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He is the Fountain of joy - Joy and Joy alone is His Being. A state exists in which there is only Bliss, Beatitude, Supreme Felicity. At your level, joy has its opposite; you speak of the joys of heaven and the torments of hell. But where there is Eternal Bliss - Bliss in its own right cannot be expressed. It is entirely beyond such words as "what is or what is not?" To speak means to float on the surface. What language can express that which is neither floating nor diving deep? Man's duty - especially for those who have made the Supreme Quest their one and only aim - is to work joyfully for the uplift of the world, with the conviction that all service is His service. Work done in such a spirit helps to purify the mind and heart. - Words of Ma Anandamayi as recorded by Richard Lannoy. God fulfills the wish of a seeker of truth. He manifests Himself in the way one wants Him and He does whatever He wills. He awakens as well as fulfills the longing of the mind. It is the duty of man to keep the mind in God’s remembrance, japa, meditation, and daily rituals regularly and wholeheartedly. On the path of sadhana, there should be no accumulation of exhaustion in the mind. The more the mind is kept clean, the more it will be helpful to proceed in that (spiritual) path. If anger comes in the mind, try to remove it. ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma In the Reality, He who is as being all, without being too, it is He only. Therefore, the distinction of manifest-unmanifest is from the point of view of the individual only. He, who is manifest, it is He only who is unmanifest. Again, He, who is unmanifest, it is He only manifest. Where the devotee, devotion and object of devotion is the same One, what else is devotion but a play? That which is there in the unmanifest, the same, indeed, appears in the manifest. Verily, Reality is everywhere at all times.

Messed it up in the calculations. I woke up today and my mind said nope that's not how it's done have you forgot everything from unviersity. Errata Notice: So Loop Quiet is 26 dB and Etymotic 13dB. This is the formula: Times more powerful=10^(dB difference/10) dB difference=26dB−13dB=13dB Times more powerful=10(13/10) Calculating this, you get: Times more powerful≈20Times more powerful≈20 Let's test it, 10log(x)=13dB; We inverse calculate that x≈20 If the formula is correct we should get 10log(x*20Times more powerful)= 26dB; Is this the case? 10log(20*20)=26dB Yes Let's try with the method that I tried to use before, given that each 3dB is double noise cancelation (as 10log(2) = 3dB) and knowing that the dB difference is 13dB. We'll divide it by 3 to know how many times it is doubled. 13/3 = 4.33 That's the result I gave which is wrong because this is how many packs of doubling not the doubling itself. 2^(4.33)≈20Times more powerful Also you need to take this into account, the loop quiet earphone with 26 dB of noise cancellation is approximately 20 times more effective in reducing unwanted noise compared to the Etymotic with 13 dB of noise cancellation. This is a measure of the devices' relative effectiveness in attenuating or reducing ambient noise, not a statement about the perceived volume of the sound. One is objective and the other is subjective. Sorry for the error, dB is a bit counterintuitive.

@Leo Gura Consciousness can understand itself, but it is already itself, no-distance. Maybe I'm dividing where there is only one, but isn't there beingness and then reflection to itself (understanding), like an arrow going back to itself (conscious of consciousness), to comprehend itself. Haven't you lost at that point the perfect singularity?

Also, let's address the Elephant in the room. You are curios about psychedelics, what do you wanna know? Just put aside your bias and resistance... Ask freely! (Btw, I'm also a big fan of Ramanujan)

I would like to disect your comment. "people brag about getting enlightened from psychidelic" Not all brag but they can certainly have enlightening experiences but not "get" enlightenment, the bragging could come from the difference in consciousness but that does not negate maybe a true awakening experience but now the ego is corrupting it. "but isint that only for 15 min" Imagine you have a car crash and your clinically death for 15 min and then you are reanimated again, for someone to tell you but ThEY wHEre oNLy 15 MiNUteS What does time really matter? Honestly... Intensity cannot be translated with endurance. This is in consciousness as well in sports, you cannot run a marathon with the same speed as in the 100m Usain Bolt Style. Both styles have they are advantages and disadvantages. One thing is base line consciousness and another is Peak consciousness, both have their rules and inner workings. You should be a master of both and explore all paths. "The way i see it you are back on level 1 after 15 min" The mind is like a chewing gum, once it is stretched up to a certain point even when it contracts again it will not return to the same state as before. You jump from a plane or from a flying rocket, just 5min free fall and you are back to level 1? That experience will change you forever. New experiences change you and psychedelics DO change you even though they are short lasting.

