Sensory Control Is Must For Succeed In Meditation

The entire journey of the Eastern wisdom,

If we summarize,

It has three words.

First word is awakening.

So that awakening is that you sometimes you get a spark inside,

Oh,

That is it.

And the real journey starts because that spark gives you a faith.

You undergo,

But how it comes because when we are continuously doing the practice,

Gaining the knowledge of the Eastern wisdom about real self.

So after that spark,

Commitment comes naturally.

So after awakening,

We have to realize and after realization,

Still the journey continues for transformation.

The transformation takes time,

But you know,

The spark is there.

Why I said so?

You may get upset during the day you are all seekers,

But the moment you get upset,

That spark takes your mind within,

Come on,

Nothing to be upset.

Let us continue my journey.

So once we have that understanding in our intellect,

Then we are clear.

Clear about what we are learning.

Always keep in mind that every talk focus on who am I,

What is this world outside and what is this existence?

Why I am a part of the existence,

I am a part of the world.

And why I am learning that must be 100% clear in our day to day life.

I am learning for two reasons,

End of suffering and awakening to real self.

Why awakening to real self?

That is of the nature of permanent peace,

Happiness,

Love and wisdom.

So have you ever thought while sitting alone?

Do I love peace?

Yes,

I love peace.

So it means if I love peace,

Peace is my nature.

And then question,

So that gives you an understanding that why I don't live in peace 24 by seven a piece is my nature.

That is the right question in Eastern wisdom.

And what is the right question in medical science?

I have anxiety,

What are the symptoms of?

You go on digging yourself only on the anxiety and stress,

Who doesn't live in stress?

You become a philosopher.

So you become a seeker,

I have to get into the peace.

You see the entire thought structure is different.

That is why we need to study Eastern wisdom.

So two questions are answered,

What we are learning,

Why?

And who is studying?

Who is learning?

Is the person capable,

Ready?

You say no,

No,

Let me drive your car.

Do you have a driving license?

No.

Then you cannot drive.

You are not ready.

So same question we should be asking ourselves,

Then the journey becomes beautiful.

The last point,

You know,

And Jack was pointing that you changed my life.

Now,

What is the source?

The source is the knowledge of the Eastern wisdom.

So in order to become a seeker,

We are learning fourfold practices.

You already understood the knowledge part in the intellect is discernment,

Clarity.

So once that is clear,

Then behavior,

That behavior change takes place by dispersion.

So misalignment remains.

No,

We already find,

You know,

I have understood,

But still the problem is there.

So then we have been learning about the six treasures.

First of them is the summer,

Relax,

Calm,

Equanimity of the mind.

So that helps us to start working on the mind.

Pay more attention.

Think of it.

Think of it.

Is mind working on me or I am working on the mind?

Anxiety.

Mind is working on me or I'm working on the mind.

Stress.

No,

I move with affection and love and care to the people.

Is mind working on me or I'm working on the mind?

You will have a clarity,

Then we have come to the second treasure that is Dhamma.

So normally for the sake of intellectual understanding,

We say sensory control.

But that control is not suppression.

What is that goal?

The cultivating new habits and replacing the old habit.

So old habits are located in the mind as my behavior,

As my attitude.

So when we say cultivating,

Cultivating new habits in the mind,

We channelize sensory perception.

So when you channelize that sensory perception,

What is sensory perception?

I see you.

This is one sight,

Sound,

Touch,

Taste,

Smell.

Have you ever seen a particular smell triggers a particular emotion and emotion triggers a particular thought in the mind?

Same thing with the sight.

Same thing with all the five sense organs.

So we channelize.

We give it a new channel.

Channelize.

Channelize comes from channel,

You know,

We have many TV channels.

So that's how we understand.

You channelize.

You switch on.

You switch on to the channel.

What it means?

You will see a person,

The mind triggers,

Oh,

What a crazy guy.

Channelize.

You're harming your mind.

Whether the person is crazy or good,

Nothing to do with me.

Channelize.

You know what I mean?

That is what the demise.

Demise.

Our emotion triggers,

You know,

We get married,

We start living with our honey and gradually after a couple of years,

The mind triggers certain specific emotions.

We have to replace it.

If there is anything that is causing the problem,

Are you understanding that?

So it means demise,

A practice 24 by seven.

I should live into that awareness.

So what is that means?

Can I bypass my sensory perception of sight about you all as a man,

As a woman,

As a girl,

As a young or old to one real self?

What happens?

The mind now has changed.

Now the mind is not running after the things outside that may cause trouble,

That may cause anxiety,

That may cause reaction.

