WHY

INTENSITY?
His Holiness
Paramahamsa Nithyananda

NITHYANANDA UNIVERSITY PRESS

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CONTENTS

1. WHAT IS INTENSITY?

What is Intensity? 5

Interest versus intensity 7

Inner world Intensity 10

TECHNIQUE: Move from the outer world to the

inner world 12
2. DEEPER INSIGHTS INTO INTENSITY

Intensity is not an emotion 17

Intensity: Passion and Patience 18

TECHNIQUE: Centering in deep silence:

1. Blissful dancing 20

2. Whirling 23

Intensity: Will and Prayer 27

TECHNIQUE: Let go and let God in 29

Time makes you intense 31
3. HOW SHOULD I LIVE INTENSELY?

Intensity in everything you do 34

TECHNIQUE: Meditation to be intense in everything

you do 35

Intensity in action 38

Flow in intensity 41

TECHNIQUE: How to flow in intensity? 44

Integrate with intensity 47

TECHNIQUE: Meditation to be in totality 49

Dont lose intensity-based action 53
4. LIVE IN COMPLETION

Break free of the past with intensity 56

TECHNIQUE: Burn your past 58

Release your patterns through intensity 61

TECHNIQUE: Identify your patterns 63
TECHNIQUE: Complete with your patterns 65
Release your patterns through intense actions 68
TECHNIQUE: Work intensely 70

5. LIVE A CONFLICT-FREE LIFE

Intensity is conflict-free living 71

TECHNIQUE: Meditation to increase integrity and

life energy 73

TECHNIQUE: Overcoming inner and outer world

conflict 75
6. INTENSITY LEADS YOU TO THE ULTIMATE

Intensity leads to realization 77

Intensity: the key to enlightenment 79

Be open with intensity 80

TECHNIQUE: Meditation to be open to life 82
7. INTENSITY: GLIMPSES FROM MY LIFE

Intensity and action 84

Intensity: Sign of a Seeker 85

Sanyas: Path of intense intensity 87

Intensity: key to my enlightenment experience 88

1. WHAT IS INTENSITY?
WHAT IS INTENSITY?
There are three qualities that are absolutely essential for
anyone on the spiritual path. These are: one - intensity, two intensity , three - intensity!
Have you ever had that feeling that something needs to be
done immediately, right away, without any delay? That is
what I call intensity.
Intensity is the desperate feeling that something needs to
be done immediately, to break free from the clutches, or to
break free in the inner world.
You have never experienced the joy of giving your life to
anything! Understand, it is not necessary that you should
have intensity only towards enlightenment. It is a quality that
should pervade everything you do.
If you are working, work intensely. If you are enjoying, enjoy
intensely. If you are depressed, be intensely depressed!
The same intensity, the same yearning will become integrated
and will get directed to the unknown, to enlightenment.
Not only that, your unfulfilled desires can be simply burnt
with the intensity.
Whatever you experience as fulfillment, yearn for that.

The intense yearning is enough; it will evaporate you. And the

fulfillment you experience will be many times more than the
fulfillment you may have ever experienced before.

INTEREST VERSUS INTENSITY

What is the difference between intensity and interest?
Interest comes from the mind. Intensity comes from the
being.
An interest can be lost, but never the intensity. After a while,
maybe short or long, you get fed up with your own interest.
With intensity, it is a thirst of your being. It transcends the
rationale of your logic. Intensity is a call from deep within. The
more you have to wait for it, the more the thirst grows, and
the more the fire flares up.
See the difference between light and laser. Both are made up
of the same light rays, but the single-pointed intense focus
of the laser comes from the coherence, and the common
frequency of the light rays.
The power of this intensity is what gives the laser the
tremendous power to even burn a hole through metal. At the
same time it is a controlled focus. This is what gives it the
power to do even a delicate task like removing a cataract in
the eye.
A beautiful story from the life of an enlightened Master
Bayazid:

Bayazid had been with his Master for twelve years, but the
Master had not spoken a single word to him.
One day after twelve long years, the Master spoke to Bayazid,
Go to the hall. There is a book there. Bring me the book.
Bayazid had been passing through that hall for twelve years
every single day while coming to see the Master.
He replied, I have never seen the book. In fact, I have never
looked in the hall. I was interested only in you, not in anything
else. But, if you say I will go. The Master replied, No. Stay.
Bayazids whole interest had turned into focused intensity. His
whole interest was just the Master. The Master said, There
is no need for the book. I was just trying to find out how
completely focused you are.
That night, the Master told Bayazid, Tonight sleep here.
Bayazid lay down by the side of the Master, but he could
not sleep. He was filled with so much intensity, his mind
completely stopped in that intensity.
Next morning Bayazid was dead. A new man had emerged.
No instruction was ever given. He just had to wait for twelve

years. That was the method for him.

Not twelve years, but even twelve million lives are worth
waiting for the Ultimate that the Master leads you into.
If it was just an interest, there was no way Bayazid could
have stayed on for twelve years without even a word from
the Master. Naturally, his mind would have strongly protested
saying, What are you doing here? You are just wasting time.
Nothing has happened till now. He is not even interested in
you. How long are you going to waste your time like this?
It is the intensity that holds you, because deep down you
understand, not twelve years but even twelve million lives are
worth waiting for the Ultimate that the Master leads you into.
Even that would actually be cheap.

INNER WORLD INTENSITY

We tend to feel a terrible restlessness towards the outer
world, I have not done this, I have not done that and so on.
The same restlessness when it is directed to the inner world
it is called intensity.
You do not know what is happening, you do not know what
should be done, but the deep dissatisfaction about what is
there in the inner space is what I call intensity.
If your consciousness is constantly moving towards the outer
world, it is called restlessness. If it is moving towards the inner
world, it is called intensity.
You may be wondering why I am teaching dissatisfaction.
I am supposed to teach satisfaction, right? I tell you, your

dissatisfaction, which is now directed towards the outer

world, has to turn towards the inner world, and only then will
it will lead to satisfaction.
The first thing that needs to happen is not satisfaction but the
turning of direction, the psychological revolution. Restlessness
should become intensity.
If it is towards the outer world, if your consciousness is
constantly moving towards the outer world, it is called
restlessness. If it is moving towards the inner world, it is called
intensity.
Intensity is intensely being inside you.
Whether we lead or whether we follow, in order to be fulfilled
in whatever we do, we need to be intense.
A small story:
A Zen master and a disciple were walking along the banks
of a river. The disciple, as he had done a few times before,
asked the master very longingly, Master, please give me
enlightenment.
Suddenly the master turned, held the disciples head in his
hand and pushed it into the river. The disciple was shocked and
started struggling to get his head above water. The master
continued to strongly hold his head in the water. Now the
disciple started gasping for breath. The master then released
the surprised and completely shaken disciple.
The master asked, Do you feel you want enlightenment with
the same intensity that you felt you needed air to breathe,
when your head was in the water?
Only when the urge becomes urgent, when the question
becomes a quest, does the Ultimate happen. The key factor
needed for enlightenment to happen is intensity.

