祝福自己與大家靈性成長，走向覺醒之路。
My Salutations to all Pious Souls…………..
This Deep Meditation Anushthan is the ‘Holy Festival’ when I become completely ‘free’ of the sense of the body and hence remain in ‘contact’ with each sadhak, and subtly ‘examine’ the progress of each sadhak. As soon as this contact takes place’ ‘consciousness’ starts flowing through your body and you go into a good meditative state; this state is similar to (the example), when during any holiday a mother look slovingly at her children, showers love on her children and caresses her children,because both mother and children are busy during the rest of the time. Now as the number of children run into lakhs (millions), it is not possible to inform each child about his state; but you should read this message ‘peacefully’ and know for yourself up to which ‘place’ you have progressed, because it is necessary for you to know how far we have reached and how much more we have to progress.
This time the number of sadhaks meditating is the highest because‘young sadhaks’ who have joined in large numbers this year have added to the count, hence I will tell you the state of meditation in detail.
1. Purpose
If we give importance to the ‘sense of the body’, then the feeling of the body increases; when the physical feeling increases greatly, then ‘problems’ arise in our life and many times these problems inspire us to come on to the ‘spiritual path’. But you should know that because you have a problem within, you face problems outside; if you use the energy you obtain while meditating to solve your external problems – those problems will get solved but other problems will replace them in the future. Hence, always use the energy obtained through meditation to solve your ‘internal’ problems.What needs to be done is that you should not ‘pray’ for the solution to any external problems because your prayer gives ‘direction’ to the energy you have obtained. If you do not pray for anything, if you meditate without any ‘expectations’, then the‘energy’ you obtain through meditation will first clear your internal problems,because Paramatma knows where the root of the problem lies and not you. Hence, do not meditate with any ‘objective’. Meditate only because you feel ‘good’, and you obtain ‘bliss’ when you meditate. Meditate because you obtain ‘peace’ when you meditate, as the ‘sense of the body’ is the ‘first barrier’ which will ‘attract’ your attention mainly towards the problems of the body. When you meditate, the inner feeling will increase and sense of the body will decrease; that is why the sense of the body creates barriers on your path by taking your attention towards problems. Hence, firstly remain alert about never meditating with any ‘expectation’ in your mind, as expectation is a feeling only of the body. Always meditate with a ‘selfless’ feeling as‘selflessness’ is an inner feeling (of the soul).
2. Importance of the Place
The place where you meditate has great importance, as the ‘aura’ of that place has an effect on your meditation. If you meditate regularly at one place, then the atmosphere of that place itself changes – it is good if this place has an ‘east-west’ orientation. If you place the subtle body photograph facing the west, then when you sit facing it you will be facing the east. You need to place the photograph on a table or a chair (not hanging) at such a height that it is above your ‘agya chakra’ (third eye chakra). Clean the photo regularly with rose water,apply sandalwood paste, offer flowers or place a garland of flowers on the photo and light a lamp using either cow’s clarified butter or sesame oil, or you can also light a candle. Every day keep the place of meditation clean by sweeping and swabbing the floor – you can burn camphor nearby to keep the atmosphere pure,and you can also light incense sticks. All these things create an atmosphere around the place. This place should be private and should not be‘exhibited’.
3. Importance of the body
For spiritual progress, the body, is also instrumental, and at the sametime also an impediment. Primarily it is an impediment, but later on proves to be instrumental. First, before sitting for meditation you need to purify and clean the body by bathing and then sit for meditation, wearing loose cotton clothes at a fixed place and time, and for a fixed period of time. It will be even better if you can keep special ‘clothes’ for meditation and these clothes will have to be washed daily. Whether you obtain a meditative state or not, you must sit at the designated place, at the fixed time, for the pre-decided period of time; sit for about (30 minutes).
Initially your body itself will oppose you; you will feel lazy and when you sit for meditation your body will start itching, as your inner state of disquiet will come out in the form of itching. You will feel like yawning, coughing, your hands,legs or ears will flutter and flap, you will belch and also start letting off gas – all these are signs of the body’s opposition. You do not have to pay attention towards these things. The body opposes in all these ways because the influence of the body reduces with meditation, and the body does not want to reduce its importance.
To get rid of this problem you will have to increase your inner feeling.Increasing your inner feeling means, at this time, continuously chanting the mantra, “I am a pure Soul, I am a holy Soul.” Even if you keep counting the rosary beads, it is fine. By doing this, your feeling of the body will decrease and your inner feeling will increase. The chanting of this mantra will slowly, very slowly, reduce the opposition of your body. The more you yield to your physical feelings, the greater will be the time you need to spend at this place. All the persons in a house can sit at one place for meditation, but they should sit on their individual ‘meditation mats’; they should spread their own meditation mats and sit for meditation, and after meditation they should pick up their mats and keep them aside. Along with this mantra, if you accept that you yourself are a Soul, then your inner feeling will increase to that extent.The more your inner feeling increases, to that extent the feeling of your body will reduce. The body has influence over you, and the body does not like to lose its in fluence; hence when you meditate, the body opposes it and then your state becomes like that of a jockey who has sat on a stubborn horse for the first time.But as the jockey’s control starts improving, the horse starts coming under his control. If we take a ‘pledge’ to regularly meditate at a fixed place and time, only then will we be able bring our body under control – all this is practice, which happens very slowly.
