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Nov 30 2009

I am responsible for Sufferings and Peace in my life -1

I am responsible for Sufferings and Peace in my life -1

Being Other Oriented vs Other oriented
All sufferings and pain that I experience in my life is part of Ignorance.
Ignorance is unconsciousness. Unconsciousness is part of cosmic ignorance that entered into us at the time of our evolution from animal to human beings.
When I say and experience that
• I have pain
• You are responsible for my pain and sorrow
• You have cheated me and created chaos in my life.
• You are responsible for my failure

The other oriented vs self oriented
Our mind is other oriented. This “other oriented” is the cause of all problems and sufferings in life. As we are searching Happiness and Peace outside our frame. It cannot be attained in life. This “other oriented” created a vicious circle in the mind that stops going within. This mind stops becoming aware and even if it becomes aware, it always becomes aware with reference to either pain or the event or person or conditions.

As long as one does not become self-oriented, one cannot become aware of oneself, deep within. Discovery cannot take place and ignorance will continue forever. That is why even after understanding intellectually, we deceive our intellect and start holding responsible people, events outside for our sufferings and pain and sorrows in life

Who is actually responsible? How –contemplate, Reflect and become aware
1. I live with you. You live in your own way and I live with my own. You are attracted with me. this attraction has come from unconsciousness. I never worked with this attraction. I never created this in my being, mind, or intellect. I consider it natural that has come from within me and I get attracted.
2. You are attracted to me but I am not. I am aware and consider this attraction as part of evolution in life. I had seen, experienced this attraction during the course of my evolution. I understand it and consider your attraction to me as part of your own evolution. But you feel as if I also attracted towards you. But this is not true. However, your conclusion came from I being the passive observer and Seer.
3. You move into this attraction and I make you aware of this attraction in life. However, you conclude again from your unconsciousness that I agreed and give consent to your attraction. Instead of meditating and reflecting upon this attraction, your unconscious mind is moving in attraction. There comes the social problem.
4. You are attracted and I create a moral wall around myself and tell you that nothing like attraction works in my life. Morally I am right, but spiritually I am wrong in life. Morally right because, I have followed the social laws and ignored to evolve you further. While ignoring, I have considerations of fear that society will not accept this attraction even when I am not for it. I do not want unconscious attraction to work in your life too. That is how spirituality becomes wrong in the society. That is why many people chosen the path to go into solitude and do not work in the society. Nevertheless, if they work, they have to face these challenges. These challenges becomes problem at social level even when spiritual awareness is never polluted.
Awakening is an answer
1. Awakening from attraction is an answer and only answer. If you are awakened, I become a good teacher, and if you are not awakened, you blame me, held me responsible for all your sorrows and sufferings in life.
2. When you are awakened, you become free and independent of attraction. This attraction is replaced by humility, peace, awareness and energy deep within. Because awakened mind moves in humility and peace, I become a great teacher. But when you are not awakened, I become a bad teacher and you hold me responsible for all your sufferings. How that is possible. Nevertheless, society makes this responsible to a person who has done nothing, who has never been attracted. I am simply moving in peace and awareness and in being passive, working upon you so that you get awakened. This passivity is again considered as problem as it becomes a strong tool for your mind to move into the unconsciousness and you become other oriented and held me responsible for your sufferings in life.
Examples in my life
3. I had many of these events in life but mentor says , “WALK ON” and transcend all of them. I asked one of my students to get married to one woman. After 10 years, woman came back to me and said,” How come you thought and allowed this guy(his husband) to marry me. He is stupid and made my life hell.” I listened to her talking for over an hour. When she calmed down, I asked her,” why did she come after 10 years and complaining against his (his husband) now. You did not come in the beginning of your married life as you were unconsciously enjoying physical relationship. You discovered that your husband is passionately busy in his work , and that too for you but you always wanted to pursue the life of cravings’ and passion. He changed from being a physical to mental person. He has become mature. But you consider this maturity as he lost all the attraction for you. You also experience that there is no emotional relationship as you are still pursuing your physical cravings from him. You are living consciously and he has started living consciously now and contemplates that life is much more than physical relationship. He knows that existence stands on integration of physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual layers but you are still a physical person and never thinks and moves beyond it. How long you think you will continue to have physical relationship with him. When you will have no strength, still, you will want to live with excitements by drugs and other medications. You sit at home and do nothing except daily works of cooking and washing and other physical works. Your consciousness is very involved into body and does not want to come out of it. It is imprisoned in the body. The Sanskrit name of animal is “pashu” meaning imprisoned. How long you will remain animal, as you have already seen the physical relationship now for over 10 years. You need to move on, evolve to being an emotional and mental person so that relationship will and can be given a new , fresh meaning.” She was listening to me patiently and but tears have started coming down from her eyes. She was drying up her tears but constantly looking into my eyes. I further said to her,” there is a choice with you – to live with him but start evolving from today. Do whatever you want to do for your evolution but evolve into emotional dn mental person that always keeps an eye on the progress. Progress is change. Change means rising above the physical consciousness. Set your goal to change until you discover the love for him. Change until you feel attraction for him again but beyond physical. Change until you discover peace and harmony within you. Change until you discover that you have found new meaning to life. This is yoga and spirituality in life.” After few months , she came back again . I saw smile on her face. She said to me ,” I was totally unconsciousness about me and my husband when I came to you. Now when I succeeded in dropping my unconsciousness even a bit, I discovered that my husband is doing his best in life not only for me but also for him. He is a fine person with caring heart and sharp head. He is the same but my perception has changed about me only because I set a goal to change in my life as told by you.” They both wanted to touch my feet but I held them in my arms. They both hugged me and tears started flowing out of their eyes. I said to them, “ this is just the beginning , you both now work and start meditation until you discover that you are both evolving together and there is nothing that causes any concern against each other.” They looked at me and left the house with peace and harmony. This couple lives in India. they have two beautiful kids. They have beautiful home and ever increasing wealth. They enjoy. Anyhow, they have also not forgotten me as they both talk to me every week for an hour as they feel that it evolves them both. I am aware they are still attracted to me as I am still moving in the same way I was moving towards them over 10 years ago. What relationship you name between them and me. Did I change? But they claim that I did not change but they are evolving. Everything changes in life with a touch of spiritual consciousness.

