Post 43: Joys or Types of Joy
"To manage all these [problems of the world], until you get Paramānand, without the power to connect to the source, you can never get joy and you can never be satisfied. Man can get happiness at the Feet of Paramātma."
1974-0326 Public Program (Hindi + English), Day 2, Biralā Krīṛā Keṃdra, Chowpatty, Girgaum Chowpatty, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
"What is called salvation? Why have we come into this world? Why did human being originate? Why was human made in a special form? Why did God give so many powers to this beautiful organism through a special artwork (kalākṛiti)?
Only after understanding this you will get to know that your whole astitva, your entire existence is to drown [drench] you in Atyanta Ānanda [endless/profound joy].
For that God has made this creation with great labor [hard work]."
1975-0216 Public Program (Hindi), Day 1, Śhārīrika Bīmāri-yāṃ Chaitanya se Ṭhīka Ho Sakatī Hai (Physical Ailments Can Be Cured with Vibrations), Gita Mandir Hall, Bharatiya Vidyā Bhavan (3rd floor), 29, Kulapati K.M. Munshi Mārg, Chowpatty, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Variant 1:
"Last time, I told you what is Ātmā, how it becomes Sachchidānanda, and how humans achieve all three things only after Self-realization. Without Self-realization you cannot know the Truth, you cannot get joy. Self-realization is very important."
Variant 2:
"Last time I told you about the Ātmā, what it is and how it becomes Sachchidānand, and how only after Realization a human can achieve all three. Without Self-realization you cannot know Ātmā, you cannot receive happiness. Realizing Ātmā is very necessary."
Variant 3:
"I had told you the last time what is Ātmā, how it is Sachchidānand, and how after being made aware of the Ātmā only humans can achieve these three things. Without Self-realization, you cannot know the Truth. You cannot achieve bliss. You should have the sensitivity of the Ātmā."
1977-1228 Talk to Sahaja Yogis (Hindi), Ātmā ki Anubhūti, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
"Sachchidānand State is what? We have to achieve that."
1978-0201 Public Program (Hindi), Brahma kā Gyān (Knowledge of Brahma) or Mūlādhāra to Viśhuddhi, Āgñyā, and Sahasrāra, 9 Raisina Road, New Delhi, India
Variant 1:
"Yesterday I told you that today I will tell you about Śhiva's Nature of Truth, Attention and Joy Spirit (Śhiva Swarūp Sachchidānanda Ātmā), residing in the heart. But [I] think I will tell you in the end only, after telling about all the chakras. That will be good."
Variant 2:
"Yesterday I told you that I will be telling you about Sachchidānanda who is the same as Śhiva and who resides in our heart, but today I am thinking that I should tell you that after I finish talking about all the chakras, in the end. That will be good."
1979-0316 Public Program (Hindi), Day 7, Viśhuddhi Chakra, Śhāmiyānā, Garden, Pataudi House, 10 Ashoka Road, New Delhi, India
"I don't know how far he is been able to tell you about the Kuṇḍalinī. Today, it looks like Sachchidānanda and everything. And Grégoire already has written a book called Advent, which is very knowledgeable also.
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But it's all uh absolutely blasphemous to say that, 'You don't drink!' So I don't say that either.
You will just not do it, because you really get drunk with the joy of the Spirit, Sachchidānand."
1981-1020 Public Program, Day 8, East West Center, 141 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, NY, U.S.A.
"And you ... you won't die either. Means you will achieve your Spirit.
And the, "Sākṣhātkāri santvara śhabdakāri ka sant," the realized Souls, the Saints who are realized, the Brahmānanda, the joy of the Brahma, by this new Yoga.
And they won't have to go into Samādhi."
1982-0130 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, New Age of Active Divinity (Prophecies of Āchārya Kākā Bhujander, Jacqueline Murray, Cheiro, Ann Bailey and Śhrī Gyāneśhwara), Sholapur, Maharashtra, India (other date 0127)
"The joy at the Sahasrāra is called as Nirānand, since long. Since ancient times is called Nirānanda or Nirmalānanda. So many call it as Nirmalānand or Nirānand. That joy is the joy that you enjoy even when you get crucified. That joy you enjoy even when you are poisoned. Even on your deathbed, you enjoy that joy. That joy is Nirānand."
1982-0731 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Dedication through Meditation (Complete Dedication Is the Only Way or Meditation Is Nothing but Surrendering), Seminar, Day 1, Session 2 (evening), Cowley Manor, Cheltenham, UK
"But the most important is that, "The form of the Spirit is of Sachchidānand." "The form of the Spirit is of Sachchidānand," is what it is said. But what does this mean? Everyone keeps saying that, "The form of the Spirit is of Sachchidānand."
But what is the meaning of Sachchidānand? First of all this is the Truth. Now we keep saying that, 'This is the Truth,' 'That is Truth,' 'We saw that this is the Truth.' Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya has said that, "Only Brahma is the Truth, all others are false." 'Rest all is illusion,' what is the meaning of this? 'This is the Truth and everything else is illusion,' means what?