TECHNIQUE: EXPERIENCE INTENSITY THROUGH

THE BREATH
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
Below is a technique to shift your focus from the outer world
to the inner world to experience intensity through the breath.
In this meditation, we focus on the neutral zone in breathing.
The neutral zone is the gap between two breaths. This gap is
the space of pure Consciousness. There are two neutral zones.
When the incoming breath takes a turn inside your body to
become the outgoing breath that is one neutral zone.
When the outgoing breath takes a turn outside your body to
become the next incoming breath, that is the other neutral
zone.
These neutral zones are the space of great potential. In these
neutral zones, life takes a turn to become death, and death
takes a turn to become life!
The neutral zone is the silent space between life and death. In
this zone, you experience yourself as the consciousness that
is beyond life and death.
Your incoming breath is life. Your every incoming breath floods
you with life-energy.
Sometimes, even a single desire can bring life to you. For
example, on a weekend, you may be sleeping late. You dont
feel like getting out of bed. But suddenly, you may remember
some friend whom you wanted to see. This single thought can

bring your whole body alive. You will jump out of bed and be
ready to run.
This life-energy is coming to you in the gap between the
incoming and outgoing breath.
When you inhale, your body is infused with life energy. Before
you exhale, in the gap between inhaling and exhaling, your
whole system is vibrating with life. Whenever you are flooded
with energy, be aware that it is happening in this neutral zone.
In the same way, your outgoing breath is death. Your every
outgoing breath brings you greater intelligence.
Understand, whenever something is taken away from you and
you reconcile yourself to it, you are flooded with intelligence.
If you lose something, immediately you are given some
message, some understanding about life, and that adds to
your intelligence.
This intelligence is coming to you in the gap between the
outgoing and incoming breath.

When your breath leaves the body, in the gap before it takes
the turn and returns to your body in this space, you are
flooded with intelligence. Whenever you are flooded with
intelligence, be aware that it is happening in this neutral zone.
Every moment, you have both energy and intelligence. You
are functioning as both energy and intelligence.
At one moment, you are flooded with iccha shakti, the power
of desire. The next moment you are flooded with kriya shakti,
the power of action. One moment you are flooded with
energy, the next moment you are flooded with intelligence. If
you can be aware of the gap, you will achieve jnana shakti or
the power of wisdom.
The whole binary system is based on this constant flux the
duality of intelligence and energy, energy and intelligence:
zero-one, one-zero!
Constantly, in your inner space, matter and energy are dancing.
The power of desire and the power of action are both dancing
in your inner space. Not only inside you, but also in the entire

cosmos, this dance is happening.

This is what we call the cosmic dance of Shiva (intelligence)
and Shakti (energy). The whole movement of the Cosmos is
nothing but this dance.
This grand Cosmic dance is what you experience so intimately,
in every breath! The Divine is constantly enjoying itself,
expressing itself in your inner space. If you can be aware in the
neutral zones, you will experience this eternal consciousness.
DURATION
21 minutes
INSTRUCTIONS
Sit straight, preferably on the ground. Close your eyes. Inhale
and exhale as slowly as possible and as deeply as possible.
Step 1: (3 minutes)
Slowly, very slowly, put your attention only on the incoming
breath. Be aware of the incoming breath.
Step 2: (3 minutes)
Now slowly, put your attention only on the outgoing breath.
Step 3: (15 minutes)
Now forget about the incoming breath and the outgoing
breath. Slowly, very slowly, put your attention between the
two breaths. Just be aware of the gap, the neutral space
between the breaths. Keep your attention on the gap between
the breaths.

When the incoming breath becomes the outgoing breath, in

the neutral zone, become aware. This is the time when you
are flooded with energy.
When the outgoing breath takes a turn and becomes the
incoming breath, again be aware of the gap. This is the time
when you are flooded with intelligence.
In the neutral zones, you are being constantly flooded with
energy and intelligence. Continuously be aware of both these
zones. The whole day, let your awareness stay in these two
spaces.
When you watch both the gaps of your breath, when you
are aware of both the gaps, you will be constantly flooded
with energy and intelligence. When your awareness rests
undisturbed in the gaps, you rest in eternal consciousness and
turn your vision from the outer world to the inner world.

2. DEEPER INSIGHTS INTO

INTENSITY
INTENSITY IS NOT AN EMOTION
Intensity is not an emotion. When you are intense, one part
of it may be emotional. The part of intensity that melts and
comes out can be called emotion. But intensity cannot be
described as an emotion. It is like heat.
For example, when you integrate yourself with intensity, one
part of you melts. Let us say the heart melts, then that can be
called emotion. Along with your heart, your intellect will also
melt, your being will also melt. The side effect of intensity is
emotion.

Do not bother about what your intensity should be about. Do

not bother about towards what. It should become a quality.
Anything you do, whether you touch something or somebody
or some object, let the intensity be there, even in that touch.
If you are talking, let the intensity be there. In your relationships,
in your decisions, in your memory, in your thinking, in your
desires, even in your fears, be intense without escaping from
this moment.That is what I call intensity.

INTENSITY: PASSION AND PATIENCE

Understand, intensity is not seriousness. Intensity means
deep passion and deep patience, and strong will and strong
prayer. Strong will is passion. Deep prayer is patience.
If you understand intensity as just will, passion, you become
serious.
All seriousness is a sickness!
I have seen many so-called spiritual people who are very
serious.
Indian spirituality is suffering with this one constipation:
Long Face! Yogi means a long face. If you see a yogi or some
spiritual guy or someone who claims to be a spiritual guy with
a long face, you dont need to pay your respects to him; he
needs medicine for constipation!
Really, so many times seriousness is associated with intensity.
No! Intensity is sincerity but not seriousness. You will be
intense and be relaxed.

If you have only passion without patience, it will raise the

number of your thoughts. It will lead to outer world-success,
but never to inner world success.
Same way, just a deep patience and acceptance, without
having thoughts, may lead to inner-world success, silence,
peace, but not to the ultimate enlightenment itself. If you have
only patience, you will deeply accept everything, you will be
successful in having peace in the inner world. However, you
will not have the ultimate success, the enlightenment itself,
which gives you the outer and inner world fulfillment.
So enlightenment is the totality of the passion and patience.
Intense number of thoughts, with the deep silence means,
your very frequency will be different. In intensity, you do not
have just passion, but you will have patience also. You will
become complete. You will become fulfilled. You will just
radiate the truth.
TECHNIQUE: CENTERING IN DEEP SILENCE
1. BLISSFUL DANCING
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
Dancing is a powerful form of meditation for experiencing
intensity! Both formal dance and free dance can be meditation
techniques.
Free dancing is also a great cathartic technique. Here, the
idea is to lose yourself in the dance. A seasoned dancer will
be able to do this even in formal dancing, because he or she is
no longer conscious of the rules. Just like we speak correctly

without feeling grammar as a hindrance, the seasoned dancer

will dance naturally, even when the dance form is formal.
But if you are an amateur, then it is better to enjoy free
dance, or you will feel restricted by the rules.
Free dancing means that there are no steps, no rules, nothing.
Just let your body move as it pleases. Let the dance flow freely.
Be playful and enjoy yourself.
Become part of the tremendous energy of dancing.
There are two stages in free dance: dancing and resting.
Step 1 (21 minutes)
Close your eyes and begin to dance. Dont bother about the
steps. Let your body be free to move as it wishes. Play music
if you want.
Dont be concerned about how you look, how your clothes
look. No one is watching you. This is not a performance.
As you continue to dance in this fashion, more and more
energy will surge inside you, and you will keep going. The
more you dance, the more energetic you will be! You will not
feel tired at all.
Enter deeply into the dance. Dance as fast as possible, as freely
as possible. Forget yourself totally. Just become the dance.
Step 2 (10 minutes)
At the end of twenty-one minutes, wherever you are, in
whatever position you are, just drop down on the floor. Lie

down. Be silent and still.

In the sudden change from frantic motion to sudden stillness,
you will experience a moment of blankness. There will be no
thoughts. You will experience a deep silence.
In a few moments, the thoughts will start coming back. Watch
the thoughts calmly. Dont fight with them, dont get lost in
them. Just remain aware. You will become aware of a lasting
peace inside you, a great silence that remains even after the
thoughts return.
Carry this peace, this silence with you throughout the day.
Carry the silence into your sleep. You will wake up feeling new
and refreshed.

