Secrets Of Meditation - Evolve Consciously

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Secrets Of Meditation - Evolve Consciously

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Eastern wisdom and masters say that we need to listen to the principles, then contemplate and reflect, followed by specialized practices to become a seeker. The half the journey becomes complete when we become a seeker. It is important to know the principles as taught by great masters. In this series, we will learn principles taught by masters like Buddha, Shankara, Ramakrishna, Patanjali to become a seeker. Become a seeker to succeed Secrets of meditation - evolve consciously

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Easy to be a seeker and they are independent topics but still you can say that they go together. So if you pay attention in day to day life whether my mind lives in the fourth state, We did talk a lot about the fourth state of mind, Five subjective states of the mind and out of the five first three subjective states no chance, No chance. First three states of the mind, Yes welcome David, So first welcome Lara. So first three states of the mind we cannot do anything in yoga, Meditation, We may claim we have been doing it. Oh we have been doing it for so many years but there is no desert, Better to leave yoga. You see that so it happens only in the fourth state of the mind that I covered in the first session of to become a seeker but now to you extend that a little bit so when you ask a question that how to live into the fourth state of the mind then I have to look at myself not the word outside. No I have lot of work to do, I'm busy or I'm lethargic, I'm lazy, I cannot get up, No you have to look into your are you a human being and the human being is a thinker why we are a thinker because of the intellect who gave us the intellect the nature the existence offered us. The third last session we took some people have you know I have I have been very kind to my honey, No I don't want honey you know honey may be a dog or a husband or a car anything you know that's how we use our. . . If I misunderstand then you can correct me but that is you know for everyone we say honey so so good work alone is not enough that needs to be understood it does not mean that we should leave being kind, Being sympathetic, Being caring. Two points you know I have to remain kind, Sympathetic, Caring, Compassionate, Friendly but at the same time we must be very clear that good works alone is not enough. I paid a million dollar in donation then I will be awakened so it means you you are privileged because you have it that's why you can be awakened. Understand that point very clearly. So now I don't have anything to spare it does not mean that you should have a good consciousness that you will not evolve. So now today's topic is again very interesting. Evolve, Evolving and to be evolved. Don't think that you know when you become a seeker it only helps you to achieve the highest meditation it will definitely help your personal professional and the social life. Now ask a simple question do you want to change? Yes, I want to change from a current state to what I visualize to a state of permanent happiness. Do you want to change? Yes, Now ask if you say I don't want to change then you have a false notion you have made an opinion in your mind and that you are sticking with that opinion you are sticking with the false notion. Do you have a luxury not to change? I'm using the word. Do you have a luxury not to change? Nature is changing, Body is changing, Mind is changing, Intellect is changing. Why you don't want to change? No, No I have my own belief I have my own conditioning to live with that conditioning and continue to suffer. I should be flexible enough to find what emotions, Feelings, Thoughts I carry if I change what will happen and if you don't want to change from your mind you are contradicting the nature and if you are contradicting the nature, Nature will definitely punish you. It knows no reward. I should be able to understand. No, I have been living in anxiety for the last 20 years. Really? During the last 20 years you never had a moment to smile, To relax, To sleep? See the false opinion, False notion. Do you want to change? Yes, That is why you are attending the session. Otherwise you should not have it. I know everything. Let me suffer. So when we say we want permanent peace and happiness in our life, What it means? Am I in permanent peace and happiness now? 24 by 7? No, I want that. So I want a change. Do you understand? I want a change. First part. I'm taking you to a journey of one of the beautiful principles. Now what is this change? Change is the hallmark of the progress. Nature is constantly evolving, That is also we say change. Do we understand that nature is constantly evolving? How can I be static? And I become static because of my own opinion. My bias is in my mind about myself. So now understand this change. Change