Contemplative Meditation For Higher Seeker

Eastern wisdom aims at self discovery. The self discovery leads to self knowledge. The journey to self discovery help us to know what is the existence and what is the world and who we are . When we recognize ignorance causes suffering because we are false that leads to lot of challenges in daily life. When we follow the path of eastern wisdom, it helps us realize our wrong notions, misconceptions, and awaken us to real self . The real self is pure consciousness of the nature of permanent peace, happiness, love truth and wisdom. That is the highest meditative state , set by our masters.
Listen, learn, contemplate and reflect on the topics mentioned in the title , then practice regularly to move from ignorance to wisdom.

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Transcript

Let us start our journey to self-discovery.

Close your eyes.

Find the most comfortable position of your body,

Preferably sitting.

Look inside the head in the space,

Awareness of the space.

And here we go with the mantra,

Even before being comfortable and carefree.

Sarvesham swasth bhavatu.

You are saying in your mind,

Sarvesham swasth bhavatu.

Sarvesham swasth bhavatu.

May there be happiness for all.

We reflect.

Why we reflect on this knowledge?

So that the mind can minimize its distractions and remove the impurities.

So in the field of awareness,

We have a knowledge that happiness is the essential nature of everything in the world.

Or you can say in the background that happiness always exists.

That is the reason even if someone is getting upset,

I have to move with the same happiness.

Not only to prevent the impurities in my mind,

But also to live in the world totally with a new perspective.

Sarvesham swath bhavatu.

Sarvesham swath bhavatu.

Sarvesham swath bhavatu.

Let there be peace for all or may there be peace for all.

So understanding that peace is mandatory or essential nature.

It drives the mind with an ego that claims I am in stress,

I have a lot of suffering or I am worthy of suffering.

And once we get into that notion settled in the mind,

It continues to become pure.

Sarvesham puranam bhavatu.

Sarvesham puranam bhavatu.

Sarvesham puranam bhavatu.

May there be completeness in all.

And that gives us a notion of wholeness,

Holiness.

The real self is complete in itself.

Mind is superimposed.

Mind is superimposed.

And then it says I am incomplete.

Being incomplete,

I have to do something to feel incomplete.

So in order to do,

I go in search for peace and happiness outside.

I get no doubt,

I get a momentary short-lived pleasure.

There is no doubt about it.

But the mind then gets addicted to it,

Habituated,

Conditioning takes over.

Now I am trying to be happy being unhappy.

Why?

I see that these are the short-term pleasure,

I have to hold on to it.

And that is the delusion,

That is what the RSM syndrome is.

We have discussed.

That is why the Master has explained Sarvesham puranam bhavatu.

Sarvesham mangalam bhavatu.

Sarvesham mangalam bhavatu.

Sarvesham mangalam bhavatu.

May there be auspiciousness for all.

It is already there.

Our impure mind hides it.

Hides it because of the RSM syndrome.

How do you see that?

Is existence not giving you the air to breathe?

Not giving you the space to sit?

Not giving you the water without sending any bill?

Not giving you the fire?

So here the fire means the enzymes,

The hormones,

That digest and regulate the physiological and other functioning.

And not giving the earth to walk on,

To drive?

It is already there.

When our mind is always in the receiving mood,

That is what is known as a materialist person.

Receiving mood is material man.

He is seeking the pleasure,

Avoiding the pain,

Always remain dissatisfied,

Unhappy,

Feeling insecure at a deeper level.

Otherwise,

The auspiciousness is always there.

Shanti,

Shanti,

Shanti.

You have chanted the mantra,

Check.

What to check?

Are we comfortable?

Are we comfortable?

And carefree.

Means I am relaxed.

I do not need to add being comfortable and carefree.

It comes to me by default.

Means the mantra helps us to be in comfort and carefree.

Just you are doing nothing.

You feel you are comfortable,

You are carefree.

It may be a sign of moving to higher awareness by mantra.

So then what?

Why I say so?

