#38. Lets Play A Special Game | Vigyan Bhairav Tantra

Namaste sannyasa family and everyone.

A very warm welcome to all of you in this daily live meditation session with me,

Dhyansa.

We're meditating on 112 meditation techniques of Vigyan Bhairav Tantra.

Before we enter the meditation technique,

Let us play a game.

You like playing games?

Let us play a game.

In an ordinary game,

You have a few people,

You have a situation,

And the faster,

The stronger,

The smarter wins.

There is the position number one,

The winner,

There is the position number two,

The second winner,

There is the position number three.

And everyone else is competing.

This is an ordinary game.

Let us play a special game before we sit in meditation.

In this ordinary game,

There are a few winners,

Always just a few,

And everyone else is a loser because there are winners,

Everyone else is a loser.

And the smarter,

The faster,

The stronger,

The wiser wins.

Now you take all the winners from this ordinary game.

You are all these winners.

You are here,

You're listening to this session,

You are doing what you're doing in life.

You are that smarter,

That stronger,

That faster,

That winner,

And you were playing that ordinary game.

Let us play a special game.

In this special game,

You,

All you winners,

Are the participants.

And the situation is such that when you try to win,

Just like in your ordinary game,

You try to win by being faster,

You try to win by being stronger,

You try to win by being smarter.

When you use the same principles in this game that you try to win,

You start losing.

In this special game that you are playing,

You start losing the moment you try to be faster,

The moment you try to be stronger,

The moment you try to outsmart others,

You start losing.

Such a strange game.

And you see,

Not only you,

Other winners who were winners of the ordinary game,

When they are also placed in this special game,

They are also losing.

Not only you are losing,

They are also losing.

They are also trying to be the smarter,

The faster,

The stronger,

But they are also losing.

What is this strange game?

Everyone tries to be smarter,

Tries to be stronger,

Tries to be faster,

But everyone else is losing.

Not only you,

Everybody in the game is losing.

What is this game?

Would you like to play this game in your life?

Think about it.

The ordinary games that you are playing in your life,

Now this special game,

Would you like to play this special game in your life,

Where when you try to be smarter,

Stronger,

Faster,

You lose,

Everyone else loses.

Whether you like it or not,

You are playing that game in your life.

We all are playing that special game in our life right now,

Where when we try to be smarter,

Stronger and faster than others,

When we try to be winners,

We lose,

Everyone else loses.

The faster we are,

The faster we are losing and everybody else loses.

What to do?

Tantra vibration gives few hints how to win this game.

It requires two contemplations going back in how our conditioning is,

In how we learn things while growing up in the childhood.

The first hint,

The first contemplation that Tantra brings into this session is to see that mind divides.

Mind creates divisions.

Mind lives in divisions.

From the moment we are born,

We are trained all throughout every day,

Day in day out,

Through our education,

Through our culture,

Through our society,

Through our parents,

Through every single source of knowledge and training,

The mind is trained to divide.

The mind is trained to divide between the other and yourself and creating this sense of individuality,

Creating the division between you and the other.

And this division is helpful when you want to understand the physical.

If you see our entire science is based on division,

On taking something that is one,

Dividing it into two,

Two into four,

Four into eight,

Eight into sixteen and thirty two and so on,

And dividing the entire universe into this infinite division.

And going and understanding each of the aspects into divisions,

Thereby also dividing who we are,

How we are and our sense of life also divided.

So see the first hint,

The first clue to win this special game is to understand the nature of mind and its training.

That training is to divide and something has to be done to that training in order to win this special game we all are in.

The second hint is that when you see in your childhood,

The first thing you do is you start to play.

The first joy that you have in life is that you start to play with things.

You have some object in your hand,

You have your mother,

You have something in front of you and you start to play with it.

Your interaction with the world is play,

The nature of that interaction is of that play.

But somehow that play becomes a game.

From a play where there was just joy,

There was innocence,

There were no winners,

There were no losers,

Suddenly that play becomes a game.

There is a winner,

There is a loser and you are playing this game with yourself.

You are playing this game with others in every aspect of your life.

You are trained to play the game of winners and losers.

You move from the play to the game.

This movement from the play to the game changes the nature of your experience of that play becoming a game and you are living to become a winner,

Living to not be a loser in constant competition with something.

You don't know with whom,

You project that onto the world,

You assume that the whole world is made of winners and losers and you are going to go for being the winner and not being the loser.

These two strong conditionings of the mind are the hints what to do with this special game where the more you try to win,

The more you lose.

Not only you lose and everyone else loses.

What is the solution?

How do you rise above this game that we have put ourselves into?

There is this way to rise above the game.

First of all,

Winning that game and rising above that game.

How do you do that?

How do you win this game where when you try to win,

You lose,

Everyone else loses?

The only possibility is to do the opposite,

To not try to win yourself.

See,

Try it out in this special game that you are in,

That we all are in,

That you don't try to win for yourself.

And you may see,

You may get a clue,

You may see that there is a way,

There is a light where suddenly when you stop trying to win,

Everyone else starts to win.

When you stop trying to win,

Everyone else starts to win.

When more of you stop trying to win,

Everyone else starts to win.