WHIRLING
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
This is a beautiful, natural meditation to center your energies.
It is an ancient and powerful technique, drawn from Sufism, a
mystic sect of Islam.
This is as simple as a technique can get. All you have to do is
whirl, turn round and round and round the way you used to
do as a child.
Whirling is a powerful centering technique.
The beautiful thing about this technique is that your body will
be whirling, going round and round but your Being is right at

the center, unmoving like the unmoving center of a moving

wheel.
INSTRUCTION
Do not have any food or drink for at least three hours before
this meditation.
Some people may experience a sense of nausea during this
meditation. This will disappear after a few days of practice. If
it persists, discontinue the meditation.
The meditation has two phases: whirling and resting.
Step 1: Whirling
DURATION
Minimum 21 minutes
INSTRUCTION
Whirling is usually done in an anti-clockwise direction, with
the right arm held higher, palm facing upwards, and the left
arm lower, palm facing downwards.
If you are uncomfortable whirling anti-clockwise, switch to
clockwise.
Whirling can be practiced for hours for as long as you feel
comfortable. But you will need to whirl for at least one hour
to experience the energy whirlpool.
Start with whirling slowly, let your whole body be soft and

unresisting. As you whirl, the passing images will become

blurred. Let them flow past. Dont try to focus on anything it
will make you dizzy or nauseous.
For the first ten minutes, go really slow. Then build up speed
over the next ten minutes. After twenty minutes or so, you
will feel as if the whirling has taken you completely over.
There will be action and movement on the periphery of the
circle, but at the center will be certain stillness. You will feel
as if you are a witness to all this action, not a participant in it.
Step 2: Resting
DURATION
10 minutes
INSTRUCTION
Resting cannot be planned. It has to happen. When you are
whirling very fast, you may feel as if your body is going to fall.
Dont be afraid or resist the fall. Also, dont plan the fall.
If your body is soft and pliable, you will not get hurt. Just fall
lightly and easily.
Lying down, just feel your bodys contact with the earth. Feel
your body has become one with the earth.
Keep your eyes closed. Remain silently in the same position
for ten minutes.
After this meditation, remain silent and meditative for a few
hours.

INTENSITY: WILL AND PRAYER

Intensity is a strong feeling that I should achieve, and a strong
prayer that I should achieve. It is like when you put your whole
being, you put all your effort, and you know that the ultimate
is supporting you.
Intensity is a deep will, a strong will, and a deep prayer. If
either of these is missing, it will not be called intensity: a
strong will and a deep prayer.
If you understand the Divine is supporting you, the effort you
put in even if it is a little, suddenly you will see the success
happens. Just by remembering that the Divine is supporting
you.
You dont even have to bother whether it is factual or not, or
you dont even have to measure am I supported or not, or
how many hours he stood with me. It just happens!
A small story:
A man asks a boon from God: God, you should always be with
me.
God says, Alright, I will always be with you.
Whenever he was in joy, the man used to see two sets of
footprints, his and Gods. Whenever he was in suffering, he
used to see only one set of footprints.
So he calls God again, What is this? Whenever I am in joy, you
are following me, but when I am in suffering, there is only one
set of footprints. You are not following me.

God laughs and says, Fool! when you are in joy, you are
walking and I am following you. When you are in suffering,
I am carrying you. So the footprints that you are seeing are
mine, not yours!
So be very clear when you are intense, when you just remember
He is there supporting you, even a simple effort, suddenly
becomes reality. It will become successful.
TECHNIQUE: LET GO AND LET GOD IN
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
You always feel that you cannot live your life without planning.
Planning is a disease of the mind!
You never realize, whenever you plan, you can only succeed
to the limit of your planning. You are limited by the known.
When you do not plan, you allow life to happen spontaneously.
You enter into the space of unlimited possibilities. Be intense
in whatever you are doing and leave the results to God or the
cosmos, knowing that He is there supporting you.
DURATION
All 24 hours
INSTRUCTIONS
Just for one day, decide that you will do everything with
intensity and surrender the results of your actions at Gods or

lifes or the Cosmos feet. Just move with whatever life brings.
Decide that you will not use your intellect to plan and judge
and make decisions.
After all, it is just twenty-four hours!
You are not going to lose everything you have in just twentyfour hours. If something can leave you, if you dont guard it
for just twenty-four hours, let it go. It is not worth keeping.
For one day, consciously decide that you are not going to use
your intellect to solve your problems. It is your intellect that
tells you that you dont have the natural intelligence to solve
your problems spontaneously.

The moment you find your mind planning ahead, just drop
the plan. Allow things to unfold on their own. Act from your
being, not from your intellect. Again and again, have the
courage to remain in the space of not-knowing.
You will find that you have enough clarity, enough spontaneous
awareness to run your life. When you drop the thinking,
planning, worrying, you will find that a higher intelligence
comes into play.
Understand, this higher power is not outside of you. The
intelligence that is running this universe is also inside you. It
can take care.

TIME MAKES YOU INTENSE

Time can make you intense. How does this happen? For
example, everyday in the morning from eight to nine o clock
you do guru puja - offerings/ritual to the feet of the Master.
So you are intense for that one hour. You do not do any other
work for that one hour.
So everyday when your perform the puja, that mere
remembrance that at this particular time you have to do puja
makes you intense for that one hour.
In the morning when you set aside time to do yoga, you
intensely do yoga during this time and not think about
anything else. In the same way everyday you eat two to three
times a day. Again this remembrance to eat at a particular
time makes you intense.
Whether as a concept or as an understanding when time

enters it makes you intense. Remember the concept of time.

Now you are sitting here. You have to be sitting here till I finish
my session. Why not sit with complete awareness, so that the
whole benefit happens in you intensely, instead of sitting in a
lousy way.
While eating why not be intense, instead of eating in a lousy
way. Taking a shower everyday, you have to take a shower so
why not be aware of the whole action, instead of being in a
lousy way.
You have to eat, you have to do guru puja, you have to do
yoga, you have to take a shower once a day, and you have to
sleep. Just with these five actions, which are inevitable in you,
bring intensity. They are lifes inevitable actions, like driving to
your office.
When you understand with the boundary of past and present
it makes you passionate. When you understand that there is
no boundary of past and present it makes you passive. Both
are a blessing.
If you are passionate you will achieve in the outer world. If it
makes you passive you will achieve in the inner world. Both
are a blessing.
Even if you understand time with the boundary of past and
future, that understanding will lead you to the experience of
boundary-less time. So through passion become passive.
Understand, I am opening another one door. Understanding
about time with the boundary of past and future will naturally
make you intense in the outer world, for example I am going
to be here at this time why not be intense.
Let me be aware intensely, fully alive intensely.

Bring time consciousness into all your activities. I have to sit

in this office for eight hours, so why just be an engineers
clerk for ten years, in a lousy way. Why not be intense and
rise in the ladder. This brings intensity in the outer world and
success. The concept of time and understanding time brings
intensity to you.
When you decide let me be intense and chant the mantras.
Suddenly in a few days you catch boundary-less time: which is
not packed by the past or by the future. So the present gives
you the opening freedom.
The suffocation-less inner space is what I call the Vedic
mind. Which leads you to inner world success. When you
understand time with boundary of past and future it brings
you the responsibility of being intense. When you understand
the time without boundary it brings you the tremendous
freedom of in-action.
When you understand time with past and present with
boundaries you become responsible in the outer world. When
you understand time without boundary you can become free
from the inner world.
Intensity without intention!