The meaning of this is that whatever vyavahār [conduct, behavior] we are doing [having] today, whatever we are vyavahār [performimg, practicing] today, we are doing it blindly, and when we get to know the form of the Spirit, at that time our practice becomes sighted (ḍoḷas), the truth can be seen."
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1983-0309 Talkback Live Interview with Barry Everingham for the 'Forum' Program of the Radio Station 'RSN Racing and Sport' (ACMA callsign 3UZ), after 2nd Public Program, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
"So He had to create this creation in such a way, that He could create His own image, reflect it, and make it enjoy itself. It's a very mutual appreciation, as we call it, āndolan. Whatever He does for us, is for His own pleasures. But the beauty of it is that: your pleasure is His pleasure. And the other way round is: His pleasure should be your pleasure, too.
Once that becomes the fact that the pleasure of God becomes your pleasure, you enter into that beautiful arena of Heavenly Joy: Swargīya Ānand.
Only if it is one-sided enterprise or one-sided effort, it gets lost. Human efforts are one-sided. But God's efforts are such that they cannot be enjoyed then unless and until they are reflected back."
1983-0330 Birthday Pūjā and Havan (English + Marathi), Birla Matushri Sabhagar, New Marine Lines, Churchgate, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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1983-1010 Śhrī Gaṇeśha Pūjā (5th Day of Navarātri and Canadian Thanksgiving Day), Garden, 1386 Lincoln Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada
"This Spirit is like Sachchidānand, means Truth, Attention and Joy."
1985-0216 Public Program (Hindi), Day 5, Sahasrāra and Ātmā, New Delhi, India
"In Sahaja Yoga, as you grow from one to another, there are different types of ānandas.
Like we can say, the Spirit, when you see the Spirit, you get an ānand, called Swānanda. That means you feel your Spirit yourself, and you feel very happy. Then you give Realization to others, you get Parānanda, joy of others. But when you get the enjoyment of well-being, in health and materially all right and everything all right, everything in saṃtoṣha, in complete satisfaction, then it's Brahmānanda. And like that you start feeling higher and higher joys within yourself. Because your nerves start opening to new dimensions.
So you can say that at the Kṛiṣhṇa level, you get Kṛiṣhṇānanda, where you get the sweetness, the mādhurya. And when you see your generosity, then you get Śhivānanda. And when you are with children, you get Gaṇeśhānanda. And that can be described, all those can be described, but Nirānand cannot be described, because it's Mahāmāyā's Joy. All these joys put together is Nirānanda. So there is no place for ego and superego at all. The complete Sahasrāra is opened out, and nothing but the complete rapport is established with the Divine.
And there is a pouring of light all the time in the head and the light going back, that you have seen in My Photograph. As if the Sahasrāra becomes like a sucking child from the Universal Mother, sucking the joy inside, and it is again reflecting back. It would be like the waves reach the shores and then they are again repleted, they go back and then they form a pattern.
Now the joy out of that pattern, how can you describe? The only thing about Nirānanda is, that you have Mahāmāyā so close and so far away, that's the speciality.
Completely thoughtless, silence there, complete silence, you don't think. It's just silence you cannot put into words any more, because the words break with the force of the Ānanda. They cannot hold it."
1985-0502 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Nirānanda, Āśhram, Vienna, Austria
"But the first nihi means without, devoid, and nira means sheer. Like when you say Nirānanda, Nirātma: Sheer Ātmā, Sheer Joy. Kevalam, the only. There's nothing but Joy. But this one is used, nira or nihi, used in two forms as I told you: one for saying of ... without or devoid of, the another form is [for saying] the only, absolute, the absolute.
So here the joy becomes Nirānanda: Absolute Joy, nothing but joy. It's complete freedom. So you have all kinds of joys, as I told you before: you have Swānanda, the joy of the Spirit, then you have got Brahmānand, the joy of well-being, you've got Līlānanda, Kṛiṣhṇānand, where you have the joy of the play. But when you reach the State of Sahasrāra it is Nirānand: means Sheer, Absolute Joy.
Though the name Nirā is My name, it means Absolute. So, when you put such an adjective before anything else, it becomes absolute. Thus you become absolute. And when you are at that State of Absolute, then there is no place for anything else to be there but your Self.
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So this is what, at Sahasrāra you get Nirānanda.
In different stages of Sahaja Yoga we had to start from Śharīrānanda, means the ā... ānand of the body, Mānasānanda, the joy of the mānasa, is the psyche. Then you can say Ahaṅkārānanda, where you have to have the satisfaction of the ego. But the state has now to be established within us is of Nirānanda."
1985-0505 Sahasrāra Pūjā, State of Absolute (Nirānanda Absolute Joy, Absolute Love, Absolute Compassion, Absolute Power), Laxenburg Castle, Vienna, Austria
"After listening to all these beautiful words of My children, Mother cannot know what to say, it's very difficult to express My feeling of complete joy -- Kevalānand."