is horizontal. Change is mixed with the horizontal and vertical. This change. So when the change is horizontal plus vertical it is known as development, Self-development, Personality development. Right? Now there is another change. I enter into a new dimension of consciousness. That process of change is known as evolution and when we drop all what we have been living in our day to day life that leads to transformation. So change you can understand by four words. Plants change. Plants grow. Do you say plants develop? Do you see that? Self-development, Personality development. But when I enter evolution is something inner. Can I give you another example? Take an example of a teacher who is teaching for 50 years and retires as a teacher. It is nothing but the growth. Well a teacher starts coaching after 10 years because he has 10 years of experience. So now see it is a development. It's a development. A teacher opens a coaching center all over the country. Now it's a process of evolution and transformation the same teacher no longer remains the teacher. He is enjoying like Bill Gates. He is the head. Now apply this in life. You will understand how to why to become a seeker. Now coming the main topic. Ask yourself what is totally evolved in you? What is evolving and what is yet to be evolved? Forget about real self. Forget about spirituality. Understand it clearly. Three words. Evolve. What is evolved? The body in us the human frame is totally evolved. How can you say? Do you have a luxury to have a sixth sense organ? Can you imagine which one it should be? Other animals have one or more senses are more evolved than the other. Our five sense organs are fully evolved. Tell me if you have an idea of the fifth sixth sense organ. So it means the human frame is fully evolved. That is why it has a vertical spine. We don't have a horizontal spine. A lot of stuff is there but I let me come to the main topic and what is evolving means what is changing constantly so that I keep a right destination the right goal for what is evolving. Our mind is evolving constantly. Our mind is evolving so what is evolved? Maintenance services required for the body. Repair and maintenance. Nothing more than that. Nothing more than that. In eating, In cleansing, Hygiene etc. The purity of the body. Maisiered diet etc. Etc. That is what is required for the body. That is all. Physical exercises. And what is evolving? Mind is constantly evolving. Now find out what is the goal of meditation. So how do we find out? Go back. What we say? The life evolved out of matter because the life was hidden in into it. Do you understand that point? Not very difficult. Life was hidden potentially in the matter so the life evolved out of matter. What we say protoplasm in modern science? A complex material structure and one unit of protoplasm is known as cell, A living entity. So from where the life came the life did not come from the heaven. It was already present in the matter so it evolved. Did you get it? Life was hidden in the matter. So there was a constant change. So what happens in the process of evolution when the matter reaches to a saturation point in its permutation and combination the evolution takes place and what is the evolved product? Life which appears to be totally different from the matter. Clear? We have seen the sensations in different plants. Sensation is a representative of the mind. So when there is a life, The life through the hidden trial in the nature, What happened? The mind evolved out of life. Do you understand that? Evolution means that there is a totally a new product. When the new product comes, When the lower one reaches to its saturation point, There is no possibility of any change in that level. So that change gives rise to a new product. So from matter to life, Right? From life to mind, Right? Now the human mind or intellect, Can you help this human mind to reach to its saturation point? What will happen? The real self will evolve. Forget about all the principles. Do you understand that point? From matter to life, Life to mind, Why the mind is not evolving so fast? Nature goes through the hidden trial method. It takes millions of years to produce one life, Right? It will take another millions of years to help us reach to the state saturation point of the mind. What is that saturation point of the mind? Mind should be pure. Mind should be focused. Mind should be, Mind should inquire what is permanent peace and happiness and the moment you start inquiring you are a seeker and you will reach to the ultimate of evolution. Do you have a luxury to stop this evolution? Again I'm saying no one has a luxury to stop this process of evolution. Only thing, If you don't practice yoga, You do not accelerate the process of your evolution and if you do not accelerate the process of evolution, Hit and trial by the nature means you are suffering day by day. That is why we practice meditation. Can you stop your evolution? No. You say what I am what I am. You