February 14 2004

Title:

Simple meditation to balance your body and go beyond body consciousness

Transcript:

[00:15]

Let us work on the first layer. First layer is the physical body, better you don’t write anything. Tomorrow evening I will give you the whole hints. You take the whole hints that’s enough. And of course, I tell you now tomorrow evening I will give, I will not give, 😊 I tell you that also now itself. It means don’t take hints; because if you go on taking the hints you will be missing the subject. So, think in your mind tomorrow evening you will have the hints, be comfortable. Then tomorrow evening we will take care of other things. I think actually I will just print at least names of the seven bodies and I will print… I will print and give it to you by tomorrow evening; don’t worry about it. So don’t go on working on the hints, otherwise you will not be able to understand. I wanted every one of you to understand every step and come with Me. You see you understand, it is more like a holding the hands of the Master and travelling, wanted you to come with Me. In ASP if you miss one session also no problem, 😊 the next session you can come, one chakra will be open one will be closed, no problem. 😊 Anyhow you have the key, you can go to the house and try something and open the door. Here it is not like that; it is layer by layer. You need to go even if you miss one layer, next layer you will not be able to penetrate. That’s why if you miss one meditation the next meditation you will not be able to have the experience. I wanted you to come and not only I want you to do the meditation, I want you to have the experience.

[02:04]

You understand, meditation should not be done like... like a dull, dead ritual. Most of our cases, just because, “Oh Swami says let me do”, it should be like a… more like a affair, you see it should be more like a bubbling, vibrant. To meet your friend, to meet your girlfriend or boyfriend nobody needs to tell you, only they have to put hurdles, but you escape and run. But as far the meditation concerned you need so many inspiration, why? In that you find some taste, in this you have not found the taste. But really when the glimpse is given, when the experience is given, you will see you will be jumping for the meditation. So, I wanted this to become a solid experience. Many times when I say meditation is such an ecstatic thing, joyful thing, people say, “No, no, Swamiji you say all these things.” People are not able to even relate with Me. They think that I am in some other world or I am from some other world. It’s not truth; it can be experienced by anybody. That’s what I say, “Come totally with Me, it will be a solid thing in your life; not like a mo… not like a simple faith or belief. It will be more like a tangible seeing, vision.”

[03:26]

First we will work on the physical body; we will be having a technique. Of course it’s more or less like a maha mantra but little developed version. Don’t compare with mind, “Oh it is same like a maha mantra, it is same like this, it is same like that”. No. Because if you compare you… you have done when you did the ASP you did only 30% or 40%, now also you will be doing the same mistake if you compare. Don’t do that. Put the whole effort. Three things we are going to do, one is balancing the body, second thing is erasing the body - it means the, removing the body consciousness, the outer line of your body from your mind. Third thing, just merging the physical body back to energy. The physical body is more like a matter, that will be merged, that will be put inside the energy. So the three things we are going to do.

[04:35]

Balancing; why we are supposed to balance? Unless you balance your body will be continuously… your mind will be continuously in the body. There is a beautiful word by Patanjali, sthiram, sukham, asanam. Which is sthira and comfortable is asanam. When the shoe fits, feet are forgotten. Am I right? When the belt fits belly is forgotten, when the chain fits, neck is forgotten, when the ring fits, finger is forgotten. If the ring doesn’t fit, you will be continuously remembering the finger. If the chain is not fit, you will be continuously remembering the neck. If the shoe is not fit, if shoe is either tight or loose you will be continuously remembering the leg. What is the scale whether it fits or not? If you have forgotten the leg you can be sure that the shoes have fit, if you have forgotten the belly you can be sure that belt is fit, if you have forgotten the neck you can be sure the chain is fit, if you have forgotten the finger you can be sure the ring has fit. When you forget the body then only you can be sure your body is comfortable; whenever your body is not comfortable you can never feel comfortable.