To be continued …………………………………………………….

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Nov 15 2009

Why I am Suffering ?

Suffering and Authentic Yoga –1
Why am I suffering in life? Did we ask this question consciously or happy with answers offered by the society, culture, religion and science.
Suffering and Authentic Yoga –2
If I continue to ask this question to society, relations, friends, books, scriptures, science, suffering will continue to exist in life.

Suffering and Authentic Yoga –3
If I always seek solutions of the problems of my life from the Outer Space – world, society, religion, science, money, profession, etc. I will always be defeated and will never be happy in my life.

Suffering and Authentic Yoga –4
This Seeking and Asking solutions of the problems must stop , what Authentic Yoga says , “Parang Chetna” or outward moving mind. This mind will never be able to find any answer of existential problems outside.

Suffering and Authentic Yoga –5
The very Seeker of the Solution is The Problem. Mind is the Problem. This is the barrier and the helper. If mind is the barrier – nothing and none in this world can ever help you to solve miseries of your life, even if a person /guru is enlightened one, if you are a billionaire, if you are most powerful person in the world.

Suffering and Authentic Yoga –6
Mind is the creator of all problems and miseries. Mind is seeker of solutions. Mind claims that it knows .This is ignorance.

Suffering and Authentic Yoga -7
Mind is the creator of all problems and miseries. Mind is seeker of solutions. Mind claims that it knows .This is ignorance. Mind had been conditioned by the external world —to Seek, To expect, to crave, to ask and to solve. However, none of them is the faculty of mind, as mind is only an instrument and not the master.
To become aware of this truth is the beginning to make this Mind a helper, guide
Suffering and Authentic Yoga -8
How to make this mind a helper? By asking the Mind to study the mind itself.
Let the Mind study itself in present and consciously here and now. You are reading- ask yourself – who is the reader? Whom is the seeker within? Is the reading bringing knowledge or liberation?
What is this mind? Why mind is after all? What mind says about YOU and not the world?
Suffering and Authentic Yoga -9
To know the mind first as an instrument is the beginning. Body is gross while mind is subtle. I am not the Mind and nor Mind is Me. Nevertheless, I possess this mind. Become aware that you are the possessor of this Mind. In this field of awareness, ask,” if mind is the instrument and I am not the mind, then who is this “I” deep within and beyond mind.” Who Am I?
Suffering and Authentic Yoga -10
Let YOU ask this question,” Who Am I.?” while taking the mind deep within. Let no thought interfere in asking. Let awareness take this question beyond all past, memory, and conditionings. Let me know what happens : what answer you get in this state?
Suffering and Authentic Yoga -11
I suffer due to this mind, which claims, as helper but never helps. This claims that it guides but always misguides. If mind is so intelligent in understanding the problem, then your mind should never enter into stress, sufferings, and problems at all. If mind knows where the problem is, then mind must solve it here and now.
The knowing of this mind, its nature, its movements, and its transformation is authentic yoga and the solutions of all problems and sufferings of life.

