#58. Two Keywords - Transcendence & Transformation | Vigyan Bhairav Tantra

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Dhyansay.

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On this spiritual journey,

Two words are very important.

Please remember these two words on this spiritual journey that we are taking through Tantra or any other spiritual journey that you take.

The first word is Transcendence and the second is Transformation.

These two words,

Transcendence and Transformation,

They have to be deeply understood while you go through this process.

Because while you are in this process of spiritual journey,

This spiritual process,

You have to map out what are you doing here,

What is it happening to you.

And these two words contain everything that is happening right now in these sessions,

In your life,

In your journey,

Whatever you are experiencing.

These two words,

Transcendence and Transformation.

What are these two words?

What is the meaning of Transcendence and Transformation on this spiritual journey?

This Transcendence,

Transcendence of what?

Transcendence of the physical to the non-physical.

Transcendence of the body,

Transcendence of the mind,

Transcendence of all ideas,

Of all concepts,

Of all limitations that we have put on ourselves.

So this spiritual process and every other spiritual process,

Unless this offers you that Transcendence,

It breaks free from all those limits.

It breaks you out of the limits that you have put on yourself.

Unless that Transcendence is happening in the process,

There is not much significance to what you are doing.

So please remember this word Transcendence while you are going through meditations.

All these meditations are a way to transcend your boundaries.

These boundaries that are sometimes given from the outside and in most cases,

You creating those boundaries for yourself.

Your own mind creating those boundaries for yourself.

So in every meditation,

In every practice,

In every sitting,

Unless you transcend the boundaries,

Unless you cross the limits,

Unless you demonstrate that courage,

You have that courage,

That fearlessness to transcend yourself,

The practice remains very mild.

The practice remains very mundane,

Very small,

Not so significant.

So this spiritual process has to have that Transcendence in every sitting that you do,

In every move that you make has to be a transcending move.

In the name of Transcendence,

There has been also lots of meditations called as Transcendental Meditations,

But those are not really transcending anything.

Those are repeating a certain mantra.

Those are caught up in the repetition.

And I'll come to that,

But let us understand what is the second keyword on this spiritual process,

This spiritual journey,

This transformation.

Transformation is something that is not just a change,

That is not just an incremental change,

That is not something where 10%,

20%,

30% improvement is there.

Transformation is a complete change,

An entire shift in the form itself.

The form that was there before does not exist anymore.

The form that is there now was not there before.

This transformation has to be understood as well,

While you're going through these spiritual processes.

And while you're reflecting back,

What is happening to you?

What is happening in your life?

You're not becoming a better person.

You're not going through this process as an incremental step-by-step improvement in yourself.

You're completely transforming who you really are.

You are not becoming a better version of yourself,

Because you were never yourself in the first place.

What you call as yourself is just a substitute,

A placeholder,

In not knowing who you really are.

So how can you be a better version of that in the spiritual process?

What spiritual process offers you is to take you out of this placeholder,

This ego,

All this what you call as yourself,

To who you really are.

That self and that no-self in its totality,

In its fullest spectrum,

From the self who you really are and the no-self also who you really are.

The individual and the whole,

The limited and the unlimited,

The form and the formless.

So this transformation that you go through in this process is of who you really are.

You will never recognize yourself anymore.

When you look at your past,

You will say who this person was,

I do not recognize this person anymore.

If you can still recognize yourself and your past in who you are today,

This transformation has not yet fully reached its maturity.

It has not yet fully flowered in you.

When this flowered fully in you,

You will completely be dissociated from your past,

Who you really were,

Not because you have become somebody else,

But because you have become who you really are.

That transformation is taking you from the idea of who you are or the placeholders,

The ego,

The substitute to the reality.

So this transformation,

As you go through this spiritual transformation,

Do not hold yourself back,

Because you are holding yourself back from being yourself,

From being in your true nature.

Whatever you are holding on to,

All this past,

All this idea of who you are,

All this idea of a better version of yourself,

Please drop that,

Let that transformation happen as you move along.

And as this transformation happens,

Everything in front of you remains the same,

But you are not the same anymore.

As they say,

What were you doing before enlightenment,

And the meditation master says,

Chopping wood,

Growing water,

And when the master is asked,

What did you do after enlightenment,

The master replied,

Chopping wood,

Growing water.

You do the same things,

The same mundane,

But with a complete set of new eyes.

You are new,

Your being is new,

New because you were never yourself.

So you become yourself,

The whole world in front of you remains the same,

But your experience of that changes completely.

The same that you were doing all before,

You will continue to do the same,

But your experience of doing the same,

Your experience of yourself will completely change.

Therefore,

There is no need for renunciation in the name of spirituality.

Everyone wants to run away from chopping wood and growing water to something that is far more profound,

To run away and escape and renounce this mundane,

But the transformation is of the self,

Is not of the doing,

Is not of the mundane.

The doing remains the same,

But this being it is completely transformed.

So remember these two words,

Transcendence and transformation.

Back to transcendence,

I was talking about,

There are practices of meditations that are called as transcendental meditations.

And if you look deeply into those practices,

What are these practices?

These are repeating a certain mantra,

Repeating something and yes,

They are beneficial,

They have an appeal because they take you out of the distraction,

They take you out of the monkey mind.

And if you see in the West,

When Maharishi Mahesh Yogi brought transcendental meditation to the West,

It immediately became very very popular because the mind which was completely a monkey mind,

Always distracted,

Always hyperactive,

Found something to do.

A loop was given to the mind,

A mantra was given to the mind,

And as anybody who subject himself into this transcendental meditation,

Into the repetition of a mantra,

Found peace in it,

Found few moments of distraction,

Few moments of coming out of the mind,

Out of this constant monkey mind that we are all experiencing.

But please remember that is not transcendence.

What you call as transcendental meditation has its own place in the world,

But it has nothing to do with transcendence,

It has nothing to do with meditation,

Unless your meditation really takes you,

Transcends you into out of the mind,

Into out of all what is happening,

Into another dimension of silence,

Another dimension of awareness.

Unless that transcendence happens,

Whatever is known as transcendental in the name of meditation is a good support,

Is a good practice,

But is not really meditation.

On the journey of meditation,

This transcendence happens beyond the limits,

Beyond anything that you have put yourself as limits.

Even all concepts,

All techniques,

They one day have to be transcended.

That is the nature of this transcendence,

That it never stops.

This transcendence is infinite,

This transcendence is vast,

This expansion is limitless,

And you continue transcending,

Like you are moving in a spiral.

The transformation brings you back to complete the circle,

Where you start from assuming who you are,

And you come back to who you are.

And transcendence takes you in a completely different dimension,

And you are moving in a spiral,

In an infinite expansion,

In an infinite movement.

So both these transcendence and transformation,

These are the two pillars of spiritual journey that is all expansive,

That is the liberation of your energies,

And that is what we call as Tantra.

Let us move to the meditation,

To the practice,

For today's silence,

For today's session.

There was a question on the sound of Aum,

On the chanting of Aum in our community,

Where one of the meditators asked,

How do we do a good Aum?

Because this chanting of Aum,

This mantra of Aum,

It has appeared several times,

In several forms,

In different practices,

It is so potent,

So powerful,

That it becomes the basis of so many practices.

Therefore,

It is important to learn how to do a good Aum,

As one of our meditators say,

But what needs to be done is to understand what is this Aum.

What are you chanting when you chant Aum?

This chanting of Aum is not just chanting of some random words.

Let us take two minutes to understand what is this Aum,

And then take this into a practice,

Chant Aum together with the rest of us.

This Aum has five components.

Three components of the letters A,

U,

M.

These are the three gross components,

These three letters,

If you break down the sound of Aum,

It is broken down into three sounds,

Three gross sounds.

A,

U,

M.

In these three sounds contain all sounds,

Whatever sounds you can make,

Whatever is audible and inaudible sound for the human ear,

All this is contained in these three sounds.