So you simply use the mantra mentally,

Emotionally,

In any situation at work,

In relations,

To find that comfort and being carefree.

So we are not only doing the practice,

But we are reflecting on so that we know where we are.

It's a conscious journey.

You know what we are doing.

So we will go for being comfortable and carefree and check.

Is the experience the same after the mantra and after being comfortable and carefree?

Looking at the neck joint.

Being aware of the neck joint.

Experiencing sensation,

Comfort and steadiness.

Looking inside.

Experiencing the space.

Space is awareness and awareness is the space.

Shoulder joints.

Sensation,

Comfort and steadiness.

Space is awareness and awareness is the space.

The entire body.

Experience,

Sensation,

Comfort and steadiness.

Space.

Space is awareness and awareness is the space.

In the beginning we may feel being comfortable and carefree.

Give rise to a deeper experience.

But as we continue the journey,

We will find the mind with the knowledge,

By this mantra also,

Have the same experience.

And if that is so,

We can take the meditation in an active life.

So the mental highway,

Three lanes,

Lane one,

Unwanted,

Unwelcome thoughts are coming.

Let them come,

But now we know they are not disturbing in being comfortable.

In the case of the mantra,

We are replacing.

Here we are raising the awareness.

In both the cases,

Level of awareness goes up.

It is the same thing.

It is the same thing.

So lane one,

Unwanted.

So what we do,

Three lanes are there.

The moment unwanted,

Unwelcome thought comes,

You separate from them.

That you is the lane two.

That is the intellect.

We discern.

So when you discern,

There is an element of dispassion.

And if the element of dispassion is more,

It takes you to the lane three.

We find the same state of the calmness and the peace.

Whatever the thoughts are coming,

We are carefree.

That's how I define being carefree.

It's free from all the cares of the mind.

Now you can check.

Is there any difference?

Or it is the same?

So obviously,

It means we are progressing.

I know anyhow you have an active personality.

So active personality means the rajoguna.

And to hold on that rajoguna,

Not going for the worldly pleasure is a big challenge.

And that takes time.

Satoguna,

I am happy with myself.

I recognize my relaxation and calm coming from the meditation is much greater and profound,

More profound than seeking the pleasure outside.

So we calm down that rajoguna and move that rajoguna to the satoguna by the active practice.

And that is where that is where our breathing in the mantra practice comes.

So you look inside,

Look inside the head in the space and start dropping Om Shanti with a pause.

I made it very clear in the previous practice.

What is that pause?

I gave an example of the white board and the black.

So pause is not a pause.

So pause is not you are holding the breath.

You are recognizing the pause in between.

The breath goes in before it comes out.

The breath goes in and before it comes out,

There is a natural pause.

And that pause is nothing but the space.

So when we recognize with that Om Shanti,

Wonderful.

Now we kept one compartment of the mind.

One part of the mind is doing Om Shanti and the other part is taking care of the short and gentle breath through both the nostrils.

Start with the short and quick breathing into the chest.

Into the chest.

It is basically a ribcage breathing.

Continue,

Continue.

You see you are aware of the body Body is comfortable and carefree.

Mind is carefree.

You are driving Om Shanti with an interval.

You are doing the breathing.

And that is how Rajoguna engages us in the world outside with a lot of stuff.

So we are using that tool to calm down that Rajoguna to prevent that distraction.

And stop it.

Do nothing.

Experience the change.

Experience the change and appreciate it.

No issue.

Appreciate all the changes.

Now look at the breath.

Look at the breath that is moving.

And drop Om Shanti and recognize the gap or the interval or the space.

Whatever you want to say.

You see what is discernment here?

Intellect acknowledges.

What it acknowledges?

The state of the body,

Sensation,

Comfort and steadiness.

It acknowledges the breathing,

Moving breath.

It also recognizes Om Shanti.

So there is a recognition of stillness also.

Movement also.

Movement also and awareness also.

So once the mind settles in that,

There is a natural purification.