4. Mind
Even if you train your body to sit at a fixed place and time for meditation, then too you do not have any control over your mind. The mind is restless - even though you are physically sitting in one place – in that much time the mind will travel all over the world and return. This problem is faced by all sadhaks in the beginning, but after a few days of meditation when this problem starts reducing, the mind makes its final attack. It explains to you, meditation is not your cup of tea, you will not be able to meditate, only Saints and Sages can meditate, and you are just a householder – why are you wasting your time! Utilize this time for some other work – you have got so much work pending – do that work, do not waste time in this meditation, and it will also remind you of your pending work. Some sadhaks reach this stage and then stop meditation – the mind is both restless and cunning, and if you succumb to your mind, then you will stop meditation. You should listen to your mind, but do not pay any attention to it for some days. Accept that it is in opposition and hence is opposing you. That is why it has been said - Practice of meditation should take place in the proximity of the ‘Satguru’; at such a time our faith and belief towards the ‘Satguru’ helps us and we are able to surmount this state also.
5. The Past
As we gain control over our mind and progress while meditating, we start seeing our past life just as in a movie, we start remembering whatever has transpired in life from our childhood to the present; we start remembering even the events which we had forgotten. You also start remembering such minor events which you had not remembered at all till date, and then you start thinking about what is now happening to you. You start remembering all the bad events and bad people in your life with whom you have no connection at all in the present, and you get disturbed by this.
Actually, this is a process of purification of the ‘chandra nadi’ (left meridian). This is similar to cleaning some old well, wherein you will see at the time of cleaning the well whatever has been dumped in the well over the years only once, because later on you will just remove and throw it. This also happens,that’s how it is. At such a time, we should not be afraid, but should continue with our meditative practice.
6. The Future
This is a law of nature that whenever we go to an extreme in any direction then we naturally have to move in the opposite direction. Thus, when we think too much of the past, our chitta (attention) consequently also goes into the future,and we either start making big plans or we start worrying about the future.
The sadhaks’ state then becomes like that of the pendulum of a clock which lasts for a few days – meaning sometimes we think of the past and sometimes of the future – all these states are just stages in our practice. Slowly the intensity of these thoughts start reducing, and as the intensity reduces it also stops – the time taken depends on the sadhaks belief and faith towards his Satguru. There is no definite yardstick for this time frame, and our ability to sit for meditation starts getting better after we reach this state.
7. Karma of the Past Births
When everything pertaining to this birth starts improving, then the sins committed in the past births which still remain, start creating obstacles on the path of meditation, because they too have to be endured; they have to be endured before they can be wiped out. Yes, if you have ‘belief’ and ‘faith’ in your Satguru then you will not feel its intensity while enduring them.In this manner, we can say that even though the sadhak’s past may not have been good, but the sadhak’s future life is always good. These sins have to be endured because he moves slowly, very slowly towards that free-state which is called liberation (moksha). This stage of the sadhak’s meditative practice is like a tough test of his belief and faith towards his Satguru; or otherwise you can consider this to be the final stage, because at this final stage even that part of the ‘I-sense’ of the sadhak’s ‘ego’ comes to an end.
8. Vision (darshan) of the Satguru
Paramatma keeps flowing in this world as abstract energy in the form of consciousness; it prevails in the atoms and particles of the entire universe.However, the human being is not very sensitive hence he is unable to feel Paramatma. Man can feel this energy only in a place where Paramatma’s energy is in collectivity. If any human in physical form purifies, cleanses, empties himself to such an extent, then universal consciousness starts flowing from within that human body; and that person in a physical body becomes ‘one with Paramatma’. Then whoever sees this person (even in his physical form),starts feeling that he is ‘like Paramatma’; this is because Paramatma’s energy and that person’s body do not appear to be different at all and hence people start believing the medium to be Paramatma, whereas the truth is that Paramatma has never taken any form and will not do so in the future either.But one has to reach the formless from the physical form, and this is exactly like bringing a kite down from its flight by pulling its string, as one can retrieve it only after that.
Similarly, when you reach Paramatma through the medium of the Satguru,then only you get the vision of the Satguru personified. You get this state after only reaching the Agya chakra. Many sadhaks get stuck at this place; actually this is a stage of Samarpan Meditation, and Paramatma does not really have any form.
9. Spiritual Experiences
As you progress further on your journey, later on the process of getting visions stops and thee process of obtaining experiences starts. Sometimes you get the fragrance of sandalwood and sometimes that of rose essence; and at this point, if the sadhak starts looking for its source outside then it goes away.Sometimes you get to hear the sound of a conch or sometimes the sound of a bell and at other times the sound of a flute – one starts getting such type of experiences.
