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The Power of Memory

By Ma Durga on February 12, 2016 / Health

Do you know that your life is affected by your memory you carry inside you?
Are you aware that all diseases and disorders are related to your past memory?

Memory means the ideas, thoughts, imagination, visualisation which you have collected and which are still alive inside your system. It is the fifth modification of the mind according to the 6th Yoga Sutra of Patanjali. I remembered my first initiation into understanding memory happened in July 2009 when I was attending my first Inner Awakening program, a 21-day yoga and spiritual retreat conducted by a living enlightened master, Paramahamsa Nithayananda (fondly known as Swamiji). He said that memory is such a powerful thing, more powerful than the first 4 modifications of the mind – which are right knowledge, wrong knowledge, imagination and sleep! With the right knowledge, it can give us suffering or joy only if we act upon it. With wrong knowledge, only our response to it can create joy or pain. With imagination, only the support we give to imagination can create joy or pain. With sleep, only when we cherish sleep, we will have joy or pain. But with memory, we don’t even need to do anything because it is independent of us and it pops up by itself and puts us into joy or suffering, anguish or peace. The scariest part about memory is it can lead one to anything on its own for no reason. In short, memories are like uninvited guests in our inner space.

Swamiji also gave three basic concepts of memory: 1) Table Memory relates to the daily details we access for every day functioning or the things that you are interested like your name. 2) Cupboard Memory refers to memory we need to think and access for e.g. bank balance or bank account number. 3) Archive Memory refers to those memory you cannot access with normal techniques like those memory below 3 year-old.

Memory is called the pain body. This pain body goes and creates disturbances in our body-mind system. For example, Parkinson disease is related to excessive forcing of information into Table Memory which you don’t want in daily functioning. My late father in-law suffered from this disease because his job involved a lot of memorisation of data even though he did not enjoy it. Another common disease is eczema which is related to suppression of emotions and renouncing that part of memory. The problem is we don’t even have the right idea about our past. We remember our past only after editing it by connecting only the past incidents where we had suffering and think that the whole past life was suffering. This is called a ‘Pain shaft’ which is wrong memory. The same thing applies to joyful memories. We edit, cut, paste all the joyful incidents and memories and see our whole life as joy. We don’t look at the past as it happened and we never comprehend reality as it is, hence the complete memory is not within our control.

The key to liberate ourselves from memory is to complete with the past. The amazing result of completion of the past is that it will not lead you to any more suffering, it will only lead you to joy. Another benefit is the moment the memory of the past is complete, you will have the knowledge of your future. This is the powerful Science of Completion as revived by Swamiji! All our miscomprehension, wrong idea about the past is responsible for the wrong idea about the future. For someone who has difficulty planning for their future, be very clear, it means he or she does not have a clear vision about the past. See, any incident that happened in the past adds some understanding, juice and awareness to your Being. If you are aware of all your memories, that knowledge is added to your Being as wisdom and it continues to guide you in the future. But when you forget those incidents, when memory loss happens due to selective memory, the knowledge born out of that experience will not express itself in the future.

There is one powerful technique that Swamiji gave me which helped me to reclaim my freedom as a conscious Being. Just by making a strong declaration that “I am not going to remember anything by force! I am only going to have fun in life”. I say “No” to society which forces me to store unwanted memories and I only remember the sweet memories and living with my Table Memory. He reminded us that Man minus Forced Memory is GOD. By living your Table Memory, you are unclutched and living enlightenment.

In essence, complete with the past memory and you will simply know the future. Then you are ready for the awakening of your possibilities and extraordinary powers in muscle memory and bio memory! Namaste 😀

Source – 108 truths of the Yoga of Enlightenment by Paramahamsa Nithyananda.

Understanding of modifications of the mind

By Ma Durga on January 29, 2016 / Health

For those intellects out there, this is a sutra for you from Patanjali, the great sage of yoga.

In the 6th Sutra, he states that “Right knowledge, wrong knowledge, imagination, sleep and memory – these are the 5 modifications of the mind which may lead to suffering or joy, anguish or non-anguish.”

The revelation is right knowledge can lead to suffering or joy! Even though it is right knowledge, it is still a modification of your mind which is bondage. The mind leads you to bondage or freedom, you mind can make anything out of anything. Any situation can be experienced in any way. The mind can enjoy a certain happening or suffer due to it. It can experience joy or suffering in the same situation, it can comprehend pleasure or pain in the same situation, it can make you experience anything out of anything! That is the power of the mind.

Have you seen people creating guilt out of right knowledge? With the right knowledge, when you misunderstand it and apply it in the wrong way or when you misuse it, you can create agony, guilt and doubt inside you and other people. In the hands of wrong people, even the right knowledge can create suffering!

Next, all of us know that wrong knowledge can also lead us to suffering or joy. This is because wrong knowledge comes from our emotions, mood swings which are nothing but the function of liver and hormones. Do you notice how your mood changes during morning, at noon and at night? Your thought patterns and moods are all based on your liver function which is wrong knowledge. Another example, when you are hungry, your idea about food is very different, after you finish your meal, suddenly your idea about food is different. This also applies to lust: when you want the experience, your idea about the other person, your idea about beauty, your idea about the act, everything is different. When you are finished with the act, suddenly everything is different! Hence, Patanjali says any knowledge based on your senses, your hormones which changes from time to time, is wrong knowledge. That’s why Paramahamsa Nithyananda (fondly known as Swamiji) who is a living incarnation, emphasized that during the hormonal hijack, one should never make any important life decision.

