#42. What Can't Be Explained | Vigyan Bhairav Tantra

Across traditions, several spiritual masters have tried to explain the phenomenon of spiritual awareness becoming one with the object of awareness. Here we try once again. Meditation Technique: Meditate on the tip of the nose and enter.

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Transcript

Namaste sannyasa family and everyone.

A very warm welcome to all of you in this daily live meditation session with me,

Dhyansay.

We are meditating on 112 meditation techniques of Vigyan Bhairav Tantra.

Let us begin the session by addressing questions from meditators before we sit in silence,

Before we use the technique for today to sit in silence.

The first question.

I am trying to be the observer who observes the mind.

Observers and the body during meditation.

But in my everyday life,

How can I work and dealing the things and in the same time being the observer?

Does my mind live my everyday life so complicated?

This question is from a meditator in our community.

See that whenever you are going further in your meditation journey,

You will come across this concept,

This idea of observer,

Of observing the mind in various forms,

In various teachings,

In various techniques that you are the observer,

You are observing the mind.

This will come so often in different forms,

In different teachings,

No matter where you go,

In which tradition you follow of meditation,

You will always come across this question of observing the mind.

Who is the observer?

Am I the mind?

Am I the observer?

What is all this?

You are bound to go through this confusion.

Jiddu Krishnamurthy,

He spoke 70 years about this topic,

About being this observer,

About observation,

About observing.

Osho spoke about this for 30 years where he talked about being the witness and witnessing and all his work around witnessing.

If you see today's masters,

Teachers,

Gurus,

Sadhguru,

He avoids this topic because he knows that it is a complicated topic.

If you see Mooji,

If you see Ekatholay,

They attempt to also answer this question out of their compassion,

Out of trying to make you understand who is this observer and at best they take you to a point where you understand,

I am the awareness,

I am the observer.

So throughout traditions,

There has been always an attempt to make you understand what is this observer,

What is this observing,

What is this observing of the mind,

Observing of the body and the futility of it is such that no matter how much we try to explain this to you,

It is very,

Very difficult to just simply understand this.

Only when it happens in your awareness,

Only when it happens in your own experience,

Then you can retrospectively look back and say,

Yes,

Now I get it.

So the only reason why this has been spoken again and again and again and again across traditions by different people is because so that the day it becomes your experience,

The day you reach to that peak,

You immediately remember,

Yes,

That's it.

You know that you have arrived,

You know you have reached.

Where are we reaching,

Where is this arriving?

Let us once again open this topic,

Let us understand this topic once again.

I have spoken also about observer,

Observing the object of observation many times before and I am sure I will be bringing this up 1000 times more at least in my lifetime.

But here we go again,

Let us understand and break down this concept of observer,

Of observing and the object once again in this session.

See that while you are living in your daily life,

In this routine life,

You can call this as stage one.

The stage one of being in this automation,

Being in this sort of automated process where you are doing,

You are just simply the doer,

You are constantly involved in doing without the awareness that you are doing something.

You are doing all the activities of your daily life and therefore you conclude that you are the body,

You are the mind,

What else is there?

Because only the body and the mind and the physical that is involved in the activity can be real.

So from this stage,

From this point of view,

Where there is no self-awareness,

Where there is only the doer,

Only the doing,

You are constantly involved in the doing,

You are in this automation,

There is no self-awareness.

There is also no problem because you are in this doing,

You do not know that you are also doing and you are also the observer of the doing.

But that stage,

That form of life,

It gets caught up in misery very very soon.

It is vulnerable to anybody putting it into any kind of automation,

In any kind of process and the whole of your life is gone as a doer and you never realize the true nature of who you really are.

Then you start meditating,

Slowly the awareness unfolds,

Slowly you start to see yourself in the process of doing.

That is this stage number 2,

Where you have the doing,

You are doing things and you also see that you are doing things.