3. HOW SHOULD I LIVE

INTENSELY?
INTENSITY IN EVERYTHING YOU DO
Do not bother about what your intensity should be about. Do
not bother about towards what. It should become a quality.
Anything you do, whether you touch something or somebody
or some object, let the intensity be there, even in that touch.
If you are talking, let the intensity be there. In your relationships,
in your decisions, in your memory, in your thinking, in your
desires, even in your fears, be intense without escaping from
this moment.That is what I call intensity.
TECHNIQUE: MEDITATION TO BE INTENSE IN
EVERYTHING YOU DO
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
This is a simple way to bring intensity into your day-to-day
activities. It is a way to live your life in meditation.
Every activity that is performed without intensity is a waste.
Every moment that you are unaware of is a wasted moment.
Every act, every moment that has your intensity is meditation.
You will be surprised to know that even simple, day-to-day
activities like eating and drinking can be turned into deep
meditation!

We always use our senses in a superficial manner. We use

them as gateways to pleasure.
In reality, they can be gateways to deep intensity. Beneath
each of the senses lies the center of our being, the seer who
is seeing through the particular sense. All senses reach to this
level although we are not aware of it.
When we become aware of this phenomenon, every sense
activity can be a way to fall deeper in. Everything we perceive,
we start perceiving with deep intensity. We fall in tune with
our very being.
Duration
Whenever eating, drinking, and day-to-day activities.
INSTRUCTIONS
When you start eating a meal, do it as if it is the first time you
are tasting food in your life!
Normally we dont chew our food, we just throw the food into
our body. We hardly taste the food.
Now whenever you eat, eat with intensity!
Be aware when you are picking up your food. Enjoy the feel of
it in your mouth. Roll it on your tongue and taste it.
Taste your food completely. Become the taste. We never really
taste our food, because our attention is somewhere else.

When you really feel the sweetness of the food, you can feel it
not only in the mouth but also in your entire body.
While drinking water, feel the fluidity, feel the coolness of
the water as it goes down your throat and into your stomach.
Close your eyes and drink it slowly, enjoying every sip. Feel
the coolness intensely, not only in the mouth but also in the
entire body.
When you eat with intensity, with awareness, with respect,
your food itself becomes amrut, the elixir of immortality.
In Sanskrit there is a saying, Annam Brahma (Food is God).
When you approach these simple activities with intensity and
reverence, you will experience this truth.

INTENSITY IN ACTION
How do I live enlightenment in every moment?
There are two things that you need to do to achieve
enlightenment. One, work intensely, and the second,
continuously when you work meditate on the unending
infinite Cosmos.
This means unclutching and aligning with the Cosmos. If you
unclutch, surrender the results of your work, and work, you
will align yourself with the Cosmos.
Work at least twelve hours a day, let there be no physical
and mental activity, for at least twelve hours a day. Oh God,
it looks too much! I tell you, for whatever reason either to
be productive to the society, make your life rich, or through

social service in some way work at least twelve hours a day.

The funny part is that you will never be able to work for twelve
hours if working for profit. Your body will say after a maximum
of six hours of work, no enough work, this is enough to keep
myself comfortable. I dont want to work for that comfort. It
will strike.
Then how to work for twelve hours? The remaining six
hours decide to work for some non-profit activity. I tell you
non-profit activity is the ultimate creativity service. It is the
ultimate creativity.
If you learn the trick of service, means the knack of serving
without remembering the result. Non-profit work is the
expression of the highest form of creativity. You get all the
opportunities and possibilities to express your creativity.
Please understand, an empty mind is the devils workshop.
An empty body is the devils residence. Devil works for a few
hours and resides in his house for a long time.
A lazy body is the devils residence. An empty mind is the
devils workshop. I am giving a completely different insight
into some of the orthodox translation.
Reduce the activity that comes out of the idea that you are
the body. When you unclutch you will start living, being active,
alive, and intense. So understand the ultimate aligning to the
awakening happens by intense working.
When the aligning for the awakening happens, even the
words you utter will be a great service to the world. You can
even serve the world not only physically, but also by uttering

the right words.

Giving the right truths, the right understanding, to people.
Even that can be a very powerful, amazing service to the
world.

FLOW IN INTENSITY
The father of Yoga, Patanjali, says, Success is nearest to those
whose efforts are intense and sincere. You see, no river needs
a navigator to the ocean. There are no signboards needed for
any river, Here is the ocean. Yet all rivers reach the ocean!
They reach the destination.
When your whole energy moves in one direction as a whole,
you can move easily. When you are intense and ready to flow
you will achieve the goal, thats all.
Usually intensity leads to a solid feeling. You may be intense
but you may have lost the ability to flow. Or you may be flowing

but may have lost the intensity. See, you may be intense but
you may have lost the ability to flow, because you are driven
by your ego.
You are determined to achieve what you want, but you have
your own rigid ideas about how to get there. You fail to
understand that Existence can make events happen in a much
more beautiful and effective way than you can plan.
It can be described as a river that flows intensely and smoothly
through various paths and courses to reach the ocean. It is
indeed remarkable, that rivers always find their way to the
ocean, without any navigators.
The river is so intense in its purpose, that even when an
obstacle presents itself, it flows around, to reach the ocean.
The river, unlike the human ego, does not get hurt when an
obstacle presents itself.
Often times, human beings feel hurt by an obstacle on their
path and stop flowing. They then become like a lake that has
decided to remain where it is, without achieving its goal.
If like the river, people decide to continue persistently on their
path, making necessary modifications or turn on their life
course as and when necessary; they will achieve their goals.
If obstacles frighten or hurt the ego, then people may stop
flowing completely. This can lead to stagnation in growth and
possibly depression and frustration.
There are people who are intense but who lost the ability to
flow; similarly, there are people who just flow but are not
intense.

In Sanskrit there is a word Jnanavarishthaa bhakti,used

by the famous Indian enlightened master Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa. This means that it is important to have
devotion or deepbhakti, but it is also important to have the
intensity with knowledge.
It is important to have both the qualities of intensity and flow
to achieve lifes goals.
TECHNIQUE: HOW TO FLOW IN INTENSITY?
ABOUT THIS TECHNIQUE
This technique will teach you how to flow with everything
around you. It uses external movement for inner centering.
Whenever you are in a moving vehicle, on a plane or in a car
and when you are not driving, you can try this technique.
When we create a movement ourselves, it is easy to direct it.
We are in control. Whether we are walking, running, dancing,
the direction of movement is in our hands. We can handle it.
But when a current of movement that you cannot control is
carrying you, you will observe that your entire body resists
the movement.
Actually, your body enjoys being in a state of inertia. Once a
movement is set up in the body, it likes the same speed and
direction to be maintained. In a moving vehicle, like a train
or a car, your body continuously resists the natural swinging
movement. We always try to hold on to something so that we

dont get hurt.

You dont like uncertainty. That is why even a small jolt in a
moving vehicle can upset you so much - because for that one
moment, you are not in control!
Duration
Not applicable.
INSTRUCTIONS
Sit comfortably in the vehicle.
Mentally decide that for the duration of the journey, you will
not resist any movement of the vehicle.
Dont be afraid! You are not going to get hurt. No big accident
is going to happen in the next fifteen or twenty minutes. We
always love to visualize the worst scenario, especially when
we get into a vehicle!
Now, allow the movement of the vehicle to move your body.
Flow with it.
Initially, your body will try to resist. Even if you keep yourself
physically loose, not holding anywhere, your mind will be
trying to hold somewhere.
Just drop this holding. Move with the natural movement of
the vehicle.
Allow your body to sway back and forth. Allow the small jolts
to happen.
Even if your body bumps slightly against the sides of the
vehicle, dont bother.

