Hi and welcome.
My name is Tanya.
This is day 13 of 21 days of meditation.
The last few days we've been working with the koshas.
We started out with the physical anamaya kosha.
Then we worked into the pranamaya,
The energy kosha.
Then yesterday we worked with the manamaya kosha,
Which is the discerning or undiscerning monkey mind.
And today we'll be working with the vijanamaya kosha.
And this is the wisdom mind.
So we've moved now from the undiscerning mind and the reactive mind to now the discerning and intuitive mind,
Where we can direct our life to make more ethical,
Moral,
And mindful choices.
This is the kosha where we free ourselves from our impulses and addictive behaviors.
The mudra today that we'll be using is the jnana mudra and that's spelled J-N-A-N-A.
This is the wisdom mudra.
You'll see this commonly used in statues or in pictures of people meditating where the thumb and the index finger come together and the remaining fingers just extend forward.
You can rest those hands on the lap.
You can have them off to your sides.
And so go ahead and find a seat.
Get comfortable.
And notice your breath.
Notice that you are sitting on the surface,
How your body is positioned.
Notice the busy,
Active mind trying to get quiet and try to settle in.
Now,
Become aware that you are thinking.
Become aware that you are sitting.
Become aware that you are breathing.
So we'll begin to sort of untangle those busy thoughts and start to create some space between the thoughts as we become more aware of what we are thinking.
In this wisdom or a vijana maya kosha,
We become a witness,
A witness to our own lives,
To our choices,
To our speech,
To our actions.
So what I invite you to allow in is maybe a memory of one of your behaviors,
Choices,
Or actions,
Or even words that might have been said that might not have aligned at that time with your moral compass.
And maybe at the time they didn't align because,
Well,
You weren't aware of your discerning mind.
And now we can look back on our actions and see that they did not align with our moral compass.
And so we greet this,
We greet these actions or these words with compassion,
With kindness,
With acceptance.
As we now understand our ethical choices,
Our behaviors,
And we can move forward with clarity of mind,
With willpower,
And release the binds to those stories and limiting beliefs.
As we become more conscious of our choices,
Of our thoughts,
Of our actions,
With compassion and non-judgment,
We can see ourselves at the core of our being rather than a preconditioned state.
We begin to loosen our identification with these stories and find the seat of our true soul.
And through this wisdom body,
Through this practice,
We begin to develop a steadier mind and can view ourselves from a distance.
So we can step back,
So to speak,
And view our situation from a different perspective.
This is where the true insight and wisdom comes in.
This way we're not responding to stimulus,
We're not responding to impulses and addictions.
We become more conscious in our choices,
Our behaviors,
Our words,
And our thoughts as we nourish ourselves here in this meditation with compassion and acceptance.
And we can experience the events in our past,
The painful ones or the ones where we did a good deed in a calm and objective manner.
So the longer we can take a seat into this place of wisdom,
We find clarity.
We find increased willpower.
And this wisdom becomes stronger,
Our willpower becomes greater.
Our conscious choices,
Speech,
Thoughts,
Serve the higher self.
Take a few more moments to sit in the seat of your soul,
The seat of your wisdom body.
Let's take a few more moments to sit in the seat of your soul.
Let's take a few more moments to sit in the seat of your soul.
And releasing the mudra,
Lifting your gaze.
And begin to find some movement in your neck,
Your shoulders,
Your fingers,
And your hands.
And welcome in the rest of your day with clarity,
With insight,
And wisdom.
Namaste.
