Enlightenment 41 - Yoga
Yoga is essentially a spiritual discipline based on an extremely subtle science, which focuses on bringing harmony between mind and body. It is an art and science of healthy living. The word 'Yoga' is derived from the Sanskrit root 'Yuj', meaning 'to join' or 'to yoke' or 'to unite'.
This is a life long process. As the quest for self realization increases, the intensity of yoga should be intensified. A person who follow yogic process is Yogic. As a yogi keep practicing many things, makes progress with the blessings of Vishnu.
Now a days, we see Yoga centers and training yoga. That is not Yoga, it is Aaasanam or Posture. This is an exercise which helps the body to be fit, so that a yogi can practice many things including sitting longtime in meditation. When a body is healthy, it brings harmony with mind and then soul. Most of the people who practice yoga aasana think they are practicing yoga. They claim that lost weight, see glow and mind is sharp etc. These are by products of the exercise. Not real Yoga.
Aasana practice is a life long process, not for few sessions. The corporate yoga, quick yoga all are commercial gimmick. Is something better than nothing? Of course yes. Just dont think any think beyond it as an exercise with advantages. The posture should be done correctly and also you should not do it beyond you body's capability.
Yoga asanas are also swimming, hiking, climbing tress, jogging, spending time with nature, sailing etc. Pranayama also part of this Asasana practice. If you do all these, you are doing Asanas with a discipline can be called Yogasana. Aasanas will not lead you to any blessings from God. It is the yogic practice.
Enlightenment 42 - Meditation
Meditation is one part of the yogic journey. This one is subverted and distorted that original aim and purpose was last. Corporate meditation, 5 min meditation, guided meditation etc are fad now a days. If you are stressed at work and in life, quick meditation is the best. It will make your skin glow and radiance will come. You will be so calm, that nothing will bother you in life. All these tall claims, are more dangerous than benefits.
For humans meditation is like part of his nature like swimming for fish and flying for bird. It is naturally built in us be calm and silent. But due to the external nature we refused to do and believe it. Yoga and meditation is life long journey and the person who does this is called yogi. If you believe that aasanas are yoga and corporate meditation is divine meditation, fundamentally you lost your way. The worst time to do aasanas and meditation is when you are tired and stressed. First thing to do is sleep well. More than complete sleep. When you wake up, you are a new being with energy.
Prana is flowing and alive with vigor. Now you do aasanas. Make the body fit. You can feel the happiness. Calm down whole body to Theta state meaning completely relaxed. The best time to do meditation is 1 hr before sunrise and 1hr after sunset. In meditation, you should not sleep. Very Very dangerous. That is why when you are stressed and tired we should not do it. The consequences can be bad.
Simple sit in a comfortable position and location. Have a om music or none. Just close your eyes. As time goes by, slowly you will go into meditative state, where time disappears. As you keep practicing more and more, closer to enlightenment or higher truths.
Enlightenment 43 - Never Separate Inner and Outer world
All scriptures says that spiritual journey is internal. The real fact it is both external and internal. You have pretty good idea about external world. If you are smart enough, try to understand the material world as much as possible. We live in this and cant be separated. Yogically, you can detach and see the external world how it operates and plays. The trick is, we should try to understand, connect and surrender to the physical world forces which are called pacha bhoothas. Then the internal journey becomes much more productive. This is part of enlightenment.
There are many things to achieve in the external life for internal spiritual journey. Keeping the body and mind fit. Unfortunately sickness and poverty is the main hinderance. If you are blessed without it, then comes all sorts of disciplines. Eating good food which will make you serene and connects the body and mind. Propagate love, compassion, truth and spirituality with passion. You need attain a level common non human being, meaning an extraordinary person. This is not easy as I say. Vishnu is there to help us.
The inner world is always we struggle with. To know who we are, the inner journey helps us. The experience is not same for all of us. To experience best things in the inner worlds, we have to achieve the best yogic practice in the Outer world. When we sit in meditation for longer periods of times, the conscience reaches higher and lower worlds for experiences. New knowledge/truths will dawn on you. When the spiritually journey progresses, the burden of this new reality increases. As more and more revealed...
A yogi who unifies the external and internal worlds, sees glimpses of enlightenment.
Enlightenment 44 - Human to Divine Life
We have discussed about Karma and Dharma extensively. Till we reach Vishnu, we should be performing our karma for many births and follow the dharma as we progress. Different worlds have different dharmas. What is our Karma and Dharma on earth?