Once you see you cannot unsee It is better to have seen and not to see again than to never have seen

Many factors. I want to try it orally by some extracts, I have the intuition it will make the experience much better as in the shamanic context of Mexico is the first psychedelic they introduce the student shaman to. So the 4 dangerous factors for me are: 1 Total Loss of memory. 2 Total Loss of body movement 3 Salvia feels Alien 4 Nasty visceral Ego-deaths. It's called the backdoor of Death So, why is memory a problem? You forgot you took any drug, you are tripping balls you don't remember life being any other way, what is, is the only explanation you have, and it feels weird and unnatural. Scientific studies show that they trigger the same receptors of craving that heroin addicts have, among many other things, so the experience is Truly Amazing but there is this strange background noise that you cannot put your finger on. 2 You can crack your skull open while your POV is an elve mechanic world. In DMT that could happen but body stays (usually) calm and relaxed lying down. You can find crazy videos in the internet of people absolutely losing control of the body and doing the weirdest things you can imagine. 3 It feels weird man. Like 5meo is hella crazy but feels home you see. Salvia is hella crazy and feels weirdly exotic like it has nothing to do whatsoever with anything in the Human-frame. 4 You think you've had an ego death till you have an ego death in Saliva Extra: They call it the yonqui humbler, imagine how strong it is. I don't have more than 10 Salvia Trips under my belt but I took the decisions to leave it aside. Just for the one reason that I couldn't make any sense of it, so unique, so itself. In fact, I'm in love with salvia, it's such a profund mystery that only a handful of humans have gone into.

I thought like you but later found out that approach to be less efficient than other methods, but I could have come to wrong conclusions. Let's agree to disagree.

@Squeekytoy Meet people where they are. We all see through buddhism (hopefully) but there is a natural unfoldment in Awakening. If you are in university you can explain anything from High School. Instead of bulshitting people where they find themselves in, you can raise them up from that level by shining light and expertise about how you actually awoke from it. I see a huge communication issue in this forum that could just be easily cleared up by some awareness of where people are and some simple love to them. Treating them as you would like to be treated while being integrated to Truth.

This is part of the buddhist wisdom about suffering. Through that lens, let's inquiry, what is suffering? Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional. Suffering is the resistence to the what is, to reality, to existence, to the here-now. The more you are at peace or in love with what is, the less resistence there is to life, the more love and bliss we fill. This is the theory, let's ground it in practice. Right now ask yourself this question, what am I resisting to feel right now? Close your eyes, see and when you notice, directly feel that, and open it. Nice, for example I noticed I'm resisting to feel hunger right now because I should have had breakfast some minutes ago but still wanted to be more in the forum, so I supressed hunger to keep being here. Now I feel that and will go to have breakfast after it. What are you resisting or unconscious in your body right now? Close your eyes and look, open and release. I notice that thoughts come in the way to fully feeling my body but as they come they dissappear. I feel that I'm contracting my stomach and perinneal region. Noticing actuamatically makes me relaxed and more in the body. I also feel some pain in my ribs from playing football which I am resisting. There is pain, (unavoidable) but I was resisting pain (avoidable), now that I'm conscious of this, I have pain but no resistence to pain, I allow everything to be as it is. What are you avoiding in the space you are right now? I'm resisting to clean but also I resist things being unclean. Which is absurd in itself, rather I clean or be happy even if it's unclean, oh we are starting to see through suffering! Is there suffering without thoughts? (Why are you waiting for my answer I could be deluded, see 4 yourself) Mostly there isn't. Without the improper use of the egoic mind most of the suffering disappears. Still some suffering realities are not directly mediated by thought, like contractions in the body or just unconscious wiring that is present without expressive thought in the moment. Is there suffering without the human I ? (Let's link impermanence, no-self, emptiness and nirvana) As one sees that nothing really lasts in the world, surrender to the now naturally emerges, allowing everything to be as it is. As one sees through the stupidity of suffering, clinging and unnatural attachements... all created by the egoic mind. Which assumes that there is a human, inside the body, somewhere, to whom pain, suffering and thoughts all occur to. There are thoughts but no thinker, the thinker is just another thought, there is pain and pleasure but they arrive at no one and arise from nowhere. As everything is impermanent you see that what you think you are is never graspable but an optic illusion that seems there, but upon closer inspection... Oh there is no human without resistence to the now! This makes you feel hollow and empty, there is no substance to your human self, yet something is, however is cosntantly fluid. You come to realize that you are free from yourself, entering into a deep present open and peaceful state called nirvana. Characterised by desirelessness, which is heaven, because whatever happens to be here and now, there is no aversion and no clinging, no resistance and no acceptance, no resistance to resistance & no acceptance to acceptance, whatever is just is

It's a transition, trust the proccess but don't self indulge too much either, a balance has to be struk. For the moment, your whole ego and mind is getting transformed, like reforming a house. Let things settle down, then you will be fine. Allow the settling and act once it's done, and do what you can in the meanwhile. But neither act in the reform, nor stay passive after it.