We should not pay any attention to these experiences. Later on you will get to hear the ‘Brahma naad’ (Celestial sound) from within you, and then your own‘aura’ will be created. When you progress still further, you will feel that your Satguru is always in your proximity. Once you obtain this state your soul will start getting control over your body and you will be content in your own joy and bliss.Your own world will be created around you and then you will obtain that free-state which is called ‘liberation’ (moksha). But for you to reach this free-state, it is necessary for you to meditate regularly for twelve years continuously.In this manner, the sadhak can progress slowly and steadily to reach this state all by himself. You can hold on to this path only if you have time and age on your side, because wealth in the ‘form of time’ will definitely be required on this path;this is the stairway which will take you to a ‘new horizon’.
This path is known to people of ‘earlier generations’ because in olden days there were no lifts (elevators). The other path is new and of the new generation, this path has the lift. Just as we stand in the lift and submit ourselves to the ‘liftman’, and then the liftman presses the button and takes you directly to the ninth floor – this liftman only is the ‘Satguru’. Some ignorant people get off on the second floor or the fifth floor. What can the ‘liftman’do about that – as it is, he is taking the lift up to the ninth floor and he wishes to take you also, but your time has not arrived as yet; so what can the poor liftman do! This ‘Eighth Anushthan’ is an important stage – here I have become a‘cowherd’ and I am checking on which of my ‘cows’ are walking properly, how many are ‘lazy’ and are falling behind. I will have to ‘wait’ for them because it is my nature to take everyone with me; and I have been created just for that work.Through the medium of these eight anushthans I have reached a very high peak and returned and I have taken many sadhaks to that high peak and then come back. Now you cannot make out who has reached that high peak because if you could do so then you too would have been on that peak along with them.
That is why I keep repeating, always bathe on clean banks, and always stay in the company of good sadhaks. Eight years have passed by – in these eight years I did not even realise when these eight anushthans started and when they ended. These eight years appear to be like just eight days, like an eight day shibir has concluded. In my youth I enjoyed wrestling and after my Guru had taught me all the wrestling tricks, he had given me a ‘Guru Mantra’ - always wrestle with someone stronger than you and only then you will progress, and I always remembered that when I wrestled and also during my studies. And today I am also giving you this Guru Mantra – always stay with sadhaks who are better than you, there is benefit in this. Firstly, your ego that you are a good sadhak will not increase, and the soul will always be in the company of a good soul. You have come so far to bathe on the banks of the Ganges, so make some effort and select a good bank to bathe. And do not forget the main objective of bathing on the banks of the Ganges. It is not that I am just telling this to you; here also, meetings keep taking place everyday below the ‘banyan tree’, near the ‘yagna shala’, with experienced Guru Energies who are far superior to me. I keep taking their opinion on all the work which takes place daily. I also keep asking them for instructions, everything happens subtly. Just as a doctor cannot treat himself, similarly I am fond of you, I cannot see your mistakes, I cannot see your faults, hence your checking is always done through them, and I convey to you whatever they tell me by means of these messages. The mistake you are making is that you have forgotten why you have come here. There was a very good discussion with Gurudev just on this topic. I have got to know in great detail what all needs to be done next year.
Secondly, Gurudev says, the ‘Guru Mantra’ is a diamond, but the ‘Guru Mantra’ has been given to sadhaks who cannot make out the difference between a piece of glass and a diamond. ‘Guru Mantra’ is the blessing given by‘Paramatma to the soul’. But to absorb that it is necessary for the person to be a pure and holy soul, only then will the ‘Mantra’ be meaningful.
The ‘Guru Mantra’ is 800 years old – in the history of these 800 years, the medium bestowing the Guru Mantra and the medium receiving it have kept on changing, but the ‘Guru Mantra’ has remained the same and its effect too has also remained the same. There is only one ‘Guru Mantra’ – (Om) ShreeShivkrupanand Swami Namo Namaha. The way in which it is chanted has also been the same for the past 800 years, and the collective purity of Saints and Sages over the past 800 years is connected with it; and for the past 800 years it was not written down anywhere – this has not been given by anyone to any body……….. this has not been taken by anyone from anybody. As the disciple used to become ready under the guidance of the Satguru this knowledge was obtained easily by the disciple from the Guru. Historically, always when the disciple has surrendered to the ‘Satguru’ this ‘Guru Mantra’ has been obtained by him. But this did not happen in society; first you got the Guru Mantra and then the disciple surrendered, and because of this, those who have received it have not been able to understand the importance of this Mantra.
Gurudev’s advice was that the sadhak should first be taken to the level of a pure and holy soul and then only the ‘Guru Mantra’ should be given. Hence this change has also been made, that before the ‘Guru Mantra’ is received, the sadhak’s inner feeling should increase.Otherwise, the sadhak will get a layer of the ego of ‘I’, that I have obtained the ‘Guru Mantra,’ ‘I’ have become a good sadhak. The ego of ‘I’keeps changing its form and under all circumstances it keeps saving its identity. It is very difficult to bring this to an end, and it will have to be immersed in a collective group. I pray to God that all of you manage to immerse (drown) your ego of ‘I’. Lots of Blessings to all of you
Yours Babaswami
13\02\2014 (Thursday)
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