Personal Transformation Program
Chapter 3 Risk-Taking
Mantra: Trishulam (Pronounced: Tre-shu-lam)
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f you don’t take risks, there will be no dramatic improvement in your life. Risk-taking ability comes out of your adventurous nature. Risk-takers are pioneers in their field and deal with the extraordinary.In order to develop a risk-taking consciousness, you need to develop a non-ordinary consciousness and courage. You change your consciousness by changing your thought patterns.
You must embrace courage and risk-taking. What is impor-tant is outrageous thinking, thinking that is not of the normal nature. It is important to learn this. Courage and risk-taking go together. Don’t follow the normal path, the path of mediocrity.
Seek the adventure of life. Take the express elevator. Think about your goal. It is very important to realize that you are different. Unless you conceive yourself to be different from other human beings, there is no way that you will become extraordinary.
It is not just having a fantasy of success. Those who make it in life are not just those who have a fantasy, but those who act on a fantasy. Action is very important on this earth-plane. You have to act. You should not remain in a job you don’t like, or wait until you have enough money.
Risk-taking means living the moment. Every moment is new. Time is of the past and of the future. Those who live in the present live in the NOW, which is eternal freedom, a field of all
it for my own reasons. It is good, because I act out from the NOW. So tomorrow morning I may cancel my program in Chicago and in North Carolina. And I have my own reasons for keeping it or not keeping it. When you get into the NOW, you move into a sphere that is beyond logic.
So far we know a way of life based on logic. We do not want to enter into the sphere which is beyond logic. We are afraid because it is so terrifying. We are fearful. But once you get into the territory of the NOW, there are infinite possibilities.
Remember, I am not telling you to disregard your appointments or your logical reality. You have to do that, because you have not learned to fully live in the NOW. Until you make this transi-tion, you will do what you have to do. And then for a time, you will be in a state of awareness in which you will see the two worlds, the world of logic and the world that is beyond logic.
And then there will be an integration of these two without conflict.
If I have to cancel a program, there will be no conflict. I integrate eventualities with ease, and the impact of it will also be with ease.
Logically it may not make sense to you, but when you live in the NOW reality, you will understand that you have only to gain by moving past logic.
So it is important every day that you have to live the NOW for some time. That is why I created an email newsletter program for you to get out of your mundane awareness. And for one minute as you read the email, you live in a different dimen-sion. The advantage of being in the NOW is that it can speed up your progress. The mind has the tendency to delay things for no reason. It doesn’t want anything right NOW or even tomorrow or even after a month. You want things to happen in the distant future. The reason why the mind always feels comfortable visualizing things happening in the dim future is that the mind is conditioned by time.
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want anything in the future, because to conceive of the future would be an insult to his own consciousness. Everything has to happen now and it is just a stupid game to prolong things. So when you live in the NOW, everything is possible. You can live like a god or goddess.
Now is Elusive
This is an important part of daily practice to accelerate transformation. You should always evaluate whether you are living in the NOW, because the NOW always eludes us. How do you live in the NOW? You just disorient yourself from all that is around you and then live in the NOW. I’ll give you a concrete example. Everyone creates a future, including myself.
What happens is that when you are going to act out the future, you begin to question whether what you’re doing it right or not.
But remember that everything that is around you is your creation, and nobody creates it but you.
One morning I was reflecting on the NOW, and that is how I came to do this material for you. Let’s say that tomorrow morning I have to go to Chicago, and I will be in Chicago for three days. And then from there, I go to North Carolina and spend five days there. Suddenly, I began to question the neces-sity for me to go to Chicago. But I fully take responsibility for having created it. I have to fulfill my obligations. I have to be in Chicago, and then I have to be in North Carolina. All these engagements were created by me. NOW, at this point, I begin to question if these events were required. And the moment I began to question that, there is a possibility that I will begin a process of self-examination, and then begin to live in the NOW.
Choosing Now
NOW, at every point, you have a choice. The choice is to live in the NOW and then make important decisions. Those of you who have been close to me know that I cancel programs very often. And you have NOW learned to understand that I do
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“I am in the NOW.” Be without obligations just for a few moments, because it’s the obligations you have set out for your-self during the day that cause you to act and follow a certain schedule. You are going to follow a certain schedule, but what I want you to do as you wake is to say to yourself, “God, I want to be Divine today. I don’t want to be human anymore. Give me an opportunity so that all things can be changed, and I can live afresh.” Then you will feel bliss. Then you will not feel that you are a victim.
