What is Inner Awakening Level -1 Part 2 | Nithyananda Satsang | 19 May 2013

In today's morning satsang, Paramahamsa Nithyananda answers questions on religious ritual. He reveals that shraddha, the ceremony to remember the departed, is not performed to help the dead but for us to complete our unfinished interactions with them. Furthermore, if Maheshwara Puja is celebrated, in which an incarnation offers to our loved ones, all concerns are completed and there is no need to continue shraddha. Nithyananda then delivers a brilliant explanation of cause and effect, connecting it to the expression of the four truths of life. He likewise provides an intriguing description of sadhana -- spiritual practice -- defining it as any action that moves us toward completion. TRANSCRIPTIONS:- Today also I will continue to answer your questions in the Nithya satsangh to imbibe these tattvas, these principles as sathyas. Question: The first question today is from Inner Awakening ID #3, Chelliah who's saying, "Swamiji, you said a person passes away and the being immediately takes another body, but here we do prayers for the being. The being will be celebrating his or her birthday, how will it help by we doing prayers over his death simultaneously? Swamiji: "Chelliah, it's a science, an important question, because this belief or rather I can say this experience makes us the real mystics. Please understand, only when you go beyond do's and don'ts you will become a religion, till then you are only a social cult. Only when you go beyond, life and death reveal the mysteries of life and death to become religion. In that way, I feel blessed that I'm born in a religion! And, I feel double blessed, more blessed and I also discovered my religion! He's asking a question, 'a person passes away, the being immediately takes another body and here we do prayers every year for that being, that being will be celebrating his or her birthday. How will it help by we doing prayers over his death simultaneously? First understand, all the last rites you do and the celebrations you do, prayers you do, everything is not for that soul, it is for your own completion with that soul. Understand, all the last rites you do, the celebrations you do, and the prayers you do, everything is not for that soul; it is for your own completion with that soul. You carry lot of incompletions with that being who left. So you need to do completion again and again with that being. It is a time you sit and do completion with that being. That is the essence! You doing completion with that being for that being! The purpose of shraadha, last rites, pinda tharpana everything, is for you to complete with that truth, with that being, with that person who left the body. So understand, people ask me, 'Swamiji, should I do shraadha, pinda tharpana and all regularly?' I tell you, do it! More than it helps your father or the person who left the body, it will help you. It will help you. You will be out of incompletions. The incompletions you carry with your parents is the pitru dosha. Understand? The incompletions you carry inside you with the parents, is Pitru Dosha. The incompletions you carry about the fear of snakes and reptiles, is Naaga Dosha. The incompletions you carry with the elders, pitrus, is Pitru Dosha. Getting it? So, the person who leaves the body, immediately takes another one body. Whatever you give shraadha, pinda tharpana, does not reach him. So understand! But, it completes you! Next question. Q. Question: We also have another related question from a devotee who is asking, 'What is the significance of doing pinda tharpana through an incarnation? How does the Maheshwara Puja help to release Pitru Doshas, and how does it help me and the departed soul?' Swamiji: Two things here you need to understand. The question: 'What is the significance of doing pinda tharpana through an incarnation? How does the Maheshwara Puja help release Pitru Doshas, and how does it help me and the departed soul?' First thing, understand, listen, an incarnation is the space of eternal completion! Physically, mentally, spiritually, he is the space of eternal completion. Offering pinda through him means, the Maheshwara Puja, is literally completing with your Pitrus, because, when you offer him, when he accepts or receives the Maheshwara Puja given by you, for those moments he is the direct representative of the Pitrus. And, See, in the completion process, you would have received the instructions, if you don't have your elders with whom you need to complete are alive, if they have passed away, if they have left, they are no more, ask some volunteer to sit, and talk to him and complete. How many of you did that? Exactly the same thing! I myself sit with you and help you to complete with your Pitrus, is Maheshwara Puja. Nothing else, that's all. I myself sit with you....not only the completion of emotional words and everything.....anything else you have not offered to them; when they were alive you treated them in some wrong way, incompletions,