carry the false notion. You are changing. You have to become a seeker. So what Eastern wisdom says can you become, Can you accelerate your process of evolution consciously which is happening unconsciously carried out by the nature? Is it so complex that you don't understand? No, I believe you all are seekers. You understand that. You understand that. A horizontal, If I use the term horizontal evolution, I have $1, 000. I earn a month. Now after a few months you have started earning $5, 000 a month, $10, 000 a month, A million dollars a month. You see? So your evolution is only horizontal. You continue to live in the same level of pain and the suffering. You have the same challenges. What is vertical? Mind is living at the pain and the pleasure duality. Can I start thinking? Can I move? Can I get rid of the duality, Opposite feeling of pain and pleasure, Sorrow and happiness? Yes, I have the ability. You have started becoming a seeker. You are a seeker but if you continue to move into the same pain, Pleasure cycle, Sorrow and happiness, Same fight, Same pleasure, Days after days, Weeks after weeks, Then there is no chance then the nature is going to punish you with the more suffering because you accumulate the same impression every day. It shows who has this word in his or her mind. Did you hear? What? So change. You see the change. First point to understand that nature is affecting a change every moment. I am a human being. I can give a direction to that change which nature takes millions of years. We heard from the science it took millions of years for the human birth, The human frame, So it will take millions of years, Almost millions of birth and the death, Then only you will ultimately evolve into the real self if you don't practice meditation. But now you are practicing meditation, You are accelerating the process of evolution, You are helping the nature. Come on, I am with you. Shri Aravindo beautifully said, Every human being is doing yoga consciously or unconsciously. That's a beautiful statement. So unconsciously I'm doing, I have continuously pain and pleasure and discomfort, So by hitting trial method I say enough is enough, Let me leave this activity. So ultimately you get little calm and relaxed. Again you are carried away by the reaction, By the pressure of the world and ultimately again you continue to suffer. And that story fits, You know. I heard about our fellow American who married ten times and eleventh time he went to a psychiatrist to find out who is wrong. All the ten women were wrong or I was wrong. So either you learn after ten marriages and divorce or you learn from only one. That is what the process of evolution is. So you have left the hit in trial method. Why? You are a conscious thinker. That I covered in the second half. Did you see? Do you see that? How I see my life. It's not only meditation, It is today living, It is moment to moment living. And I can use this principle in your personal and professional life. Ashok, You work on your professional life and then I will tell you the real story what happened with Ashok, If he does the right thing in a right manner. Now I'm not telling you the story, It is in process. It is continuing. At every moment of life, If you remember, I have yet to evolve into a real self through the mind and the mind demands the fourth state to evolve. Take another point again, Repeating in a different way. Body, Body is fully evolved, Mind is evolving. Something to be evolved out of mind and that is real self. That is our destiny, That is the goal of our life. We cannot escape this evolution. Now you have a choice. Let me evolve consciously or leave my evolution on the unconscious operation of the nature. When you leave everything on the unconscious operation of the nature, You are suffering, You will continue to suffer and you will die, You will take another birth, You will carry out those impressions and this is what our masters are saying. Did I made you serious? No, It's a process of understanding. Mind needs to be taught, Educated, Whether you say mind or intellect. What is to be taught? The mind is carried by the animal nature. What is animal nature? What they do? They live with the four instincts. They are still imprisoned. What meditation and Eastern wisdom teaches us? It teaches us allow the mind to aspire for permanent peace, For happiness, For love and wisdom. I've been suffering from lot of problems for the last same 20 years. Why you are living then? If you're suffering from 20 years, Are you really suffering? Yes. Oh so you are a great guy. 20 years you are suffering. You see we have a false notion. We do not think. So when you break this cycle, Come on, How can this pain enters into my life? I want permanent peace and happiness. In this situation also, What will happen? The mind will get focused. That is what the fourth state of the mind is. First, It should know that mind is evolving. Mind is changing. Take as a single term, Today there is a pain, Tomorrow