1986-0329 Public Program with Birthday Felicitations (English + Hindi), Sir Shankarlal Concert Hall, Modern School, Bara Khamba Road, New Delhi, India
"You must know today that I have been working in Bombay [Mumbai] for about seventeen years and still I find that pettiness is in so many people. Although we may say that there are many Sahaja Yogis, and many do My Pūjā, and many attend programs and also meditate and do Pūjā at home. But what do they achieve in this Pūjā? "My sister has become all right," "My brother has got the blessings," but did you get Śhivānand [Joy of the Spirit]? Have you been able to establish yourself in this ānand [bliss]? Have you achieved the joy been got of Nirānand? That is what the Mother wishes, that you get the joy of the Sahasrāra."
1988-0214 Śhivarātri Pūjā (Hindi + English), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
"And you will be just witnessing that joy within yourself. And you will enjoy it because there is no ... there are no words to describe it. As they say, 'At Sahasrāra, you get Nirānanda,' means only joy, Kevalānanda, Absolute Joy. There's nothing second to it."
1988-0607 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, On Arrival, Āśhram, Josef Melichar Gasse 20, Vienna, Austria
"I am happy in situations which give comfort to the soul and the Spirit. And the joy which My Spirit experiences is dependent upon all of you. If you reach the state of Ātmānand, My Heart will be filled with joy."
1989-1227 Talk to Sahaja Yogis (English + Hindi), How We Should Behave, Pune, Maharashtra, India
"And when your entire life becomes cleansed with this Oṃkār, then you get the joy, which is called Ātmānand. You get that. And even in Ātmā, the energy that is there, that is also the Śhakti of Oṃkāra."
1990-1225 Christmas Pūjā (English + Hindi), Gaṇapatīpuḷe, Maharashtra, India
"So's today we are here to enjoy our joy. Our Ātmānanda, Nirānand and Paramānanda, all these we are here to enjoy, which are of eternal value."
1991-1110 Diwālī Pūjā (5th day after Diwālī Day), Joy and Happiness, Tent, Cabella Ligure, Alessandria, Italy
"About the Ātmā many things have been said, that you get Ātmānand, Brahmānand and Nirānand, which means you go into complete bliss. That joy and [unclear], does not mean that you turn away from reality, [but] rather you understand reality."
1992-0205 Public Program (Hindi + English), Day 2, Sahajayog kā Arth (Meaning of Sahaja Yoga), Netaji Indoor Stadium, Kolkata Police Safe House, Eden Gardens, Strand Rd, Maidan, B.B.D. Bagh, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Version 1:
"Today while singing the praises of Lord Śhiva the same feeling comes. This Śhakti has been given by Lord Śhiva that is why He is called Ānand Dāyak. There are several constituents of this joy like, Nirānand, Ātmānand, Āhlād ... these resonate with our emotions as a flower resonates with fragrance. In the same way the pure, beautiful, noble feelings in our hearts towards something is āhlād by which we are enthralled. Then there is no desire for anything else."
Version 2:
"The joy felt by singing Śhrī Śhiva Stuti earlier today, that is because of Śhrī Śhiva. Śhrī Śhiva gives us this ability to be joyous. That is why He is called 'Joy Giver'. The pure joy felt in joy, just joy, there are many types of joy, Ātmānand and Āhlād. This joy is related to our feelings. The feelings in our heart, the good, generous, beautiful loving pure ones of beauty, love, etc. spread fragrance like a flower spreads its fragrance. This is pure joy. In such a joy we are happy and joyous. And as a result we do not need anything else."
1993-0219 Śhivarātri Pūjā (Hindi), Kyukī Mānava kā Aṃtima Lakṣhya yahī hai kī Vo Śhiva Tattwa ko Prāpta Kare (The Ultimate Aim of Human Beings Is to Attain that Śhiva Tattwa), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
"Realized Souls have to ascend gradually in their surrender to the innocence of Śhrī Gaṇeśha. People who are simple and chaste like small children, those who are not dominated by dogmatic or fanatical minds, achieve their spontaneous Self-realization (Sahaja Yoga) almost immediately in the mere proximity of highly evolved and God-realized personalities (Avatāras). They feel the sensation of joy on their central nervous system, and as the light of its awareness gradually increases, they experience very unique sensations of bliss. These sensations can be differentiated and also recognized by practice. In Sanskrit there are four names given to the four kinds of joy experienced by the development of these four types of rippled identities:
1. Paramānanda
2. Sahajānanda
3. Vīrānanda
4. Yogānanda
They are created by the four petals, which generate Four Powers called Gupta}, Prakasa, Karala and Vikarala."
The Book of Ādi Śhakti, Chapter 12: Mūlādhāra Chakra
Jay Śhrī Mātājī!