MS16 - Living Consciously

Hello my dear friends,

How are you doing today?

Welcome to another podcast.

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Now today we talk about a subject which you have suggested.

It is about living consciously.

Living consciously is a huge subject.

It has many dimensions,

Multiple dimensions and it is not easy talking about living consciously in 5 minutes or 10 minutes.

But first and foremost when we think about living consciously where do we start?

Simple,

We start with ourselves.

So what are we consisting of?

What are we made up of?

We know there is a physical body,

We know there is a mental body,

We know there is intellectual body and we know there is an egoistic body.

Then we know there is spirit which is running this machinery and then we also know there is soul element which is the source element or connected to the source which is inspiring and energizing every other aspect.

This is what we are in a nutshell and each has its function.

The physical body along with its senses and all the organs which are all positioned and synchronized in a particular way to give maximum effect for a thing called life on earth.

So when we are living in this earth,

When we are walking this earth,

When we have life on earth,

What are we doing here?

Experiencing earth in multiple dimensions,

Various levels.

So while we are experiencing this earth right from childhood,

If we take 80 years which is 29200 days,

We are experiencing life at each time differently.

It is not the same.

As a child we looked at the world differently,

As a young adult we looked at the world differently,

As an adult we looked at the world differently.

Each stage we are looking or experiencing this world differently.

So many things are happening but most of the time,

In most of our cases,

We never ever explode ourselves.

We just mechanically kind of unconsciously,

We just experience life and we thought that's it.

You know,

Experiencing life and that's about it.

And then we are proud to display our own character,

Our own particular emotions,

Our own constitution,

All those things we are happy to display and say this is us.

But we never think,

What is this us?

Have we ever thought like that?

Hardly we do.

And sometimes we read somewhere from somebody who has explored their life,

Has spoken about some things of their life that gives us a thought,

That gives us food for thought.

And then we start exploring what are we consisting of.

I'll give you a couple of examples.

Then we have five different aspects of prana.

We know prana,

Right?

The life breath energy,

The life energy.

You must have heard about pranic healing etc.

That's about healing with the life energy,

Rooted or channelized in a particular way.

So we have prana and this prana has five principle aspects.

These are the prana which are functional prana.

Functional means they make our system function properly.

I'm sure you must have heard about chakras.

The chakras are the transmitters or the transformers or the centers where distribution happens.

So we have five pranas as stated by the scriptures in India.

They are prana,

Apana,

Udana,

Samana,

Enviyana and each has its functional role.

What does prana do?

Prana looks after or takes care of heart,

Breath and circulation.

That's the role of prana.

Apana is situated in the lower part of our body and its functional role is connected to excretion.

And then base removal is its role,

Apana.

Then udana,

Udana is situated in the neck and its job is to ensure that senses,

Mind,

Memory and all those things are functioning well.

Then samana,

Samana is situated in the center of the stomach,

Manipura and its main job is to stabilize digestion and the processing.

Basically the processing of the materials which we are consumed.

And vyana is situated all over.

So it's more like an energy which is functional and it helps the circulation,

It helps nadis.

So this is our functional prana structure.

Prana,

Apana,

Udana,

Samana,

Vyana.

And this is all put together,

Is working all the time.

That is why we have,

When we consume food it goes through the stomach,

It digests,

It gets excreted off.

All those things are energized by these pranas.

But we are not aware of them,

Right?

Likewise our nostrils where the breath enters,

It's always functional.

Right from our birth till our death it's functional.

And each nostril has its time.

One functions for some time,

Then it moves to the other.

And when the right is more active then the energy or the circulation is going to the left side of brain.

And when the left side nostril is active it goes to the right side of brain.

So this is the way the whole system is very well synchronized.

When one kidney is functioning the other takes rest and when the other kidney is functioning this one takes rest.

Like that everything has its alternating effect and even heartbeat.

It's not like a complete continuous beating.

It's heartbeat.

It's one beat and then rest and then one beat.

So it's like pumping.

So that everything has a kind of synchronicity.

It is taking rest and working.

So in this mode the system is totally balanced.

And this balance is behind our health.

If you have this balance then you have health.

That is why our ancient masters gave so much of importance to yoga and pranayama.

Pranayama is extremely important in daily life which is actually even depression burst.

It removes depression.

If you do proper pranayama every day it will really really rejuvenate you.

It will really make you a strong personality.

And yoga,

Yoga gives you stability.

So all these methods are given for proper stability and balance for humankind.

And if you have looked in the world the food that's grown in certain areas are suitable for that region.

Like certain food does not grow in certain regions of the world.

Why?

Because that food which grows in that region is suitable for the people who are living there.

That is exactly.

Not only people.

For the birds,

Animals,

Everybody.

And in some places it's a totally different food.

So when did we start having imbalances when we started mixing this up?

Some food is not suitable in some countries,

Some region.

Some food is suitable in some region.

Like there are cold regions,

There are hot tropical regions.

There are so many different varieties on earth.

Temperature is different,

Climate is different.

So many things are different.

And particular food grows there for that place.

It's suitable for that place.

When we started mixing them we started having problems.

Likewise we started inventing the processed foods.

Processed foods definitely started affecting our system because even if there is a good flow of prana and a good function of system the food that we consume sometimes is not suitable for our body especially if it is mixed with chemicals and processed.

It is affecting the system.

There are so many different things which have gone wrong.

That's why we can say that so many diseases have increased.

But in any case if we avoid contradictory food and if we avoid symptomatic treatment and go to the root cause,

Why it is happening?

And 80% you will know it's because of bad habits,

Lack of sleep,

Lack of food,

Proper food,

Untimely eating,

All those things.

In the next podcast I will still talk about health so that time I will talk more about it.

But just now I would like to say that living consciously is a large subject but living consciously has to start with us.

So this was a small attempt for me to direct you to yourself.

But now we can discuss about more detail how we can find ourselves,

Go back into ourselves and then we can explore ourselves.

So this is the food for thought today.

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Lots of love.

Thank you.