there will never be a pain because mind is changing. Do I have that belief? Second, Mind should know it carries all the impressions of the lower nature. I have to get rid of it. Third, It should know it evolves and it can help evolve and transform myself. Fourth, I should become a thinker, A visionary about my own life. Fifth, It should pursue the goal of life. Sixth, It should know the goal of life is to discover that real self and it should continue to work. So become a seeker. Always remember I am evolving. Let me accelerate my evolution process. Let me not repeat. Let me not repeat what I have done yesterday. Ten marriages, Ten divorce. The psychiatrist says that you are wrong. You know it's so easy to understand. But I don't want to understand. So when I don't want to understand and suffer, Then you are responsible for your sorrow and suffering. Let us start our practice. Eyes are closed. Eyes are closed. Body is steady. Here demands, Meditation demands, Are you focused? With a focused mind you look at the body. Have you adjusted and aligned the body? Yes, I have aligned. Is body is steady? Yes. Are you looking inside the forehead in the space? Yes. How long it takes for the focused mind? And when the mind lives in the first three states, It is still evolving the way the nature wants to evolve us by the hit and trial method. Then what happens? Mind says he does not understand. I have lot of problems. And the teacher says you do not understand. Change your opinion. So when you change your perspective, What happens to your mind? Just know it. That is what I say is being comfortable. I'm taking you, Say I'm giving you the same step, But I'm changing your perspective. That is the real meaning of being comfortable. Looking at the neck joint, Being there, Feeling, Sensation, Being comfortable and steadiness. So it is the fourth state of the mind that says I am with you. Never think that you become my follower. You become your own follower. We carry unnecessary false notion. Shoulder joins. Instantly you have learned from in many sessions. Moment I say shoulder joins and you experience sensation, Comfort and steadiness. Is it not this process of evolution? If it is habitual it will not happen. Every practice is unique. The entire body, Look at all the joints of the body. Take your time and as you look so you experience being feeling sensation, Being comfortable and steadiness. Now I have lot of problem at my job. Forget about it. Where you are? What you are doing? Now I have lot of problem with the mind. Forget this. This is what I am saying evolution process. You instantly become alert, Attentive, Redirect your mind. What is this? This is being carefree. Leave what is happening to the mind. It is coming from the lower nature. So that is explained in a different way. Let the thought come and go. Look at my friends. It's not a big deal for you guys and girls. Carefree. Go deep into the world being carefree. Free from the cares of the mind. Mind I know you are evolving and that is why you have lot of influx of thoughts that has nothing to do with me at this moment. You know sometimes someone knocks the door for selling something. What do you say? Not interested. You say it calmly. The guy leaves. If you are not interested in any thought that is entering into your mind at this time, They will definitely leave you. This is what the fourth state of the mind is. Don't start thinking you know when I focus on some image or some ideal that is fourth state. This fourth state of the mind which we say one pointedness is a dynamic state of the mind where the mind lives in awareness and attention. Now let us see can you maintain that one pointed awareness of the mind. We will do the rib cage breathing. We will do the belly breathing and then we will combine both and let us see. So look inside the rib cage. Become aware of a point in the space and start breathing. Quick short and gentle breathing from the rib cage. Only the ribs expand and contract. I'm making the practice intensive. Why? The seeker loves the intensive. You all are seekers. You and stop it. Do nothing. Experience what is happening. No reaction, No conflict. Whatever the experience comes, Recognize it, Accept it. What the mind says because it is living the lower natures, The mind may say, Oh I have lot of fears of doing this and that. We are not doing anything and whatever we are doing, We are always safe. Now focus inside the belly button. Focus inside the belly button at any point. Focus means you keep looking into the space, Being aware and the second breathing is the belly breathing. Means when you inhale the belly expands, When you exhale the belly contract squeezes, Touches the spine. Means there's a long movement, Deeper movement of the belly. Let us start. Mind resists the status quo. It wants to maintain the habitual pattern. We want to break it. That is one of the major step of the breathing practice. Once you keep in that mind, So you're focused, Oh I'm