And the discernment declares,

Naturally I am not the body.

How it happens?

We will continue the journey.

We will know it.

Mind returns with some kind of an activity in the form of a thought.

Recalls the memory,

Triggers the likes and dislikes and we forget dropping Om Shanti.

And if it continues,

It deepens our experience of calmness and relaxation because we enter into a deeper level of awareness.

So simple to recognize.

Am I adding and making you aware of the principle of Karma Yoga?

Yes.

How come?

You need not to do or change the breathing during your active hours.

So what you do?

You just drop Om Shanti to pacify Rajoguna during the day.

And when you are doing the practice,

Obviously it is going to remind you and help you go deeper.

So now we have understood completely how the practice should go.

So look inside again,

The forehead in this place.

Start dropping Om Shanti and start with the belly breathing.

It's a little longer and noisy.

So while doing the breathing,

You encounter the challenges posed by the mind.

The intellect knows this is what you have to do.

The mind disturbs the pattern.

We recognize that pattern and then we return to the same thinking of the breath with the belly.

So we recognize the impurities of the mind are coming.

The discernment is always there.

Continue the belly breathing Om Shanti in the state of sensation,

Comfort and steadiness.

You will discover the mind is expanding.

We are aware of expansion and contraction of the belly.

With awareness of dropping the Om Shanti in the state of sensation,

Comfort and steadiness.

You see it takes such a long time to explain.

But for awareness it happens in a fraction of a second.

We are giving a chance to the mind that it follows the rhythm of the breath with expansion and contraction of the belly.

Then we can find out obviously we have added some Satu Guna here.

Satu Guna always looks for harmony,

For sync.

And I'll leave that practice,

Leave that step.

Allow the breath to return to its normal pattern.

Become aware of the experiences and the changes that is taking place.

We also recognize the resistance posed by the mind.

If any,

It's okay.

We simply recognize.

So the next time we practice it does not bring the same issue again.

Now in that state you look at the breath and continue with the Om Shanti.

You are aware of the breath and in the background in the space you are dropping Om Shanti.

Whether you can link the movement of the breath with the Om Shanti,

It's okay.

If you don't relate it,

That is also okay.

A trigger can come anytime in the mind.

That trigger contains the memories,

Delusion,

Iris,

Content of the iris and syndrome.

And it changes not only the pattern of the breath but also a sense of distraction.

One in mind returns and it forgets dropping the Om Shanti.

If that happens,

You simply recall,

Remember and continue.

Om Shanti Om Shanti Om Shanti Continue We are understanding how the mind works deeper behind the thought.

Triggering mechanism becomes active due to the iris and syndrome.

And it happens because that is present in sight.

Sometimes it doesn't happen.

It gives totally a new state,

A new level of awareness.

And now we will go for the third breathing.

Long deep in the hissing breath breathing both from the belly and the ribcage.

And dropping the Om Shanti deep inside the forehead.

Continue Hissing breath Hissing breath Hissing breath Hissing breath Hissing breath And stop this breathing also.

Allow the breath to return to its normal pattern.

Awareness of sensation,

Relaxation and stillness in the body.

Awareness of the breath.

That is a free flow now.

What happens in Kundalini and other Hatha Yoga practices that says we balance the prana that flows to the right and the left nostril.

And then it becomes easy to continue to go deeper.

So in that awareness just continue dropping Om Shanti with that saying.

So you are able to discern here is the body totally stillness.

Here is the breath moving and here I am dropping Om Shanti.

So you are able to separate.

Om Shanti you recognize that it is a part of the discernment,

Awareness or you can say the knowledge.

Om Shanti continue the breath flows on its own.

The body remains in the state of steadiness and stillness.

There may be a couple of experiences.

We may have a vision in the colors when the mind jumps into the higher level.

We have those visions in colors.

Let them come,

Let them go.

We continue the journey.

Om Shanti Stillness in the body,

Deepening of experiences.

That Om Shanti continues.