[06:14]

Purposely I told to remove the chair for the first session because I wanted you to get little accustomed to sit on the ground, to get ready for the first session of forgetting the body. First if you little bit balance and get ready, then you will be able to forget the body, you will be able to enter into the second things, second session. First thing, you need to balance your body to forget it; if the body is balanced you will forget it. Only when your body is forgotten you can think, you can understand you are healthy. You see, you forget your eyes if you don’t have pain in the eyes, you forget your head if you don’t have head… any headache. If you have headache can you forget? That is why the spouses always give headache to others. So, that you will not forget, you will not forget them; you just try to continuously catch them and they just try to continuously catch you. Even the father, mother everybody you can see, they just try to catch their son so that he never forgets you. You see when you…. if you give little pain, if you trouble him, he will never forget you. If some part of your body troubles you, you will never forget that part. If you forget that part then what it means, you have no trouble. Now we are going to enter into the layer or the technique to forget the body, it means you are comfortable, you are comfortable, you are totally healthy. When you are healthy you forget, when you forget you are healthy. It always happens the other way.

[08:04]

A beautiful technique, whenever you have a pain in some place throughout your body, if you just remove the word pain from that place, the pain will disappear. Actually pain and the word pain are one and the same. I am explaining this in a very deep way, step by step in that cassette. Try to listen that discourse… that does miracles, that does miracles not only according to My experience, according to many persons experience. That does miracles, when you are comfortable your body is forgotten, when you forget the body it becomes comfortable automatically. So, now we will learn a small technique to balance it, to balance it. You see, think of this mala as a center of gravity line of your body; center of gravity line means you understand? Center of gravity line of your body. If this line is straight [Swamijji holds the mala in straight position], if this line is straight, then it means this mala is in the restful position. If this line is like this [Swamijji holds the mala up in slanting position], the mala is not now resting, if I take the hand it will come back to the restful position. If the mala is this way again it is not resting, if I leave it, it will come back to only this position. This is the position this mala is totally resting and comfortable. Same way your center of gravity line should fall in a straight line. Then if your body, the center of gravity line of your body, if it falls in a straight line you will… you will be totally comfortable, you will be able to forget the body. Let Me teach you how.

[10:06]

Just sit with a right leg on your left thigh… if you are really feeling bad that you can’t sit on the ground then you sit on the chair, but try your best to sit on the ground. Do you understand the first step? The next step… of course once you finish I’ll come around and guide you individually also. On the thigh leg should be seen. If your legs are really under your control, understand if your legs are really under your control you must be able to do the padmasana without touching the leg, that’s all. Then only your legs are under your control otherwise it is somebody else’s control. Understand without touching the leg ….. (11:13,tamil inaudible) 😊😊 I think each one is sitting in their own way. If you really feel bad then get the chair no problem, at least in the chair you start balancing. You start balancing; because you see the …. one thing it is not that whole day you need to sit like this in your house, no. Once you know, you have balanced your body, whole day you will be comfortable. Automatically you will sit only in the balanced posture. Whether you sit in a sofa or you sit in a car or you sit in your house, you will be continuously balancing your body, automatically. You see your body has got an... the eh... its own inbuilt mechanism to balance itself till the age of seven. Once you’ve grown into this great society, 😊 great society, it has contaminated you, it has just, you’ve forgotten the original balancing technique. Now I am just giving the original balancing technique to your body back. Once you learn it, it is not that you need to sit always like this; you don’t even need to sit straight. Even if you sit in this way ordinary…. in ordinary days, your body will balance itself. Once it knows the technique. It’s like a, when you start riding the cycle, you need to straight…. sit straight and hold properly and then peddle. Once you’ve mastered… knack of balancing needs to be learnt. That’s why I tell, it’s just a five minutes, actually only five minutes it is going to take.