Understand, it is not the contact that hurts; it is your resistance

to the contact that brings pain.
If you are unresisting, even if you fall, you will fall like a flower.
You cannot get hurt.
So drop your fear. Just flow and enjoy the rhythm of movement.
As you enter deeply into the movement, slowly, you will find
that you are apart from the movement!
You are not your body, you are just witnessing the movements
of your body.
Suddenly, you will see you are disengaged from the I. You
will realize that you are beyond the body; you are the pure
witnessing Consciousness!
With this one understanding, the fear of losing control of
your body will simply leave you. You will experience a deep
relaxation in body and mind.

INTEGRATE WITH INTENSITY

Only when you are open to change, you can make your way
like the river flowing intensely towards the ocean.
I tell my disciples, plan in the best way, to the best of your
abilities, and then leave it. It may seem that all your plans
are being completely trampled. Dont get frustrated at that
point. Something will happen that is much more beautiful,
than what you have planned.
Understand, water becomes steam only at 100 Celsius. Even

at 99 Celsius, it is still water. It does not transform to steam.

In the same way, if you are not integrated in seeking, and all
your energies are not integrated, the total transformation
cannot happen.
Take up something and follow it with full intensity. Intensity
does not mean acting rigidly without scope for updating and
change. Only when you are open to change you can make
your way like the river flowing intensely towards the ocean.
A small story:
A man moved into a small, remote county. One day while
driving he stopped at a gas station to fill gas. The gas station
owner started talking casually and started complaining about
the local mayor. This man who had come to the city for the
first time just heard him and did not reply.
After some time, he drove further and stopped at another
place to ask for directions. There also, he started enquiring
about the county. That person also started complaining about
the mayor. After half an hour, he reached his destination.
There also the people were talking ill and complaining about
the mayor.
The next day, the man decided to meet the mayor. He got an
appointment with the mayor. In his conversation, he asked the
mayor curiously, Sir, if I may ask, how much do you get paid
for your job?
The mayor replied, Money? I accepted this job just for the
honor of it!
Understand, the mayor is thinking he is doing the job for the
honor of it, but the people who are living in the county are
experiencing something totally different.
You decide and take up something to do. You do not verify

whether that decision is being executed or not and whether

the purpose for which you decided is still relevant or not.
TECHNIQUE: MEDITATION TO BE IN TOTALITY
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
When was the last time you sang with your eyes?
Danced with your smile?
Threw your whole body and being into anything, just anything?
If you notice children, their whole body is one organic unity.
Whatever they are doing, their whole body just flows into
that action. They dont create separation in the body.
It is not as if the head is important and the feet are unimportant.
The truth is that there is no division in your body; no natural
demarcations exist.
But by and by the demarcations start coming up. Then the
head becomes the master, and the whole body is divided into
parts.
We stop experiencing our body as a whole. We create roles
for each part of our body, and then limit them in these roles.
We forget to be total and intense in anything.
In the martial arts tradition, students are told, Your whole
body should become an eye! Just imagine! This is the kind
of sensitivity that needs to be developed in the body! This is
what is being total and intense.
Totality and intensity is the way to live.

Your mind is always limiting you. Drop your mind and be

intense in whatever you do.
Then there will be no hangover in anything. Everything will
become a joyful meditation. You will experience fulfillment in
whatever you do.
When you miss the intensity, you become fragmented. When
you are intense, you become integrated. Being integrated is
your true nature. Remember that!
DURATION
This is a twenty-four hours, seven days a week meditation.
INSTRUCTIONS
Whatever you are doing, it naturally becomes your meditation
for that moment.
When you are looking at something, look with your whole
body.
Understand, you dont just see with your eyes. You can see
with your whole body! When you are looking at something
intensely, totally, your whole being flows towards that.
But we rarely enter into anything totally.
Now, be total and integrated in all your body movements.
When you are listening, listen with your whole body. Let a
deep silence be created in your center. Let your listening
happen from that center.

When you are laughing, feel the laughter rising from deep
inside you. Let your whole body bubble with laughter!
Even when you are working, using only your hands, feel the
movement in your whole body.
Experience your body as an integrated whole. Experience
every pore of your skin looking, listening, and laughing.
Dont think, how can I see with my skin?
There are many interesting incidents where blind people have
taught their fingers to see colors!
You dont realize, your body is an integrated intelligence! You
never use all the possibilities of your body.
When you are total, integrated, and intense a new sensitivity

flowers in your body. Your body responds as a whole to life.

You begin to live completely with your body.
Not only that, you will find your body expressing abilities that
you never imagined. Your body has a tremendous potential
that you have never used.
When you fulfill all the possibilities of your body, naturally you
become ready to go beyond the body.

DONT LOSE INTENSITY-BASED ACTION

Keep intensity alive in you through inspiration. Your heart
should be a temple for constant inspiration and not a tomb of
inspiration. We dont want cemetery for intensity, we want a
temple for intensity.
I tell you honesty, inspiration, integrity, and intensity is the
essence of every thing. Intense action should not become
second priority in your life whether for money, pleasure, and
luxury. Nothing should take priority over intense action. It
cannot be second priority.
Intensity has to be the first priority, because it is qualitatively
responsible for all your goodness. For example, if you have
two cars, two houses, and then ten houses, you will have
more quantity added to you. But intensity-based action by
the very quality is good for you. Its very existence brings
auspiciousness to you.
If you are living an intensity-based action, you contribute so
much to the world and to yourself. If intensity-based action is
missing, it leads to corruption, dilution and poison.

How did the Devas (Gods) become demons? When the

inspiration intense-based action was lost, the gods became
demons. When humanitys thinking changes, they become
the source of perspiration instead of inspiration..!
This knowledge of intense based action, with honesty and
intensity, was kept alive as long as it was being passed on from
generation to generation; father to son, father to son, by the
royal sages. When some sons did not receive the knowledge,
the chain got broken.
This is where intensity-based action, the great knowledge, the
science of inner awakening, was lost. The science of having
wealth, health, leadership consciousness, radiating intense
life, and living in your body and mind, got lost.
So let us not lose this science of yogic body, Vedic mind and
enlightened living. There is no justification for losing the
inspiration to live this kind of lifestyle. We justify everything
we do by comparing to others: if this person doesnt do yoga,
and it is tolerated, then why not me. That is the reason why
the death of inspiration happens.
If you do not have intensity-based action, understand you
are not walking alone; you are carrying the dead body of
inspiration, and going around.
The inspiration given by the Master from His very tongue, His
master child, you have killed it, if you are not living it. You
have killed the Masters child, the Masters gift to you. Take
care that you dont do that in your life.