Then you will feel that every moment is NOW. And you will begin to celebrate life. It is the Divine right for every human being to be able to live spontaneously in the NOW.
Just float. While you are still engaged in doing things which you have created, just float in the NOW. Do not carry anything very deep within you which creates time. Just float. If you learn to float, there are a lot of possibilities for you in this lifetime.
Only when you feel that you are stuck, things go wrong. First, you feel that you are inside within your mind, then you create the outside. If you are not stuck inside, you are not stuck outside.
That’s the bottom line. Don’t complain about others. Don’t complain about destiny. Don’t complain about anything. If you have to complain about someone, complain about yourself.
Because you are not living in the NOW.
And it doesn’t cost you any money to live in the NOW. It is your own action. It is your own mind that you need to control.
Suppress the mind and then get into the NOW. And when you live in the NOW, God lives in you. God not only lives in you, you become God.
But you refuse to accept that. You love to identify yourself with the human-ness. You embrace limitation. You are afraid of de-limitation. You are not afraid of a society which identifies itself with human limitations. And if someone calls himself a God, society is against that person. This happened in the life of Accelerate the Materialization of Your Fantasy
Everything on this earth-plane takes time. You sow a seed, and the seed takes time to sprout. And then it takes time for the sprout to grow into a tree. Many years elapse between the time that you sow the seed and when it becomes the tree. Similarly, the growth of a baby into an adult takes time. This is also true with the money situation. Most people get paid either weekly or every other week; others get paid on a monthly basis. Those who get paid on a monthly basis must wait 30 days before they get paid. Introducing a concept like NOW is alien to the mind;
it makes the mind uncomfortable. The mind says that NOW is fantasy, not reality. But the most important thing that the mind has to understand is that fantasy and reality are not very different.
The day that your fantasies gain enough strength to become reality within your own consciousness, then there is no distinc-tion between fantasy and reality. Fantasy is phenomenon not yet realized. Reality is a realized fantasy. So you have to make every fantasy of yours become real. And I want you to do this within the structure of the NOW, within the Divine moment. Make use of the Divine moment to conceive of the fantasy. Then the fantasy gets realized soon.
So you always have to get into the NOW in order to accel-erate the process. The NOW has the energy to accelaccel-erate the materialization of your fantasy. It has a Divine energy that tran-scends time, that trantran-scends logic, that trantran-scends the conceptual constraints of the human mind. So it is terribly important that we live in the NOW. Sometimes once in a day or many times within a few hours, we are able to get into the NOW. And within the NOW, we will challenge everything that we have created for the day.
Be Divine Today
When you wake up in the morning, just get into the NOW:
sion. If you want to marry him, then marry him and have that experience. But, one thing you must understand, that once you get close you may not even want the experience. Every experi-ence is a game that you are playing. But without playing games there is no life. So play games, but play intelligently. Remember, you should not make your life’s happiness dependent on anything other than your own consciousness.’
Your consciousness is full. It is completely full. It doesn’t need any experience whatsoever to make it happy or unhappy. It is beyond happiness or unhappiness. It is bliss. However, being conditioned by the body-mind, you are seeking some experi-ence.
Go and have that experience, but no experience is going to give you ultimate happiness. Ultimate happiness is the realiza-tion of the soul’s true nature.
Everything is a game. Continue to play the game, but play it well.
Be Like God
God manifests things as soon as the thought comes into His mind. This is called manifestation in the NOW. It is a simple and joyful process. For human beings, manifestation of desired objects is a complex process which does not happen in the NOW. We need to create an action and wait until it is complete to manifest things. For instance, if we need money we first need to create a job or business to generate income, or we have to borrow from someone. However, the requirement of an action to manifest material reality appears to be redundant. In God’s consciousness the thought and its object exist in blissful union.
God switches back and forth between thought and object with utmost ease.
Who is this guy, God? Where does He live? How can we learn this technique? God lives within you as the non-ego consciousness without any identity whatsoever. We can learn
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Jesus when Jesus started calling himself God. People stoned him because it was blasphemous to equate oneself with God.
Now You Can Make Changes
Yet the Bible says that God created man in His own image.
So you have everything within you. All that you need to do is get rid of your ego. Your ego is responsible for the separation between you and God.
The moment you bring in the energy of NOW, you can effect a lot of changes in your life. You can diffuse your diseases because a disease is something of the past that hangs on to the body because the body is in the past. The body cannot move, and it has caught hold of an idea in the past. Because of the material nature of the body, it clings onto the idea and lives that idea of sickness for a certain time. But you can educate the body to diffuse that idea by diffusing the concept of time. You can cause the body to live in the NOW as well. The body has to live the NOW. Once the body begins to live the NOW, then the disease which was created in the past disappears.