[12:59]

So, sit with the right leg on the left thigh, first thing you understand for one moment put your whole body in front side, let Me finish and then… let Me finish and then you can. Put your whole body in front side and feel the weight of the body. Naturally you can feel the body is being pulled by the gravity, the gravitation force. Slowly, slowly, slowly, inch by inch if you raise and make your body straight, at one point you will feel weightless. See when your.. when your body is like this [bent forward] you will feel the weight, heaviness. Your body is being pulled by the ground. Step by step, step by step very slowly [pull the body up], then you will see the weight is becoming lesser and lesser because center of gravity line is becoming straight. At one point you will feel totally you are weightless, you are totally weightless. That is the point or that is the line, that is the point in which the center of gravity line falls in a straight line. You understand the technique, then again do it from the back side. Push the body back side, feel the weight, very slowly bring it back to the straight, just be in a straight line. At one point you will feel you are totally weightless, relaxed. You will see this side when you do and this side when you do, both will be at one point only, automatically. See, if you are a little fat person with a belly, you will see little it will be like this. And if you are a person very thin it will be like this. Actually that is what, according to your weight the center of gravity line changes, it will fall. At one point people with little big belly, even for them even in this point they will feel they are totally weightless. It’s perfectly alright don’t bother about… whether your are sitting straight or bending, that you don’t bother. Only one thing to be understood, your center of gravity line should be in one line. You need to feel the weightlessness, at which point you feel you don’t have weight, at which point you feel your body is light. That is the point, your center of gravity line falls in straight line.

[15:50]

Swamiji: Any doubt? Ah yes. Participant: Do the thighs go up? Swamiji: No, no, no, no thighs should not go up, it should be totally fixed. You see the hip portion should be totally fixed, it should never be moved, that is the totally fixed. Any doubt? Can we try? Participant: So we should do this to only one leg? Swamiji: Yes, yes, yes one leg on the…. now sit ma. Start, start balancing your body. Participants: Close the eyes? Swamiji: Yes, yes, close your eyes or even without closing your eyes you can balance. If you don’t close your eyes and balance I can guide you. Anybody who is not properly doing I can guide them. Do it very slowly, if you do it with so much of speed how will you understand. You need to observe.

[16:53]

See this is the first thing you need to learn; actually you don’t need to sit the same way in the house. But now the meditation you are going to do it in this posture. Once your body learns the language of comfort, it’s actually… it will teach your body the language of comfort, balancing itself. Once the body learns the language of comfort, whenever you sit automatically you will sit only in this posture. If you observed Me, you can, you would have observed, always wherever I sit, whenever I sit you will see that My body is very straight. Only with the instruction I have to bend Myself. But for you whenever you sit only it is bent, only by instruction you have to bring it up. So, the taste of the comfort, if it is learnt by the body you will see the total attitude changes. The body’s attitude will change and it will… it will make itself comfortable continuously wherever it goes.

[17:58]

Now we will do the meditation. This is the…. this is the meditation actually working on the body - Making your body layer into a energy. Actually, as on now you are a solid matter, you are just solid matter. Making you totally porous to the energy… somebody was asking Me the other day, “Swamiji how are you managing the cold? You are somehow, You are just comfortable with this same cloth and in the evening time also I come out from the house, go for a walk with the sameway.” Just I come out then Aachi will be shouting, “Oh Swamiji, you have come out without the sweater, without this, without chappal.” Somebody was asking Me, “How are you managing the cold?” You see, because you are a solid egoistic being, you resist with the nature. Actually in the skin area, when the ...where the cold touches you, where the cold air touches you, in this boundary if you don’t resist and just allow the cold air to pass through you, the cold temperature to pass through you, you will never have any problem with the nature.

[19:21]

I don’t know how you will believe, with this same dress only I lived in the Himalayas, ice cold. With this same dress only I walked in the Himalayas on the snows; of course no chappal, no chappal. This is the way I lived in the Himalayas, in the snows. Of course I am not telling you to go and live in the snows; at least you can be comfortable with the small, small things in your house. You will not catch cold continuously, you will not have the cough, continuously you will not be falling sick if you have this simple basic understandings; if you have this simple basic relationship with the nature you will not fall sick continuously. At least that much you can manage. So this balancing will help you and moreover becoming energy will make you porous to the nature. This is the technique to make you porous to the nature, porous to the energy. Let Me teach you the technique.