4. LIVE IN COMPLETION
BREAK FREE OF THE PAST WITH
INTENSITY
Intensity means the ability to stand for what you believe and
break free from the past method of functioning, the past
attitude of functioning, and the past way of functioning.
Please understand the ability to break free from the past way
of functioning, and live in a new way, to start in a new way,
that is what I call intensity.
Otherwise, you go on and on and on in the same way. You can
see in your life even inside your house, you will walk in the

same route, sit in the same sofa, go to your bed the same way,
lie down in the same way, come back and sit in the same chair
on the dining table, you come out of your garage, and you will
drive in the same way. You will not even be alive and creative.
You need intensity to do new things. Otherwise, you will do
the same old thing. The only difference may be in the quantity,
big or small, but not the quality. I always tell my ashramites
to at least do some new mistakes, so that I will get some
entertainment..! But we dont have creativity even for that.
A small story:
A cowboy rode into a town and went into a saloon for a
few drinks, when he came out again his horse was gone. He
stormed back into the saloon and shouted, Who stole my
horse? There was no reply. He was getting angry, and said,
Rise, otherwise you dont know what I did in Arizona? Still
there was silence. The cowboy was fuming, This is your last
chance. If no one owns up about stealing my horse, I am going
to do what I did in Arizona! Just then a lone voice said, What
did you do in Arizona? The cowboy said quietly, I walked
home.
When there is no intensity, you will be doing the same thing.
TECHNIQUE: BURN YOUR PAST
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
You hold so tightly onto your possessions, your relationships,
your experiences, your identity, only because you have never
really confronted the truth that none of these can be with you

forever.
A single, intense experience, that all this can be utterly,
irreversibly destroyed in a moment, is enough to disillusion
you about all that you are clinging to. Then your awareness
will be centered on that which can never be destroyed.
DURATION
21 minutes.
INSTRUCTIONS
Before going to sleep at night, lie on the left side of your body
with your head facing East.
Visualize and say to yourself, let my breathing pattern become
one with the cosmic breathing pattern.
Then visualize that your own physical body, thoughts, and
emotions are burning with fire to ashes. Next visualize that
the bed that you are lying on is also burning. Then everything
in your room is burning.
Keep on visualizing as much as you can that everything is
burning, the street that you are on, the neighborhood, city,
country, etc.
Visualize everything around you and within you being burnt
by kaalaagni : the flames of annihilation. Whatever you
experience on the outside, and whatever you experience
on the inside, it is burning and getting extinguished by this
mighty fire.
Flaming tongues of fire are consuming the whole material

world. The entire inner world - all your thoughts and feelings
about people, situations, experiences, all are burning to ashes.
Visualize continuously that whatever you think about the
world, about anything, is burning, it no longer exists. Your
attitudes, your interests, your passions, your greed, your
desires, and your fears are all being consumed in the fire.
When everything is burnt, what remains?
Only your awareness: I am!
Before falling asleep, say to yourself, Oh God, my Guru,
remember whatever I have done to achieve oneness with you
and whatever you did to achieve oneness with me.
With this remembrance fall asleep into restful awareness.
This experience can drastically break your conditioning and
push you into enlightenment.

RELEASE YOUR PATTERNS THROUGH

INTENSITY
On the spiritual path, intensity is a war with yourself.
Intensity means fighting with your patterns uncompromisingly.
If you are fighting with your own patterns, you are being
intense. If you are fighting with others patterns, it means you
are in-tension, not intense!
Fighting with your patterns is intensity; fighting with others

patterns is tension.
It is time we fight with our own patterns, our own inner
enemies. Everybody comes and tells me, I have transformed so
much. Why dont you tell the other person also to transform?
Everybody knows what their own patterns are, but nobody
wants to fight with their own patterns. Everybody wants to
fight with others patterns!
You have enough enemies inside, so why dont you fight with
your patterns? Look at your own patterns instead of others
patterns. Identify and break your own patterns.
But you will say No, no, no, no! This person is not fighting
with his patterns, so I have to fight with his patterns! So you
fight with the other persons patterns and he fights with your
patterns!
You fighting with your own patterns is peace. You fighting with
others patterns is war! Thats all!
So whenever conflicts arise, you decide if you want to be in
war or peace!
TECHNIQUE: IDENTIFY YOUR PATTERNS
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
Below is the process in which you can identify your major
patterns.
Duration
As much time as needed.

INSTRUCTIONS
Think of a recent conflict or a time when you felt powerless
or when you felt your energy was down or when you felt
depressed or felt fear or anger.
Now visualize that event vividly as if it is happening right now
and relive the situation. Recall what was said, how you felt,
everything you can visualize of that event.
Identify three things in the conflict:
Mamakara what you think you are inside at that moment.
It is the image you carry for yourself; what you felt as you
at that moment. For example: I am a loser, I always let my
parents down, etc.
Ahankara what you project to others as you: the way you
react, your body language, your actions, and the statements
you gave about yourself to others at that time. For example: I
project friendliness even when I feel I am a loser.
Swa-anyakara what you cognize as Life at those moments.
What is it that you felt life was for you at that moment? For
example: life is humiliating me, because people are laughing
at me at that time.
When you identify these three statements, you will see that
they have been there inside you during many situations in
your life before.
These statements are only the branches. They are the sign
of the pattern that exists deep inside you. The root is hidden
from your own view due to your current cognition. But we can
start with cutting off the branches.

TECHNIQUE: COMPLETE WITH YOUR PATTERNS

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
The next step is the process of self-completion swapoornatva
kriya. The purpose of self-completion is to make you whole or
complete. When you are complete, you will feel light as if the
heaviness inside you is lifted. You will also feel energized and
feel your inner space expanding.
When you are incomplete or not whole, you will feel
powerless, upset, lifeless, and have low energy.
Duration
As much time as needed.

INSTRUCTIONS
Have a medium-sized mirror in which you can see your
face comfortably. You are going to have a conversation with
yourself!
With the mirror in front of you, sit in a relaxed way and cognize
that you committed for completion to happen. The complete
part of you is holding the mirror. The incomplete person is the
image in the mirror.
Look at the image in the mirror and bring up the situation
again that caused you conflict. Listen intently to what the
incomplete person in the mirror has to say to you about the
conflict.
Keep listening till there is nothing else the incomplete person
has to say.
Now, as the complete person, say to the incomplete person
in the mirror that you heard what has been said, and that the
incomplete person was functioning from a cognition that was
created in the past, and that it is not the cognition you now
have as a complete person.
Say to your mirror-image that you are functioning from this
new cognition, and that you will not be functioning from the
old cognition you had at that time.
Heal the incomplete person in the mirror completely. Tears
may come and/or laughter may come. Allow both to happen.
On completion, you will feel a lightness, an expansion or a
deep feeling of relief or a sigh. You may have sudden clarity
about other past events, which are based on the same pattern
you were dealing with during the completion process.

Repeat the same process for any other major pattern you
want to complete with.
Go on completing every day if needed. This technique is
especially useful when done at night before sleep where you
can review your conflicts or patterns or actions for that day!

RELEASE YOUR PATTERNS THROUGH

INTENSE ACTION
Every action either releases or creates certain patterns in you.
If your actions are done without the influence of the patterns,

but through meditation on the infinite, it will lead you to the

ultimate consciousness.
Through the process of working for twelve hours a day, while
being unclutched, all the patterns that are not letting your
body align to the awakening, will leave your system. Every
action releases some pattern from your system.
A small example, during the levitation process that I do,
where the kundalini energy is awakened, all the stored and
suppressed patterns leave your body. You will see that a lot of
violence will leave your system, and a lot of fantasy and greed
will leave your system.
Just by intense physical vibration, your deep craving for
physical pleasures and fantasy will leave your system.

You may think, how does levitation help me transform in this

way? When you are encaged by the patterns, gravity pulls you
down. All I am doing when I awaken your kundalini is to make
your short-sighted intellect into vast-sighted intelligence, to
bring your life energy alive.
Naturally, your ego dissolves into the life energy for those few
moments, and your intense bio-energy (consciousness) gets
awakened. When the bio-energy gets awakened, the patterns
that were holding you down get removed from your system,
and you levitate.
Levitation is an intense conscious experience. See the people
who levitate, the amount of joy they radiate the whole day,
and conscious coherence in which they live!
When you have heavy patterns, your body becomes heavy, not
physically but internally. You will become deeply depressed.
With levitation it brings so much of joy, because the patterns
just leave your system.
The exact same thing happens in you when you work
intensely for twelve hours a day, continuously contemplating
on the infinite. You will experience the same feeling that
you get when you are levitating. The same intense kundalini
awakening happens in you. You will experience levitation
everyday.
TECHNIQUE: WORK INTENSELY
INSTRUCTIONS
For the next two months, try working for at least twelve hours

a day. Work as a lifestyle, not for a purpose.