So an observer is established in you as well,

Who is observing that whatever you are doing,

Whatever activities that you are doing,

By meditating regularly,

By going through these processes of meditation,

Slowly out of the automation,

This ray of awareness arises in you which creates this observer.

This observer in the beginning is also your mind.

So your mind is observing what you are doing.

There are two established in you,

The doer and the observer.

And here is the confusion,

Here is the split,

How to go about it while you are doing things,

Do you do things or you observe things or you observe yourself doing and this is the phase of confusion.

Not everyone goes through this phase,

Everyone passes this phase and moves further.

So while you are in this stage,

While this observation in you is being established partly through the mind,

Partly through your consciousness,

While this observer is being established,

Allow that to happen,

Allow this stage to also pass through.

This split may be sometimes uncomfortable,

May be sometimes inefficient,

That's the price that you have to pay,

That you somehow feel that while you are doing,

You are more efficient when you are not observing what you are doing,

But now since you are observing what you are doing,

You are becoming slightly inefficient or not knowing where to put your weight.

That's the price that you have to pay,

But the gain that you have out of this is that you suddenly start to see what you are doing all the time.

It is like moving into or going into a nightclub where everyone else is drunk and dancing,

You have not yet drunk anything,

You go in that environment,

In that situation and you are supposed to dance.

How are you supposed to dance when you know you are there and you are not completely intoxicated where you have not forgotten yourself?

That is the confusion,

That is the dilemma,

That is the difficulty in this stage,

But this shall also pass,

You will move further in your spiritual journey and move to the third stage.

The third stage is when your meditation deepens,

Then you start to identify yourself more as the observer,

You start to recognize yourself more and more as the observer,

Less and less of the doing,

Of the doer.

This is the stage where you become very very silent,

This is the stage where there is a lot of inner peace that arises in you,

All that has been capturing your identity as the doer has broken and you see yourself,

You realize yourself as the observer.

In that realization there is a lot of relaxation because you see that the mundane of life,

The continuity of life that you are constantly stressed in,

That you are busy in,

That is all this doing,

You are not this doing,

You are the observer.

So the whole weight shifts from doing to being this observer.

This is where most of the spiritual traditions stop,

Most of the spiritual teachings stop,

Most of the masters,

Teachers,

Gurus,

They stop there by making you into this observer so that you are above the doing,

Whatever is happening in your life,

You are above it,

You see things from a different point of view,

From a different reference point and that allows you to manage your life in a very nice easy way.

But the journey does not end there,

The journey continues,

Comes to the fourth stage which you can call as the last sage.

When both the observer and what you are observing,

The object of observation,

That doing,

That mind,

Whatever is the object of observation,

They both merge.

That fourth stage in Buddhism is referred to as Turiya or it has no name,

It is simply called as the fourth.

The fourth,

When the observer and what you are observing,

They both merge.

What is left is only observation,

Is only witnessing.

There is no you,

There is no object,

There is no separation between you,

What you call as I,

What you call as me,

What you are referring to when you say I,

Or even when you say I,

Or even when you say this witness,

This observer,

When the witness and what is being witnessed,

When the observer and the object of observation,

They both melt into one,

Then what is left is only observation,

Is only pure awareness,

Is only consciousness.

So this journey of spiritual growth,

This journey of unfoldment of consciousness is from you being completely automated in being just a doer to all the way where you are simply,

There is only observation,

There is only witnessing,

There is only pure consciousness.

Everything else merges into one.

Again,

Difficult to understand,

But when this happens to you,

As you proceed in your spiritual journey,

When this happens to you,

You will know when this happens and you will say,

Yes,

Now I understand,

Yes,

That's it.

Until that time,

You keep on practicing,

You let your observation,

Let your awareness grow,

Unfold more and more and spread all across your life in which you see everything,

Whatever is happening in your life.

You remain the doer,

But also the observer.

Let us listen to the technique which Bhairava has to give from Vigan Bhairav Tantra for today and practice this in the next minutes of our silence,

In the next minutes of our meditation.