Now there is no chance of reaction.

We have many yoga teachers.

This is real yoga,

My friend.

Lara,

Brandy and Jerry.

This is real yoga.

Everything is good,

What is happening in the world,

Popular yoga,

Styles of yoga,

Everything is good.

We are not criticizing them.

We are understanding what is real.

So do you see that?

Do you see that you change by changing,

Channelizing the sensory perception?

And this is a very deep and a great science.

You can say one part,

One very important part of yoga which is known as Upasana.

The word is known as Upasana.

To bring senses,

To perceive real self.

Not to perceive anxiety,

Not to perceive reaction,

Not to perceive duality,

Not to perceive.

So what happens when I don't perceive in my mind all those stuff?

I'm happy.

Look at the role of Upasana.

So if we go a little deeper,

The word Upasana means sitting nearby.

So to whom sitting nearby?

Sitting nearby the teacher,

Sometimes we say sitting nearby the God,

Sitting nearby the real self.

But how?

Sitting nearby with the knowledge.

From where we get the knowledge?

From the discernment,

Fourfold practice.

You see all are connected.

So then this passion comes,

I have to change.

Change here is channelizing.

That is one meaning of you can say Upasana.

Traditionally I would say traditionally or sometime I would say mechanically.

You know that yoga has become a part of a tradition for all,

I would say for all Indians but in a different way.

That is not the real thing.

Why?

You wake up in the morning,

You see your car,

You worship your car.

You are riding a bicycle so you put some symbolism.

God is of power,

Durga is there.

I saw Ashok sometime he was putting a big dot com here offering a prayer.

So it has become more or less a mechanic.

But when you understand it and then you perform the Upasana,

It brings a tremendous change.

So what I said,

I think last session we covered that we change the perception through the mind into the sense order.

All women are goddess,

One perception.

All women,

You know,

Just for the sake of understanding are object of pleasure.

See same thing the women perceives the man as an object of pleasure or the personification of the God.

So we use this tool to cultivate new habit and replace the old.

Did you get it?

And in that Upasana we discussed,

You know,

Yes I talked about it goddess of wealth,

Goddess of power,

Goddess of knowledge.

Are you getting it Ashok?

In your house apart from your honey she is a goddess of knowledge,

Goddess of wealth,

Goddess of power.

So you don't allow your mind to even think,

Ah she doesn't know anything,

She doesn't practice.

That is none of your business.

Now Ashok is very old with me so I can talk to him,

He will not become angry.

So here comes the two words that we need to understand in Upasana.

One is attachment and other is affection.

Now understand you are living day by day,

You go to the store,

You see an object,

You are pulled by that object.

Pulled means you are chasing that object.

That is attachment.

How many times we are pulled by the sensory channel every day?

That triggers your past impression and old habits and put you in suffering.

Are you getting it?

So there is two words attachment and the other is affection.

So in attachment we are pulled by an emotion to chase a person,

An object,

A thing.

We are pulled by an emotion to feel the sense of affection,

Sense of self-giving,

Not expecting.

This is what the affection is.

So when you cultivate new habits,

Replace the old one,

You move into affection.

You know sometimes it happens,

You meet a person,

He is totally or she is totally a stranger and still you feel a sense of affection.

We don't recognize it.

What we recognize is sense of attachment.

Why?

Because we are not practicing Dhamma.

So in attachment you give value to a person,

Thing,

An object,

An event outside with a sense of expectation.

In Upasana you give value or in affection you give value to the real self.

How?

You personify,

You see the image of the god and goddesses in the world outside.

Why I am doing so?

I am not worshipping god.

I am using the tool to change my mind,

Moving from attachment to affection.

Are you getting it?

Attachment to affection.

If the attachment continues it will create a veil on dispassion.

You will lose the discernment,

The right knowledge to think,

Speak and act in the world.

You will continue to suffer.

So that is what we say it is in misalignment.

Are you getting it?

Misalignment.

So one set of values in attachment leads to craving,

Expectation,

Desire outside and when expectations are not met then we suffer and in affection other set of values to evolve,

To come down to change my perception that makes my mind very clear.

You see from where we are traveling from discernment,

Knowledge in the intellect,

Dispassion in the mind and now that whatever the misalignment in our personality,

Attitude and behavior we are working on that.

Why we are working on that?

To become a perfect seeker.

You see when you start learning,

Sometimes you are capable,

You are ready.

So first time I went for a driving license in New Jersey in 2007,

So I had a license for New Delhi.

I was living in the capital so I had,

So then no,

No,

No you don't need to learn driving,

You already know it.