[20:28]

It’s like a more eh….it’s actually called the energy circle, the shakti mandala, they call it shakti mandala. Mandala word is not the… it cannot be translated as the circle, no other way, I am translating it as a, translating that word as a circle. Mandala means… do you see the three lines, if you don’t see come and have the healing . 😊 Do you see these three lines? These three lines are only called mandalas. Mandala means the layer by layer, the layer by layer, its called energy mandala, the shakti mandala. These three layers are only called as mandala, of course these are all one one mandala. This is Padma mandala, these are all the triangles, the mukkona mandalas, these are the …. but this is the mandala which we are going to practice now. Actually it is, what is this you know … Participant: Can you call it sphere, Swamiji? Swamiji: Ah okay, you can call it sphere. But a sphere is a dead; sphere, round, circle all these things are dead. Mandala means can be created only by the live energy, live beings. See, the great rishi Markandeya, He became enlightened and He imparted enlight... He gave enlightenment to His disciples. At the time of teaching when He gave the energy experience to the disciples, they all were made to sit in this angle, in this way. This is the way they are made to sit and the energy experience was given to them. That is the importance of all these things. This is the mandala which is created by the Markandeya rishi. Markandeya is the rishi for Sri Chakra. Markandeya created this mandala. So there are so many mandalas on which you sit and then the energy work, the energy process is done by the Master.

[22:37]

So, now we are going to sit in this mandala, this is the mandala we are going to sit and do this meditation, do this meditation, okay. So, I wanted you to sit in a circle and hold the hand, let Me teach you the hold…. how to hold the hands. See the right hand will be always giving, left hand will be always receiving, listen, please listen then you can sit. Right hand will be giving, left hand will be receiving, the right hand center finger and thumb, this should hold the left hand like this, hmm, hmm, yes, like this, yes exactly. Yes, yes the same way. Please sit; I think all, first a small circle of male then circle of female, then the circle of male.

[24:15]

When you have balanced your body, now let us do the next step. In your mind you have the outline of your body. The body outline, just visualize, imagine, consciously wipe the outline of your body, consciously just wipe the boundary of your body as you wipe the board with eraser. Ordinarily, how you use the eraser and wipe the board, the same way erase the boundaries of your body consciously; with full consciousness just erase the boundaries of your body. From the head to toe slowly, slowly, consciously erase the boundaries. Your form in your mind will be more like a line diagram in the board, in a black board, a chalk line; your form will be just like that. Erase your boundary, erase your form with a duster, with the eraser. Participant: Should we be holding hands? HDH: No.

[26:33]

Meditation happening

[26:51]

Just erase the form.

[27:54]

Consciously erase the outline of your body in your mind. Now hold the hands, start humming as deeply as possible, as loudly as possible, as totally as possible. Think yourself as a hollow vessel and start the humming, think yourself as a hollow, forget your body, forget your mind, just become a humming… as deeply as possible, as loudly as possible, put your whole effort. If you cough nothing wrong, let the cough come, let the gases be released, let you have a slight trembling, nothing wrong. Continue as deeply as possible, forget everything else, just become the humming. Just become the humming.

[32:48]

It is not enough, put your whole effort.

[37:13]

Put your whole effort, don’t wait, put your whole effort.

[40:25]

Put your whole effort, forget that you are a individual person, become one with the energy, just drown yourself in the ocean of energy. Forget your body and mind in the humming sound; let you disappear in humming sound.

[48:39]

Continue, continue with your full effort. Forget your body, forget your mind, just become energy, disappear into the humming, disappear as a individual self, let you disappear in the energy, let you just become the humming, forget the body and the mind in the humming, just become the energy.

[51:29]

Stop. Let your eyes be closed, breathe as deeply as possible, as slowly as possible, watch your breath going in, coming out. Don’t allow your mind to think. Just witness all your thoughts, don’t suppress, don’t condemn, just see whatever happens inside your body and outside your body; whatever happens let it happen. See throughout your body, witness whatever happens.

[52:40]

[Swamijis Clap sounds].

[54:54]

OM SHANTI SHANTI SHANTIHI. Relax.

[55:11]

Photos

Below are some pictures taken during the Nithyananda Spurana Program (NSP) conducted on 14th and 15th February 2004 for the first time in Fremont, , USA.