Namaste Sanyasa family and everyone.
A very warm welcome to all of you in this daily live meditation session with me,
Dhyana Seth.
We are meditating on 112 meditation techniques of Vigyan Bhairav Tantra.
A general on his way to the battlefield,
He realized that his troops,
His soldiers,
Are way less in number as compared to the opponent.
One tenth of the opponent.
But he was confident that he is going to win.
All his soldiers,
His troops,
They were slightly apprehensive,
Knowing that ten times more the opponent.
So they stopped on the way to a temple and started praying.
And in that prayer,
After the prayer was finished,
The general said,
Let's flip this coin.
If the head comes,
We will win.
If the tail comes,
We will lose.
So he flipped the coin,
The coin tossed in the air,
The coin was on the floor.
Everyone watched the coin being on the floor and there were heads.
Everyone all the soldiers suddenly overjoyed,
Over excited.
They all determined,
Marched towards the battlefield in this winning of the battlefield,
Knowing that they are going to win the battle.
And that's what happened.
Later that day,
They went and trashed the open opponents and they won that battle.
Later in the evening,
For those celebrations,
One of the soldiers,
He came to the general.
He said,
Look what a victory!
No destiny could be changed.
We were destined to win.
The general said,
Indeed,
No one can change the destiny.
And showed the coin to that soldier,
Both sides were heads.
How do you get both heads in life?
How do you have on both sides heads in life?
Can you manifest your destiny?
Can you control your destiny?
Or are you somewhere just flowing,
Which is something predetermined and you're just flowing along,
You have absolutely no will,
You have absolutely no control.
What do you think?
In your contemplations,
In your meditations,
In this session today,
Contemplate what is destiny.
Contemplate can you manifest the destiny?
Contemplate how can you manifest your destiny?
In order to understand this,
In order to understand destiny,
In order to understand this delicacy of whether you control the destiny or something else is controlling the destiny,
You have to understand the nature of reality.
The nature of this reality which you're living on a daily basis.
Things are happening in the past and you're moving to the present and you're moving into the future.
This nature of reality,
You have to contemplate on the nature of reality,
Understand this nature of reality.
And when you do that,
One of the revelations that you will come across is that this nature of reality is completely discontinuous.
What is happening in the past,
In the present,
Has nothing to do with what happened in the past.
But somehow we bring that past into the present.
We live this forced continuity of reality.
In reality,
In the truest nature of reality,
There is no continuity between past,
Present and future.
All these are discontinuous in nature.
What that means is what has happened in the past that has happened,
It only affects your present,
It only affects your future if you carry the memory of it.
The memories that you carry from your past,
The projections that you carry from the past,
The beliefs that you carry from the past,
The thoughts that you carry from the past,
They shape your present or in other words,
They force this present and therefore this present becomes defined.
This present becomes something that you have no control over because the past is imposing itself over the present.
Not when you meditate,
When your consciousness unfolds,
When you live in the very moment,
When you live the spontaneity of the moment,
That discontinuity that is there from the past,
From the present and the future,
This discontinuity becomes the truth for you.
It becomes the reality for you and you are no longer dependent on what happened in the past.
What is your present experience if you will always carry that memory of what happened in the past?
And it is so easy to carry that memory from the past because to question what had happened in the past,
To question your own thought,
To question your own belief,
To question all what has created this identity,
This knowledge,
What you carry in the present,
This is so hard to question.
Therefore we also create a projection in the history,
What we call as history,
What we call as our past.
This is also a projection.
Another thing that you will realize when you contemplate,
When you meditate over this present moment,
When you meditate over this spontaneity,
Over this consciousness that is there alive in this present moment,
You will realize that not only the future is a projection,
But your past,
That you are living,
That you are so certain about all the events that happen,
All the experiences that you made,
All the memories that you have,
Even that is your own projection.
Take a moment to absorb this truth that even what you call as your memory,
What you call as your past is a lie.
It is something that you are projecting all the time.
If there were no evidences,
If there were no physical evidences,
Physical records,
And you completely flow along in this past,
In this future,
The projection that you will do of the past is completely entirely different from what actually happened.
And therefore we project the entire past,
We project the entire future.
And also this physical reality,
This objectivity,
We are so desperately trying to create that physical reality,
That objectivity,
So that we can hold the past,
We can hold the present,
We can hold the future in that objectivity,
In that physical reality.
What the price that we pay when we become objective,
When we relate only to the physical nature of reality is that the future also becomes defined.
The future becomes only a derivative of the past.