So, people have to be systematically taught how the body can live the NOW. How the cells of the body can be trained to remain in the NOW. The cells also think. It is not only the brain that thinks. The cells are also bound by the concept of time. The cells must think: NOW… NOW… NOW…
NOW… NOW. When the cells pick up the NOW, they lose interest in the old concept, and they will begin to live in the Divine energy.
The same thing can be applied to relationships. One morning I received a call, and not a very uncommon call at that.
This is one of the many calls that I receive: ‘Sri Siva, am I going to marry this person? My heart is drawn to him. What do you say? Can you get into a Divine sphere and tell me whether this person is out there for me? When am I going to marry him?’
And I tell say, ‘Look, it is your decision. It is not his deci-Life Changing Mantras: Tools from the Other Side
journal and review it on a weekly basis.
Morning Technique
Practice Chaotic Breathing for two minutes. Exhale continu-ally with vigor and visualize all the impurities leaving the body.
Practice the Ham Sa breathing technique for three minutes.
Exhale with both nostrils and mentally say, “Ham.” Then inhale with both nostrils and mentally say, “Sa.”
Practice the “Looking Up” meditation for five minutes. Keep the eyes closed and raise the eyeballs up as high as you can.
Pretend that you are watching the top of the sky. Imagine that there are two parallel lines emanating from the eyes, and these go straight up into the sky. Follow the two lines up as high as you can. Bring the two lines together to find the point of infinity. Now feel the connection between the point of infinity and the third eye between the two eyebrows. Now feel the channel that runs from the third eye and then down the spine to the base of the spine.
Practice the “Ah” meditation for 10 minutes. The sound
“Ah” I received directly from the Siddha Nandi. In the Hindu world, Nandi is depicted in the form of an enlightened bull.
Just as the Greeks have a story of Prometheus who stole fire from heaven, Nandi kind of stole this “Ah” technique from Kailash (Siva’s heaven) because of his compassion for the suffering of humanity. So, we are very grateful to him for this
“Ah” meditation. The whole world now knows this sound through the efforts of Dr. Wayne Dyer, whom I authorized a few years ago to teach the technique in his seminars.
Close your eyes…
Keep your hands still. Don’t move your hands.
We are going to play a trick with our own mind. Just pretend that you have lost the ability to move the hands. It’s a pretension. And although you may want to move the hands, you can’t move them. It’s a pretension.
God’s consciousness if we can get rid of our ego-self. We need innocence and purity at the Heart—we need to be utterly simple and honest. With that, manifestation becomes easy.
Human beings are unable to conceive of the NOW of God, which is also the Eternal Now. This is because human consciousness believes and lives in linear reality—a past, present and future which are spread out in a line on the earth-plane in a time-space continuum. We love the drama of life which consists of love and longing, and success and failure. The Truth about Time, however, is that everything is in the NOW. You don’t need to wait for the future to manifest things—you can mani-fest right NOW.
Nevertheless, you don’t want to manifest NOW because you are afraid and unsure of many things. This checklist will help you to identify the problems:
1. Afraid of success because of its newness and unfamil-iarity.
2. Satisfied with the current state of affairs and do not want to venture into something new.
3. Afraid of hurting others.
4. Skeptical of success.
5. Lazy and lack motivation.
6. Lack the resources.
7. Lack the qualifications.
You might want to go over and over the checklist to identify your problem. Maybe none of these categories describe your situation very well. This checklist will, however, help you look at yourself more closely. Write down what you think are the problems that delay manifestation for you. Sincerely pray to have these problems dissolved “in Sri Siva’s name.” Praying like that is like putting your request into a microwave to get it resolved faster. Ask yourself the question every hour or two during the day, “Why am I not manifesting NOW?” Keep a
in a particular way, you set the creative energy to action.
The sound “Ah” creates a lot of material force which exhibits both on the level of your mind and on the level of your body.
There is a secret here. The “Ah” has to be used in a certain way for then it opens a pathway between the third eye and your sex center.
The “Ah” starts at the sex center and goes into the third eye and then from the third eye it returns to the sex center. When you do this exercise with “Ah,” you will be able to find a channel within you opening up which is now available for your
The “Ah” starts at the sex center and goes into the third eye and then from the third eye it returns to the sex center. When you do this exercise with “Ah,” you will be able to find a channel within you opening up which is now available for your