Discover The Bliss In You

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

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By Staff

Monday, May 19, 2008, 16:10

Ask yourself, 'Why are you reading this now?' You could have been reading anything else now; why this? Your action itself shows that there is a deep-seated need for meditation inside you. What is your ultimate aim in life? To earn more? To stay young, healthy and beautiful? To have better, long-lasting relationships?

The list is endless but every single goal, without exception, every single goal – points to the same thing: a yearning for the state of ananda or bliss. Can you say, 'I am not interested in being happy?'

Each of us is searching for nothing but ananda or bliss. However intellectual, however sophisticated may be the terms in which we express it, we are all seeking bliss. Only the ways we are searching for are different – through money, power, relationships etc. The word ananda itself means, 'that which cannot be reduced'. It is not happiness or pleasure. It is the state beyond both pleasure and pain, where both pleasure and pain no longer affect you.

The straight and sure route to that bliss is meditation. When you meditate, you go beyond the narrow limits of your body, of your ego. This is a difficult concept to understand. But, with sincere meditation, you can simply experience it.

Nithyananda narrates the story of Paramahamsa

Meditation relaxes the body and mind bringing clarity of thought. This helps you see life with a new perspective and you start living intensely and spontaneously. It is the guaranteed solution to your stress, depression, worries, fears and all your negative emotions that mask your true nature of bliss. You can look at any situation with a freshness, uninhibited by the failures of the past yet learn in an unbiased way from the past experience.

You can enjoy every moment of life to the fullest through meditation which brings you into the awareness of the present. The present is all that matters; not the history of the past, not the speculation of the future. The past is gone but the present is completely in your hands and it is what will decide your future. What matters is simply the truth of the certainty of the present moment.

Meditation is not a quantity to be added to your life, it is a quality to be added to your consciousness. With regular meditation you will find that you can do the same things better, quicker, more efficiently, in a more relaxed way, with more creativity and enthusiasm. Meditation transforms you mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Research shows that mediators experience very low levels of stress and live a healthy and peaceful life. Meditation unleashes a natural source of intelligence in you. The side effect of it will be increased productivity, improved interpersonal relationships, and much more.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda, an enlightened Master of our millennium says, 'Meditation is the master key that liberates you from all the dilemmas of your mind and depression of your being; that gives you freedom in the inner and outer worlds.'