Now even stop saying Om Shanti.

Look at the breath.

Look at the breath moving.

In Tantra that is a very subtle practice and it takes almost three years to do it.

But we are adding one step here from that.

The right flow is the right side of the breath.

It is masculine breath,

Assertive and aggressive.

The left flow from the left nostril is feminine.

So now you are looking at the flow of the breath from both the nostrils and check it.

If they are equal you are already absorbed.

It's a conscious self-absorption.

What does it mean?

You know absorption is there but still some identity is maintained.

That's a non-verbal approach used by some of the practices of the Tantra.

Then the breath goes in.

You are aware of the flow of the breath from the right and the left.

Then you recognize which flow is better,

Free from any obstruction.

That's one option.

The second option is that both the flows are equal.

If both the flows are equal,

Wonderful.

Continue with the awareness of that flow of the breath.

But if otherwise recognized,

Sometimes the right flow is more active than the left.

Otherwise the left flow is more active than the right.

You are just aware of the right.

With reference to the flow,

Its intensity,

Obstruction or intensity.

The mind says,

Oh left side is more active than the right.

So now see those are the moments where the left flow is active.

Obviously the RSM syndrome is minimized or aggravated.

Both possibilities are there.

How come?

We will learn.

How come?

We will learn that.

Just here you are recognizing it.

So now you see that we are aware of the breath.

We are aware of the flow of the breath.

We are aware of the flow of the breath.

That is what we mean in today's practice.

Then we are also recognizing the flow of the breath equal or different.

Then we recognize which flow is more active.

Means you may find some obstruction in the other flow.

Now awareness of that flow of the breath,

Right or left,

Whichever it is.

You just pay attention there.

Pay attention to the flow that has less air due to some obstruction.

We will talk about that obstruction later at the physical,

Mental and emotional level.

So when you pay attention to that flow,

That flow becomes free.

And it goes with the opposite flow.

It becomes equal.

If it becomes equal,

Then be aware of both the flow of the nostril.

That is.

So when we are in that step,

We may have an upsurge of inertia,

Which is natural.

We may get some jerks in the body.

That is also natural.

We continue the journey.

So sometimes if you pay attention to one flow of the breath,

That becomes totally free.

And the other is recognized having less.

Well,

You can shift that attention there.

And otherwise we find the equal flow of the breath.

That equal flow of the breath is called recognition of Sushumna flow,

The middle flow in the spine.

So that is a bit little deeper step.

And even during the day,

We can keep a watch on this flow of the breath.

When we have a right flow,

It is quite assertive,

Highly active.

Assertive.

I'm talking about the mind.

It becomes more assertive in those moments.

In a good or bad way both.

In the same way,

If we have a left nostril,

The flow is more active.

We become very calm and relaxed,

Submissive.

A sense of emotional purity or emotional impurity is there.

I've added the three steps that can be done during the active states,

Active life.

So when we do these practices for about a week and recognize this needs to be implemented during talking to someone,

Doing your business,

Or finding any situation.

Sarveshamswasterbhavatu Sarveshamswasterbhavatu Sarveshamshantirbhavatu Sarveshamshantirbhavatu Sarveshamshantirbhavatu Sarveshams Purnam Bhavatu Sarveshams Purnam Bhavatu Sarveshams Purnam Bhavatu Sarveshams Mangalam Bhavatu Sarveshams Mangalam Bhavatu Sarveshams Mangalam Bhavatu Shanti Shanti Shanti Shanti Shanti Shanti Shanti Shanti Shanti Shanti Shanti Shanti Shanti Bring your mind on the right hand.

Your mind on the left hand.

Lift your both palms,

Place it on your eyes.

Open the eyes inside the palms and wait there.

Inside the palms when you open your eyes,

Obviously there is a total darkness.

And there you can see and check the state of the mind we want to achieve.

And bring the hands down slowly.

And in that state at least be there for another 10 to 15 minutes,

If possible longer.

See what is happening in the mind.