March 12 2007

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Name Of Convention : Initiation into Powerful Cognitions
Session on: Life Is An Art Part 1
Date : 12 March 2007
Venue : Los Angeles, California, USA

In this video, we see the Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism HDH #Nithyananda​ Paramashivam has a question and answer session followed by a meditation. HDH answers question on free will, freedom from suffering, meditation practices and also centring oneself to life. HDH keep the answer simple and engaging to build the relationship with the delegates in attendance. HDH move into a powerful meditation technique at the end of this video.

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(0:16)

More than Me speaking, if I answer your questions, maybe I will be able to connect with you all more. I will be able to relate with you all more easily and I can create deeper connection, deeper relationship if I answer your questions. I request maybe the volunteers can circulate the cards and you can write any questions you want. I will try to respond whatever I can…. After the question-answers, we will do a… we will practice a meditation technique which is really playful and which will really inspire you be an artist, to be a creator.

(02:32)

Here is a beautiful question: Q: Is suffering necessary? Swamiji: No. It is just an option. It is not a necessary thing but the big difficulty is, all of us feel lonely if we don't have our sufferings. See, we spend so much of time in the company of sufferings, pains, you feel lonely if you miss them, you feel you are not complete. They have become like a intimate enemies. Enemy but become very intimate. So you start thinking better to live with them than to be in loneliness. You compromise and you feel suffering is a like a company. Suffering is not necessary. It is an option. It’s an option. You don't need....... One more thing, the moment you ask the question, “Is suffering necessary,” you have intelligence to look beyond. That is why you are asking. If you don't even have the intelligence to look beyond, you will never have this question, “Is suffering necessary?” The moment you have the question, you have enough intelligence to go beyond.

(04:08)

All you need to do is, now you have intelligence and intention to go beyond. Just find the right path. The right path is little meditation which can transform your mind the way in which you think. Meditation is like a creating a new inner software. I can say, updating your inner software: removing all the old viruses, putting a firewall, pop-up blocking. See, pop-up blocking is what is stopping the inner chattering. Blocking the unnecessary pop-ups and protecting yourself from unnecessary thoughts. Pop-up is nothing but the engraved memories, engrams coming without your approval. See, without even you calling them, these engrams sometime become so powerful inside, they just come up and create suffering for you for no reason and you never called them. You never allowed them but they come up. Blocking the the pop-up means creating more awareness.

(05:49)

Q: How do you find your creative center? Swamiji: Again, the best answer is meditation because only when you are centered on something, you can think of finding your creative center. As on now, you are not centered on anything. Unless you enter into meditation, you will never experience your center. First thing, entering into meditation you will experience your center. Then you will naturally see the creativity expressing.

(06:29)

Q: Do you believe in free will from God or destiny? Everything in our life predetermined? Swamiji: First thing, first thing I want to tell you. I don't believe in anything. I am only going to talk whatever I experienced. Second thing, this is a regular question, this is a FAQ actually, frequently asked question. Do we have free will or everything is destined? We have free will no doubt but if there is somebody who can run, who can live the life, you see, you have free will but first thing before free will, you should be integrated. As on now, morning you think something as a free will and evening, you think something else as a free will. That is why you feel you are bound. Understand, morning you think, if this happens in my life, I think I am having freedom, free will. Evening, you think, if this happens in my life I think I have freewill, I have freedom. The idea which you carry about your free will changes everyday. That is where the problem starts.

(08:00)

All of us have free will. God is not a Peeping Tom. He is not sitting and counting and calculating all your mistakes and creating a big punishment sheet! No. He is not doing that work. He has got better jobs and people come and ask Me, “Swamiji, I have committed so many sins. I have done too many things. Is God going to punish me? How will I face him?” Arey, you think he has no other job except sitting in your bedroom and watching what you are doing? He has got much better things. I don't think any God will be interested in sitting your bedroom and watching what you are doing. At least I won't believe in the kind of God…. At least I won't believe in that kind of God.

(08:59)

People ask Me, “Do we have free will?” It's a big question. You have free will no doubt but first thing, you should be. As on now, what you think as you is not an integrated one mechanism. It is not an integrated one energy. You are completely broken into many pieces. Morning you think something and evening you think something else. Your idea about free will is not clear because you are not clear about what you are. That is the reason constantly you feel that you are bound, because morning you think something as a free will and evening you think something else as a free will. The contradiction or the fight between these two ideas, your morning free will and evening free will fights and creates bondage for you. That is the truth.