That seems so paradoxical, like clapping with one hand Isn't even self reflection lost at this point?

I'll confess that when I saw that video years ago in my egoic state I said: On that full moon I'll take MahaSamadhi... like a badass yeah

This probably is not going to help much but it's the truth. You need an Awakening to see it, to recognize. It honestly doesn't still make full sense how it all works out the way it does, but when you experience it directly for yourself, again and again for years... well we could say that something changes in you and there is a paradigm shift.

That's more wanting Silence is the answer then

If you want to infuse consciousness in the reality of sex, which you can or cannot do and both are fine. You will discover that if you are a man, masturbation and sex ARE okay but EJACULATION is what deploys your energy system. Have Sex and Masturbate but DON'T EJACULATE. This is the truth behind the dogma if you care to become conscious of how the sexual energy really works, which you don't have to and will also live a natural life as animals do.

It is safest to say that direct-experience is ALL you have. It's just a matter of recognition and being integrated to that fact, that's all As a matter of fact all "others" exist through the lens of direct-experience and are born from the raw phenomena as more phenomena, layers upon layers of experience. Isn't this what you are doing right now, first raw phenomena, then pixels, then message, then identity of users online, then creating a separation between us and so on and so forth. Sounds complicated but it's easy once you get it, breathe right now, become aware of the space where you are, sense the feeling of existing, of being, this is it. It's just a inmature question, in the end of the day you will trust yourself and whatever you make up your mind to be reality. You are the source of all authority and power, whether you give it away or you ground it in yourself, that will construct your sense of reality.

I want Leo to be Leo. I want Sadhguru to be Sadhguru I want you to be yourself. I want myself to be genuinely myself.

