Just a cup of coffee!

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

-Staff

By Staff

Thursday, May 8, 2008, 15:27

By your very nature, you constantly renounce. You don't even have to try to renounce, you don't even have to struggle - to get enlightened, because your inner space can never be corrupted.

Even if you try your best you can't hold on to one thought for too long. You will renounce it without your knowledge. Try your best to hold on even to lust…you can't! You may have a big problem with lust or fear or greed. Let me challenge you. Just try to hold on to the fear. You can't! For example, just as you are having a thought of having a cup of coffee, try to bring in your death fear and hold on to it. You can't!

Your death fear can be replaced just by the thought of a cup of coffee because your very nature is to renounce! Understand: the moment you start thinking of having a cup of coffee, it means that the death fear has disappeared! It may come back again later but that is not the point. You have renounced it now, that's all. Unless the death fear drops and gives place for the cup of coffee, the thought about coffee cannot happen. So, the death fear and the desire to have a cup of coffee are equivalent! This can replace that means its value is that much only!

But mentally you create a chain by saying: no, no, again and again I am having death fear. But again and again you have the thought of having coffee also. But you don't give importance to it, you don't put the coffee thoughts together and create a shaft. 9 years ago your thought to have a cup of coffee, 8 years ago your thought to have a cup of coffee and your thought to have a cup of coffee now, you don't connect these thoughts and think that having a cup of coffee is a big problem that you have. But the fears which happened many times in your lives, you collect them and create a shaft of suffering.

All your problems are chosen thoughts. All your problems are nothing but thoughts chosen believing that they are connected. You just pick up 10 thoughts and create a shaft with them and say that they are 1 million thoughts. How can it be? In your inner space no thought holds value.

Understand that by your very nature your inner space renounces and continuously rejuvenates. By your very nature your inner space is pure. Only when you start believing these are your problems, you connect all the problems and suffer.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda discourse on Be Unclutched.