Today, we live in a world with over 14,000 active nuclear weapons. Just in the year 2020, more than 16 million people participated in protest in the United State, which escalated to the most violent protests that terrified cities across the world. Across the world, people were shocked at the absolute destruction and anarchy that pervaded in every city.
The foundational cosmic principle of Sanatana Hindu Dharma is non-violence, or Ahimsa. In the Hindu scriptures such as Patanjali Yoga Sutras, Rig Veda, Atharva Veda, and Mahabharata, non-violence is taught as a principle of powerful living.
In Patanjali Yoga Sutra: 86th Sutra, 2nd Chapter and 35th Verse, the great Maharishi states,
अहिंसाप्रतिष्ठायां तत्सन्निधौ वैरत्यागः॥३५॥
ahiṁsā-pratiṣṭhāyaṁ tat-sannidhau vairatyāghaḥ ॥35॥
When the yogi is established in non-killing in all enemities cease in his presence
The Avatar, Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism, Jagatguru Mahasannidhanam His Divine Holiness Bhagavan Nithyananda Paramashivam, lives as a paragon of non-violence. He teaches, "Non-violence is the ultimate shield and strategy"
The following is an excerpt from The Autobiography of The Avatar, where He explains perfect examples of how being established in non-violence is a power that transcends all boundaries and manifests an extraordinary ways in life.
"Let me give you one story that happened in my life then you will understand the power of being established In any truth. After my experience of my avataric mission in 2000. At the end of the year 2000 I was staying near a small village on a hill. I was sitting under a banyan tree and I was in a deep Samadhi but eyes were open and I had stretched my leg sitting casually leaning on the banyan tree. I was in deep Samadhi maybe for one hour. Throughout that one hour at big at least 7 to 8 feet poisonous cobra was lying just almost touching my body. It was lying next to me completely in peace and completely in rest! Not on my body but touching my body. Slowly very slowly after an hour I was settling in my body. The moment I was settling in my body, I had a thought – I am a man, means I am this body. The moment I had a thought I am this body, the cobra had a thought he is a cobra till then he did not even have an idea he is cobra. I could see very clearly. As long as I did not know that I am a man, he also did not have the thought and he did not feel threatened by me. complete advaita. Please understand, if you are feeling threatened by someone, be very clear that person is also threatened by you. Understand this is a basic law. So I you can send a message to that person – abhayam – then it is enough.
Please understand, I am telling you exactly what happened. the moment I felt I am the body, the snake felt he is snake. I could see very clearly. My body slowly moved and the snake just moved, put his head up and moved away. Only when I had idea I am body, the cobra felt he was body. So when I moved my body out, he moved his body out. And since I was in Samadhi, he did not feel a threat and I did not feel the threat. But the separation. The moment I felt separation, he felt the separation. But there was no friendliness because of the separation. Please understand, this whole world is the mirror. How you respond to any context. Same way the context responds to you. Context is not a dead word, it is a living independent intelligence. You always think you are a living mechanism, the context around you is dead matter. If you think you are more powerful and intelligent than the context then you have ego.
Understanding the context is an independent intelligence like you , they do respond, they do react if you have this understanding, you will not blame "World is blaming you, making you suffer". You will not think, "The context is harassing you." If you have idea "Context is harassing you" that is the source and justification of violence. When you think your surrounding is harassing you, then you will have to be violent.
Context is independent intelligence. Please understand when I say context, I am not only saying that snake. I mean everything. I can tell you another one incident.
In the same village, just few days ahead of that incident, I was sitting under a tree. That tree had long flowers. You can make a garland of that flower without any thread. It is a very strong fragrant flower. I was sitting under a tree. I am telling you one more incident on this truth of context being independently intelligent. So I was sitting under this tree which has this long flowers. If you can just connect one flower with another, you can make a garland without using any thread or connecting material. There was no breeze, nothing. Maybe evening it was complete stillness. Such deep restful awareness. I was completely in the state of ‘freedom from the known’ when you are in deep restful awareness – whatever you know your mind and body will be free from it – such deep restful awareness. Actually the moon was rising and sun was setting at that time. I was in such restful awareness. There was a small stone on which my hand was resting. Suddenly very casually I just lifted my hand and felt a strong life with that tree. The same intense life I was feeling inside my body, I felt with that tree. It is alive just like me. another one person is sitting next to me. when I felt that tree alive, with deep love and care I touched the tree. The tree just literally shook itself without any breeze or air. It just showered the whole flowers I don’t know how many 1000s of flowers. Please understand, it just showered! When it finished. I looked up. Not a single flower was left in the tree
If I am talking the truth, your unconscious will simply catch it. You just cannot deny it. You just know maybe I am not understanding but I don’t think he is telling a lie. I may not grasp it but I don’t think he is telling a lie.
Please understand, context is intelligent. Whether it is a tree or a snake. Because of that friendliness and love, the tree showered. Because of that one line of separation the snake went away. Context whether it is a tree or a snake or even a stone. Context is intelligent. So there cannot be any harassment if you handle the context with intelligence and clarity that it is intelligent. Even from other side violence is invoked, if you understand that the context is intelligent it is enough. Non-violence is the ultimate shield and strategy. It is like cutting the jack fruit after applying the oil in your hands. In Indian villages they will apply this oil before cutting jack fruit so that the jack fruit milk will not stick on your hands. Same way, completely apply non-violence ahimsa when you are facing violence."
In thousands of ways, The Avatar has lived this teaching and guided His followers in the path of living non-violence as the ultimate core principle. The Hindu civilizational nation, KAILASA, which The Avatar is reviving is a nation established in non-violence and leading the world in all non-violent efforts to make a better world and bring superconscious breakthrough to humanity.
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