#7. The Great Awakening | Vigyan Bhairav Tantra

The idea that you are just a bag of organs, bones, and muscles as hardware and a mind software is an oversimplification of who you are. In order to understand and sense oneself as more, you have to think in terms of energy. Today's meditation technique will help to do that. Technique No. 7: Meditate on the rising energy as lightning ascending from one chakra to the other until it reaches sahasara, leading to great awakening.

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

Dhyansa.

We're meditating on 112 meditation techniques of Vigyan Bhairav Tantra.

Spirituality is not an invention.

It is a discovery,

A discovery of oneself.

It is not an invention,

It is not a concept.

Rather it is a journey of knowing oneself.

As we move in these sessions on the path of spirituality,

Step by step,

Bit by bit,

We get to know more of ourselves.

We get to know more of who we really are.

There is no new information that we are sharing in these sessions.

You already have enough information.

Rather,

This is a discovery.

This is a space of unfoldment of yourself in the silence,

In the depths,

In the moments where you are absolutely alone.

You are with everyone else in this group,

But you are also very much alone in your depths,

Discovering who you really are.

If you know yourself just out of the five senses,

Just of the senses of seeing,

Of hearing,

Of smelling,

Of touching,

And so on,

If you're only knowing yourself with these senses,

If you're only knowing yourself and the world with these senses,

You are missing out on who you really are.

You're not just a bag of organs,

Of bones,

Of some mass,

Which you can now just sense with these five senses,

And there is a mind,

Something like a software on top of this hardware.

If you were just this matter,

You would have no problems.

If you were absolutely just accessing yourself and this world with the five senses,

You would never have felt this spiritual search in you.

You would never have felt that there is something more.

You cannot explain what this something more is,

But it is there.

It is there in you,

It is there in all of us,

This sense that we are beyond these five senses,

This sense that we sometimes try to explain in visions,

We try to explain in intuitions.

Or we may use another word,

But what is it who we are beyond just this matter,

Beyond just this physical,

Beyond just this mind?

On this journey of Tantra,

It is all about energies.

We understand ourselves as energies,

We feel ourselves as energies,

We sense ourselves as energies beyond this physical body,

Beyond the five senses that we have of perception.

We move into realms of the energy where these five senses of seeing,

Smelling,

Hearing,

Touching and tasting,

They are not enough.

Just this idea that we are the body,

We are the mind is not enough.

As we move into this realm of energies,

You have to step away from this idea of matter,

Of this physical,

Of this mental.

Only then you can connect to yourself.

Only then a new sense opens up in you which can feel,

Which can be aware of yourself as energies as well.

Today's technique and what we did yesterday is directly related to sensing oneself as energies.

Let us hear what the technique is,

Let us understand this technique before we sit in silence,

Before we sit in meditation and practice and bring this into our own experience.

Bhairava says,

Meditate on the rising energy as lightning ascending from one chakra to the other until it reaches Sahasrara,

Leading to the great awakening.

Today's meditation technique is another variation of chakra system,

Of understanding oneself as chakras.

As I said earlier,

In order to understand ourselves beyond the body,

In order to access,

In order to sense oneself beyond the body,

Beyond the mind,

In the realm of energies,

You need a framework.

And this chakra system is just a framework for you to understand your own energies.

They do not have any other meaning.

It is not that these exist on some other plane,

On some other realm.

These are as real or as unreal as your body.

But in order to understand what is happening in our body,

How the energies in one's own body is aligned,

How the experience of oneself is determined by these energies,

It is helpful to follow a certain framework for understanding.

Otherwise think about it like this.

All your organs in the body,

All the physical in your body is alright,

All the mental in your mind is alright,

But we still have completely different experiences of the same time,

Of the same space.

Why is that?

Few people put together having same level of health,

Same level of mental health and well-being still feel the entire space completely differently.

Why is that?

This has to do with the energies.

This has to do with how your energies are organized in your being,

In yourself.