changing the mind, Not the breath, Through the breath. Then what will happen? You bypass the resistance of the mind. Please continue belly breathing. It is little longer than the chest. Why? The lower lobes of the lungs are, Has more capacity than the upper. So that's why it's a longer breath. Continue. Mind says no, You say yes. Why? We want to be a seeker. Continue. Hands throw up this, Move the mind from the top of the head to the toes and experience the change. Maybe a sensation, Maybe a sense of blankness, Maybe tingling and numbness. And all experiences change. Nothing, No experience is repeated. Second time, But our mind repeats it. That is habitual pattern. So animal finds security in that repetition. That is why they are not evolving. They remain the same. We have a choice. So now looking inside the forehead in the space and start breathing long, Deep in the hissing breath, Both from the belly and the chest. It is the longest breath. You expand the belly and the rib cage. You squeeze the belly and the rib cage. Continue. Long, Deep. Last time we did three-step alternate breathing. And this time continue. Continue. It should not be the short breath. The habitual mind may return to the short chest breathing. No. Belly and the rib cage. Hands throw up this. Now make this breath deep, Silent and slow. You inhale first into the belly, Then into the rib cage. Totally silent. And while breathing out make the humming sound louder, Deeper and longer. You may keep your mind deep inside the forehead, But maintain your awareness and attention. The mind moves to the lower nature. It says, Oh it's all about the breathing, So why shouldn't I breathe with the noise? Inhalation should be deep, Silent and slow. Exhalation should be louder, Longer and deeper. Humming. Continue as deep, As loud as possible. Humming. Humming. Now stop it. Make your breath little shorter so that you don't feel any discomfort anytime. It should be deep, Silent and slow yet. Now we give a new perspective to the mind and that is what the nyasa is. As you inhale, That is your call. Move the mind inside the right arm, From the shoulder to the fingertips in the space, Singing, With the meaning, With the knowledge. And as you exhale, The mind moves from the fingertips to the shoulder, Inside into the space. Enchanting. What is evolved body? Have you, Did you notice I say bypass the body? So we bypass the body means it is already evolved, What I have to do with it? That is why what master says, Detach. You are not the body. Do you see their logic, Their understanding? Now, Now moving the mind inside the left arm with the breath. Car is your breath. Mind is the driver. You are on shanti. Where you are driving in the space with that understanding. Continue my friends, My friend seekers with understanding. Do you see the point? Every practice, Every step has these three points. Evolved, So are you comfortable? What is evolved? Do you know it clearly? Leave it. So I have taken the half part of evolution. What is evolved? The other half is the breathing. So we keep the breath balanced, Deep silent and slow but we are linking it with the mind, With mind saying I am on shanti. Now inside the right leg. Same thing breath, Car, Mind, Driver. You are a rider and you claim, Declare that you are on shanti. Now inside the left leg. You are a rider, Mind is driving. The car that is your breath on the highway. So what you are telling to the mind that there is a hundred percent possibility of the highway provided you leave the lower nature. Now inside the spine from the crown of the head to the tailbone and from the tailbone to the crown of the head. Om shanti, Om shanti. Your name, You are om shanti. So I'm explaining this step, Giving the instructions based on the topic that we covered today. Now leave the heart. So when I say bypass it means what has evolved, The body and the nervous system. You leave the breath as it is. The nervous system is represented, We have a highly developed nervous system represented by the prana, The energy. We have left both. So leaving means that you are in a total complete state of relaxation, Stillness, Calmness and quietness within. You're already one pointed. Now that one point in mind looks in deep inside the heart in the space. Pick up a point, Drop shantuham, I am the peace, Become aware of the infinite space because mind by nature has to move. Why evolving? So go deeper from the one milestone to the another into the space inside the heart. Find a point, Shantuham, Continue. One day what will happen? Mind will say I cannot move. Now it is not that the mind cannot move, You have found. The mind may create many false. . . No, No, No, I have achieved, I have found. So what is the indication that you have found? It is irreversible process. You had a glimpse of it and now it is done. Now what is the meaning of being aware of the infinite space? Evolved, We fully know. Fully know means I'm conscious of it, I'm aware of it. I don't allow what is