#83. Be Aware, The Only Message | Vigyan Bhairav Tantra

Osho called it 'Witnessing', Kristinamurti 'Observing', Gurdjieff ' Self-remembering'. All masters telling you to be aware, as their only message. How will you react to these messages? Take time to ponder.

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Namaste sannyasa family and everyone. A very warm welcome to all of you in this daily live meditation session with me, Dhyansa, In meditating on 112 meditation techniques of Vigyan, Bhairav, Tantra. Without these 112 techniques that we are meditating upon in 112 sessions, There is an underlying current, There is an underlying fundamental which must be understood. If that fundamental is not conveyed, If that fundamental is not experienced, If that underlying current is not touched, Then all these 112 meditation techniques, They have missed, You have missed them. And that underlying current is awareness. I have spoken about awareness all throughout these 112 meditation techniques as we go along in every technique, In every session, In one or the other way, We come to awareness. And you may have even a fatigue of listening to awareness, A slight tiredness about hearing about this awareness. But I must continue, I must keep on bringing this awareness, This experience, This taste of awareness back to you in the hope that throughout these sessions, Throughout these 112 sessions, At least once you get the taste of awareness. Because once this taste is there in you, From there on the journey continues. From there on the journey has no looking back. From there on the spirituality is awakened in you, Is awakened in you and you will find your way once you taste this awareness. Because whatever we go through, Whatever techniques we go through, Whatever silence we go through, Be it fancy techniques or be it very simple techniques, The crux, The core, The fundamental is awareness. What is this awareness? I want you to understand, I want you to contemplate over in that contemplation there is this taste of awareness. In the silence, In the meditation, It does not matter which way we follow, In the center is this taste of awareness. And once you get this taste, Everything else follows on its own afterwards. Once a thief, He went to Naga Arjuna, A very famous spiritual master. This thief, He fell in love with the master, He had listened to this master for a while, He just could not resist. So he went to the master and he said, Tell me how can I become spiritual? I am a thief and I will remain a thief. I love being a thief, I love this profession of theft. I have always been a thief, My father was a thief, My great grandfather was a thief, This theft is in me. Can I be spiritual? But you do not ask me to leave my profession, You do not tell me to leave this theft. Naga Arjuna, He was a great spiritual master, He said, Yes, That is okay, That condition is okay with me, That I will not tell you to leave the theft. You may go to any other religious teacher or a spiritual master, Everyone will create this as a prerequisite, As a condition for you to become spiritual, To bring in the morality, To bring in these moral principles of not having any theft in life, To not steal and so on. But I will not tell you this. The only thing I would tell you is to become aware. Even in the theft, Even in those moments where you are going to steal and be the theft, Be aware in those moments. Just remember my words in those moments, In that act, To be aware and the rest is none of my concern. You have whatever profession, You do whatever you want to do. The thief agreed to the condition, He was very happy that there was no commandments given to him, There was no rules, No guidelines given to him, He could not understand what it meant by being aware. So he agreed to it, He said, Yes, I will be aware in the very act of theft as well. Few weeks later, He came back all confused, He came back all shaken up to Nagarjuna and fell on his feet. He said, What did you do to me? All these generations of work, Of being a thief, It suddenly fell apart for me and now I am in trouble. Because I have tested this awareness, Now I am in trouble. While I was in the theft, While I was at one of the most important thefts, I saw lots of diamonds in front of me and a voice of yours came into my mind to be aware. In that moment, I suddenly became aware of what I am doing, What is in front of me. Those diamonds suddenly became stones to me. For a moment, I fell back into me being a thief. They appeared to be diamonds once again and then once again this voice of yours to be aware. And once again, This awareness, In that awareness, I saw those diamonds as stones. I saw the whole foolishness of what I was doing in this whole great grand profession that I have. It fell apart for me and my worry is I can never go back to it because the taste of this awareness was far higher than any other taste that I ever had. In that awareness, I was more than myself, I was more than the theft, I was more than the diamonds all in front of me. What can I do now? Then Nagarjuna said, Now my job is done, You have this awareness in you, Let this awareness become your 24-7. Let this awareness be with you not just in a few moments but in your entire life. As you do that, The entire life changes completely, The quality of life changes completely. There is no suffering left in life. I heard in one of the conversations in our sannyasa family that someone said life is a suffering because that person is heavily influenced by Buddhism, Comes from the Buddhistic teachings, The Buddhistic traditions, And in Buddhism, One of the four noble truths is that life is a suffering, The birth is a suffering, Death is a suffering, Therefore the life is a suffering. But that is just only half