And to read that,

To understand that,

To map that,

We need a system like chakras.

So those who are familiar with this,

You understand that this is about a system where we say we divide our energies into 7 levels,

Into 7 chakras.

Starting from the very root,

The Mula Dhar of chakra,

Which is resulting in stability.

This is the chakra which gives us strength,

Which gives us this rootedness into life.

If this chakra,

If this energy is in imbalance,

We are constantly in this fight or flight mode,

We are constantly trying to address only the survival,

Because we are constantly in this fear,

In this anxiety,

In this insecurity that my survival is at stake.

So we are constantly only operating out of this energy center,

The Mula Dhar,

The root chakra.

As the energies rise up to Svadhisthana,

This is where the sacral chakra,

This is where the energies start giving us pleasure,

Start giving us experiences.

Our sexuality,

Our sexual experiences,

Our experiences of food is all what we experience when we are in this realm,

In this energy of Svadhisthana chakra.

As the energies rise above to Manipura,

You are having a sense of confidence in life,

An ego starts appearing in you and gives you that strength,

Gives you that sense of possession.

And as the energies rise further up to Anatha,

This is the time of transformation.

This is the point where you start feeling love,

Not just the love for one person,

But the love for everyone.

This is where you start feeling connected with everyone in love,

In compassion.

And as the energies rise further to Vishuddhi,

The throat chakra,

This is where you have once again a very pure sense of your view.

You have a clarity in your vision,

You have a clarity in your mind,

You have a clarity in your senses.

As the energies rise further up to the sixth chakra,

To the Agnya chakra,

This is where you start getting visions,

You start connecting to your higher realms,

To where your intelligence goes beyond just the intellect.

The intelligence is connected to the pure intelligence and you operate in life out of awareness,

Not just out of thought,

Not just out of mind,

Not just out of intellect,

Not just out of emotion,

But out of awareness.

And as this energy rises further up to the seventh,

To the crown chakra,

To the Sahasraar,

This is the point of great awakening.

This is where Bhairava says,

As this energy reaches to the very top,

Leading to the great awakening.

The world we live in,

We don't need the fourth industrial revolution,

We need the fourth spiritual revolution,

We don't need the great reset,

We need the great awakening.

This awakening is what leads us to who we really are,

To this knowing of who we really are and transforms the experience of our life of every moment that we live.

So how to do this technique?

It says,

Meditate on the rising energy as lightning ascending from one chakra to the other until it reaches the Sahasraar.

Yesterday the technique that we did on this chakra system,

We said in yesterday's technique that the Mooladhara is lighted up with energy at the very base and you imagine and visualize this energy rising all the way top to the Sahasraar and getting absorbed in Sahasraar.

In today's technique we break this down into steps,

We break this down into levels where you will visualize these energies rising from Mooladhara to Swadhisthana,

Swadhisthana to Manipura and so on.

So step by step the energy would rise up all the way to Sahasraar.

Think of it like as a reverse waterfall of lightning.

Let me repeat,

Think of it as a reverse waterfall of lightning that is arising,

That is sourcing in Mooladhara,

That is sourcing at the very base of yourself.

For those who are very new to all this,

You can map all these energies in your physical body and keep your awareness in the physical region of your body.

Starting with Mooladhara where you will keep your awareness at the very base of your body,

Meaning below your genitals,

The area that is the very base of your body.

You will keep your awareness on the body.

For those who have this sensitivity developed towards their energies,

Who can sense beyond the body,

I encourage you to leave the body behind and feel yourself as this energy in this realm of energy starting from Mooladhara and going all the way above to Sahasraar.

And for those who are new,

You will take this as awareness of your physical body starting with Mooladhara with your awareness at the base,

Then Swadhisthana,

This is the area where your backbone,

Your tailbone ends.

This is the region,

This is the level in your physical body where your backbone,

Your tailbone ends.

Then we move to Manipura,

The solar plexus.