(10:02)

I always tell people, have a clear idea about your free will and be clear about your idea about free will. You will never feel you are bound. Only when you change the ideas constantly, for example, morning you think if, if this way business goes, I know for sure I have free will because I am working like this. Evening you change your whole idea. If this way things happen, I know I have free will and you work towards that line. The fight between yourself, the fight between morning you and evening you, you start thinking you are bound and God has not given you freedom. No. The problem is, God has given too much freedom. That is the problem. God has given too much freedom. That is why we disturb ourselves too much.

(11:03)

Free will and people ask Me, “Swamiji, can't we…can’t we win our fate with our intelligence?” You can but you should have intelligence. That is the problem. You can win your fate with your intelligence but you need intelligence. So the only way to live with the free will is integrate yourself towards one direction. Anybody who has integrated himself towards one direction, towards one clear idea about life will never feel he is bound. I feel so much of freedom the moment I have integrated Myself. As long as I have not integrated myself, I felt like my inner space is a parliament of some country. So many politicians sitting. There can't be peace if there are so many politicians. Forget about so many. If there is one that is enough. You can't find peace. It is very difficult.

(12:19)

People ask Me “Swamiji, in all organizations so much of politics is there. Why do you want to create one more spiritual organization?” I tell them, “To have politics you don't need even organization. You don't even need two people. One person is more than enough to create politics. You are enough.” Morning you work towards some direction and evening you work towards some other direction. That is what I call politics. Politics in between you and you. Morning you is fighting with your evening you. So that is what I call politics with yourself. So stop the politics with yourself. Integrate yourself. You will realize you have free will, God has not taken your freedom away. He is very compassionate being. He is not here to torture you. He is not like a… something like a topmost super power politician who is sitting and controlling everything. No. Somehow man created God in his own image. Please never ever think God created man in his own image; man created God in his own image. That is the truth.

(13:43)

Q: How to neutralize the inner negativity so that one can become playful? Swamiji: Just be playful with negativity also. Do not be too serious that you carry too much of negativity. First tell Me, where is the scale to measure somebody is totally positive and somebody is negative? No scale. The idea which you have strengthened inside by constantly remembering and …..whenever you think something again and again, that gets strengthened in you. Again and again you thought that you carry negativity, you carry negativity, you carry negativity and strengthened that idea and you really carry negativity. That is where the problem starts. Just be playful. If you are carrying negativity it's ok, what is there?

(14:36)

And do not read this so called so many books like how to be positive thinker, positive thinking, how to be creative, how to do this visualization, that visualization. This how to series books only creates hell. You see, this how to philosophers, I can give you few tips if you want to become that how to philosopher. Start writing all the things which you can't practice and project and show as if people have got too many big problems. Third important thing, never give solution. Never give solution. This is the route… this is the way to become this how to book writers, only this how to books, these guys only constantly create idea that you have negativity, you have this, you have that. I have seen, even some books are giving you some tests also. You have to say yes or no and end of the test they will tell how much negativity you have…. Relax. Just be playful even with your negativity. You will see suddenly they disappear.

(15:53)

You can never remove negativity by being serious. If you give life to your negativity you will torture others. If you attack, if you try to kill the negativity, you will torture yourself. Understand, if you express the negativity you will be violent towards others; if you suppress the negativity you will be violent towards yourself. Just be playful. It will disappear. Your mind is not so strong to hold on even to negativity. Understand that. Your mind is not so strong even to hold on to negativity. That is a fortunate thing. You are fortunate that you are not so strong. You are not strong enough to hold on to negativity. That's good.

(16:45)

Q: Do we have a calling a mission while we are here on earth? Swamiji: I can say, all intelligent beings will feel that calling. If you heard, if you feel that calling, the intelligence has started working towards you. The seed when it feels the pain of being inside the seed, you see, the life which is inside a seed, if it feels suffocated, then It breaks the seed and becomes a tree. That suffocation the life feels inside the seed is what I call calling for a great mission. Any seed which has not felt that it is caught inside a small seed, any life which has not felt I am caught inside a small seed will never become tree. Only when it feels I am caught inside this small shell, I should expand, it becomes a tree. So it is in your hands. If you feel that there is a big mission for you, you have started feeling you are going to become tree. You start feeling what life feels inside that seed and you can be sure you are going to become a tree. Just nourish, encourage that calling. Work towards that calling. Give little time for that calling. You will see you will become a tree.

(18:34)

Q: Meditation is very hard for me. Swamiji: Be very clear, you never tried. Anybody who says very hard for me never tried. If you say, “No, no, no, no, I tried,” you tried the wrong techniques, wrong techniques. “Even practicing, still cannot get that light. I need help.” Now you need right technique, not help. You need right technique. You may not have called the right number…. If you call the 911, no doubt you will have help and you call some other number and you blame I called, I did not receive the help. No.

(19:27)

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Name Of Convention : Initiation into Powerful Cognitions
Session on: Life Is An Art Part 2
Date : 12 March 2007
Venue : Los Angeles, California, USA

In this video, we see the Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism HDH #Nithyananda​ Paramashivam has a question and answer session followed by a meditation. HDH answers question on free will, freedom from suffering, meditation practices and also centring oneself to life. HDH keep the answer simple and engaging to build the relationship with the delegates in attendance. HDH move into a powerful meditation technique at the end of this video.

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(0:16)

A small story: There was advertisement in the newspaper: We need somebody for a manager post who knows how to read and write French. One guy applied, “I can read but I can't write….. I can write but I can't read.” The employer was surprised, “What? He says I can write but I can't read. Let us see who this guy is.” This guy came. The person who is interviewing, he said, “Please write.” The guy started writing gadagadagadagada something. And the other guy took the paper and saw, “I can't read what you have written. Please read.” That guy said, “I told you I can only write, I can't read.” So now, I am having some letters like that. I think they can only write. They can't read…. Sorry…. And there is some personal question which is asking for healing. Please you can come after the session and ask for the healing when you come near for Energy Darshan.

(1:46)

Q: How does one overcome the drug to grow up and be an adult? Swamiji: O God! This is a nice question! Seed always will feel insecure, “If I open up I may die who knows? Who knows, what is the guarantee I will become a tree? I may die. I may just disappear.” Seed is always afraid that it may not become tree but the tree says, “Please open up. Only then I can come out.” Seed says, “No, no, first you come out. Only then I will open…. because I am afraid if I open if you don't come out, I may die.” Seed says, “No, first you come out, then I will open.” Tree says, “No, no, open. Only then I can come out.” It is a fight between seed and the tree. Only a person who has become tree, the seed which has already become tree, only that tree can give assurance, “Don’t worry, open up.” Only the tree can assure the seed, “Don’t bother. I was a seed. I opened. Now I have become tree. You also open up. You will become a tree.” It is elders’, parents’ responsibility to act like a tree and give confidence, courage to the seed telling, “Do not expect the tree will come out unless you open. Only if you open, the possibility for tree exists. I was a seed. Now I am a tree. You also open. You will really become a tree. You will not die.” It is elders’ responsibility to give that confidence to your youngsters and help them to become a tree.

(03:53)

Q: What is the difference between prayer and meditation? Swamiji: In prayer you pray to God: In meditation you become God. Person who prays, worships: Person who meditates becomes worshipped. If you pray, you worship: If you meditate, you are worshipped, that's all.

(04:17)

Q: What is the best way to pull away from negative people who try to pull you into their problems? Swamiji: First thing you should understand, you can't label anybody as negative people. The possibility for transformation exists. Even My disciples in the Ashram, they ask Me, “Swamiji, You know there are some people who are negative, who are not completely settling with the group. Why don't You send them away or why don't You discourage them being inside ashram?” I tell them, “No. There is nobody you can say, label as negative. Possibility for transformation is there in every person. Possibility for quantum jump is there for every person.” So all you need to do, do not label anybody as negative person. The moment you label, you will not wait for the possibility. You will not allow that possibility. I always tell people, there is nobody called negative. All you need to do is extend yourself little more and wait for their quantum jump and anybody who has transformed themselves have transformed only because somebody has given that care and love.

(05:54)

Understand, in My case, I took the quantum jump because My elders, My teachers, My Masters, they extended their space for Me. If they would have judged Me, “Hey, this fellow is negative” and they did not allow Me to be in their space, the transformation would have never happened in Me. So, whenever I feel, whenever I see even them being inside the organization is a difficulty or a problem, even then I wait, sometime I wait because I was never judged before My transformation. I remember how I was helped by the great Masters. So it is My responsibility in turn to help these people to wait and expect the transformation. So never judge, never put some rubber stamp ‘negative people.’ If you put, you will never allow the possibility. You will never wait for the transformation.

(07:02)

Understand, inside every being there is a possibility. Wait and work towards that possibility. See, I always tell people, offer your joy. It will be showered on you. Anything which you offer towards to God will be showered on you. So always offer your joy, bliss. It will be showered on you. Do not try to offer your suffering. It is a wrong idea. Do not try to put your suffering at the feet of divine. Try to put your joy and bliss at the feet of the divine. You will be showered by it.

(07:47)

Q: Is it okay to seek things outside yourself to find fulfillment? Swamiji: It is okay. Try to seek as much as possible outside yourself to find fulfillment. Nothing wrong. At some point you will understand you are not finding the fulfillment! Till you come to that understanding, you can seek, nothing wrong. It is only wasting time. It is not a crime. It is not a big mistake. It is just wasting time. But wasting time is also nothing wrong. Your life, who can say you should not waste life? You are free to waste, nothing wrong but it is not a crime. There is nothing called crime. It is not a sin. Do not believe the concept of sin and all those things. Searching something to feel fulfilled outside yourself is not a sin. It is just wasting little time and wasting little time is not wrong. It's ok, enjoy.

(08:47)

Q: To try to change things in your life that bring unhappiness, is it ok? Swamiji: Nothing wrong in trying to change. See, whatever you can change, change it. Whatever you can't change, accept it and have relaxed mood to understand what you can change and what you can't change, that's all. This is the essence of whole life. Whatever you can change, change it. Whatever you can't change, accept it, enjoy it and have relaxed mood to find when you are supposed to do the aggressive process of changing and when you are supposed to do the passive process of accepting. Just have little intelligence to play the game. That's all is the whole thing. Life is just this three statement.

(09:37)

Q: Without the goal or role model, how do you inspire the young kids? Swamiji: You are all inspired by role models and goals only. What happened to you all? Just see, just see. Why do you want to reproduce, why do you want to mess the same way your kids also? At least let them be liberated from this so called ideals and goals and role models.

(10:07)

Q: How a person can process without goal? How a student achieve without goal? Swamiji: I tell you, if you work with your energy, you can reach the peaks which is never even thought by somebody else. If you are working with the goal, you will expand yourself only to that extent. You will keep him as your limit. You have no limit. Sky is the only limit because there is no sky. Only sky should be limit because there is no sky. You will not allow the maximum creativity to express itself through you. So I tell you, do not have a role model. Any role model you have will be only smaller than you, smaller than your possibility. Your possibility is much, much, much beyond than any role model you can think of.

(11:16)

Q: How a person can process…. that's the question…… Q: Is it possible to achieve enlightenment living as a householder? Swamiji: What is the difference between a householder and a monk? I don't see a difference. I don't see a big difference in Consciousness. It is a maturity, nothing but maturity. If you are matured, anywhere you can become enlightened. If you are not matured, even if you are a monk, you can't expect Enlightenment. Enlightenment does not come with ID card of a being a monk or house holder. It comes with a maturity.

(12:05)

Q: Is there a difference in being non-serious and unfocused? Can a non-serious person create an art with focus? Swamiji: Be very clear. Only a non-serious person will be focused. A serious person will never be focused. He may be concentrated. Understand, there is a big difference between concentration and focusing. Concentration means connected to one object eliminating everything else, excluding everything else. Focused means including everything, not excluding anything, not excluding anything. You need to understand the difference between being focusing or the concentrating.…A non-serious person only will be completely focused.

(13:08)

Q: Swamiji, Namaskar. There are several ashrams conducting meditations. Is this same meditation or different from your meditation? Swamiji: Each one expresses their enlightenment or experience or what they learnt. I am expressing whatever research and development I did in My life spending nine years of My life and time and energy.

(13:37)

Q: Don't we have to know suffering to know joy? How could we experience one without the other? Swamiji: You have to know suffering if you want to know the joy but I tell you, you should go beyond suffering and joy which is called Bliss, Ananda. Bliss is beyond joy and suffering. It is an intense inspiration and enthusiasm, excitement for no reason. That is the right place to be. The problem is, not only My voice, My accent also. I learnt this language only few years ago. So.....

(14:21)

Q: What is the role of prayer in Enlightenment? Swamiji: Maybe initial level help, nothing more. Nothing more.

(14:33)

Q: How can I be a better father, husband and person? Swamiji: Again, only an enlightened person will be the better father and best husband, wonderful beloved and amazing person. Just get enlightened, that's all. And it is not too much as you think.

(15:00)

Q: How to overcome tamas and move towards sattva? Swamiji: Again, tamas is inertness. Best way to overcome tamas is just take twenty days vacation and sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep. Tire your mind. Don't say no. Just eat and sleep. Your mind will feel totally bored by depression and the inertness and the tamas and you will just escape from vacation and you will get into your life. That is the best way to remove tamas, means the inertness.

(15:48)

Q: How do you feel about moving Asanas or rather Hatha yoga? Is Raja Yoga best? Swamiji: Now recently I spent few months and collected best things from the Yoga system, all the traditional yoga system and created a new science called Nithya yoga, putting all the best things of Hatha yoga and Raja Yoga. Raja Yoga is more mind oriented. Hatha yoga is more body oriented. I collected the best things, best flowers from all the gardens. The beautiful bouquet is ready for you to have. Maybe when you find time, you can come and do that program called Nithya yoga. That will help you and give you the complete knowledge about yoga.

(16:41)

Q: Again… How do I not get my feelings hurt? Swamiji: It’s a nice question. As long as you protect yourself, somebody is going to hurt you. Just relax from protecting. Just relax from protecting and nobody is here to hurt you. The moment you relax, there is nothing called hurting.

(17:12)

Q: I have heard that when one is enlightened, they are aware of every leaf dropping or any butterfly movement. Then why do the enlightened ones at times act as if they do not know or say they do not know ? Swamiji: This is a nice question. Actually Enlightened Beings know everything, no doubt but constantly they cannot be aware of this body and that cosmic intelligence. See, if they stay in the cosmic intelligence state, the body will not be active. When they move the body, they just relax for little bit from that cosmic intelligence. That is why they act as if they don't know or they say they don't know and moreover, people will also exploit them too much. See, if you know, if you are really sure that I know everything, you will abuse My presence. You will ask for every small thing and you will be too much dependent. You yourself will not grow. That is why I always tell people, Master's intimacy is more important than knowing about His glory. Love is more important than knowing about His glory. His glory and His powers are only secondary to the love and the feeling connected.

(18:45)

Here somebody is asking, “My sister crossed over this last week. My mind and spirit is happy she is perfect in health now. However my human emotions feel a piece of me is missing. Do you have some words of wisdom for me?” Swamiji: Crossed over means, crossed over means passed away? Died? Audience: Yeah. Swamiji: Understand, whenever some of your relatives die, near and dear ones die, it is not even their death affects you. The relationship which you maintained, the identity which you had, the identity with which you are connecting with her, that part is now missing. That is why you are feeling the suffering. One more thing, you are reminded that you are also on the queue. The deep fear of death unconsciously is touched. Now the possibility for you is there. See, whenever somebody else dies in outside, in somebody else's house or some other family, we don't feel that we are also on the queue, the possibility is there for us also. But when somebody dies inside our family, like a sister or close, now we know the possibility is there for me. So it is an unconscious reminder the possibility is there for me also. That is what creates fear. I tell you, just face, just face the loneliness or that feeling of missing. Live with it. Don't suppress it. You will see you transform yourself. You go beyond it.

(20:44)

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Name Of Convention : Initiation into Powerful Cognitions
Session on: Life Is An Art Part 3
Date : 12 March 2007
Venue : Los Angeles, California, USA

In this video, we see the Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism HDH #Nithyananda​ Paramashivam has a question and answer session followed by a meditation. HDH answers question on free will, freedom from suffering, meditation practices and also centring oneself to life. HDH keep the answer simple and engaging to build the relationship with the delegates in attendance. HDH move into a powerful meditation technique at the end of this video.

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(0:16)

Q: What made You come to this small town? Why? Swamiji: Just your love. Understand, there are some of our devotees, especially the organisers. Not only they are devotees and she is My dentist. So when she asks, I can't say no. So I said yes. I am here because of devotees and devotion. Of course, I entered into the body for devotees. So when they call, naturally I appear there. Okay…. If too many people call in too many places, I appear without using the body also. That’s all!

(01:17)

Q: I have been meditating on achieving specific goals. Am I wasting my time? Swamiji: You are. (Everyone laughs) Meditation should be for enjoying meditation means Enlightenment. If it is for some goal, then you are wasting your time.

(01:43)

Q: What should you do in life to be successful to have money and be happy? Swamiji: Just forget about the idea of success. Just relax from this serious attitude. You will have more wealth and more bliss and more joy and much better relationships.

(02:06)

Q: Hello, how does one experience the rapture cosmic bliss with a lover while maintaining a sense of unattachment being free from attachment. Los Phenomena. Swamiji: That is a beautiful question. When you are really intense…. See, be intense when you are enjoying. That is more than enough. You will be unclutched when you are not near with that person. You will be constantly attached with that person even while you are away if you are not intense when you are around. If you have not had enough of him or her, only then the hangover is there. If you are really intense when you are around him or her, when you are away, you will be completely unclutched. The best way to unclutch is clutch strongly.

(03:08)

Q: I begin meditation. Then I stop. How can I maintain my practice? Swamiji: This is what I call morning you and evening you. Morning you start and evening you stop. The politics between you and you. So the only way is to create free will in you.

(03:30)

Q: Can you please clarify relation, connection between consciousness and matter? You spoke about these last days. You mentioned they are not connected at all and also there is a knot they connect at. How to resolve the apparent dualism that seems to show here? Can You please talk more about how everything is the play of Consciousness? Swamiji: As long as you carry the false identity which you are carrying now, the concept of I, there is a matter and Consciousness. The moment you understand the identity which you are carrying is false, unconnected, unclutched…..See, the identity which you are carrying is independent, illogical, unconnected thoughts. While you realize the truth, suddenly you realize there is no matter and Consciousness. Everything is just play of Consciousness. As long as you think the identity which you are carrying is a solid reality as you are thinking now, you will see something as matter and something as Consciousness. The moment you realize the identity which you are carrying is not a solid reality, it is just unconnected, unclutched, illogical, independent thoughts, it is a bunch of unconnected, illogical, independent thoughts, suddenly you will realize that there is nothing called matter, nothing called Consciousness. Everything is just play of Consciousness.

(05:27)

When you understand everything is play of Consciousness, you call life as Leela. Leela means playing. With ordinary people, we call their life as a history. With Enlightened Masters, we call their life as a Leela. You don't call Krishna's history, Krishna Leela. You don't call Buddha’s history, Buddha Leela. You don't call Rama’s history. No. Rama Leela. It is their playfulness. It is Consciousness playing in itself. Understanding the identity which you are carrying: identity which you are showing to the outer world and the identity which you believe as you, both of them are not solid. Penetrating them little bit and looking into them and realising they are just irrational, illogical, unconnected, independent, unclutched thoughts.

(06:31)

Because of their speed of occurring, you think it is solid identity. Because constantly you are thinking about you, you think you exist. It’s like a taking a burning torch and rotating. If you rotate in full speed, you will see a fire circle which is not there. Same way your identity, what you think as you is a very powerful rotation of few thoughts. Because of the speed you see the fire circle. Just like that because of the speed of the thoughts, you see the identity which you think as you which is not there. Thank you.

(07:33)

Maybe now we will spend few minutes in meditation. This is five step meditation. It will be taking some half an hour. Twenty minutes to half an hour. Twenty minutes to thirty minutes. If you feel you don't have time, maybe you can sit in the last row and you can leave whenever you want. If you feel you want to sit and you want to meditate, you can sit in the front row. You can be comfortable. I will just explain. Just understand the steps, five step. First step: deep inhaling and exhaling, chaotic deep breathing. (Swamiji demonstrates the deep breathing) Your whole body should breathe. Your shoulder should raise. Your navel should experience the breathing. First step, as deeply as possible, as intensely as possible and if you are heart patient or if you have any other serious illness, please do not try. Do not do. Just sit relaxed way.

(08:56)

Second step: Intense humming. (Swamiji demonstrates the humming) Third step: Put your awareness on the seven energy centers of the body. The music, the CD will guide you step by step. Fourth step: Do not support or suppress your thinking. Understand, do not support or suppress your thinking. Don't try to be thoughtless and don't try to encourage thinking. Just sit. If thoughts come, let it come. If they disappear, let it disappear, okay. That is the fourth step means just relaxing and being playful. Fifth step: Just sit with a intense deep feeling, of feeling connected to Divine, the Ultimate which is beyond yourself, which is beyond your identity: Five steps.

(10:12)

Once more I will repeat and I will guide you also step by step. First, becoming breathing means intense breathing, first step. Second step, becoming humming, intense humming. Third step, becoming awareness of your Chakras, energy centers. Fourth step, becoming aware of your pure space. No thoughts. Neither encouraging nor discouraging. Just relaxing. If it comes let it come. If it does not come it is okay. Fifth step, just becoming aware of this whole Cosmic energy and feeling connected to the energy which moves the Sun, Moon and planet Earth, you and Me and relaxing into that energy. Let’s start. Please close your eyes. Sit in a relaxed way. Start inhaling and exhaling as deeply as possible.

(11:38)

Start deeply inhaling and exhaling. If you have any health problem, please do not do. Just sit.

(12:08) to (12:35) Meditation