You dont breath for a purpose. You know it is your life.
In the same way, work for twelve hours a day.
Take up for-profit or non-profit work.
But work for twelve hours a day in an unclutched way.
Whenever you remember, let the inner space be unclutched,
while the outer body will be intensely working. You will see the aligning to awakening will happen.
Do your regular job for survival - for food, clothes and money.
But apart from that, continue to do more activity, work by
meditating on the infinite.

5. LIVE A CONFLICT-FREE
LIFE
INTENSITY IS CONFLICT-FREE LIVING
Living with intensity is living without inner or outer conflict.
When a person is strongly connected with an idea or thought,
they feel they can overcome any obstacle. They can flow
towards the positive achievement of their goals.
However, people can also intensely create conflict! This is not
the expression or radiation of true living energy within the
self.
I have seen some people intensely creating conflict every
moment! Anything you tell them to do, they will be ready to
create a conflict.
Intense people who constantly create conflict are not flowing
smoothly with people and life. They have the intensity, but
it is used to create blocks and obstacles. There is no natural
expression of life energy.
A small story:
A prisoner escaped from prison after twelve years and reached
his home. The moment his wife opened the door she started
shouting, How dare you come so late! You escaped from
prison twenty-four hours before. Where have you been? You
should have come straight back home!

All that the woman was bothered about was why he was
not back home right after he had escaped.She certainly was
intense, but only in creating conflicts.
In the Shiva sutras, intensity is described as a form of living
energy that rises and flows through the seven chakras in the
body, which are the main energy centers. This form of energy
does not create conflict, but flows smoothly and strongly.
Intensity is like a flood that is intense and flowing. We always
think that if it is flowing smoothly like a river, it will not have
intensity, and if it is intense like a stone, it will not be flowing
freely. No!
Intensity is like a flood that is intense and flowing
Real intensity does not create conflicts. It is flowing but
intense. Intensity is integration. Intensity is focus. Intensity is
sincerity.
When you are intense and ready to flow, you will achieve the
goal, thats all.
TECHNIQUE: MEDITATION TO INCREASE INTENSITY
AND LIFE ENERGY
INSTRUCTIONS
Close your eyes and sit with your spine straight. Inhale and
exhale as slowly as possible but as deeply as possible.
Visualize yourself as a light ball in theMooladhara chakraor
root center, at the root of the spinal cord. Forget all other
parts of your body. Forget everything. Just be the light. Do
this for one minute.

Intensely bring your awareness, bring yourself to

theSwadhishtana chakra, two inches above the root center. Be
in theSwadhishtanachakra intensely. Forget the other centers
and the other parts of the body. Just be in Swadhishtana,
spleen chakra. Do this for one minute.
Slowly move up to theManipuraka chakra or the navel center.
Now be intensely present in the navel center. Let your focus
be on the navel center. Do this for one minute.
Move to the Anahata chakra or the heart center and stay
there intensely. Do this for one minute.
Move to the Vishuddhi chakra or the throat center. Live
intensely now in the throat center. Let the intense light ball
be in the throat center, which is you. Do this for one minute.
Move your energy to the brow center or ajna chakra. Be
centered on the third eye,Ajna chakra.Be living in theAjna
chakra.Do this for one minute.
Slowly, but intensely, bring yourself up. Lift yourself up to
theSahasrara chakra, the crown center. Be intensely present
in the form of light in the crown center. Do this for one minute.
Relax.
TECHNIQUE: OVERCOMING INNER AND OUTER
WORLD CONFLICT
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
We all have times when we are feeling closed, isolated, and

alienated from everyone else.

At other times, we feel open and flowing. We welcome
differences and change. We are conflict-free. We fall into
meditation easily.
When we are feeling closed, we cannot relate to anyone. We
dont even feel like meditating. Nothing wrong! The important
thing is just to be aware that you are going through this.
DURATION
Not applicable.
INSTRUCTIONS
In any situation where you experience some inner conflict,
just ask yourself, Am I open or closed right now? Chances
are, you will find that you are closed!
Most of the time, it is not the external situation that is causing
the conflict. It is your level of receptivity and openness to the
situation.
This technique is not for judging yourself, it is only for
becoming more aware of your own state.
As you work with it, you will become more and more conscious
of the subtle fluctuations of mood you go through all the time.
You become conscious of your mental patterns.
Just being aware can help you make the transition from being
closed to being open, at least most of the time!
Once you understand this constant flux inside yourself, you
will be able to see and understand that it happens in others

also. Then you will know when exactly another person can be
approached for a discussion; when he will be open to you and
when he wont!
The problem is, we always see others from the outside, never
from the inside. Once you see the same pattern playing in
others as well, you begin to notice the mood, not the person.
You get out of the blame-game.
With this simple awareness, you will find yourself becoming
less judgmental and more compassionate in your relationships.

6. INTENSITY LEADS YOU

TO THE ULTIMATE
INTENSITY LEADS TO REALIZATION
When your thirst for realization becomes intense, you are
ready to pay with your life for the Truth.
If you are in a desert and your thirst for water becomes really
intense, you are ready to pay with your life for a glass of water.
Same way, when your thirst for realization becomes intense,
you are ready to pay with your life for the Truth.
A beautiful Zen story:
A student approached a Zen teacher to learn Zen. The teacher
told him, Listen to the sound of one hand clapping.
The student tried for three years and did not succeed. He was
depressed that he could not do what his teacher had told
him. He came in tears to the teacher saying he had to leave
because he could not do what he had been told.
The teacher said, Wait for one more week. Meditate
constantly. The student stayed for one more week and
meditated. Nothing happened. The teacher said, Try for
another five more days.
The student stayed further, yet nothing happened. The student
came in despairbegging to be released. Then the teacher said,
Meditate for three more days. If you dont get enlightened,
you better kill yourself. The second day, the student was
enlightened.

When your whole being is burning with the single, intense

desire to realize the Ultimate, you will simply absorb the
Masters instructions. The magic of transformation is bound
to happen. Only then will you be open to receive him.
There is another beautiful story from one of the ancientVedic
texts:
A disciple goes to a Master and asks Him, Master, give me
enlightenment. The Master just says, Tat tvam asi nine
times.
Tat tvam asi means That Art Thou. It is called a mahavakya,
the statement that straightaway gives enlightenment. The
vakya or the statement that straightaway leads you to the
experience of the mahat, the cosmos, is mahavakya.
Nine times, the Master repeats Tat tvam asi and the disciple
gets enlightened. The story ends.
The disciple was fully integrated and burning to receive the
truth. Is it so simple? Then why is it not happening in us?
What is missing in us? What is the difference between that
disciple and us? The disciple was fully integrated and burning
to receive the truth.

INTENSITY: THE KEY TO

ENLIGHTENMENT
There are different techniques, different methods, different
deities, and different paths. Then what is the point that
decides a persons enlightenment? Intensity!
Intensity decides a persons enlightenment, the higher

experiences. Intensity in whatever you do will be meditation,

without intensity even if you meditate it will just be a ritual.
Whenever I teach meditation to a hundred people, I will learn
hundred versions of the same meditation.
Success depends on the person, not what he is doing, but
what he is. It depends on the intensity he carries. I just want
to drill this one point again and again, and again, you can
become intensely intense. You will become intensely intense.