Here you bring your awareness in the region above your navel.

Just few inches above your navel,

You will keep the awareness in your physical body.

Then the fourth,

Anahata,

Here in the physical body you can keep your awareness in your heart region,

In your chest.

Here if you keep the energies,

You will feel a sense of peace,

You will feel a sense of love.

And moving further up for Vishuddhi,

You will keep your awareness on the throat region,

This is where your Vishuddhi chakra is in the physical body.

Moving further up to Agnya chakra,

Here you will keep your focus,

You will keep your awareness at the Agnya center,

At the region in between your eyebrows,

At your forehead and for Sahasrara,

You will keep your awareness at the top of your head,

Above your physical body.

This chakra does not belong to your physical body.

So you can do this meditation both as a beginner and both as an advanced practitioner.

For the beginners,

You will keep the awareness on the physical and for the advanced,

For the more sensitive one,

You will try to always feel these chakras,

Sense these chakras in energies and remember the whole technique is to go step by step upwards from the Mooladhara to Sahasrara in reverse order,

As if there is a reverse waterfall of lightning,

That is starting from Mooladhara and going all the way to Sahasrara.

Let us take this into our practice,

I will guide you through this step by step.

Please close your eyes and take a posture that is comfortable for you.

Keeping your back straight,

Your head relaxed,

Shoulders down,

Face relaxed,

Breath flowing in and out naturally.

Keeping your awareness turned inwards,

Growing your attention,

Your awareness from all directions and focusing in your inner space.

Oh god.

As your body settles,

With every breath,

Relaxes,

Your mind calms down.

Lift your awareness to the very base of your body,

To the area below your genitals,

To the root chakra.

Feel the energy at your root chakra.

Not just the physical sensations,

But a sense of energy.

Allowing this sensation to become stronger.

And all your awareness at the root chakra.

And imagine this energy rising,

Reaching to swadhisthan chakra.

To the area where your backbone ends,

Below your navel.

That the energy is rising like a reverse waterfall of lightning.

Shifting focus to swadhisthan chakra.

The area below your navel.

Feeling the energy at the sacral chakra.

Visualize,

Feel,

Sense energy rising further up to manipura chakra.

The solar plexus,

Region above your navel.

Few inches above your navel.

The awareness at the root chakra.

Few inches above your navel in your physical body.

And a sense of energy rising from swadhisthana reaching to manipura.

Energies rising further up to anahata,

To your heart center.

Shift your awareness to your heart region.

And visualize this energy from manipura to anahata.

Your awareness at this heart center.

Receiving the energy that rises from manipura.

The sense of silence,

Sense of peace,

Arises in your heart center.

Rise further up to your throat chakra,

To vishuddhi.

Shifting awareness to your throat region.

And the lightening,

The energy rising from your heart to your throat.

Energies rising further up to your third eye center.

The aagya chakra.

Region in between your eyebrows.

Feel the energy rising from your throat and receiving at your third eye center.

Feel the sensations,

The pulsations of the energy at your third eye center.

And energy rising further up to the top of your head.

Few inches above your head,

It says rar,

The crown chakra.

Shifting focus,

Awareness to the crown chakra and receive the energy from your third eye center.

Maintain this focus,

This absorption of your energies,

It says rar,

The crown chakra.

And the lightening,

The energy rising from your throat to your throat,

It says rar,

The crown chakra.

And the great awakening.

Let go of all effort.

And stay in this silence,

In this awareness,

In these energies rising all the way to your sahasrara.

Thank you.

Maintaining the sense of energy,

Sense of light.

Sense of awareness and silence.

Very gently and slowly you may open your eyes.

Connecting back to your body,

Back to your mind,

Back to the physical through all your five senses.

Take this sense of energy,

Centeredness,

Silence and awareness in the rest of your day.

Thank you very much.

Namaste.

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Another excellent lesson/dharma talk on the gifts of the different Tantra meditation system. Much gratitude, Dhyanse!

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