Can you play that game in a way where you stop trying to win?

This ability,

This consciousness to be able to not try to win,

To not have the fear of losing oneself,

Thereby resulting in everyone together winning.

This consciousness is what Tantra vibration can provide.

This consciousness is what is a result of meditation.

Where in your meditation,

In your silence,

You see there is no division.

All the division that the mind is creating,

That we are living,

Is just an assumption and there is no division in truth,

In reality.

And secondly,

You see that nature of life is play,

Is Leela.

It is not a game.

There are no winners,

There are no losers.

But we have set ourselves in a game.

And to come out of this game,

We have to have that consciousness that not only I,

Not only me tries to win,

Me thinks of the collective.

As a collective,

We win,

As an individual,

We lose.

That's the solution.

That's the message of Tantra vibration.

Contemplate about it,

Think about it,

Apply it,

Try it and see whether this works.

Let's move to the technique from Vigyan Bhairav Tantra for today.

Bhairava says,

By perceiving the reality of Shiva in this whole universe up to the ultimate limit,

One will experience the greatest awakening.

Let me repeat.

By perceiving the reality of Shiva in this whole universe up to the ultimate limit,

One will experience the greatest awakening.

By perceiving the reality of Shiva,

What is the reality of Shiva?

The reality of Shiva is Oneness.

That we are one consciousness.

We assuming that we are this individual consciousness,

We have this sense,

This perception that we are individual consciousness.

But we are one consciousness.

That is the reality of Shiva.

In this technique,

Bhairava is asking you to perceive.

He is saying,

By perceiving the reality.

Of course,

This is not your experience yet that the reality of Shiva,

This Oneness,

This one consciousness is not your experience yet.

So Bhairava is giving the technique saying that perceive,

Start by perceiving,

Start by opening up to it,

Start by bringing this in your visualization,

Bringing this in your mind that the reality of Shiva in the whole universe up to the ultimate limit,

That not only you,

Not only people around you,

Not only nature,

Not only the cosmos,

The entirety of existence,

Whatever you can call as existence.

This all is one consciousness.

Aham Brahmasmi,

I am all.

That is the technique,

That is the essence,

The crux of the technique today which is also helping us to win that special game that we all are in.

I am all.

We all are one.

One will experience the greatest awakening.

So Bhairava here is saying,

You start by perceiving this Oneness,

This one consciousness and let this perception become your reality.

Let this perception unfold your consciousness,

Liberate your energies,

Expand your consciousness that a point comes where one will experience the greatest awakening.

This awakening is this experience of this Oneness,

This experience of this expanded consciousness infinitely,

Without any limits,

Until the ultimate limits,

Meaning without any limits.

Let us use this technique,

Let us practice this technique in our own experience,

In our own silence.

Please remember,

This is not a natural experience that you all are one,

Because there is this mind in the way,

There is this conditioning in the way,

Everything will sound,

Appear,

Feel and sense counter to how you have been conditioned.

So you may have to overcome that by visualizing,

By perceiving first,

By being open to this idea that we all are one consciousness.

And by perceiving,

By being open,

Soon it becomes the reality.

Soon it overcomes the hurdle of the mind and you are in the experience of Oneness.

Please close your eyes and take a posture that is comfortable for you,

With your hands on your thighs or in your lap.

Your body upright,

Your head,

Neck and spine aligned,

Alert yet relaxed.

With every exhalation,

Allowing the body to relax,

To settle.

Allowing your mind to settle,

Your awareness to turn inwards in this moment.

Thank you.

As a first step,

Imagine,

Visualize and be in the sense of oneness within yourself.

All divisions within yourself disappear,

Dissolve and you become one.

No.

No division in your body,

Mind,

Breath.

Simply a sense of oneness within in your consciousness.

No.

More and more in the sense of oneness within.

You may visualize,

Imagine,

If that helps.

No.

Body,

Mind,

Heart,

Breath all merging in one awareness.

No.

Remaining aware of this one awareness in you.

And allowing this one awareness to expand.

Visualizing,

Imagining this one awareness expanding in all directions.

No.

This expanding awareness in you is everywhere.

All around nature.

In the whole universe.

All is one awareness.

The entire universe is one awareness.

You are the whole.

You are the whole.

You are the whole.

This one awareness.

Until the ultimate limits the infinite of the universe.

You are the whole.

Leave all visualization,

All effort.

Please stay in this expansion,

In silence,

In awareness.

Thank you.

Stay in this stillness,

In this silence,

This awareness.

Awareness.

And very gently and slowly,

You may open your eyes.

Remaining in tune with the whole universe as one.

As you,

Remaining in the taste of that one consciousness,

That one awareness.

Taking the taste and silence into your daily life.

In this union of collective,

In this empowerment of collective,

In this finally dropping that division that has led to all the miseries.

We have formed a community of meditators,

Living this union,

Living this empowerment,

This sense of oneness,

This connection.

Not as a perception,

But as the truth.

As the reality that we all are one.

If you feel the wish to be a part of this community,

To live this oneness,

To live love,

Truth and oneness with all,

You're more than welcome to join the community.

Please write me an email with your introduction,

With your calling for the community and what can you give back to the community.

Thank you very much.

Namaste.