the truth, That is just only the beginning of the truth. The truth is life is a suffering if you live in unawareness. The moment awareness touches you, The moment awareness rises in you, All suffering disappears. This is not just a theory, This is not just a hypothesis, This is the experience because you are much more than what you think you are in the moments of suffering. As awareness rises in you, You come out of the object, You come out of the subject, You come out of the relationship, The identification of the object and the subject. It can be any object, It can be any subject, It does not matter how strong your ego is, How strong your identification is, How precious that object may appear in awareness, You step out of the object, You step out of even the subject, And you simply remain a witness. This awareness has been given many names. Osho called it witnessing, Krishnamurthy just called it observation, Gurjeev called it self-remembering. So many names to one and the same thing, Which is to be in awareness. To be in this awareness which is bigger than just the object, Just the subject. Let us just for a moment understand more what is this awareness that has been talked about all the time. See that when I say I become aware of my hand in front of me, I may look at it and I say yes I am aware of this hand, What do I see? I see the colour of my hand, I see the shape of my hand, I see the movement of my hand. All this, If we put this together and call that as an awareness, That is awareness of the mind, That is awareness of the description, That is the awareness of the program that is in our mind which is capturing the labels, The label of the colour, The label of the shape, The label of the size, The label of the movements. This awareness is just of the mind. This awareness is just a program in you, But as you become silent, This awareness in you expands beyond the mind. Beyond the mind, When you look at your hand, It is more than just the shape, More than just the colour, More than just the size and so on, More than just the descriptions. And not only any one particular object, The entire world, The objectivity of the entire world can be transcended in that awareness. You suddenly become bigger, Suddenly become distant from the objectivity of the world, The subjectivity of your own self and you are in a place which is absolutely no suffering, A place of love, A place of truth, A place in which you can live. It is not a hypothetical place, It is your true nature, It is your reality. Therefore all the emphasis on being aware. Let us listen to what Bhairava has to say in Vigyan Bhairava Tantra as a technique to bring us to this awareness, One step closer to this awareness. Bhairava says, Let feeling be a bridge between thinking and witnessing. Then drop the thinking, Drop the feeling and be a witness. Let feeling be a bridge between thinking and witnessing. You are thinking all the time, When you call that I am aware, When you say that I am aware of something, Even then you are thinking, Your awareness is of the thought, Of the thinking and how to move from thinking to pure witnessing, Somewhere in between there is feeling. As you are becoming more feeling, As you start to feel more, Suddenly you are out of this mind, Out of this constant continuous thinking that you are caught up in and from that feeling it is easier to move into witnessing, Into awareness, Into observation which is far away from thinking, Far away from feeling. Therefore Bhairava says, Once you are in that witnessing, Once you touch that awareness, Drop the thinking, Drop even the feeling. So very simple technique to get the taste of witnessing, To get the taste of this awareness and to make it easier to take the jump from thinking to witnessing by passing through feeling. How do you do that? You simply remain aware of yourself. In that self awareness, First of all there will be a lot of thinking. You will be thinking about becoming aware that nature, That quality of awareness will be of the thought. From there on, Start to feel what sensations you are experiencing in your body, In your inner space. Move more to the feeling, It will take you down from the head to the heart. From that heart, Feel everything, Feel the sensations, Feel yourself. In that feeling, Move further, Deeper, Closer to awareness, To a place where there is no feeling, There is no thought. Let us taste this in the next 15 minutes or so in silence, In meditation. Please close your eyes and take a posture that is comfortable for you. Your posture alert and relaxed. Shoulders down. Becoming aware of yourself. All the thoughts. All the thoughts. All the thoughts. Slowly move towards feeling. Feeling your body, Feeling subtle sensations. Everything arising in your consciousness. More feeling than thinking. 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In all the acts that you do, In the most unaware acts that you do, Remember my words to be aware. In every act that you do, Remember this voice whenever you are in any act of unawareness, To be aware once again. And on this path of spiritual journey, To establish this awareness in your life, If you wish to flow along with me and with other meditators, You are more than welcome to join a community of meditators who are moving towards love, Towards truth, Towards connection, Towards this awareness altogether. If this resonates to you, Please write me an email to apply with your introduction, With your calling for this community and what can you give back to the community. Thank you very much. Namaste.

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Thank you for this most profound practice. I shall try to bring this awareness into my daily life but realise it is a daily task, this constant awareness.