You may ask – How can wrong knowledge create joy? According to Swamiji, wrong knowledge can lead one to joy for only a short period, but it is not permanent joy. It is joy that leads to bondage, to more suffering. So even if it gives you temporary joy, wrong knowledge is still wrong knowledge.

There are only 2 things your mind can do – it can either continuously condition you or it can continuously liberate you. Your imagination can either go this way or that way, it cannot stay still. You either progress or you go down, in the inner world there is no such thing as being stuck. If your imagination is used by you to liberate yourself, to remove all conditioning, it is called meditation. If your imagination is used by you to bind you more and more, to create more and more bondage for you, it is called mind. Imagination can either lead you to hell or heaven. People can either move completely away from the spiritual path or completely get enlightened.

Even with this great knowledge of Yoga, I’ve seen people create one more bondage – like feeling depressed due to misuse of this knowledge or misinterpretation of this great truth. That is why these great truths should be heard directly from an enlightened being. The enlightened being knows how to interpret Patanjali and from what context the truths are expressed.

Here Patanjali emphasized the importance of a cognitive shift by a master. The moment we experience a cognitive shift, our comprehension is illumined. We will be able to directly relate with the truth without difficulties or complications, without torturing ourselves. This cognitive shift happens with the initiation of an enlightened master. For instance, the science of unclutching is the direct initiation (energy transmission) by Patanjali where he spoke about in the 2nd sutra – “Mind is an action, you can stop it”. In the entire Yoga Sutra, Patanjali did not mention about initiation because he already knew that enlightened beings will continue to come down to planet earth to remind humanity of this science as a form of initiation and keep this tradition alive for future generations. It is only with a living master who can take you to the right imagination and lead you beyond the mind, the no-mind state of ecstasy!

In sum, the right knowledge, wrong knowledge and imagination are different modifications of the mind which only lead us to the extremes of joy or suffering, anguish and non-anguish. Beware of them! Namaste. 😀

Source – 108 truths of the Yoga of Enlightenment by Paramahamsa Nithyananda.

You are untouched by suffering

By Ma Durga on January 22, 2016 / Health

This is the straight truth by Pantajali, the great sage, the father of Yoga: Suffering can never touch you!

How many of you are ready to accept this truth?

If you are able to grasp this truth, then you are already a living yogi! But for the majority of people, their cunning mind is not ready to accept that it is so simple because it still wants to do the nonsensical game of clutching and identification with thought patterns.

If we look in deeply, we will realise that everything is just a game. The mental game that doctors, psychiatrists, psychologist, priests used to exploit us by using guilt, fear and greed. Since young, we are very strongly made to believe by parents, educationists, society, politicians, by people at large that we have an unconscious mind and subconscious mind especially the psychiatrists and psychologists. The funny thing is they don’t even understand fully about their own mind, let alone trying to guide the world! No wonder they created a mess in the human consciousness with all kinds of disorders and we are suffering from it. For example, Sigmund Freud is the biggest fraud who sold a big hypothetical and fraudulent system of thinking to the world, which can never be questioned, and which can never be proved. Recently the scientific father of the disease ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) Leon Eisenberg, just before his death, he gave a confession. He said, “ADHD is a fictitious disease.” Dr. Edward C. Hamlyn, a founding member of the Royal College of General Practitioners also made a statement: “ADHD is a fraud intended to justify starting children on a life of drug addiction.” It is the conspiracy of the psycho-pharmacology units all over the world which fabricated this delusion and made us believe it due to some vested interests.

In the Vedic tradition, only enlightened masters, who have already gone beyond the mind, are qualified to talk about the mind. He is able to give the unadultered truth and solution so as to raise the collective consciousness of planet earth.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda (fondly known as Swamiji) is one such living master among us, he declared this simple truth “There is no such thing as suffering, there is no such thing as healing and there is nothing to be healed.” Any thought pattern, any incompletion or any memory we are carrying from the past, cannot touch our inner space. The truth is the past actually does not have any control over our inner space. All the so-called suffering is really unnecessary. This is because we are constantly made to believe that our past has a very strong connection with our present. We are constantly taught the idea that we are carrying an unconscious mind filled with many engraved memories, committed sins and karma. We were told that if we have suppressed some thoughts or emotions, we have to release it or if we were abused, we have to heal that wound through past life regression. These are nonsensical ideas put into our consciousness. That is how we create a disorder for ourselves and suffer. If only we realise that we are responsible for clutching again and again with the old thought patterns and allowing them to cause the unnecessary suffering upon ourselves.

Patanjali says that “Till we reach the state of yoga – the cessation of the mind or the withdrawal of thought patterns, there is clutching and identification with thought patterns”. He went on to explain that the modifications of the mind or mental patterns are five-fold, they result in the alternation of anguish and of non-anguish, suffering and peace. He is telling us that we are all qualified for enlightenment if we renounce our self-doubt, self-hatred and self-denial patterns. All we need to do is just stop our action called mind and relax into our true nature. We will experience the state of NOW and nothing else is required.

In essence, no suffering can ever touch our pure consciousness which is by its nature blissful, powerful and all knowing. Just relax into your true nature NOW. Suffering exists only with ignorance of this truth. Namaste 😀