So you pass the written examination and I got the license.

So it is not that everyone is on the same footing.

What you think you are as a seeker make you capable and ready even in one,

One,

Go.

Another thing that is very important in this that Dhamma should be practiced all the time.

Why?

In the waking state it is the five sense ordinance that perceives the respective objects and if I do not maintain awareness my mind will go back,

Misalignment will take place.

I have to maintain my awareness that how the mind through these sense organs perceive the person and object,

A thing,

An event.

Nobody dare to make you stressed,

Anxious.

That is the rule of Dhamma.

Dhamma is to be practiced.

There is a simple mantra.

We have heard Om Nama Shivaya.

So you see my index finger.

One,

Two,

Three,

Four,

Five,

Six,

Seven,

Eight,

Nine,

Ten,

Eleven,

Twelve,

Thirteen,

Fourteen,

Fifteen,

Sixteen.

Now I am just giving a brief of it.

Maybe one day we will complete this.

Can you tell me how many sense organs are involved when I say one?

Sense of touch?

Sense of sound?

Sense of sight?

So mind is coordinating all the three.

Are you clear?

When I say one,

How many sense organs am I touching,

I am seeing?

Isn't it?

And sound is also there,

Right?

Did you understand?

How many sense organs are involved when I say by touching one,

I see it,

I feel it,

Means touch,

And I speak it.

Do you see that?

Do you feel that?

It's not a big deal.

So now I introduce a mantra,

Om Namah Shivaya.

So Shiva is a God,

An originator of yoga.

Namah means not me and mine,

Only you are there.

So now with all the three sense organs in the mind,

Om Namah Shivaya,

Om Namah Shivaya,

Om Namah Shivaya,

Om Namah Shivaya.

So like this I continue by seeing it,

Feeling it,

And touch.

Now reduce one sense organ.

Remove one sense organ,

Sense of sight.

So first you do it with eyes open,

Three sense organs.

Now you are doing it with two sense organs with eyes closed,

Om Namah Shivaya.

Do you see that?

Om Namah Shivaya.

Now remove another sound,

Do it mentally.

So what is happening now?

The mind that was engaged in three sense organs,

Now only engaged in one sense organ.

Do you see sense of touch?

It will,

This is what the cultivation.

Now what will happen?

The time will come when you say Om Namah Shivaya,

You perceive,

Your mind has become the eye,

Your mind has become the touch,

Your mind has become the sound.

Are you getting it?

Now the mind is acting as three sense organ,

And that too is in sight.

What will happen?

Within few weeks,

A new habit is cultivated.

So when I used to do it,

The time came when I used to say Om Namah Shivaya,

I used to feel a tremendous vibration here as if somebody is touching.

I see it,

Om Namah Shivaya,

I see it,

I feel it.

It sounds like that,

But I'm not using any of the sense organs.

So after that what happens?

Now you come into the world.

So whatever your mind says,

Your sense organ perceive the same.

What happens?

You are in the state of meditation.

If you get it,

Very good.

If you don't get it,

Still very good.

You will get it in the next session.

Did you get it?

So if you start,

So the time came,

Sometime even now,

That habit is still there.

I'm talking to someone and by the virtue of the habit,

My mind starts,

You know,

It starts moving these fingers and I remember.

Cultivated new habit replaced old habit.

Dhamma.

We are in the journey of becoming a seeker.

That leads to the unity.

So listen to it again and again and understand if you have any question,

We will definitely work on that.

This is the last thing.

This is what Patanjali explained.

That Patanjali explained that I have to practice mantra,

Japa,

Upasana with feeling,

With knowledge.

Feeling plus knowledge.

Where is feeling?

That this image is the supreme consciousness.

Why?

I'm not following a cult in dogma but I'm asking the mind,

Are you ready to change your habit?

Once I have it,

I change,

Drop it.

Patanjali is very clear,

That master,

That you need not to believe in God.

No blind belief but use it as a tool,

As an instrument to transform.

Let us start our practice.

Eyes are closed.

Eyes are closed.

Now see what I said.

Now apply samay and dhamma.

Make your body comfortable.

How do you know it?

The mind through the sense of touch,

Sensation.

Did I ever say now you will pick up easily?

I said steady body,

Eyes are closed and mind is looking inside.

What I said then,

Then now see that.

Hold your hand mentally in namaste mudra,

Your thumbs are mentally touching the sternal notch,

The first rib at the center of the first rib.

You feel a sense of touch with both the thumbs in the center of the rib case.

All the fingers join together and the mind goes into the space at the center of the bow.