To be continued

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Nov 14 2009

Meditation – Live, Move and Act in Meditation

Published by under Meditation - Q & A

Live, Move and Act in Meditation-1

Meditation is a state of consciousness. This consciousness is independent of Body, Breath, Brain, Mind, Emotions, and Ego.  Learn meditation from Acharya Girish Jha

Live, Move and Act in Meditation-2

What do you want – To allow meditation to embrace your entire life or to allow your life embrace meditation? The first is possible and second not possible.

Live, Move and Act in Meditation-3

To transcend the mind is to be in meditation as if darkness disappears the moment there is light. Light is not absence of darkness but darkness is the absence of light.

Live, Move and Act in Meditation-4

You do make efforts with darkness to disappear but your effort is allow lightness to manifest is termed as Sadhana (spiritual practices)

Live, Move and Act in Meditation-5

But who does meditation – your body, mind, intellect, ego, emotions or anything else- none of them can take one to meditation. However, each of them are required like car to take you to home but car does not enter into the home.

Live, Move and Act in Meditation-6

Only YOU – beyond body, breath, mind, emotion, ego enters into meditation. This YOU is always in meditation. Only we need to become aware of this truth.

Live, Move and Act in Meditation-7

As we never think of garbage after throwing it, we also never identify with Body, Breath and Mind , once meditative state is attained.

Live, Move and Act in Meditation-8

Concentration is an effort while meditation is effortless like swimming is concentration and floating is meditation. To know and become aware that YOU are floating into consciousness is meditation.

Live, Move and Act in Meditation-9

Sitting in a steady posture may be helpful in meditation but if mind does not awaken to body as a barrier to meditation even if one sits for hours together, will not help.

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Nov 13 2009

Asana- Physical Practice alone? Hatha Yoga is only physical? Find out more

Asana – 1

Being seated is Asana ( one of the most important organs of Hatha, Tantra, Raja Yoga). Being seated transcends all stretching. Hence, Asana is much more than merely stretching.

Asana-2

Asana aims at awakening to physical consciousness and understanding the physical frame separate from it.

Asana-3

Lord Shiva developed or created 8.4 million asana. 84 are important out of 8.4 millions. 32 out of 84; 16 out of 32; 8 out of 16; 4 out of 8; 2 out of 4 ; 1 out of 2 are important. This means practice os Asana may begin with set of asana but progressively reduced to 1 or 2 Asana. This really means progress in Hatha, Raja or Tantra Yoga

Asana -4

Asana practice goes beyond stretching of physical body unlike physical exercise system. It discovers physical consciousness that is liked with breath and mind.

Asana -5

Asana demands awareness and attention of the mind that can be directed inward to discover an existence beyond the physical. But doing Asana alone for stretching is not doing Yoga.

Asana-6

When one is able to sit or be seated in any asana for longer period, that too without any discomfort( stretching) is termed as Asana. Yoga understands the psychosomatic connection much before modern science discovered it.

Asana-7

The practice of asana is to bring Body, Breath and Brain and Mind together. Therefore, many ancient texts says that practice of asana brings immunity to dualities.

Asana -8

Asana teaches how to keep the conscious mind within the body, thereby, not allowing it to wander anywhere. Therefore, asana is different from physical exercise systems.

Asana-9

Every practice of asana should bring calmness of mind, relaxation to body and regulation of breath. If not then it can be termed as practice of asana. It means asana should be practiced different from the practice of physical exercise.

Asana -10

How mind can be taught to enter into new relationship with the body is what Asana practice is?

Asana -11

The number of Asana should be practiced depends on level of awareness and not the level of flexibility of joints and muscle groups.

Asana -12

If one is totally involved in the body, guided by the passions, cravings of the body. He/she may practice 84-32- asana but progressively reduce again to 1 o2 asana as understood in the authentic texts.

Asana -13

If one lives a mental life not involved in physical body and its passions. Then practice of 1 or 2 asana is/ are sufficient.

Asana -14

Asana is in reality a process of physical awakening and not physical stretching ( which may be an outer experience but not compulsory). This awakening aims at setting the inward journey to explore what lies beyond the body.

Asana -15

Nowhere it is mentioned how many asana Krishna or Shiva (the originators of Yoga) practiced. However, we witness that Lord Shiva sitting in Lotus asana. Natraja Asana is a higher state of consciousness where material/physical is dissolved or transcended to open the gateway to spiritual consciousness.

Asana -16

When we practice 30-40 -50 asana in a class, does it really mean yoga practice?

Asana -17

Does mind control the body or body controls the mind? If mind is powerful than the body, then let mind take charge of the body in the practice of Asana is the message given by ancient masters and texts.

Asana -18 let me now move into Shava Asana before sleep and allow sleep to take over naturally for sound, deep and less hours of sleep. Thanks for reading. Your comments are welcome please on authentic Yoga Tradition

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