BE OPEN WITH INTENSITY

Look at the oyster. It is waiting for the rainwater to make the
pearl. When the rainwater falls, she just carries the rainwater
into her womb and goes down into the ocean.
The process happens on the rainwater, and the pearl results.
The oyster will be waiting with the mouth wide open on the
waters of the ocean. She will be just waiting for the rainwater.
She cannot take the salt water and make the pearl. She needs
pure rainwater. The moment one drop of rainwater falls on
her, immediately she will go into the deepest layer of the
ocean, and she will start doing the process. She will come out
with the pearl.
When the words of the Master enter the being of the
disciple who is intensely burning for the Truth, the pearl of
enlightenment happens!
In the same way, the words of the Master will straight away
enter only into the person who is seeking intensely with his

being fully open for the initiation. He carries those words with
him and it sits inside his inner space.
The process happens and out comes the pearl of
enlightenment.
For the intense seeker, even a few words are enough. He will
suddenly see the being blossoming, expanding and expressing
itself.
The intensity and the openness of the disciple are like the
wide-open mouth of the oyster. The words of the Master are
like the rainwater.
When the words of the Master enter the being of the disciple
intensely burning for the truth, the pearl of enlightenment
happens.
TECHNIQUE: MEDITATION TO BE OPEN TO LIFE
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
Why do you carry your body like a shield?
If you look closely, you will see that you are carrying your body
like, a defense against the world.
We never release our body. We are so afraid to be vulnerable,
to be open.
If you observe children, they are so light, so comfortable
inside their body. They dont feel their body as a load. They
dont have an idea of body in their mind!

You feel the solidity, the load of your body because you are
clinging to it.
It is not clinging to you; you are clinging to it!
Not only are you carrying your body as a shield against the
world, you are feeding and nourishing this idea continuously.
When you become aware of this, you can simply drop it.
I dont mean that you should drop the body! Drop the idea
you have of it in your mind. If you dont carry it as a protective
shield, your body will disappear from your mind.

DURATION
Not applicable
INSTRUCTIONS
In the night, when you go to sleep, just imagine that you are
dropping the shield of your body. At least at night, you dont
need to wear a shield!
Your body feels so stiff and solid! Just release it! Let it drop
away from you.
Take a few deep breaths. Feel the weight of the body
falling away. Dont imagine that you dont have a body. Just
experience your body as soft and vulnerable, not as a shield.
Feel your body to be as delicate as the body of a newborn
baby.
Let your body fall gently on the bed, like a flower dropping on
the grass. Go to sleep in this way, light and free.

7. INTENSITY: GLIMPSES
FROM MY LIFE
INTENSITY AND ACTION
When I was a child, my mentor Ragupati Yogi, used to train
me in the path of yoga. He used to make me shift stones from
one place to another, from one corner to another, and back
to the same place, or climbing the pillars in the temple using
just one hand!
It is not directly productive, but he used to insist that I do it.
When I felt exhausted, he used to ask me to do the same work
in an unclutched way, meditating on my all-pervasiveness.
I noticed that I used to feel tired by working for six hours,
shifting a stone from the right corner to the left corner.
But when I meditated on the infinite, I used to very clearly
experience that I am able to work without tiredness for the
next six hours, shifting the stone to one corner and back.
I tell you: mediate on the infinite continuously though
unclutching. Go on and on and on. Take this as a process,
as a spiritual practice, and work for twelve hours a day. Do
anything, whether it is physical or mental action.
Take this as a spiritual practice.

INTENSITY: SIGN OF A SEEKER

All of you have discontentment about your own existence;
but you never look into why, what, who is having that
discontentment. Even if you try to look in, you get distracted
by something and forget about it. Then you try to look in
again and get distracted by something else. Again you forget
about it. Very easily the questions about Why, What, Who is
so discontented? are forgotten.
The person for whom these questions has become the number
one priority is a Seeker.
All of you know that when fear takes you over, you experience
a panic attack, and you just do things. Later on you feel guilty
and ashamed about it. You repent for it. You dont know why
you did it.
In the same way, when lust takes you over or when greed
takes you over, you do things that you can never logically

justify, even to yourself.

When fear takes you over, it is called panic attack. When
greed takes you over, it is called restlessness. When
authenticity takes you over, it is called Satori (a glimpse of
the enlightenment experience)!
When authenticity takes you over, it will be ten thousand
times more intense than fear taking you over or greed taking
you over! It will be ten thousand times more intense and
powerful.

SANNYAS: PATH OF INTENSE INTENSITY

When I was six, my Guru once asked me, Do you want to
become sannyasi (monk) or grihasta (householder)? I stood
up and said, Sannyasi!
Still I remember, I just stood up, because I didnt want
him, even for one moment, to take the decision of grihasta
(householder).
I stood up and said, Sannyasi, with such force and power.
And then he touched my head and did something.
After two or three days, I asked my Guru, Did you purify
my brain to live a Sannyas life? He said, No, no, no. I just
increased the frequency of your intensity, that is all.
This is the word he used, the reply he gave. Then I asked him,
What do you mean by increasing the frequency of intensity?
He said, Just increasing the intensity is powerful enough.
That is enough, all the morals, discipline, values, everything,

will become your body language automatically. It will become

your muscle-memory and bio-memory.

INTENSITY: KEY TO MY
ENLIGHTENMENT EXPERIENCE
When I was twelve years old, I was once sitting on a rock in
my hometown in Thiruvanamalai. I used to just casually sit
on that rock sometimes. To tell you honestly, I was not even
doing some serious meditation that day.
The whole ambience of that place and space was so calm and
so beautiful, so I decided to close my eyes. Once I closed my
eyes, the intensity of my yearning started taking over me.The
intensity to realize myself, my true nature, started possessing
me. It started taking possession of me.
My sincere seeking, that overpowered me! That is the right
word I should use.I just felt, What is it that I am seeking?Who
is that me who is seeking? Who is that me that is deeply
discontented about anything I see, hear?Who is that who is
deeply discontented even about my own existence?
It was such strong taking over for me. That is the right word I
will use taking over.
The whole being took over with these questions of, Who am
I that is experiencing this deep discontentment, suffocation,
etc.?I could very clearly see, that heaviness just went into
the depths of my Consciousness.
Suddenly, the first thing that happened is: the idea of inside
and outside broke for me. The inner space and outer space
broke.

The first experience I had was I was able to see everything

around me, above me, below me and behind me. I was able
to see 360 degrees! I realized not only was I able to see, but I
was able to feel and experience!
I felt that the skin of the stone, on the rock on which I was
sitting, and the skin of this body, both carry me equally, in
both I exist equally! The air, the breeze, the setting sun, the
rising moon, the whole Arunachala Hill (where I was sitting);
all the plants, bushes, shrubs, trees, everything, everything,
everything, just became so alive! The idea something is inside
and something is outside was completely lost!
First, I was able to see in all the ten directions, 360
degrees.Then in the next moment, I realized, not only was I
able to see, I was able to experience all of that as me! There
was no inner, there was no outer, there was no moving,
there was no unmoving.
The smallest movement of the plants was my movement,
and the highest stillness of the center of the Cosmos was my
stillness. Moves and moves not, what you call as near,
and what you call as far off, those concepts were lost. What
you call as inner space- inside you, and outer spaceoutside you, the ideas were forgotten.
I didnt feel vulnerable; I felt powerful. So powerful! I just knew
that I am oneness, that I am this Existence! The ignorance
just melted down and the intense bliss of Enlightenment
expressed in me.

If your consciousness is constantly

moving towards the outer world,
it is called Restlessness.
If it is constantly
moving towards the inner world,
it is called Intensity!

His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda is recognized today as a clear, legitimate, apolitical voice of Sanatana Hindu Dharma, and revered as a living incarnation of superconsciousness by millions worldwide. He is a Mahamandaleshwar (spiritual head) of
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