Not me and mine.

So what is that not me and mine?

It gives a break to our old habits.

Not me and mine means including behavior,

Attitude,

Things of which I used to get stress,

Duality.

You are looking inside but then you give a meaning to that namaste.

And out of that emptiness,

The real self will be revealed.

What is that real self?

That real self is self-existent,

Self-luminous,

Self-evident of the nature of permanent happiness,

Truth,

Love,

Wisdom,

Bliss.

Now is that so?

So there in the mind,

The mantra then helps the mind to continue the journey.

You know that is why in couple of the sessions before we started,

I will recite,

I will tell you the meaning and let the mind live into that knowledge.

Let everyone be,

May there be well-being for all.

Compare it with attachment and affection.

Attachment,

Expectation,

Affection,

Self-giving,

What is that giving?

May there be well-being for all.

Any thought feeling comes into your mind.

And you see how the mind not only comes down but this mind gets a trigger to replace.

We have been doing this mantra for so many weeks but if you see the knowledge in it,

It makes the difference.

Sarvesham shantir bhavatu,

May there be peace for all.

Not pieces but may there be peace for all.

Why sad pieces?

Attachment.

I am attached to one,

I exclude the rest.

Sarvesham shantir bhavatu.

Even this may become your mantra during the day,

May there be peace for all.

In English or in Sanskrit,

It doesn't make any difference.

The intent is there,

Feeling is there,

Emotion is there.

One thing more,

We exclude us when we say may there be peace for all.

First,

You have to include yourself.

Otherwise attachment will come,

You will say,

You know,

I have been seeking peace for everyone and still I am suffering.

What is that problem?

Misalignment.

Sarvesham puranam bhavatu,

Puranam whole,

Completeness.

Sarvesham puranam bhavatu,

May there be completeness in all.

So there is something sitting behind the body and the mind who is complete,

Whole.

I am searching that whole and from there I find,

May there be a completeness in all.

So what is the knowledge?

If I'm 100% complete in myself,

Is there a chance for attachment,

Reaction?

Answer is no.

You see,

I didn't say stretch your body and do asanas and then you make your body comfortable.

You all are sitting so steady.

Your master says there is a power of knowledge.

Sarvesham angalam bhavatu,

May there be a spaciousness,

May there be happiness for all,

For all.

For all means excluding none,

All inclusive in the mind.

Changes the what?

Changes that behaviour pattern.

Just you already know it.

Shanti shanti shanti.

Understand,

Knowledge works,

Behaviour changes instantly.

Now,

We have turned the first preparatory step as one of the deeper step,

Being comfortable.

Sama and Dhamma both are included here.

Explore that.

What I say?

I say look at the neck joint,

Be there,

Feel the sensation,

Being comfortable and steadiness.

Are you getting the sense?

We started and we are still continuing with that.

But if you don't,

We don't have a right knowledge,

Then what happened?

Then say no,

I've been doing it,

It becomes habitual.

What we are doing?

We are replacing the habit.

Look at the shoulder joints.

Now this preparatory step becomes one of the important step.

Let me recheck.

Look at the shoulder joints.

Look,

Feel.

So I don't ask the sense organ of touch.

I'm asking the mind.

Just see the subtleness.

So you have sensation,

Comfort and steadiness,

The entire body.

From the top of the head to the toes,

All the joints being there.

Sensation,

Comfort and steadiness.

I believe you have understood.

And then being carefree.

Now just check how the sama and dhamma are involved in this step.

What I said being carefree,

Simple explanation,

Let the thought come,

Let it go.

Then I explained that mind knocks your door like a salesman,

You say thank you very much.

Then I gave another example.

Birds flying in the sky,

We lose awareness of the space or the sky.

Does it?

Does it have to do anything with the sama and dhamma?

If I'm not aware of the state of the calmness behind all the thoughts I cannot observe,

First thing.

Second,

The influx of thoughts has to do with attachment.

Hence I am dispassionate.

Even this step will take you into a deeper state of meditation.

And in that state we will continue even if the mind says now I'm calm,

Sama and dhamma is there,

We say but what about your past impression?

So what we do start quick,

Short,

Gentle,

Breathing through both the nostrils,

Keeping your focus inside the head or the heart.

Those continue and recheck if the mind is really in sama and dhamma then your mind will never complain,

It is enough.

No I can continue forever,

Check it.

That is the beauty.

Very bootsy.

.

Sensation,

Comfort,

Steadiness is there,

Relaxation is there.

You experience the stillness inside and you continue with a quick,

Short,

Gentle breathing as if it is a play and a fun.

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