UPDATE: Three large corporate media houses – The Washington Post (US), Outlook Magazine (India), and Dinamalar (Tamil Nadu, India) – removed their articles that carried disinformation against the Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism (SPH) Nithyananda Paramashivam and KAILASA. It is probable that in the following weeks other newspapers start removing their articles in a domino effect. I feel it is my duty to give you another perspective of what is going on and you make up your mind: Nithyananda is like the Pope but for hindu's and Kailasa like the Vatican. His vision is to make an Enlightenment-centric Country, a whole Ecosystem and lifestyle, where everything helps you to realize ParamaShivoham. Parama (Ultimate/Infinity) Shivo (God/Consciousness) Ham (that's me). His core teaching is this Mahavakyas: ॐ (Om) Nithyananda (Nithya= already, ananda=love/bliss) ParamaShivoham. Which is roughly translated as: I am already blisfully God. Om Nithyananda ParmaShivoham. He says that the only reason he is alive is to tell this one truth, you are Paramashiva, you are God. The technology he has used and teaches are the different Hindu sampradayas or paths, which he is a Master in all and was thoroughly trained since he was 3 years old. A as well as his family before he was even born, based on some astrological predictions and as per the science of incarnation, master's from the incarnation sampradaya tested the young kid to know if he was an avatar. It was confirmed so, from that point he learned from many Gurus that also recognized him as such. You could razionalize it as a way to recognize superconscious human mutants. Taken care and raised by Gurus from Tiruvannamalai, his birthplace, like Sri Ramana Maharishi, Yogi RamsuratKumar, Tatwale Baba... to name a few. Mastering many sampradayas and attaining the highest realization in all: Kashmir Shaivism, Shaktism, Jnana Yoga, Advaita Vedanta, Bhakti Yoga, Deity Worship, Mantra&Sound, Karma Yoga, Hatha Kundalini and Kriya Yoga (In 1999, amidst the Himalayan landscape of Gaurikunth, Babaji bestowed upon him the name Paramahamsa Nithyananda), Tantra, Ayurvedic Medicine, Siddha Tradition... It is precisely these broad mastery of such diverse paths which is both his greatest strength and turn off, now we can appreciate why he is so misunderstood. Let's now reflect upon his life: Reviver of Kailaasa the Ancient Enlightened Hindu Civilizational Nation Declared as successor Of Arunachala Sarvajnapeetam by Guru Parampara Coronated as Guru Mahasannidhanam (Pontiff) of Thondaimandala Aadheenam, the oldest monastic university, at the tender age of 10 (in 1998) Founded: The mission Nithyananda Sangha at age 21 (in 1999) – to Revive the Enlightened Civilization Founded Adi Kailasa at age 25 (in 2002) Coronated as 293rd Guru Mahasannidhanam of Madurai,SHYAMALAPEETHASARVAJNA PEETHAM the oldest Hindu papal state and the monastic kingdom at age 34 (in 2012) Officially coronated as Mahamandaleshwar (Supreme Spiritual Head) of Maha Nirvani Akhada largest apex monastic order, the youngest Mahamandaleshwar at age 35 (in 2013) Declared as Acharya Mahamandaleshwar of Atal Akhada (the oldest monastic order in Hinduism) at age 35 (in 2013), by Acharaya Mahamandleshwar Sukhdevanandji, the then incumbent spiritual head. Coronated as Guru Mahasannidhanam of Swargapuram at age 37, Chola Dynasty’s Guru’s unbroken lineage from the 13th century (in 2015) Elected as a Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism by a congregation of 1000 Hindu leaders (Pontiffs), at age 38 (2016) Revered as Teacher of Hinduism, most prolific, most viewed, read & watched Over 10,000 hours of discourses, over 1 billion views on social media Respected as Commentator of all Sacred Scriptures such as Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Shiva Sutras, Yoga Sutras, Ashtavakra Gita, Jain Sutras, etc. Reviver of Ten ancient Hindu Sampradayas in the border of extinction including the Rudrakanyas/ Rudras, Rishis / Rishikas, Bhairavas / Bhairavis, Sanyaasis. Founder & Reviver of Over 100 Sarvajnapeethas First ever leader in the history of India to be the succesdor of both south and north temples. Establisher of the Largest Hindu University in the world with satellite campuses in 110 countries Establisher of 1000+ Kailaasa enlightenment ecosystems Holder of Three Guinness World Records in the field of Yoga Collector of The largest Hindu library with over 1 million books, 1 million palm leaf scriptures, and over 20 million digital books Authored 300 books in 26 languages, with over 20 Million books and articles sold, read and downloaded What approach do I recommend to his work? This is tricky, very tricky. Don't become part of his organization, why? Because it's for a hindu and oriental psyche. Also people are people, as this forum is this forum despite Leo. What should be your approach then? INITIATION Don't listen to what he says, the best he says in silence and INITIATION. So if you resonated with him search for Bhava Samadhi Darshan Nithyananda. He enters in powerful meditation trances and is able to transmit divine aspects of Reality, different forms of God (Murthys). Experiment and see which form you like more. I like Mahasadashiva, Kalabhairava and Dakshinamurthy for example. Then do your sadhana, and enter consciously into darshan, connect with ParamaShiva. Once you like a form and you have some experience, take a psychedelic and watch darshan, now you will be blown away. If anyone does it, feel free to post here your experience. Bibliography: Letter to the Washington Post that made them remove the Paraguay article: https://kailaasa.org/briefings-statements/the-press-secretary-office-response-to-the-washington-post/ Official answer to the removal of the articles from Kailasa https://twitter.com/SriNithyananda/status/1736486006264664183 Webpage of Kailasa in tab of Nithyananda https://kailaasa.org/reviver/ Webpage of his Autobiography in tab of Tiruvannamalai: https://autobiographyoftheavatar.org/enlightenment-ecosystem-of-tiruvannamalai/ Nithyananda answering if he is God: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EKX5qXuFpEc Nithyananda and Babaji: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoBkEN8tfb4 Nithyananda first Enlightenment experience at age 12 with Annamalai Swamigal, enlightened disciple of Ramana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTj4ggnV2tE Why Nithyananda, why Initiation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ads6P2j8gb0 INITIATION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNV2m_cAQ7Q Paramashivoham Oneness Initiations - Shodasi: https://youtu.be/pDvV1SSOdhI?si=egQKy0c3Iqn50zZV Mahasadashiva Murthy Bhava Samadhi Darshan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx3ntfZ2AcQ Oneness Capsules Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEgA0wjbZ4RREEDCnR6bJvn2SHK7b_KZz&si=qORXxqV242oY22kB Essence of his Teachings & Answering to Assasination Attemps and Media Articles. Uniting both topics of today. Minute is tunned in the juice of the video:

Good question, something he must have worked hard for in the past. Years ago he always talked about the importance of being financially independent. In his video about building infrastructure gives some hints about this. He also bought himself a new computer some weeks ago which means he really took care of this area of his life. He also explained many times how his family was not that good with managing money and how he suffered because of that, which surely made him very aware of money managing skills. Nevertheless, I don't want to answer for him, this is a humble contribution.

It all boils down to Self-Love that is the root, depending on where you are in the spectrum in each moment some things come up or other things come up, simple as that

I have no need of doing or saying anything; there never was any need, neither is there now, nor will there ever be in future. What you found manifested in me in the past, what you see now and what will be observed in the future is only for the good of you all. If you think that there is something peculiarly my own, I must tell you that the whole world is my own.

Recommended to watch after sadhana or while on psychedelics. This was his favourite chant. Jay is exaltation, means like Hurray. Bhagavan is God, ALIVE GOD

It's good but I have to say I expected much more