Brahmachari or Krama Brahmacharini wears the dress of Mahadeva and Devi and represents them and enact. Beautiful! Only from the last program I started having this aspect of having every day Mahadeva in one Leela alankara. See, he performed sixty-four Leelas as per Thiruvilaiyadal Puranam, and around hundred and seventy Leelas as per Shiva Puranam. So, every day if we decorate him in one Leela alankara, even then almost for a full year we have a way to decorate him. From the last Inner Awakening we started, because I wanted all these to be remembered, all these temples, the deities, all these to be protected, promoted, preserved. Any civilization will be alive only through three major pillars: · One: the Lifestyle Knowledge; · Second: Art and Festivals; and · Third: Language. So, by the satsanghs, I am keeping the Lifestyle Knowledge of the Vedic tradition alive, but I am not doing anything for these temples and sacred arts, festivals. That is why I decided we will have every day one festival, remembering one Leela of Mahadeva, one Shiva Leela, so that the whole science will be kept alive, these festivals will be kept alive, this temple lifestyle, this temple tradition will be kept alive, and all the arts and the culture related to temples will be kept alive. When you see this each day, you will take it for granted. We will show you. We will make everything inside our campus. We will show you; then you will understand how much it takes to make one jewelry, one deity, one piece of jewelry this deity is wearing. So much has to be done to keep these festivities and festivals alive. And I wanted to keep all these alive. That is the reason in the last Inner Awakening we started this tradition of Mahadeva gracing us. Whenever there is a program, Mahadeva will grace us with one Leela alankara. And I am also working to keep this language alive by creating a Sanskrit University, so that the Vedic mantras, everything, is kept alive, the tradition is kept alive, the knowledge is kept alive. All right! In today's Nithya Satsangh, I will expand on "THE ROOT-PATTERNS, ROOT OF THE ROOT-PATTERNS, AND HOW TO COME OUT OF THE ROOT-PATTERNS". Please listen! Please come to the space of listening! The first step you need to do to find the root of your root-pattern is, you have to find the conflicting patterns. That is what we are going to do today in the Inner Awakening program.