Hari Mooji Satsang with Mooji Satsang with Mooji Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya Hadi Bhola.
So,
Concluding this month's topic on mindfulness,
Just a little bit of recap.
The actual goal and purpose of mindfulness is to become aware of your spiritual existence,
Apart from the body and apart from the mind,
That you are an eternal spiritual being.
All of the traditional or authentic meditations that were used in relation to mindfulness were performed for this purpose.
The reason,
Of course,
Is that our hope for happiness,
For security,
For protection,
Our hope for love actually lie in our awakening to our spiritual identity,
To reconnecting.
You know,
Our life is like such an often chaotic mess.
There is just like so much going on.
And it's not like,
Well,
There's a couple of things.
I'll give you an example.
In the Vedas it says that sound vibration can have two possible effects.
If it is material sound vibration,
The effect is it increases one's entanglement in the material world,
In the idea of the body as being the self,
And it makes it so one cannot come to that rightful position where we belong of true and great spiritual happiness.
The other form of sound vibration is spiritual sound vibration,
And that has the opposite effect.
That has a purifying effect.
It actually leads one to the position and the experience of enlightenment and self-realization.
And this is the same for all of our undertaking in life.
We live in a world where,
I think I mentioned this before,
Just stepping back a little bit,
The principle covering of the Atma,
The Atma meaning the spiritual being,
You,
The self.
The principle covering in Sanskrit is called Ahankara.
Ahankara refers to the false concepts of the self,
That I am male,
I am female,
Identifying with the body as permanently being me,
And all the things that go with it.
From the yogi's point of view or perspective,
And it's not just an idea,
Their idea,
Their reality,
This is a spiritual truth that is true for everyone at all times.
They understood that all living beings,
Except for those who are endeavoring on the path of spiritual discovery of self-realization,
All living beings are operating in this realm of what's called Ahankara,
The false concepts of the self,
The false ego.
What Freud referred to as the ego is actually not the same as the way the Greek philosophers used it.
His reference to the ego is what the yogis call the false ego or the Ahankara,
The false concepts of self.
And if you look and examine the entire population,
Everybody's completely lost in these false concepts,
Which of course all ultimately completely collapse at the experience of death,
And one is just stripped of anything to hold on to because everything that you believed in,
Everything that you clung tightly to is removed from you at that point,
And that becomes very distressful for people.
In order to make it so that we can regain some clarity and to cultivate more meaningfulness in our life,
The cultivation of this,
What is called Atma Gyan,
Gyan means knowledge,
Atma means of the self,
Atma Gyan,
Knowledge of the self,
Was considered the foundation of all spiritual learning and experience.
The mindfulness meditations which yogis practice are fundamentally divided into two categories of meditation.
One category is more connected with mindfulness,
This conscious effort to remind ourself of our spiritual being,
And to be able to remind ourself and attempt to gain more experience in the reality that I am separate from my body and mind.
So these category of meditations,
There were actually three categories.
First one was a meditation upon the fact that I exist,
And that's quite a startling thing.
Oh yeah,
I know I exist,
I just posted a picture of myself,
You know.
No,
No,
This is a practice where a person actually calmed down,
Closed the eyes,
Not having any serious sensual stimulation around them,
And just contemplate and say to themself,
I exist,
And actually really contemplate upon that,
That I exist,
That I am.
And so there were types of meditation that was focused around that,
And what it did is really heighten the experience of your inner existence,
The fact that you actually,
You are in there somewhere,
And if we could remove a lot of the clutter and distractions,
I could potentially become more increasingly aware of that.
That type of meditation was usually then followed by a reflection upon the fact that yes,
I exist,
And I reflect upon something that I did perhaps last week.
Where was I last week?
Now you don't have to strain to remember,
You just think of some event that occurred at any time,
And you sort of go back there and just reflect on it and remember it.
You can remember the sounds and maybe the smells.