Bhairava says,

Eyes slightly open,

Fixing gaze at the tip of the nose and enter.

Let me repeat,

Eyes slightly open,

Fixing gaze at the tip of the nose and enter.

This is yet another meditation technique with eyes open,

With preparing you for meditation,

For entering into a meditative state.

What you will do is,

You will keep your eyes half open,

Slightly open,

Looking at the floor.

Somewhere down looking at the floor,

Not at an object in particular,

But your angle of your eyes would be as if you are looking at the floor down below you.

In this looking,

In this awareness,

In this eyes half closed,

You will see that you can recognize,

Your awareness can see the tip of your nose.

The moment you start to see the tip of your nose,

You will fix your gaze at the tip of the nose until your awareness is fully concentrated,

Is fully focused,

Is becoming one pointed at the tip of the nose.

Make sure while you do this technique,

You do not strain your eyes,

You do not force your eyes to come at one point,

Rather you will keep your eyes very relaxed.

At all times,

Eyes will be relaxed looking at the floor,

Down at the area at the floor,

At no object in particular on the floor.

In this observation,

You will see the tip of your nose,

When you see the tip of your nose,

Holding the gaze at the tip of the nose for few minutes,

So that your awareness becomes one pointed and you can enter into meditative states into silence.

From there on,

We will close our eyes and move into silence,

Into awareness within.

Please take a posture that is comfortable for you and gently lower your eyes looking at the floor at no object in particular.

Thank you.

Bringing your awareness to this space in front of your half closed eyes,

Looking downwards at the floor.

Not focusing at any particular object,

Simply awareness in front of you in the space.

Not focusing at any particular object,

Simply awareness in the area between you and the floor.

At all times,

Eyes relaxed.

You may lower your eyelids further down.

So relaxed.

Open awareness in the space in front of you between you and the floor.

As your awareness settles.

Shift your focus to your nose,

To the tip of the nose that you see in the space in front of your half closed eyes.

Open awareness in the space in front of you.

Keeping eyes relaxed.

Focus on the tip of your nose.

Open awareness in the space in front of you.

Your awareness,

Your mind,

All your energies at the tip of your nose.

Open awareness in the space in front of you.

Open awareness in the space in front of you.

Close your eyes.

Turn inwards.

All your awareness inwards.

Open awareness in the space in front of you.

Open awareness in the space in front of you.

Open awareness inwards at nothing in particular.

Simply remaining aware and silent.

Whatever rises in you.

Thoughts,

Emotions,

Sensations.

Let them rise and fall while you remain silent.

Open awareness in the space in front of you.

Open awareness in the space in front of you.

Open awareness in the space in front of you.

Open awareness in the space in front of you.

Allowing your energies to reorganize as you sit in silence and awareness.

Open awareness in the space in front of you.

Open awareness in the space in front of you.

Open awareness in the space in front of you.

Open awareness in the space in front of you.

Open awareness in the space in front of you.

Open awareness in the space in front of you.

Open awareness in the space in front of you.

Very gently and slowly you may open your eyes.

Maintaining centeredness,

Awareness in silence.

Taking this taste,

This awareness along with you in your day.

To be the observer,

To be the witness of whatever you're doing in life,

Whatever activity is going on in your life.

On this spiritual journey,

If you're looking for Sangha,

To be with other meditators who are going through similar experiences,

Sharing,

Learning from those experiences,

Sharing your love,

Your truth,

Your connection with others.

If this is your calling,

You're more than welcome to join our community of meditators.

Please write me an email with your introduction,

Your calling for the community and what can you give back for the community.

Thank you very much.

Namaste.

Reviews

Expansive. Excellent.

I am speechless, it seems so easy, but it is not , to be a silent observer , I couldn’t stop being a “doer”... in the end of the session I “entered” inside my body - and it looked like a huge empty dark and cold church ... is it me???