And whatever is happening in your life,
It only becomes a determined form,
It becomes something that has happened from your past and is a derivative of your past.
The only way to control your destiny,
The only way to manifest whatever you want to manifest in the world,
In your own life,
Is to realize that there is a discontinuity,
There is no relation of the past and the future.
And to live this non-physical reality coming out of the physical and not projecting the future based on the past.
In meditation,
When you disconnect from the past,
When you are in the present moment,
A possibility opens up for that.
A possibility where you can manifest whatever future that you want in life.
You can get rid of all what you are living through,
Your emotional suppressions,
Your physical ailments,
All what is going on in your life.
If in the meditation,
In the silence,
In the awareness,
You can recognize this discontinuity between the past,
Between the present and the future.
If you can do that,
It is very very empowering.
It shows you that the entire future is your own manifestation and could be something that has nothing to do with your past.
Of course,
Collectively as we live this memory that we call as physical world,
This constantly reminds us and it always brings us back,
It always anchors us to this physical reality and does not let us manifest the future the way we want to have it.
Three men,
They were stranded on a beach for a very long time,
Far away from home.
A genie appeared.
She said,
I will grant each one of you one of the wishes.
She asked the first men,
What is your wish?
She said,
I want to go back to Paris,
Where I lived all my life.
My life was so beautiful in Paris,
I want to go back there.
Wish granted,
The man disappeared,
Suddenly went to Paris.
She said,
To the second man,
What do you want?
Ask your wish.
The man said,
I want to go to Hollywood,
I want to be an actor.
And he said,
Wish granted,
And suddenly the man disappeared and went to Hollywood.
She looked at the last third man on that stranded island.
She said,
What's your wish?
He said,
I feel very lonely once again,
These two men are gone,
Can you bring them back?
And both men came back.
This collective memory that we live,
It makes us feel that there is a common history,
That there is one world that we are living in,
But we are living in our own worlds.
We are living in 8 billion worlds.
We are living in our own projections,
Which has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
The only commonality that we call as this physical projection,
This physical world,
Which is there,
It gives us this misconception,
This false idea that that is the reality that we all live,
That there is one universe.
But there are multiverses,
And each one of us is living in our own individual universe,
In our own consciousness,
Projecting that universe.
All this sounds like a theory,
Sounds like I have gone bala bala with the ideas,
With the projections,
But when you meditate on the nature of reality,
When you meditate on what is this consciousness,
The spontaneity of consciousness,
This becomes your experience as well.
And there is this discontinuity,
And you have the power,
The control to project what your past is,
What your future is.
And you can live very much in that present moment,
Without the projection of the past,
Without the projection of the future,
In that very spontaneity,
In that very moment,
In that present moment.
Let us listen to what Bhairava has to give us as a technique for today,
And meditate over it in our silence,
In our awareness.
Bhairava says,
The one who doesn't bring past into the present attains mastery over destiny.
Let me repeat,
The one who doesn't bring past into the present attains mastery over destiny.
I have said enough about destiny,
About not bringing past into the present,
And this is what we will practice in the session today,
Where while we sit in silence,
Whatever arises in our consciousness,
We will see that anything that arises in the consciousness,
Thoughts,
Emotions,
Images,
Ideas,
Projections,
Anything that arises in the consciousness is nothing but past.
And while being in this present moment,
We will not bring this past into the present.
And all we have to do is remain in the present without bringing this past into the present.
When you do that,
When you do not bring the past into the present moment,
There is an unknown created.
There is a moment where you don't know what is going on,
Where you don't know where you are,
Because all this knowledge of where you are,
What you are doing,
Who you are,
Is all a memory,
Is all from the past.
So if you do not bring this past into the present,
And stay in silence,
In awareness of what is in the present moment,
There is much to gain,
There is much to enter into the silence,
Into the awareness.
Let us practice this in the next moments.
Please close your eyes.
Your posture relaxed,
Yet alert.
Your breath flowing naturally.
And with every exhalation,
Your body finding its restful posture.
Turning your awareness inwards.
All the relaxation approaches are as Israel.
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In this awareness of the present moment,
Don't bring the past.
Anything that rises in your consciousness,
Thoughts,
Ideas,
Emotions,
Images,
See that they are all from the past.
Let them go.
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Let your past rise and fall.
You simply remain in the here.
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No memory.
No thought.
No past.
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Observe the shift from the past to the present.
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Anything arising in your consciousness is past.
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Stay in the unknown of the present.
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Disconnect from the past.
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Become aware of the potency of this moment.
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In these moments,
You create your future.
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