How to Get to the Bigger Picture?!!!

Q: You mention in an earlier post that having a bigger picture of our problems, Enlightened Masters can solve them, guaranteed. How can we get the bigger picture just like Enlightened Masters?

You really internalized the previous post, and asked the right question. How can we do that! If they (Enlightened Masters) can do that, why can't we!

Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda says (paraphrased), when you are in no thought zone, that is, when your thoughts per second (TPS) is zero, or very low, you have access to future events. With this extra information, wouldn't you be able to take informed decisions?

You might have had a glimpse of such a happening, when say, the door bell rings, or your phone rings, and you are reminded of a person. And that's the same person who is at the other end! If you had such an experience, we assure you that you aren't the only one, and surely, it can't be a coincidence.

What happens when the doorbell or the phone rings is that, all of a sudden, you drop your attention from the millions of thoughts going on in your head at that time, and come into the present moment, putting you in very low TPS. Thus, you get a glimpse of the next moment, without you answering the doorbell or the phone!

How wonderful would it be if we can do that all the time, and thus be able to take "informed" decisions! Watch the following discourse video by Nithyananda to learn more. Adjoining is the Time Shaft Theory diagram which Nithyananda explains in the discourse.

Enjoying a Cup of Tea

Q: Why do we not feel relaxed in spite of taking breaks from work?

At my office also, a group of colleagues take an afternoon tea-break. I happened to join them one of the days. They started chatting, topics ranging from office gossip to problems in their projects, about their bonus etc.. We stayed there for nearly half an hour and we did not even know when we had finished drinking tea.

Most often than not, all of us do various things without even being aware of what we are doing. Our physical body is probably doing whatever it needs to but we are not there in totality. We drink a cup of tea without even knowing what is going into our system. We are busy in our own world, the dream world, the fantasy world.

Even if we are not with someone with whom we talk, even if we are alone and drinking a cup of tea, we are least bothered about tea. We call it a tea-break but just think about it. Is it really a tea-break?

What do we mean by a break? We would ideally like to relax ourselves, our body and mind. But what do we do? When we are doing something as simple as walking to the canteen, we are constantly thinking about work. Our stress and worry which was at the office desk are being carried by us as we are walking, as we are drinking that cup of tea and as we are going back to the desk.

So where have we taken a break? Nithyananda says - when we wake up, our mind is already in office; when we are at office, our mind is already at lunch break; when we are in the lunch break, our mind is already thinking about 5pm and when we are back at home, our mind is already thinking about office...

Our mind is never there where we are. Let us just start to put awareness on our breath. We don't have to control it, just watch the breath as it moves in and out, in a completely relaxed manner. Gradually, we start to build an awareness about whatever we are doing. When we start living in the present moment, with our mind and body together, we start to see a complete relaxation happening automatically. We do not need any other kind of relaxation, even our work becomes a relaxation.

When we are aware of our mind and body, we start to enjoy every single act. When we are drinking a cup of tea, we enjoy the very drinking. When we have a plate of food with full awareness, we enjoy every bite of it. The same goes with work.

What else can be relaxation? Conventionally, when we say we want to relax, we mean we want to enjoy being completely stress free, being completely thoughtless. This is exactly what meditation helps us to do. It helps us to be in the present moment and enjoy every second. How easy to relax, isn't it?

Just by being aware of what we are doing, just by bringing our mind and body together, we eat when we are eating, we drink when we are drinking, we work when we are working. The entire day becomes a relaxed extended break!

The first part of this video by Nithyananda talks about how our mind keeps oscillating from the events of past to future. When we settle in the present moment, we become utterly relaxed: