Peace And Love Meditation # 1

Our senses are giving us information all day long, and that information is either good or bad. In meditation the burning fire of the mind and thoughts subsides and what is left is sham, the pacified state, peace. And we realize peace is always there, we just have to realize it in stillness of meditation. Knowing peace as the Knower of all information, one experiences oneness towards all and Love shines brightly.

Transcript

Welcome to peace and love meditation.

Every evening I sit simply after the day's activity,

Whatever projects we have,

Whatever duties we have,

Whatever entertainment that we seek for ourselves.

We do all of that.

And when I return home,

I come to my meditation seat after a cup of tea and sit in a comfortable,

Comfortable position.

On this exceptional insight timer app,

We all have a platform where we can participate in our like minded meditators.

You may be meditating for the first time or you might be an advanced meditator.

I myself have been meditating all my life,

If I were to say,

As I'm born to a Guruji,

To Swami Shyamji.

The meditation process began very early in my life.

And it continued.

I studied.

But after every once in a while,

I would close my eyes and meditate.

Thus,

This practice of meditation is an ongoing love to me.

I simply sit every evening,

As I said,

Because evening is the moment when the activity of the day is subsiding.

And yet the slumber or the deep,

Deep sleep state hasn't yet kicked in.

It's a beautiful time to close our eyes.

I like to sit in Sukhasana.

I like to sit at the easy posture,

Which we call as the lotus posture as well.

At times when I'm tired,

I don't sit with my legs crossed.

I just simply stretch them out.

But I try to sit up.

So that the energy that is sitting at the bottom of my torso,

It can rise slowly and slowly,

Slowly and slowly to that which is the top of the head.

And from the top of the head,

It can completely rise and immerse itself in its source,

Which I call as pure space.

All day long,

Our senses are demanding.

They're constantly wanting some attention.

Early in the morning,

We wake up.

The eyes open.

That's what we call waking up.

The eyes open and they begin to see varieties of forms.

They see the scenery outside,

They see the things in the room,

They completely get entangled and involved in every single object that they see.

This is our state.

In the waking state or with eyes open.

The ears are also feeling,

Well,

Don't leave me behind.

I also want to be entertained.

The ears hear.

I live in high Himalayas in a valley.

And the river is flowing.

It is flowing constantly below my home.

The constant sound of the river is being perceived by my ears.

But then,

On one side of our home,

We live on the roadside and the road is filled with the cars passing by and the horn going by,

People walking,

Children coming back from school with their satchels on their back.

Sometimes we even experience the herds of sheep walking past and the shepherd is whistling,

Just directing his sheep to follow him.

Such beautiful sounds are there,

But they can be interpreted as the sounds of disturbance.

If you were to sit down and meditate,

You would think that those sounds are creating a disturbance in me.

Thus,

Our senses are constantly giving us information.

Sometimes it's good.

Sometimes it's bad.

But when I sit down in this state of meditation,

Where I simply bring the attention to that peace,

Which is my own self.

In Sanskrit,

We call it Shanti.

Shanti is a state where all the thoughts come to a state which is known as Sham.

Sham is peace,

Just as the ablaze fire is there.

But then at a certain time,

All the blazing fire comes to subside.

At that time,

That state where the wood,

The burning filled with light and heat,

When it comes to settle down at that time,

That state is known as Sham.

In meditation,

All the thoughts that were constantly burning with the knowledge of the senses given to us,

They all come to subside.

There's no more experience of good or the bad.

I have the complete knowledge of that,

Which is behind all these experiences.

I am the one that was seeing all the flowers,

All the avocado trees.

I was the one that was seeing the forest.

I was the one that was seeing the sky.

My eyes were giving me this experience of all these objects.

But I am the one that is seeing through these eyes.

Thus,

Who is that I?

That I is constant.

That I is the knowledge in me.

I call it as the knower.

That knower is one,

Whether it sees the flowers,

Whether it sees the sky.

The knowledge is always one.

The knower is the one.

That receives the knowledge of the horn,

Of the shepherds,

Of the river,

Of all the beautiful talks of my friends and colleagues and people at the center.

The ears give me the information.

But I am the receiver of that information and I gain knowledge from that information.

Thus,

The knowledge given to me through my eyes,

Through the ears,

That knowledge is one.

The knowledge that resides in me,

That me is the one that is the conscious aspect of forever knowing as to who I am.

That I is the knower.

That I is eternally present.

When we tune into that knower,

At that time,

All the agitation,

All the worries,

All the concerns or all the movement of the mind comes to be addressed.

It is at peace.

In that moment,

I recognize that this knower is one in me.

Then I see my sister.

I see my friends.

I see the people.

And I realize they too have the same experience.

Their eyes might be giving a different experience to them.

Their ears might be experiencing something different.

But the knower in them is also one knower.

And through meditation,

When I close my eyes,

I begin to watch.

My sister sits down,

She begins to watch.

And what do we watch with our eyes closed?

It is that pure space that is behind the eyes.

And that space is one.

That space is like the blue sky.

When you look at the sky and I look at the sky,

I realize it is one sky.

I'm sitting in the Himalayas.

You might be sitting somewhere else in this world.

But we both are residing,

Existing under that same sky.

That sky is one.

When we recognize the oneness at that time,

The love awakens.

Love for that which is my own self.

Just as you love your own dear ones because you own them,

You're one with them.

You know they are the same as you.

Thus,

We live a life filled with peace and love for your own self,

For your near and dear ones and for the world as a whole.

And meditation is that which gives us that opportunity to close our eyes,

Sit down in a comfortable position and simply watch the breath.

The breath comes in,

The breath goes out.

The eyes that we're seeing outside,

Now they are seeing the inner scenery,

Which is not of names and forms.

That inner space is the space vast,

Infinite and pure.

The name of that is known as Amaram Ham,

Madhuram Ham.

And that nowhere is unchanging,

No matter what the experience is.

And the knower,

When recognizes itself,

It is forever blissful and blessed.

Blessed we are,

Blessed I am.

May we remain forever blessed in the space of meditation.

Dhyan,

We call it as peace and love meditation.

Namaste.

Reviews

Beautiful talk that leads you to the space of peace and love. A must listen every night to help you drift off to sleep with this awareness to comfort you all through the night!