Your entire language,

Your entire communication is built on these three primary sounds.

So these are the first three components of the Aum,

The gross component.

Then the fourth component,

Which is this reverb of M.

When you chant Aum,

When you start with A,

U,

M,

When you have ended the gross,

Then the subtle starts,

The reverb of M,

That is there which you don't do,

Which you listen.

When you tune into the sound of Aum,

When you chant Aum,

There is a part that you do which is the first three characters and then this reverb of M,

Which you listen,

Which is the transcendence from the gross to the subtle,

From the physical to the non-physical.

This reverb of M,

It is the transcendence if you follow along that,

It takes you from wherever you are to the cosmos,

To the cosmic consciousness,

To something that is infinite,

To the emptiness,

And the fifth component is Silence.

After that reverb,

That reverb has taken you to a place,

That place of complete silence,

Of complete stillness.

That place is known as Silence.

This is the fifth component.

So whenever you chant Aum,

Think and understand Aum as these five components.

The first three gross letters are Aum,

The three sounds are Aum,

Then the fourth which is the transcendence,

Which is the listening,

The reverb of M,

And the fifth,

The silence.

There are several ways to also interpret that.

You can also see that these five components of Aum,

They impact these five realms of consciousness,

These five states of consciousness.

The A represents the waking,

The O,

The dream state,

The M,

The sleep state,

The reverb,

The Turiya,

Where your consciousness is simply an I consciousness,

Where there is no activity in your consciousness,

Where there is complete mindfulness,

Where there is complete meditation,

And the fifth,

Which is beyond even I,

Beyond the I consciousness,

The pure consciousness.

There is one more explanation to that,

I will not go into detail,

But it is linking these five components to the five quotients,

The five experiences of the body,

The sound A is relating to the physical,

The sound U is relating to the pranic body,

The pranic experience,

The energy experience,

The sound M is relating to your Manomaya kosha,

The mental body,

To the experience of all thoughts.

The fourth,

Which is this component,

This reverb of M,

Which you listen to,

This in this five koshas refer to the knowledge body,

To the Vigyanmaya kosha,

To all the impressions that you carry in you,

And the last,

The silence,

It corresponds to the bliss body,

The Anandamaya kosha,

Where there is simply silence and blissfulness.

So as we chant Aum together,

Please remember these five components.

As you utter the sound of Aum,

It has these three components of Aum and then the reverb and then the silence.

Let us move into this meditation and chant Aum,

Keeping in mind these five components.

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

Allowing your body to find its rest,

Allowing your mind to settle and your awareness to turn inwards.

As I chant Aum,

You may chant Aum along with me,

Or simply listen to the chant of Aum,

Keeping in mind these five components.

If you chant Aum,

Start the Aum with me and wait for me to end.

If you reach to silence first,

Stay in that silence,

Stay in the listening of the chant.

Take a nice deep breath in,

Inhale.

Aum Listen to the reverb of Aum as it disappears in silence.

Aum Aum In listening is transcendence,

In silence is transformation.

Aum Aum Aum Aum Aum Aum Aum Aum Letting everything go in the vibrations,

The reverberations,

In the silence.

Allow the transcendence and the transformation.

Aum The vibrations,

The reverberations transforming your body,

Your mind,

Your energies.

Aum Transcending all limitations.

Aum Shifting awareness to the silence.

Aum Aum When Towards Silence When When When No effort Simply staying In the silence And allowing The transformation to happen When When No doing If required No technique If required Simply sit In the silence Allowing The transformation to happen When When When When When When Allowing Everything to happen When When When When And very gently and slowly You may Open your eyes Maintaining This continuity Of Transcendence Of your awareness And the transformation Of your silence Taking these two Awareness in silence To your daily life On this Spiritual path If you wish to share Your journey with others This transcendence And transformation With others Along with your love Your truth Your connection with others If you have the urge The wish to share You are more than welcome To join our community of meditators If this resonates to you 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