#96. The Missing Piece Of Your Life | Vigyan Bhairav Tantra

Namaste everyone,

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

Dhyansa.

We are meditating on 112 meditation techniques of Vigyan Bhairav Tantra.

This session is for those who have been looking on their spiritual journey,

Who have been on this search for several years.

They have tasted different things,

They have tasted different paths,

Different books,

Different masters,

Different philosophies,

Different religions,

But yet,

The thirst is still not yet quenched.

Still,

They have not yet reached to what they are looking for.

Still,

They do not understand what are they looking for.

They are in a search for several years,

For 50 years,

60 years,

They have been meditating,

Looking for something,

Do not understand what that is,

Do not know how to have that.

This session is especially for those who have been on this search for long,

And perhaps those who have just begun their search,

Those who are just new to the spiritual journey,

It will save you all those several years,

It will save you all that effort to go here and there in looking for what you really want.

Do you really understand what you are looking for?

What is it that you really want out of the spiritual journey?

In spiritual traditions,

In spiritual terms,

There is only one word that can contain all what you are looking for,

And that word is enlightenment.

What you are looking for,

You may deny that it is not enlightenment,

It is inner peace,

It is love,

It is this or that,

But what you are looking for is enlightenment.

Through all this search,

Through all this effort,

Through all this years of looking,

Of meditating,

Of going to places here and there,

What you are really looking for is enlightenment.

Why you are looking for enlightenment?

Because you want to live in the truth,

In the absolute truth.

You want to live this life in the truth,

This truth is that missing piece that you are looking for in everything in different forms.

You are calling it different names,

You are giving it different shapes,

But this truth is what you want to live and what you are searching for is that state of enlightenment in which you can live this missing piece,

This truth in life.

What is this truth?

In language when we say truth,

It has always a certain opposite.

When we say truth,

There is something that has to be a lie,

There is something that has to be false.

This truth in the language is somewhat relative,

But the truth that you are looking for,

That missing piece in your life is that absolute truth.

That absolute truth could have been called something else,

But since in language when we use the word truth,

That comes closest to that absolute truth,

That piece that is missing in your life,

That you can call it whatever,

And in language the word truth comes closest to it.

It is not exactly the same because in language when you say truth,

It is relative,

It has an opposite,

It has something that is a lie.

To the truth of the language,

You come to it with the mind.

To the truth of the language,

You need a rational to arrive there,

You need some sort of decision to arrive to that,

Some sort of calculation,

Some sort of analysis,

Some sort of rational to disprove the lie and to come to the truth.

But this spiritual absolute truth,

What we call as truth,

You cannot arrive to that with the mind.

You cannot arrive to that with the logic.

You cannot arrive to that with any kind of knowledge.

That absolute truth,

That missing piece in your life,

That absolute truth is unknowable,

Is ungraspable,

Is unimaginable.

All these ways of grasping,

Of knowing,

Of imagining are the ways of the mind.

And you are approaching the whole spirituality all throughout your journey with the mind and therefore you have never arrived to this absolute truth.

To come to this absolute truth,

You have to move from the mind to the no-mind.

Somehow you have to come out of the mind so that you can be in this unknowable,

Be in this ungraspable,

Be in this unimaginable.

Otherwise,

As long as you keep on trying with your mind,

It will always remain unknowable,

Ungraspable,

Unimaginable.

There is something that is known to you,

There is something that is unknown to you and there is something that is unknowable to your mind.

Understand that,

That in your mind what you already know is the known.

In your mind what you don't know yet but can be understood by the mind,

Can fit into the realm of the mind is the unknown.

But truth,

The absolute truth does not belong to the unknown,

It belongs to the unknowable,

A realm outside the mind.

When you move out of the mind,

It is very difficult to differentiate between whether you are moving towards madness or you are moving towards the absolute truth.

That is somewhat of a risk.

That is always while you are on this spiritual journey and when you see a person of truth,

It may appear to be a person of madness.

And a person of madness may appear to be a person of truth.

Because both these people,

The person of truth and the person of madness,

To someone in the mind it appears more or less the same.

It is very hard to differentiate.

You need a certain awareness to differentiate between the person of madness and the person of the truth.

Otherwise,

Madness and truth to a person in the mind would appear the same.

Mooli,

He went mad.

His madness was that he thought that he was dead.

Everyone around him in his family,

In his friends tried to convince him,

Tried to tell him,

Look Mooli,

You can eat,

You can walk,

You can talk,

You are not dead,

You are alive.

But Mooli said,

No,

I know that I am dead.

And I know I can walk,

I can eat,

I can talk,

But I can do as I am dead.

You may not know that you are dead.

You are also dead while being dead.

You can also walk,

You can also talk,

You can also eat.

So I know for sure that I am dead.

There was no argument that could be given to Mooli to come out of this madness.

He had such a strong mind,

He was always ready with a counter argument.

You give him anything and he was ready to cancel that argument and was always believing that he is dead.

That was his madness.

So his family and friends,

Tired of this,

They took him to a psychoanalyst.

The psychoanalyst heard the whole story from the friends and the family,

What is going wrong.

He very patiently sat down in front of Mooli.

He said,

Mooli,

You know,

You were once alive.

Mooli said,

Yes.

When you were alive,

You must have heard that dead men do not bleed.

Mooli,

He thought once,

He said,

Yes,

I have heard that proverb that dead men do not bleed.

So that psychoanalyst,

He took a knife,

He immediately made a small cut on Mooli's hand.