The karma for each individual is different. Even a beggar lives by looking for alms. Richest person also does his karma by employing many people and do good bad as perceived by humans. Dharma has very very deeper meaning. It is not easy to explain. The dharma for a human being to elevate from Human to Divine being. This divine being is a yogi, Rishi, Pandit or a Demi God. Many completely surrender and dedicate themselves to become a divine being. A yogi becomes a divine being by blessings of Vishnu.
There are many who are yogis, not blessed by Vishnu even though they are practicing for decades. And few lucky ones are blessed without any effort or in short period of time. Blessing a one of the biggest boo. Now we have to strive to become divine. This is the toughest path. Everyday a yogi should be turning into divine by practicing and implementing Vishnu's will. The transformation will happen. Have complete faith.
At this time we have glimpses of many things, like reaching higher worlds, experiencing the infinities, new beings, timelessness etc. But turning into divine, it makes us eligible to experience many things including vishnu.
Enlightenment 45 - Atheist God Inside Me
Many times our mind and its chemical reactions drive us in everyday life. When we crave and couldn't stop until we eat means there is somebody else or maya mind is controlling us. If we use our conscience and soul to control everything, then the self is in control. There is this special mind which is mostly dominating us is also divine but it will block our progress. It constantly puts in doubt, dilemma, negative pondering etc. I know I am connected to Vishnu, seen his light and shape, with me all the time but this God laughs and make others laugh at me that I am crazy.
Atheist also believes in God but his god is nature and his mind. When he dies, that is end of it. The nature continues. He believes whatever his mind, experiences and conviction is. In all of us this Atheist god exists, which makes constantly drives away from Vishnu. It uses many methods including science, friends, visuals, logical reasoning etc. Science is essence of yogic journey which helped me a lot to progress in my yogic life but at the same time, there is a science and incomprehensible things beyond human capability, which we cant understand. If i say, saw visuals of Vishnu in sky, nature and in meditation, many times it makes feel that I am hallucinating. Then after a while, I recover and digest the experiences as my glimpses of Vishnu.
The self must be curious. There are infinite possibilities of creations and destructions. Truths vary at different worlds snd conscience levels. Fundamental truths remains the same in certain worlds but it is different in others. To experience these different truths we must adapt to their fundamental in nature. I see this entire solar system and earth is projection or manipulation of nature. What I am experiencing is real but true. Self is something else not what it thinks. Even today what I convey and write, doubt myself. The Atheist God dominates, then Vishnu dominates and let me write what comes to my mind.
Enlightenment 46 - Conscience in Matter?
This question that is bothering me for a longtime is, Does sand, trees, micro organisms, animals have soul and conscienceness? The realization that every atom is made up of naamam, lingam and generating minute amounts of energy of prana which is present everywhere in the universe. If vishnu is present in every atom and then all the creation must have soul and conscience, when we analyze logically. My understanding is, on earth, the creation which consumes and desecrates has life and also it feels the pain with emotions. Their structure is not conducive enough to realize the soul and its conscienceness. It is in dormant state. They live by their nature, contributes to the creation and dies.
Where as humans, we evolved may he from monkeys or some say we were dropped on to this planet in the beginning, and guided us to be evolved. We are made up of 108 trillion cells, which coming together, forms this entity. Now this gets a special advantage where a soul can be introduced with conscienceness. Similar things we can see animals when it becomes really friendly and close. Elephant is a greatest example.
My realization is the soul and conscience of this universe is built in everywhere, the creations at different worlds and levels act differently. The realization, conscience and soul elevation to see glimpses of the root is built in humans on earth. There are many creatures in this universe. Vishnu is pulling me upward and the forces of maya try to trick and pull me down. It seems animals do have conscience, so does planets and stars. Realization of Brahmman is all are same and one means, all have conscience.
Enlightenment 47 - The Silence
The truth exists or comes out in complete silence. It is very hard for us to experience it. Many seek caves and dark places to minimize the external noise. Still nature's noises exist. The root of creation came from absolute silence. The primordial noise that first came is OMmmmmmm. It awakened the dormant nature. Once the creation started, the absolute silence is gone. Every where in the universe the noise is going on, different beings hear them differently. To reach higher conscience levels, what is needed is stillness and silence.
A yogi practices extensively to stay still and silent. The senses are constantly distracting. Escape from these senses which always craves for something. In this process, time stills or doesnt exist. The true silence come from depths of these. You have to sit in stillness and get used to the silence for many years. The body is being tuned for higher knowledge descent. To understand higher truths and stand elevated is toughest. Once we come out of meditation, the conscience try to adjust to earthly survival. Many cant adjust.