evolved to get mixed up with what is evolving, What is evolving the mind. I'm fully aware the mind is continuously moving inside. Why? Yet to be evolved. So that real self does not come from heaven, It is already within us. Now what is the meaning of being aware of the infinite space? Shanti shanti shanti. Whether I say you do nothing or still your mind now is more interested in doing Om Shanti. Doesn't matter and if it starts doing throughout the day, Doing all your activities, Just imagine where you will be today. Shanti shanti shanti. Shanti shanti shanti. Bring your mind on the right hand, Your mind on the left hand. Lift your both the palms, Place it on your eyes, Open your eyes inside. Know your experiences, Bring the hands down. How are you Brandy? Really relaxed, Calm and focused. I just stayed with you. Beautiful. Yeah that's a good journey. How are you Lara? I had a similar experience. I was present with you and it was pretty quiet. Beautiful. That's the way. How are you Stephen and Sam? Good, Very relaxed, A lot of sensations and following with you through the arms, Head, Heart, Legs, Everything. Very relaxing. Good. And Sam? Also very calm and quiet. After the breathing I always end up with kind of like a wash over me, Just calmness and color and facial. Good. And access to the feeling of the body and it was great. Good. Do you still, Your mind is still saying Om Shanti? Ask that. Can you do it throughout the day? You don't need anything. That's another way of doing it. How are you David and Jerry? That was excellent. I had a couple of door to door salesmen at the beginning. I told them to get lost. Very, Very, Very deep. Very deep, Yeah. It seemed like it was five minutes long. It was wonderful. Beautiful. You see that sometimes it clicks, But every time it clicks you need only one session. That is good. How are you Jerry? Good. Excuse me, I think I lost my voice. From the beginning I'm just so happy to go in and stay with you and the message from the last year and a half of really making the choice to change your perspective and then having the glimpses of knowing that all that peace and happiness is within us. And just someday maybe I won't have to make the choice to have a different perspective. It's working. I like it Jerry. It has to work. If it doesn't work then think how you can help it to work. And that's what she started thinking. And then the change comes. Oh, How are you Kate? I got very warm and very quiet. Yes. Yeah, Really quiet. Really quiet. Yeah. I am a pill for calm and quiet. How are you Kristina? That was very warming and calming as well. Trusting the process of the breath work and it's now paying off. It feels really great and very short. All of a sudden I heard the record and I got scared that I was like oh my gosh I thought we had started. So it was really good. Good. Good. How are you Ashok? I am good sir. It is relaxing and peace. Relaxing and peace. Continue to work. How are you Terry? I got that sort of refreshing feeling, That cool feeling when we did the beginning part. Then when we did the. . . Humming. Yes, Well I liked the humming. I think it was good. And then after that when you're doing your mind in the car, You know. I wanted to make the car go different places than what. . . Like wherever the trouble was I wanted to send the car there. Yes, Yes I could see that. That is how the mind works. Do you see that? You know what I told you? The nature, The matter, The body evolves. Mind is evolving. But because this mind has evolved from the matter, From the instinct, The mind always wants to feel safe with the instinct. With the pain and the pleasure, With the sorrow and the happiness, With all the opposite feeling. It is scared that if everything is gone, What will happen? But as a seeker you are not scared. That is the only difference. So you are a seeker, You are not scared. No, Let me march. Let me see what lies ahead. You are already one-pointed. The first topic I covered. That is what is known as the one-pointed. Because if the mind does not leave the lower nature, How it can evolve into the higher? I have one penny, I want to be a millionaire, I want to keep one penny all the time, I remind myself of the one penny even if I have a lot of things in myself. It will not work. To be 100% clear, It is purely understanding, Logical. So now you have understood, Thought comes, I don't want. You want to sell something? No way. Not interested in you. You have that awareness that you are not interested. You are already one-pointed. You are a seeker. It doesn't take too much of time. Why it takes too much of time? I am attached. So you see the principle of attachment, Then the principle of discernment, Then the principle of dispassion. So we have to tell you a good story until you evolve. Either you learn from the one session, If you don't learn then we have to tell you a great story. We have 3000 texts, We have 3000 masters. That is all for today. Thank you. We will meet again. Thank you.