Blood came out and he said to Mooli,

And now,

What do you think?

Mooli looked at the blood and he said,

And now,

It's really surprising to me that this whole proverb was wrong,

Even dead men do bleed.

That proverb,

That dead men do not bleed was absolutely wrong.

There is always a way to cancel the argument.

There is always a way to rationalize something and in those rationals,

The only place to end up is in madness.

If you want to move towards the truth,

Towards a place of no mind,

Towards a place of silence,

That path is towards awareness.

The differentiation between madness and truth out of the mind is in awareness.

To always remain aware,

To always remain aware on this spiritual journey while you are going through different traditions,

Different ways,

Different people,

Hearing different things,

Always remain seated in awareness.

That will help you to decide,

That will help you to discern this realm which is beyond the mind,

In this realm,

What is all madness and what is taking you towards the absolute truth.

Let us listen to what Bhairava has to say in Vigyan Bhairava Tantra as a technique for today.

Understand this technique and practice this technique for the next minutes.

Bhairava says,

The unknowable,

The ungraspable,

And the unimaginable,

That which pervades even non-existence,

Contemplate on it as Bhairava.

At the end,

Illumination will dawn.

Let me tell you something.

The unknowable,

The ungraspable,

The unimaginable,

That which pervades even non-existence,

Contemplate on it as Bhairava.

At the end,

Illumination will dawn.

So very clearly Bhairava,

In the last peaks of this journey towards the end of Tantra,

He is very clearly saying,

He is not shy of saying that this is all about the illumination,

All about the enlightenment.

And to reach there,

At the end,

To reach there,

The unmeditated contemplate over the unknowable,

The ungraspable,

The unimaginable,

That is pervading even the non-existence.

What is this non-existence?

Here he is referring to the realm of the no-mind,

To the realm which is beyond perception,

To the realm which is beyond the physical,

To the realm which is beyond what we call as existence.

What is in reach?

What is possible to know?

What is possible to grasp?

What is possible to imagine?

All of that is the realm of existence.

And beyond that realm of existence,

This realm of non-existence,

Where you can only reach with the no-mind,

Where you can only reach with the awareness,

Where you can only reach without any logic.

No logic,

No rational would ever take you there.

In fact,

You will have to drop the mind,

Drop the logic,

Drop the rationals,

Drop this attempt to grasp,

Drop this attempt to know,

Drop this attempt to imagine the Absolute Truth.

When you move in awareness towards that,

In that contemplation,

You reach to that Absolute Truth.

Let us practice this in our silence.

Let us try with our awareness to move towards the ungraspable,

The unimaginable,

The unknowable.

The way to do that is to first of all put your mind at rest.

Stop trying to know,

Stop trying to grasp,

Stop trying to imagine.

The moment you stop trying to do all that,

Suddenly the obvious,

The intuitive,

This sense arises in you.

In that silence,

You know that there is something absolute.

You have access to something absolute.

That which you have been looking all your life,

That missing piece,

Suddenly it rises,

It emerges in your consciousness as the Absolute Truth.

The more you contemplate on that Absolute Truth,

Enlightenment happens to you,

Where this Absolute Truth becomes your consciousness forever,

Then you don't have to reach to it in practice,

In any kind of effort.

Then it becomes your true nature.

Let us attempt that in the next few minutes to put the mind at rest and move towards the realm of no mind.

Please close your eyes and take a posture.

That is comfortable for you.

Allowing you to sit straight,

With your body alert,

Yet relaxed.

Allowing the body to find its restful place.

Your breath in its natural pace.

Your awareness turned inwards.

Your breath in its natural pace.

Your breath in its natural pace.

Your breath in its natural pace.

Your breath in its natural pace.

Allowing your mind to rest and your awareness to rise to the unknowable.

Allowing your mind to rest and your awareness to rise to the unknowable.

Allowing your mind to rest and your awareness to rise to the unknowable.

In silence,

Mind at rest,

Awareness towards the unknowable.

Allowing your mind to rest and your awareness to rise to the unknowable.

Allowing your mind to rest and your awareness to rise to the unknowable.

Unknowable.

Un-knowable.

Allowing your energies to rest,

Not trying to grasp anything.

Un-knowable.

Un-knowable.

Resting in silence.

Awareness towards unknowable.

Resting in silence.

Resting in silence.

Resting in silence.

Awareness at unknowable.

Un-graspable.

Un-imaginable.

Allowing the mind to rest,

Not imagine anything.

Un-imaginable.

Un-imaginable.

Un-imaginable.

This silence,

When mind is at rest,

The truth arises.

That in your awareness,

The unknowable,

The un-graspable,

The unimaginable,

That this stay in awareness of this.

Un-imaginable.

Un-imaginable.

Un-imaginable.

Un-imaginable.

Un-imaginable.

Un-imaginable.

Un-imaginable.

Un-imaginable.

Un-imaginable.

Un-imaginable.

Un-imaginable.

Un-imaginable.

Un-imaginable.

Very gently and slowly,

You may open your eyes,

Maintaining your silence,

Your awareness.

Seeing that awareness,

The absolute truth,

The un-graspable,

The un-knowable,

The un-imaginable,

And taking this state,

Taking this taste through your daily life,

In whatever aspects of your life you involve yourself in.

On this spiritual journey,

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Where we are moving towards this absolute truth,

Moving towards silence,

Moving towards love and connection so that we can all live peacefully as one.

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As we create variations of lies,

This absolute truth,

This art of meditative silence,

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Once again,

Thank you very much.

Namaste.