I dont know what is going to be experiences of this silence. I can imagine that the silence will be unbearable and the body shakes trying to withstand the forces that is going to come. Special channels are opened soul to perceive the truths it is seeking for. The glimpses of enlightenment that I see is replaced with the ultimate enlightenment which stays permanently. A yogi escapes earth or lives rest of life cherishing. In this life whole nature is with me and even hungry lions will not eat me but tamed as it sees me. That is what explained in my stories about Rishis.
Enlightenment 48 - Intermingling of worlds
Many times we have seen, people masquerading. On one hand they pretend to be very good and best people. We wonder how come they lives in 2 different worlds. Same way people many times have different personalities. The mind makes them live in different worlds. Hallucinations are an example of this. They cant differentiate between physical world and imaginary world. Many yogis sometimes connect to different upper or lower worlds, who influences the behavior on earth. This may be speculation.
Even in our life, if we look back, it seems that 20 back we are a different person and now we are different many ways or worlds apart. A yogic life is completely different from previous life which before he started his yogic practice. Many people tell me that I am crazy, when I show naamam every where and explain in intricate divine secrets. I keep my physical world and yogic different. Intermingling them is a problem. Trying to move completely to be a Yogi, it is not happening. This doesn't mean I abandon family and friends. It is all day only Vishnu smaranam. Hope soon it happens.
In meditation, we touch many worlds. Some are amazing and some are terrifying. In scriptures it is said that, some of the creatures they trick the meditator and entice him, pull it into their world. Once you consented, trapped. This sounds silly, but it is true. As conscience elevated, you touch and sometimes get into higher worlds. The body is always in the physical world , the mind is somewhere. Now it is tough to comedown because, you are elevated. In the dhyanam, living and touching many worlds. We shouldn't intermingle them otherwise we are trapped.
Meditate, elevate, touch Vishnu and come back to the physical world and try to live in bliss.
Enlightenment 49 - Formless Being or Light
I pray to a shape. Vishnu, Krishna, avatars and symbols. Most of the scriptures in the world says that God is a pure light. The transition from shape to shapeless and pure light is hard. It takes lot of time. This light is pervaded everywhere. The beginning of this is the descending divine aanandam. In meditation you can experience this. Mostly you can feel the calmness in that happiness. It is personal experience. In deep concentrations, I see dazzling lights and it tries to engulf me. I feel that it is changing me slowly. That is the power of this light.
The glimpses of enlightenment that I am talking about is this. Glimpses and disappears and then again showers more. Waits and disappears. Makes me search. If it is everywhere why I cant i see it. These experiences are part of yogic experiences like gopis. Krishna appears and suddenly gone. All keep looking and he is everywhere and with all gopis. They all wonder why is he doing it. The Rishis captured this in Krishna Leela. This is like a twilight moments. The best in the life.
Many times a divine truth or shape forms, when i try to focus on what is happening, it disappears. The trick is that let it form itself slowly as it wishes. But there is this impatience in yogi that it is not clear and disappearing. Many times question, am i imperfect that is why it is disappearing. The light plays hide and seek. I am patient, no choice. Keep trying harder and focusing more on it. All it needs is, expecting more patience before it descends.
Enlightenment 50 - God is a light, like to see me as shining Light
The brightest light we see on earth is Sun. Nothing can shine brighter than that in our solar system. Only fraction of its intensity we experience. What does Vishnu expects from us? To receive his knowledge as a light, a yogi should also be prepared. By yogic practices, with determination, keep increasing the inner light. In meditation you the light shinning. The light gets pure divine qualities, meaning the maya is removed, body mind and soul discover each other and the light of soul starts shinning.
The soul can shine at different intensities? In reality not but as veil of maya slowly removed, the intensity keep increasing. Finally it shines with full potential of its nature. This is the state Vishnu wants a yogi to shine internally. When Vishnu shines with pure brilliant light, the shinning soul also is capable enough to receive the truths in this material body. It may not happen all of a sudden but gradually.
The Problem with today's world is that instant gratitude. Even if you look back for hundred years, all poojas and activities of hindus is If I do this pooja and get this benefit or the performer itself says that. Then there is dosha issues, to remove which needs a pooja to be performed. Then there mushroomed yoga and meditation centers, where they preach that if you do these, body will be like a super human and Brightness in the body and face etc as incentives for doing these. These modern interpretations are hinderance for true soul realization.
Only with Vishnu's blessing, maya will be removed, the soul starts shinning and Vishnu's light descends, enjoy the glimpses of enlightenment.
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